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901.
Priority inversion in the automotive CAN protocol(kentindell.github.io)
3 points by leoc 6y ago|0 comments
902.
by leoc 6y ago
The VT100's industrial design shouldn't look too unfamiliar to anyone either.
903.
13th cent. castle started from scratch in 1997 w. authentic tools and materials(guedelon.fr)
1 points by leoc 6y ago|0 comments
904.
by leoc 6y ago
One vaguely related thing is the 1953 jukebox hit, "Three Minutes of Silence" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3OSg2ehHbs which delivered on its promise. (It doesn't seem to have a WP page yet. Does anyone kn
905.
by leoc 6y ago
To wit: 'the shit hit the fan' → 'the shite hit the fan' 'the shit hits the fan' → 'the shite hitteth the fan' 'the shit has hit the fan' → 'the shite hath hit the fan' You could a
906.
by leoc 6y ago
Isn't human sleep naturally biphasic rather than monophasic? https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-used-to-sleep-in-two-shi...
907.
by leoc 6y ago
Here's a recent Twitter thread by Timothy Jones https://twitter.com/timbeejones/ which seems relevant: https://twitter.com/timbeejones/status/1268665921364770816 . I can't vouch for
908.
by leoc 6y ago
It's often referred to as 'garden leave': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave .
909.
by leoc 6y ago
Mengele got all the publicity while the Max Planck (née Kaiser Wilhelm) Society kept its head down and quietly held on to all of the people's brains it harvested from T4. https://www.thelocal.de/20170503/german-sc
910.
by leoc 6y ago
No kidding. https://www.thelocal.de/20170503/german-scientists-to-identi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/02&#x2F
911.
by leoc 6y ago
Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders
912.
by leoc 6y ago
See https://www.youtube.com/user/troygrady . Troy Grady is an extremely successful externaliser of tacit knowledge.
913.
by leoc 6y ago
It seems clear (not an expert) that Jobs wasn't fired because the Mac was unpopular at Apple. It seems the main thing that got him fired was, roughly, an internal conflict about what the next step after Macintosh should be: the Macin
914.
by leoc 6y ago
Reposting my earlier comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10502434 : > Herbert Stoyan's historical work on early Lisp http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2010/07/29
915.
by leoc 6y ago
A celebrity? He's one of the greatest and most influential musicians of the past 100 years.
916.
by leoc 7y ago
Thanks!
917.
by leoc 7y ago
> [0] https://technology.ie/data-protection-commissioner-double-wo... /r/nottheonion > The other Commissioners are becoming more and more upset with this and planing to institute a board to overrule Ireland&
918.
by leoc 7y ago
As late as 2014, at least, the US federal government was still processing its retirement claims on paper , in a decently large and rather nice-looking cave in Pennsylvania: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2587
919.
by leoc 7y ago
The idea of the granfaloon sounds like Benedict Anderson's concept of 'imagined communities': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_community
920.
by leoc 7y ago
The negative-feedback device that fixes the speed of a steam engine is actually called a governor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_governor .
921.
by leoc 7y ago
See my old comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19468090#19468699 . That kind of thing used to have a much higher public profile about 30 years ago.
922.
by leoc 7y ago
Ireland has started sending its flag-carrier passenger airline to China for PPE. https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0329/1127076-ppe-equipment-chin...
923.
by leoc 7y ago
Elsewhere there were privately-run bottle-deposit schemes until relatively recently. One was active in Scotland until only 2015: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-33985022 .
924.
by leoc 7y ago
The First Computers—History and Architecture edited by Rojas and Hashagen
925.
by leoc 7y ago
Crypto is likely even better than Hackers , in fact.
926.
by leoc 7y ago
Here's a nice McIlroy interview with broken formatting: https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mike/transcripts/mcilroy.htm .
927.
by leoc 7y ago
This wave of computer-literacy programming was actually started by a series from the BBC's commercially-funded rival ITV, Christoper Evans' The Mighty Micro . http://www.retro-now.com/the-mighty-micro-itvs-forgotte
928.
by leoc 7y ago
For this to be a major problem, there has to be a large group of website owners, large enough to be enticing to other browsers, who both accept tips in BAT and are reluctant to accept tips in some other, additional cryptocurrency, and B
929.
by leoc 7y ago
Do you think that van der Linden's Expert C Programming is still worthwhile? There's also the comp.lang.c FAQ http://c-faq.com/ , which is also very old now but still seems like a no-brainer to me.
930.
by leoc 7y ago
I've said it before, the whole speculation-exploit mess seems like chip design's answer to the real-estate-securitisation highjinks which caused the last financial crisis. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16105

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