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by lisper 2y ago
He probably meant MacGyver. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver
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by lisper 2y ago
That's actually a great question, and one I've been wrestling with for years. Why do we perceive time as a sort of continuous monotonic flow? And I think it can be explained in terms of perception and comprehension, which I have
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Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices(arstechnica.com)
204 points by lisper 2y ago|180 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
Very interesting! Thanks for the pointers! I'll need to take some time to digest these.
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by lisper 2y ago
I wrote up more or less the same idea ten years ago, but in what I think is a more accessible presentation: https://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-a...
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by lisper 2y ago
Thanks!
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by lisper 2y ago
Since you are someone who seems to know what they're doing I hope you'll forgive a random unrelated question: do you happen to know if it's possible to call out to M1 code inside Rosetta2? It seems like this should be possib
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by lisper 2y ago
> Is Amazon "the best" place to go shopping? No, you might find better prices on individual items if you put a little more work into it, but it's the most expedient. It's not just that. Every time you do business wit
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Filming Thermite Reactions [video](youtube.com)
4 points by lisper 2y ago|1 comments
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Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021(arstechnica.com)
34 points by lisper 2y ago|12 comments
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The secret economics of Google Street View [video](youtube.com)
1 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
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Exposing myths about in-office work(thehill.com)
2 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
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How to Land on the Moon – Project Apollo Retro Tech [video] [1979](youtube.com)
2 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
764.
by lisper 2y ago
I have some bad news for you: 1975 was almost 50 years ago.
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by lisper 2y ago
"Inside the fort" is a metaphor for a single server, not anything involving a network.
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by lisper 2y ago
Given that the sculpture is in Australia, that seems like a plausible clue to me.
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by lisper 2y ago
Heh, TIL.
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by lisper 2y ago
Because a time share is not an asset, it's a liability. It is sold as "ownership" but in fact it is an obligation to pay for a vacation rental in perpetuity, except that "rent" is called "maintenance fees&quot
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by lisper 2y ago
IANAL but I'm pretty sure that would be considered fraud.
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by lisper 2y ago
They're not running Windows. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651715
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by lisper 2y ago
The author of TFA clarifies here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651715 TL;DR: the spacecraft is indeed not running Windows. It's running a custom OS written in C.
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by lisper 2y ago
> Our existence proves that life is possible. Obviously. But it would still be nice to know how probable or improbable it is.
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by lisper 2y ago
> I thought this was actually going to be using phone calls! Next year.
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Building a reliable asynchronous arbiter is impossible(computationstructures.org)
3 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
> you have asked me a question so dumb You must have missed the part where he says that it's an excellent question. > he was smart and other people were dumb But he was smart. A lot smarter than you and me and the vast majority
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by lisper 2y ago
Personally, I think the modern typesetting discards a lot of the essential value of the original. My interest in this manual stems not from any desire to program a Mark I, but because I want to connect with the past and understand what pro
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by lisper 2y ago
> In the general case there is no bound on the number of clients. Sure. So? > When your client crashes, does it assume a new identity on restart? Um, no? Is that really a serious question? Do you think computers in the real world l
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Alan Turing’s 1950 manual for the Mark I electronic computer [pdf](archive.computerhistory.org)
234 points by lisper 2y ago|57 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41619279
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by lisper 2y ago
It's true that a complete solution doesn't fit easily into an HN comment. But one possibility is to send only one message at a time, and keep re-sending it until you receive an acknowledgement. Then send the next message. On th

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