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by mac3n 5mo ago
the story goes, when the first Edison wax cylinder recording came out, they were indistinguishable from a live performance. these days we can hear the noise, crackles, and lack of dynamic range.
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by mac3n 5mo ago
cool! maybe they can use it to find a point to Operation Epstein Fury
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by mac3n 5mo ago
good thing I don't use npm or pip, just the recommended curl ... | bash
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by mac3n 5mo ago
is this what the cryptobros are doing now?
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by mac3n 5mo ago
"Proto" - Laura Spinney. Proto-Indoeuropean. https://www.powells.com/book/proto-how-one-ancient-language-... before that "The Horse the Wheel & Language". David Anthony. Proto-Indoeuropeans. ht
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by mac3n 6mo ago
that would make a fantastic weapon
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by mac3n 6mo ago
for another example, see the detailed (scrubbed?) study https://www.safetyresearch.net/Library/BarrSlides_FINAL_SCRU... Since then we have extended automotive software from engine control to driving.
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by mac3n 6mo ago
> My reddit usage grew massively and that's a good thing?
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by mac3n 7mo ago
My favorite thing about the early BeBox was the Pulse CPU meter, which shows the load on each of the two CPU chips. Clicking on a CPU stopped it. Clicking on the second stopped it as well, which took me a moment to realize.
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by mac3n 7mo ago
https://www.sciencealert.com/excel-is-responsible-for-20-per... https://www.qashqade.com/insights/the-worst-financial-servic... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36197280 i'm s
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by mac3n 7mo ago
> In contrast, Unix's ever-terse developers ended up making it send only a linefeed by itself, and so the OS which can still actually use teleprinters no longer does so correctly. not so. Unix inserts a CR before the LF in the tty
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by mac3n 7mo ago
it's going just great!
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by mac3n 7mo ago
That's some Tleilaxu level of creepy!
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by mac3n 7mo ago
as a [road] bicyclist, I do appreciate some good asphalt.
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by mac3n 8mo ago
house gotta have sipapu
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by mac3n 8mo ago
anyone remember 005 ENQ (also called WRU who are you) and its effect on a teletype?
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by mac3n 8mo ago
credit to William Crosby, "Note on an ASCII-Octal Code Table", CACM 8.10, Oct 1965 https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/365628.365652 also defined 6-bit ASCII subset
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by mac3n 8mo ago
folklore was that IBM used it as an example of a bad variable name, based on Zarathustra Q Xerxes III Here it is, in fact! Page 19: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/360/os/... > Bu
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by mac3n 8mo ago
let's see some "Courage", Apple?
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by mac3n 8mo ago
see also Floyd Kemske, "Human Resources: A Corporate Nightmare" https://archive.org/details/HumanResourcesPdf > Corporate management is the use of humans as resources. So is vampirism. >Biomethods, Inc.
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by mac3n 8mo ago
Now, tell us about "ZQX3".
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by mac3n 8mo ago
> The general population is much larger than the population of child prodigies. have we forgotten Lake Wobegon?
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by mac3n 8mo ago
paranoia increases...
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by mac3n 9mo ago
did you include https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
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by mac3n 9mo ago
it seems like there's some confusion here between the Graeco-Roman astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100 – 160s/170s AD) and the Macedonian General/Pharoah Ptolemy I Soter (c. 369/68 BC – January 282 BC). https:/&#x2
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by mac3n 9mo ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... as for me, i"m looking for a position as an Ornamental Hermit https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ornamental+hermit
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by mac3n 9mo ago
What's great about such devices is that they can be interpreted by the operator, and lend a false air of authority to their judgement. There's a great opportunity for AI here.
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by mac3n 9mo ago
as i've said ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43836353 ) try working outside the software industry for someone who needs some software. I had a great time in the 90s working on digital audio gear.
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by mac3n 9mo ago
The trick is, it's not all in memory - it's a memory-mapped file If you look at the cache (with `fincore` or similar) you'll see that the buinary search only loads the pages it examines, roughly logarithmetic in the file size
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by mac3n 9mo ago
what this could really use is a compression format that compresses variable amount of text into fixed-size blocks. with that, it could binary-search compressed text

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