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by mwest 7y ago
Unrolled version: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1126996260026605568.html Great story!
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by mwest 8y ago
For drone, I have a lot of stuff from Cryochamber: https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/ Looking at my current most-played list, I'd suggest: https://starcadian.bandcamp.com/album/saturdaze https:&#x
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by mwest 8y ago
Must agree with you here (even though I do like me some Lana del Rey). Majority of Bandcamp music in my collection is retro/synth/new wave, and some "drone" which is nice to have on as white noise while working.
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by mwest 8y ago
I've seen that before, thanks. Wish I could find a similar tool to download (or stream) my bought and paid for collection, at the quality I set!
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by mwest 8y ago
Bandcamp is definitely my favourite platform for buying music. No DRM, flac format available if that's your thing. Artists can put up both digital and physical merch. Wish they had a more fully-featured experience for streaming music o
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by mwest 8y ago
One of the things about Eve Online that's fascinated me is how "open" they make the game for third party developers. Why bother with a spreadsheet, when you can dial it up a level and use their data export and your favourite
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by mwest 8y ago
You can achieve something similar with Hetzner's recently introduced "vSwitch feature". Works across their different DCs, which is nice. Some docs here: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Vswitch/en
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by mwest 8y ago
Mars has a lot of dust in the atmopshere, which makes Martian astronomy more difficult. The Spirit rover did manage to capture an image of a comet though. There's some more detail on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by mwest 8y ago
We took a drive out to the Minninglow dark sky site in the Peak District ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_District ) in the small hours of this morning. It was quite amazing to witness the streaks of the Perseid mete
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by mwest 8y ago
I recently started reading Usenet again using the free https://news.solani.org/ service. Once I'd caught up on a.s.r, I couldn't really find any other groups other than alt.comp.lang.* that were worth reading. Any
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by mwest 8y ago
It only searches the URL, title and tags of the page though. It doesn't return results based on the content, which I believ e is what OP is after.
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by mwest 8y ago
Reminds me of Jodel and the now-defunct Yik Yak. Yik Yak took the "cells" or "herds" approach. Some history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak I'm not sure how you're going to avo
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by mwest 9y ago
I ran FreeBSD on my home and work desktops (and most of my servers) for almost 10 years. I use a Mac these days, but I still have a soft spot for FreeBSD on the desktop. For Dropbox on FreeBSD, I found just installing the CLI (pkg install d
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by mwest 9y ago
If you're a fan of DOSBox, you might like this: http://www.doshaven.eu/ I love the fact that people are still making games for DOS. I've been playing a bit of this: http://www.doshaven.eu/game&#x2F
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by mwest 9y ago
I did wonder if it was a Sagan reference: "... I was rewarded with this particular picture of a small, pale blue dot.” Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
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by mwest 9y ago
Need something similar for DRAM prices!
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by mwest 9y ago
Unix System Laboratories - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_System_Laboratories See also: USL vs. BSDi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc.... .
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by mwest 9y ago
I've found https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole really useful, although it only meets 1/3 of your requirements. I'm hoping someone will add a nice GUI and re-transmission. Previously on HN: https:&
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by mwest 9y ago
I was expecting/hoping for something more like the 'LackRack': https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack Or at least http://www.ikeahackers.net/ :-)
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by mwest 9y ago
If you've run out of BOFH stories to read, and want to take it to the next level...!
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by mwest 9y ago
Also very happy with premii. Mostly due to the offline caching, but also the clean and simple layout, and integration with Pocket.
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by mwest 9y ago
Ever taken a look at the ASCII/ANSI art from the likes of ACiD and iCE from that era? :-) Some galleries/samples here: http://www.acid.org/ http://www.ice.org/ Bit of a nostalgia trip if you ever
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by mwest 9y ago
Couldn't find any social media links for them, but they are on LinkedIn if you do a bit of Google searching.
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by mwest 9y ago
Covered previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11232724 I do wonder how they are doing now though. Seems a really sad state of affairs. See also: By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation https://
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by mwest 9y ago
You need decent ventilation in your bathroom. If the room stays too damp (steam after a shower, etc.), you'll end up with mold, some of which can definitely be neurotoxic.
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by mwest 9y ago
This is much less of a pain since EU roaming charges ended on 15 June 2017. "Roaming charges end on 15 June 2017. Europeans travelling within the EU countries will Roam Like at Home and pay domestic prices for roaming calls, SMS and da
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by mwest 10y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write this! Thoroughly enjoyed reading it. It's been some time since I've even thought of mod_perl... A graph of whimsy: http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.201701
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by mwest 10y ago
To organise/track papers: I’m currently using Mendeley[1]. Previously, I used Papers[2]. Unfortunately, the latest version of Papers (3.x) is terrible compared to how slick the old version (2.x) was. I’ve tried ReadCube[3], but somehow
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by mwest 10y ago
Flaws uncovered in the software researchers use to analyze fM.R.I. data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12378791 Wonder whether or not the software followed "best practices"...
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by mwest 10y ago
Whoops. Certainly an interesting contrasting article to the recent: Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12377385

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