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by nategri 8y ago
Anyone interested in a fully imagined setting where a "mirrorworld" is firmly in place should check out Verner Vinge's book Rainbows End .
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by nategri 8y ago
I would add that this approach would also help you design interfaces that are more friendly for colorblind users.
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by nategri 8y ago
"Every" is a bit rich, considering we're likely 100s of years from testing it directly.
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by nategri 8y ago
Yep, I definitely remember the 'winmodem' as the primary villain in my early attempts to get my first linux box online ca. 1999
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by nategri 8y ago
> Reusing the containers will save more material and energy than fashioning new ones each time—even with all the additional shipping. I 100% do not believe this.
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by nategri 8y ago
Yeah saw this tweet this morning and felt kind of ashamed for falling for the clickbait yesterday: https://twitter.com/arkmashton/status/1090971061569622016
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by nategri 8y ago
> You can even write C or 6502 assembler code for Woz's creation, the Apple ][+. Thrill to the unusual frame buffer layout and one-bit speaker output! These folks get it.
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by nategri 8y ago
Oof. That domain.
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by nategri 8y ago
Maybe a step in the right direction but I would much rather have the content from these entities still be visible, but flagged, so I could warn others. Probably not possible without a custom twitter client, though.
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by nategri 8y ago
I love absolutely everything about this except the language choice.
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by nategri 8y ago
Wikipedia seems to agree with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chargeback_fraud
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by nategri 8y ago
Agree. These days not owning a car can be either a sign of being extremely poor, or somewhat privileged.
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by nategri 8y ago
>By looking at their resumes where they claim this? By contacting references who will attest to it? By trusting the intuition of subjective evaluators of the candidates? I mean... Yes? This system, backed by "trusted recommenders&qu
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by nategri 8y ago
what is life by er win schro dinger schro ding er no more
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by nategri 8y ago
There is already TONS of negative cultural bias towards being overweight/obese. The fact that there are still so many overweight/obese people shows that we really still don't understand the problem or how to treat it.
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by nategri 8y ago
No??
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by nategri 8y ago
How is it the string "corporat*" only shows up twice (in the same comment) in all these (as of writing) 103 comments.
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by nategri 8y ago
If you have any experience coding GUIs, or thinking geometrically, then you'll find very little friction in picking up OpenSCAD, which is completely free/open source. It may not have the features of the pricier ones, but I find it
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by nategri 8y ago
Wow. These posts have a real smell to em.
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by nategri 8y ago
Great find. And somewhat surprising because hadrons mostly don't survive to sea level. Too much integrated cross-section with the atmosphere.
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by nategri 8y ago
A pedantic point (good thing I'm on HN), but I wonder if they didn't actually mean muons and not gamma rays?
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by nategri 8y ago
"Super-Earths" are among the most numerous planet type in the galaxy. The term just means they mass somewhere between 1 and 10 Earths, and says literally nothing else about the planet. Why is this interesting news?
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by nategri 8y ago
Get em, max
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by nategri 8y ago
Shout out to Foone in general. A+ twitter follow if you're into old and weird tech. They're quite talented at converting "wtf is this" into an enjoyable narrative.
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by nategri 8y ago
Is anyone else thinking of "the Kzinti lesson" from the Known Space books?
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by nategri 8y ago
/extremely nautil.us voice
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by nategri 8y ago
I played Pyst and uh, no.
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by nategri 8y ago
"Each year’s conference badge is a printed circuit board (PCB), the same type of mini computers you’ll find embedded in most modern electronics." Oof... ouch. Owie.
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by nategri 8y ago
I assume this is an allusion to the fact that the standard Commodore 64 disk drive had an identical CPU, lol. A legitimate computer all to itself. You could even expand the default 2KB of RAM up to 48KB. [1] [1] https://en.wikipe
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by nategri 8y ago
Eh I'm guessing it's just not interesting to most people. Your phone/laptop is also a very precise timepiece but it's a feature you get "for free" in a modern OS, so not usually worth mentioning.

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