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by niccl 2y ago
A fun full-circle. The Jacquard loom was influential for input for early computers, and now the computer is influencing the output of looms
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by niccl 2y ago
definitely agree. the information density of well written article (or even 'blog- spam, in this case) is far higher than almost any video
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by niccl 2y ago
> My parents could recite a 1940s radio comedy sketch about the phonetic alphabet and cockney rhyming slang Was that the "'Ay for 'Orses" thing? I still know most of it, and never knew where it came from
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by niccl 2y ago
CDs are fun in a microwave, arcing and spitting like fury for a while. So not just crinkly things
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by niccl 2y ago
Wasn't there an article on HN recently about some Army thing that makes recommendations on targets which are supposed to be reviewed by the Human In The Loop. IIRC the reason for the article was that the Humans In The Loop were just ru
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by niccl 2y ago
There's the 'long tail' aspect to ephemeral stardom and what people get from it. Most musicians I know (and I know a lot from the local music scene) want foremost to perform. Money and fame would be really great, but getting
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by niccl 2y ago
does anybody know what the music accompanying the full video was? It seemed familiar but I couldn't place it. Maybe AI generated?
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by niccl 2y ago
Maybe, among other things, more widespread and easily ingested news has something to do with it. Centuries ago, foreign news was what happened two villages over, and you only knew about that because of some wanderer that came and told you,
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by niccl 2y ago
I've got my father's. Still in the original box. I learned to use a normal linear slide rule at school, but every time I look at this I have to read the manual to sort out how to use it. I'd like to fix it in my head so I cou
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by niccl 2y ago
I guess we could make some reasonable evidence about hiring approaches based on HN hirers: What percentage of hires using your favourite technique/interview question do you think worked out as a success? My rate is around 50% good, 50%
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by niccl 2y ago
I think they pave 100 m, wait til it's dried (next day, perhaps) then drive the bridge 100 m up the newly paved bit and start again. No break
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Startups Say India Is Ideal for Testing Self-Driving Cars(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by niccl 2y ago
yup. I can do 0402, and I've poor eyesight and hands that shake more than I'd like.
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by niccl 2y ago
Trying to _really_ understand the postgres query planner's `EXPLAIN` output. We have long-running embarrassingly parallel processes where the throughput will sometimes completely tank. Got worse when we upgraded to PG16. Trying to comp
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by niccl 2y ago
After getting really frustrated with the syntax of the command line of a telephone exchange, entering, in frustration, 'sod off' got the response 'SOD is not on'.
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by niccl 2y ago
I'm back working on my lighting desk [0]. Got the new boards manufactured and each has basic code on. Now looking at swapping out the i2c communications the main controller was using for CAN-bus that the new boards use. Hoping to get t
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by niccl 2y ago
https://archive.is/t8fAB
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by niccl 2y ago
I think there's a large Maori population in Aotearoa that would disagree with this. Heyerdahl's theory was discredited a while ago
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by niccl 2y ago
Park Road Post used it to clean up the sound in the Beatles Get Back videos. I don't know the details, and I haven't seen the original or Get Back, but apparently the sound in the original was terrible. They used 'AI' to
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by niccl 3y ago
Lord of The Rings used some huge external green/blue screens. One I know of was the scene in Return of the King where there's a dead oliphaunt and, IIRC, Eowyn fighting the Witch King. But there were lots of others.
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by niccl 3y ago
I love that they're using analog control for the galvos. I'm just struggling with a totally simple digital control loop for motors and I'm really regretting I didn't go with my first inclination and use op-amps
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by niccl 3y ago
Not the original commenter but I'd include: Vanity Fair by Thackeray Mr Johnson by Joyce Cary Lavengro and Romany Rye by George Borrow The Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Douglas Hofstadter et
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by niccl 3y ago
I can't find the reference, but: There's a building somewhere with the digits of pi painted on a ceiling. I presume it celebrates someone (maybe 18th Century) who calculated N digits. One of the numbers is painted larger and a dif
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by niccl 3y ago
I, and the rest of our dev team use Linux, and found Teams ok when there was a stand-alone client for it, but the browser-based stuff they forced on us a year or so ago was horrible. The notifications were particularly atrocious, to the poi
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by niccl 3y ago
My cousin designed the paper tape reader. Just before he died in 2004 he said that as far as he knew it was still the fastest optical reader in the world. He was one of the main reasons I got into electronics and then programming
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by niccl 3y ago
And he was one of the models for Horatio Hornblower, created by CS Forrester. They're great reads and I understand that their descriptions of Napoleonic sea battles are fairly accurate
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by niccl 3y ago
I've just had two engineered stone counter tops installed. In both cases (different companies) the fitters came and made a template from thick card of the exact size for the top. the tops arrived and fit precisely. One had to have hole
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by niccl 3y ago
> Tell me true, if you can't buy them how on earth it is piracy to download them? My daughter, doing a journalism course assignment, once asked Maddy Prior of Steeleye Span (not a _huge_ artist, but reasonably well known towards the
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by niccl 3y ago
Agree that it was a catastrophe by the article's definition, but the author specifically says 'since 1500', which excludes the Mongol Wars (from what I understood from your linked page) My first thought when I started reading
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by niccl 3y ago
I'm curious about what failure of budget or imagination meant there was no alarm to indicate that the outer door was open at the same time as the door between enclosures? Surely it would be a simple and relatively cheap (low hundreds o

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