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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
It's not just heavy investment at their moment of need, it's also a habit of nurturing unlikely Plan B's for years and decades. - When Apple founded ARM in 1990 with Acorn and VLSI, they didn't know that silly cacheless
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
There's a lot of mixed metaphors here, but just to attack one I immediately recognize: the 1940 Scientific American article "Don't worry, it can't happen" is not (as Gwern appears to be implying?) stating that nucle
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
Because he's not trying to learn what reality is, he's trying to see what people THINK reality is. Misconceptions can move markets just as easily as plain facts.
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
I love the mobile and web versions of Simplenote from Automattic--decent searching, basic markdown, perfect sync. But I do wish the Windows/Linux clients weren't Electron. There's a good native Mac client at least.
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
I don't have any specific knowledge of Apple's actual implementation, but I've always assumed it used the full-resolution still image as a keyframe (I-frame), and the video clip as B-frames before and afterwards, compensating
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
> utterly floored at how obvious this is but almost everyone has missed it. "the information superhighway", indeed. Interestingly, there was a class of people who never missed that from day one. "Don't believe everyth
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by nonesuchluck 7y ago
A number of Internet personalities such as Twitch streamers were doxxed with a little help from Skype IPs. Maybe impossible to avoid without centralized hubs or an overlay network like Tor. It is curious how Skype was started by Kazaa engin
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by nonesuchluck 7y ago
I feel like the line between computer user/operator and computer programmer used to be fuzzier. I've always wanted to better understand how and where that distinction has shifted over time. To this day, IBM calls mainframe operato
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by nonesuchluck 7y ago
I work with csv files a lot. I have a short awk script which truncates/pads each column to a fixed width which I can specify at runtime. It also repeats the top column (headers) every 20 rows in a different ANSI color. I pipe the outpu
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by nonesuchluck 7y ago
I also want to see Coreboot shipping on Thelio. To me, OOTB Coreboot has become their prime differentiator. I run their Pop! OS on my Ryzen rig, but UEFI is a nightmare.
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by nonesuchluck 7y ago
I'm curious what software they're counting as "Debian." Are they counting the way OpenBSD reckons--"Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!"--key word being "default install
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by nonesuchluck 7y ago
Nice list of fun hacks. My personal favorite preload is [stderr in red]( https://github.com/sickill/stderred ). (Not my github, but I've used this for a long time on my macbook)
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by nonesuchluck 7y ago
> the starships had 3-way voting computer systems, where 3 computers get the same sensor inputs and 2 of them can overrule the 3rd in the case one differs. Clarke invented the communications satellite. Did Heinlein invent the consensus a
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by nonesuchluck 7y ago
Surprisingly, unlike the pennies-per-diskette garbage of the late 90s, Sony 3.5 disks from the 80s were stiffer, heavier, and massively more reliable. I have some 800k Mac disks that still read perfectly well. Probably other brands as well,