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by nullhole 3y ago
otoh he did have one of the first viral videos: "The Final Days" White House Correspondents' Dinner Skit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbbUYhyoWz8
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by nullhole 3y ago
⊕ is the symbol for earth. R⊕ is earth-radius, as you guessed. It is domain-specific, so it should probably be changed in the title. I will say that it is a very nice symbol - easy to write out by hand, makes for quick note-taking. Same for
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by nullhole 3y ago
I buy all my jokes at police auction.
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by nullhole 3y ago
Presumably you can still plug in an external usb HDD. That's a spinning disk, that can store movies.
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by nullhole 3y ago
Worth noting is Gary Larson's original response to the WWW was an open letter asking fans not to post his cartoons online. Akin to the Bill Gates letter on copying software, but, perhaps, more understandable. This website is a reversal
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by nullhole 3y ago
This WSJ opinion piece has the title "Anthony Fauchi Fesses Up", not "It turns out the six-feed social-distancing rule had no scientific basis", as the current HN title sys. The opinion piece also says > the six-feet
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by nullhole 3y ago
> Datacenters were and still are full of monstrous Xeons, and for a good reason. To ask the foolish question, why? My guess would be power efficiency. I've only ever seen them in workstations, and in that use-case it was the number
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by nullhole 3y ago
The striking thing to me is how complete the fear is. The childhood imagination becomes a detriment because of its ability to imagine and believe inutterable terror. With that early fear, it's harder, later on in life, to believe in li
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by nullhole 3y ago
The microdrive[1] existed. You could fit a lot more than four of those in a VHS cassette. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive
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by nullhole 3y ago
On the plus side there are a lot more people who get to be alive now.
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by nullhole 3y ago
Chrome only, and terrestrial radio, not news, but: https://radio.garden/
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by nullhole 3y ago
Hi lolinder, welcome to HackerNews. Your comment implies that Stack Overflow isn't currently fun. You are of course well within your rights to make that assertion. However, I find that your comment may be improved by removing any impli
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by nullhole 3y ago
Mentioned in an article in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/17/cellpho...
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The Light Phone(thelightphone.com)
2 points by nullhole 3y ago|2 comments
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by nullhole 3y ago
<ul><ul><ul><ul><ul><ul><ul><ul><ul><ul><ul><ul><ul>Looks great! Reminds me of some of my early classics!</ul></ul></ul><&#x2F
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by nullhole 3y ago
You're trying to befriend a non-existing duck! (some sort of duck game for HN could be neat. Can't see why it wouldn't be possible...)
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Numerical Recipes(numerical.recipes)
2 points by nullhole 3y ago|0 comments
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by nullhole 3y ago
To quote Arcade Fire, If I could have it back All the time that we wasted I’d only waste it again If I could have it back You know I would love to waste it again Waste it again and again and again
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by nullhole 3y ago
Not only that, it's half price! With free shipping! Holiday promo at Rutgers University Press (I'm not affiliated with them, other than being a recent customer :) https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/holiday-sale
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by nullhole 3y ago
Ceci n'est pas une blague.
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by nullhole 3y ago
Sid Meier talked about this wrt Civilization battle odds: https://youtu.be/bY7aRJE-oOY?t=1101
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by nullhole 3y ago
I agree. I was a bit too flip in my original comment; there are regular tasks now that simply require multiples of the data throughput that the 1980s Cray machines were capable of. The simpler point I was aiming at was just that: the amount
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by nullhole 3y ago
There's a line in the Jurassic Park book where a character is made suspicious by an offhand assertion (by Nedry) that he is using a multi XMP system . Rpi4s are nice, in a sense, because you can only rarely honestly claim that the spe
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by nullhole 3y ago
It's like a form of especially logical compression
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by nullhole 3y ago
Do you mean that the daytime running lights for all new cars include both front (white) and rear (red) lights? If so, that's a good precedent for other jurisdictions. A longstanding gripe of mine has been that, in Canada at least, new
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by nullhole 3y ago
"In the world of hard-wired surveillance, the person with the soldering iron is king." - Unknown
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by nullhole 3y ago
All I see is a link to a generic safety page. What newspaper? What URL? Is there a [tw|n]itter link to an example?
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by nullhole 3y ago
No, 'software engineer' is not exempt. The article says "Engineer is a protected title in certain contexts in B.C.", and links to the association page, which has this: Software and computer engineering have been desi
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by nullhole 3y ago
No true Scotsman, I guess.
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by nullhole 3y ago
"How was copper wire invented?" "Two Scotsmen fighting over a penny."

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