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by omerhj 10y ago
-11 in both eyes here. Seeing the same thing!
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by omerhj 10y ago
It took CNN years to get the aspect ratio of their videos right -- all of their web video used to look like standard def TV stretched out to a HD screen. So the answer is almost certainly no.
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The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies(theguardian.com)
8 points by omerhj 10y ago|0 comments
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Chernobyl after 30 years: a photo gallery(dailykos.com)
1 points by omerhj 10y ago|0 comments
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by omerhj 11y ago
Another Alastair Reynolds short story in the same vein is "A Murmuration" that I read (on my Kindle) in Interzone #257. In the story a flock of birds exhibits intelligence independently from the individual birds.
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U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time(nsarchive.gwu.edu)
2 points by omerhj 11y ago|0 comments
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by omerhj 11y ago
Apple used to call their computers personal computers: https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1979-08/1979_08_BYT... It's funny how IBM was able to hijack the term.
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by omerhj 12y ago
Martin Hellman (yes, the co-inventor of public key cryptography) has a fascinating blog about the risks of stumbling into a nuclear war: https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/
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by omerhj 12y ago
I'm in the middle of his 1996 follow up book, "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb" ( http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sun-Making-Hydrogen-Bomb/dp/06848... ). The book details the Soviet nuclear progr
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by omerhj 12y ago
Debian Wheezy (stable) on most of my systems, and Debian Testing on my primary home laptop. I use backports for things like Emacs and Iceweasel/Firefox where I like to have recent versions. I've been using Linux as my main desktop
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Why Russia calls a limited nuclear strike “de-escalation”(thebulletin.org)
2 points by omerhj 12y ago|0 comments
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by omerhj 12y ago
Paul Krugman blogged about this subject last year: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/friday-night-mus... with a followup here: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/28&#
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On Your Own: Turbo Pascal, The Early Days (1984)(archive.org)
2 points by omerhj 13y ago|0 comments
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by omerhj 13y ago
I've got a Toshiba Satellite 320CDT (Pentium 233MMX, 96 MB RAM) from 1998 that still runs -- I installed Debian Wheezy on it last November. Toshiba went through a really bad spell a few years later, but now their machines don't se
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by omerhj 13y ago
Informit.com (Pearson, Addison-Wesley Professional, Prentice Hall etc.) has a similar 40% to 50% off deal until January 31st: http://www.informit.com/promotions/best-of-2013-ebook-sale-1... This includes the ebook vers
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by omerhj 13y ago
I bought the paper book and the ebook (pdf, epub, mobi) from No Starch Press through this link for $70 last year: http://man7.org/tlpi/purchase.html I didn't end up doing as much Linux C programming as I expected
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by omerhj 13y ago
nl -> us, and specifically vt. Moved here because my wife is a Vermonter. I've lived in Vermont for almost two decades now and unless I really start disliking snow I'll probably stay here for the rest of my life. Not exactly a
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by omerhj 13y ago
It seems some of the higher quality scans can be found here on archive.org: http://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-rescans
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by omerhj 13y ago
http://www.informit.com/store/html5-unleashed-9780672336270 Informit sells PDF, mobi and epub versions of all Pearson books. They print "From the library of Your Name" as a footer on every page but there's no additional copy protection as