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by pronoiac 8y ago
I first saw this story as https://threader.app/thread/1066284025600339968 , which didn't work for some here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18524844
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by pronoiac 8y ago
What the VHS backups would look like if you watched them: Amiga Video Backup System: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1jrLz__PlM0 Danmere Backer: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TUS0Zv2APjU&t=13m30s
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by pronoiac 8y ago
PCs got Danmere Backer, which got Linux drivers: http://linbacker.sourceforge.net/ It could store up to 5.3 gigabytes per tape. I'm surprised the Amiga required extra hardware; I thought it had video capture and outpu
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Alt title: "Fexprs as the basis of Lisp function application"
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by pronoiac 8y ago
I'm planning on going.
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Wayback Machine mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20181101043107/http://vihart.com...
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by pronoiac 8y ago
I think you might be confusing, say, an intranet at work, with how servers should be set up. My workstation should have pretty broad network access. Servers, largely, shouldn't, unless they have a specific reason for it, and in my expe
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by pronoiac 8y ago
"Massive Attack’s Mezzanine “remastered” in aerosol spray can format," as DNA > The complex encoding process is explained in detail in by Dr Robert Grass of Zurich-based company TurboBeads. “This digital bitstream of the album
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Non-Windows peeps, I got you fam: https://webamp.org/ You can drag local files into the queue. And look, over 5k skins: https://archive.org/details/winampskins
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by pronoiac 8y ago
In Futurama, astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all. Its new name: Urectum.
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Dependents in Homebrew: Csync, Hydra, Sshtrix, Yafc. [1] http://brewformulas.org/Libssh
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by pronoiac 8y ago
This isn't to be confused with openssh. It's a separate package in Ubuntu [1] and only four formulae in homebrew [2] use it. [1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libssh-4 - I'm surprised I don't s
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by pronoiac 8y ago
It looks like SageTV was open sourced: https://github.com/google/sagetv
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by pronoiac 8y ago
You just linked the parent thread. It did come up in a conversation about xv6: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17592560
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by pronoiac 8y ago
If you're in San Francisco this Wednesday, check out their annual bash: https://blog.archive.org/2018/08/20/save-the-date-building-a...
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by pronoiac 8y ago
This reminded me of https://www.sheet2site.com/ , which lets you make a website using a Google spreadsheet. I think they’re nifty, and although I haven’t had a personal use case for them, I could see building a prototype wi
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by pronoiac 8y ago
See Motorola Phone Tools, and note the different OS support on Windows. https://motorola-global-en-aus.custhelp.com/app/answers/prod...
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Have you chased the birds?
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Not OP, but Charles Proxy came to mind: https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/ios/ I think it's come up here a few times, with various anecdotes about surfacing badly behaving apps.
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by pronoiac 8y ago
I can't find a concise page to link, but he has a house that's off-the-grid, using solar panels and batteries. So he pays attention to power consumption.
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by pronoiac 8y ago
I got some inspiration from these: https://www.keyvalues.com/culture-queries You highlight what you're looking for, and it offers decent ways of asking about them. I found it here: https://news.ycombinator.
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by pronoiac 8y ago
I'm not the original poster, but Mermaid - https://github.com/knsv/mermaid - looks like a decent way to put easy-to-edit graphs in Markdown. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but I want to. It's not
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by pronoiac 8y ago
As a counterpoint, I offer Jay-Z: http://www.thefader.com/2018/07/05/jay-z-riding-a-jet-ski-me...
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Same here! I don't think I would have read it if not for your comment. For others skittish about that sort of thing: she fractured a bone in her inner ear.
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by pronoiac 8y ago
They made a heaven for emulated Tamagotchi! This makes me happy. http://tamahive.spritesserver.nl/
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Oh, so like memory diamonds, with hydrogen instead of carbon.
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by pronoiac 8y ago
This came up a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17637683
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Ah, yes, Marion Stokes: https://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue... Wikipedia reports she left 71,716 VHS tapes of news recordings. The Internet Archive is on it.
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by pronoiac 8y ago
I hadn't heard of this before! Bandit problems, from Wikipedia[1]: "[imagine] a gambler at a row of slot machines (sometimes known as "one-armed bandits"), who has to decide which machines to play, how many times to pla
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by pronoiac 8y ago
This is a free download until August 23. It's a sequel to their 2016 book, Site Reliability Engineering, which is free to read online at the same landing page: https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html The previou

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