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1. 31.▲
   by pronoiac 2y ago

   Page turning? So, non-destructive, with cameras? How's the quality?
2. 32.▲
   by pronoiac 2y ago

   I got a copy of the 30-year old book from EBay or Amazon for $20, chopped the spine off, and fed it through a scanner. Doing that to a century-old book feels wrong! ScanTailor was tricky to start with; dunno if there's a manual. I reme
3. 33.▲
   by pronoiac 2y ago

   Oh wow! I've worked on turning PAIP (Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming) from a book into a bunch of Markdown files, but that's "only" about a thousand pages long, compared to the roughly 27000 pages long o
4. 34.▲
   by pronoiac 2y ago

   As the credit's left to the end: this was written by Bruce Sterling.
5. 35.▲
   by pronoiac 2y ago

   I've dealt with something similar. We were able to spin up zombie reapers, looking for the cores / CPUs that were pegged at 100%, and prioritize the instances that were worst hit.
6. 36.▲
   by pronoiac 2y ago

   I guess this works right up until it doesn't? It's been a while, but I've seen AWS hit capacity for a specific instance size in a specific availability zone. I remember spot pricing being above the on-demand pricing, which mi
7. 37.▲
   by pronoiac 2y ago

   Oh, writing my own Pinboard archive exporter is somewhere on my too-long to-do list. I should find out what would be good for importing into Archivebox. (WARC?)
8. 38.▲
   by pronoiac 2y ago

   I watched the 1997 Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo + Juliet online with some friends relatively recently, and I'm sort of proud that we managed to not spoil the ending for those who had never read or watched it.
9. 39.▲
   by pronoiac 2y ago

   Note, this blog post has spoilers for: * Alien (1979) * Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
10. 40.▲
    by pronoiac 2y ago

    > Can a Flipper Zero be programmed for this? It connects to Micro SD cards and USB ports. I wrote something barebones for this on my Synology, using just a shell script and (hardware accelerated) openssl, if memory serves; that accelerat
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    by pronoiac 2y ago

    I'm midway through, but a nitpick: > You're on your own figuring out the Commit IDs and punching them into the URL bar if you want something more granular. There's a "commits" tab at the top, like: Conversation
12. 42.▲
    by pronoiac 2y ago

    I emailed him.
13. 43.▲
    by pronoiac 2y ago

    The "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend" podcast posted video for this segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSjdYkqY5WI
14. 44.▲
    by pronoiac 2y ago

    Here's the article linked as https; I'll email the mods. https://cantrip.org/sortfast.html
15. 45.▲
    by pronoiac 2y ago

    > I was unable to find a way to reach Ed Krol or Bruce Sterling ... Bruce Sterling was on Twitter when this was written, and I follow him on Mastodon now. I'll contact him there.
16. 46.▲
    by pronoiac 2y ago

    You need at least two leading spaces to get that to render as code and preserve the layout, like: Out of office: [John Doe] [Stacy] Release: [code freeze]
17. 47.▲
    by pronoiac 2y ago

    Are you talking about lining up the pipeline symbols for columns? If it is, have you tried the AlignTab package?
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    by pronoiac 2y ago

    I recently was running a variety of compressors over the course of days, and using Bash was great because, it doesn't parse the whole file before it starts running - I could edit and reprioritize next steps while the script was running
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    by pronoiac 2y ago

    Someone reached out to the FOIA liaison asking how an individual or organization might help, and got the reply that it's outside their scope, and to contact the NSA directly. Writing a paper letter to the NSA and cc'ing congresspe
20. 50.▲
    by pronoiac 2y ago

    There were two sets of bugs: * the new sort handled ties differently. They adjusted that, and they could have stopped there. * the other was that the correct drivers were sensitive to loading order. They handled this and another driver bu
21. 51.▲
    by pronoiac 2y ago

    I've used https://crt.sh to check my own logged SSL certs before, though it looks like they're seeing issues right now.
22. 52.▲
    by pronoiac 2y ago

    Oops! I edited my comment - moving the paragraph break - to make more clear that I got them used.
23. 53.▲
    by pronoiac 2y ago

    I recommend a NAS; you'll be in much better shape if you have a single drive fail. It's much easier to organize than some random external drives. Am I parsing it right, that you want 24TB of storage? You could do 3x12TB or 4x8TB.
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    by pronoiac 2y ago

    I expected general-purpose compressors to do better, but I was wrong. For the whole document: 174355 pg11.txt 60907 pg11.txt.gz-9 58590 pg11.txt.zstd-9 54164 pg11.txt.xz-9 25360 [from blog post]
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    by pronoiac 2y ago

    Buying refurbished also makes it much easier to avoid having the same brand/model/batch/uptime, for firmware and hardware issues. I do carefully test for bad sectors and verify capacity, just in case.
26. 56.▲
    by pronoiac 2y ago

    Looks like the Internet Archive got a copy, mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20240430041911/https://only9fans...
27. 57.▲
    by pronoiac 2y ago

    Archive copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20240429061925/https://csvbase.c...
28. 58.▲
    by pronoiac 2y ago

    Mine all feel like "we do these not because they're easy, but because we thought they would be easy". Turning a thousand-page book - PAIP - into a stack of Markdown files in a git repo, readable online. The print book recei
29. 59.▲
    by pronoiac 2y ago

    @'s don't do anything here. I've emailed the mods.
30. 60.▲
    by pronoiac 3y ago

    I have a rough draft, I'll see if I can make it presentable.