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by pronoiac 12y ago
Oh right, this is coming out next month! He's going on tour to support the release: http://www.nealstephenson.com/tour.html
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by pronoiac 12y ago
It's a tribal thing; people have already made their minds up about it, and we're just going to spout talking points at each other. Instead of talking about the post, we're doing the lazy "and what's up with the GP
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Sweet fucking Jesus, do we need to talk about the GPL here? It's an utter derail here, and the way comments are ranked here means that the top pages of this thread are going to be the same hashing out of pros and cons and it's inc
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Was this the module you were looking at? http://www.auvidea.com/index.php/theme-styles/2013-06-22-21-... I'd heard the GPU was getting better docs, and I wondered if it would help handle this.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
"King of Kong" is coming up here, but you should know that the editing was selective and misleading: http://kottke.org/08/02/king-of-kong-a-fistful-of-quarters
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Huh, there's an errant "Clock Speed: 16 MHz" there.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
I thought of this because of a post about recovering data from optical media snapped in half: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317861
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by pronoiac 12y ago
This reminded me of someone retrieving data from a Cray hard drive with custom gear: https://blog.archive.org/2011/09/03/hard-drive-archaeology-a... It's cool seeing research into this.
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Hard Drive Archaeology(blog.archive.org)
2 points by pronoiac 12y ago|1 comments
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Ooh! And if you use parity encoding, like par2, that might be totally recoverable! Cool!
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Probably not; canistream.it comes up empty.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
> The Raspberry Pi is a nearly stick-like mini computer that can run Windows or Linux. What? Is this about the future version of Windows that will run on ARM?
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by pronoiac 12y ago
I'd be wary of a Dropbox folder that contains a link to a parent directory of itself, with the possibility of an infinite loop.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
> Dropbox has the distinction of being the only cloud service--and perhaps the only startup--ever to compete simultaneously against Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Tencent. If you're wondering who Tencent is, you're not a
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Tencent, Up 14,000% Since Its IPO, Is Still an Unknown Chinese Internet Giant(thestreet.com)
1 points by pronoiac 12y ago|0 comments
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by pronoiac 12y ago
I cleaned it up and added links, and sent a pull request.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
It may have made more sense if I mentioned I'm on mobile. Maybe I'll make the repo when I finish doing laundry.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
It's a shame there's no commentary, and they're not easily readable - they're offering tar.gz files. Maybe post them to Github?
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by pronoiac 12y ago
This is familiar. The author originally posted it to his own site, and we discussed it in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6892935
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Thinking about this, it's the sort of thing I often enjoy amongst friends, but that I'd probably not bring up at work.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
The original title, as evidenced by the URL, had "goes nuts" instead of "is going crazy."
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Here it is as a clickable link: https://www.whitehouse.gov/usds I'm curious: where is that work, geographically?
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by pronoiac 12y ago
In San Francisco, the Exploratorium offers free admission for Pi Day tomorrow. Yay, Pi Day!
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by pronoiac 12y ago
"It’s like creating Frankenstein and then realizing that you didn’t bolt the legs on. After you’ve hit it with lightning and given it life. While it’s attempting to walk."
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People Who Could Really Break the Internet(blog.cloudmark.com)
5 points by pronoiac 12y ago|0 comments
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Context: The founder of Metafilter, mathowie, is stepping down from day-to-day operations. It's been an oasis for online discussion, and it's down to him. He ran it by himself for a few years, out of pocket.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
It's also frustrating that I can't submit answers, as I'm looking for work right now. Also, who's this for? The account has no activity before this post.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Neill Blomkamp, director of "District 9," is going to direct an "Aliens" sequel! It seems that first he said he'd ignore "Alien 3" and "Alien: Resurrection," but it seems like he's taken tha
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by pronoiac 12y ago
There are suicide prevention hotlines around the world: http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/ThereIsHelp (I run this wiki, and this is something that makes me really happy and eager to.)
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Oh man I thought I'd read everything James Mickens had written! Awesome!

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