rudolfwinestock

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by rudolfwinestock 2mo ago
Thank you, moderators, for fixing the title to point out that, sadly, this is invitation-only, for now. Not including that detail was an oversight on my part.
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by rudolfwinestock 5mo ago
Congratulations on six zeros.
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by rudolfwinestock 2y ago
>Quine is ponderous. No kidding. I tried to learn predicate logic by reading his works (mainly Methods of Logic). I wanted to throw his books across the room. I made it, but comparing his treatment of the completeness and compactness
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Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'(independent.co.uk)
468 points by rudolfwinestock 2y ago|423 comments
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by rudolfwinestock 2y ago
Years ago, there was a project for Linux (now defunct) that used Scheme to script the Linux kernel. http://www.abstractnonsense.com/schemix/
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by rudolfwinestock 2y ago
Another source: https://www.hackster.io/news/zilog-calls-time-on-the-venerab... Note that only the standalone DIP-packaged variant of the Z80 will be discontinued. It does not apply to the embedded core variants.
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by rudolfwinestock 2y ago
From the page: EpubPress is a browser extension for Chrome & Firefox for turning your favorite web content into ebooks. Benefits: 1)Removes ads and other distractions, for a cleaner reading experience. 2) Makes content available offline
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by rudolfwinestock 2y ago
jrnl This is a command line journaling application. https://jrnl.sh/en/stable/
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by rudolfwinestock 2y ago
You just answered your own question.
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by rudolfwinestock 3y ago
From the article: “At its peak, this is more than a four-ton force that one would have to apply to a quark to pull it out of the proton,” Burkert explained.
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by rudolfwinestock 3y ago
Related: https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings The Big List of Naughty Strings is a list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data.
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by rudolfwinestock 3y ago
No. He's a friend of a friend.
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by rudolfwinestock 3y ago
I know of a heart surgeon who makes $2,100 per hour.
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by rudolfwinestock 3y ago
Here's a quote which I got from comp.lang.lisp, long ago: Here's an anecdote I heard once about Minsky. He was showing a student how to use ITS to write a program. ITS was an unusual operating system in that the 'shell'
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by rudolfwinestock 3y ago
On July 2013, Robert X. Cringely wrote an article on a Def Con crackers' conference that took place in Las Vegas. https://www.cringely.com/2013/07/30/the-origins-of-defcon/ The events in that articl
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by rudolfwinestock 3y ago
The copy protection for Burgertime on the Apple ][ was especially labrynthine. "I'm beginning to suspect that this disk is nothing more than an infinite series of decryption routines with a game bolted on as an afterthought."
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by rudolfwinestock 3y ago
Congratulations on getting six zeros in your comment id: 37000000.
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by rudolfwinestock 3y ago
There's an effort to provide proofs for every single integral in Gradshteyn & Ryzhik. http://www.math.tulane.edu/~vhm/Table.html
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by rudolfwinestock 4y ago
Entire books have been written about curious integrals. Irresistible Integrals: Symbolics, Analysis and Experiments in the Evaluation of Integrals, by George Boros https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521796369/ Inside In
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by rudolfwinestock 4y ago
View the page source and read the comments. Here's the last one:
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by rudolfwinestock 4y ago
Fast forward 40 years is right. That demo was released forty years ago as of this year.
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Commodore Christmas Demo (1982) [video](youtube.com)
65 points by rudolfwinestock 4y ago|12 comments
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by rudolfwinestock 4y ago
And here is commentary from The 8-Bit Guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWovQ2ngdAQ Merry Christmas, Hacker News.
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by rudolfwinestock 4y ago
Here are other innovative electronic instruments. The Eigenharp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MR5qBtPRrM The Artiphon Instrument1: https://artiphon.com/pages/instrument1 The Linnstrument: https:&#
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by rudolfwinestock 4y ago
If you view the source code for that page, you'll note that the HTML tags are in all caps. The very first line is: <!DOCTYPE HTML><HTML><HEAD><META CHARSET="windows-1252"> And the copyright line is Co
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by rudolfwinestock 4y ago
Also available on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerChroniclesYT I admit that your archive link may be a better source.
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by rudolfwinestock 4y ago
Freya Holmér covers the math and programming behind computer graphics: https://www.youtube.com/c/Acegikmo Here are some more mathematics channels: https://www.youtube.com/user/HarveyMuddCollegeEDU
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by rudolfwinestock 4y ago
As jim_lawless has noted, elsewhere in this thread, SectorLisp (by Justine Tunney) is 436 bytes. https://justine.lol/sectorlisp/
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by rudolfwinestock 4y ago
The author uses a text file in a Dropbox account. That's one way. There's another way that's just as future-proof. The idea was described on Lobsters. https://lobste.rs/s/utdgs1/what_is_good_journ
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by rudolfwinestock 4y ago
Looking at some of the comments in this thread, I wonder if Hacker News will ever render LaTeX.

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