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by watersb 3y ago
I managed to get through a bad flu infection in late 2003, but my health steadily declined over the next 5 years to the point where I could not get out of bed two or three days per week. Like, crawling on the floor to get out of bed exhaust
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by watersb 3y ago
Wow! Any correlation with blood pressure regulation?
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by watersb 3y ago
> In 64-bit mode, the 8086's general-purpose registers are extended to sixteen 64-bit registers (and [soon]( https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t... ) to be 32 reg
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by watersb 3y ago
Toasters plus Hacker News should always equal John Siracusa’s glorious series of toaster reviews: https://www.caseyliss.com/2015/9/10/siracusa-on-toasters
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by watersb 3y ago
Oh man... I used to run a network with hundreds of Macs. I still remember that One Monitor, flyback transformer I could hear from my office cube, in another wing, one floor down.
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by watersb 3y ago
I don’t think this is the physically-based rendering thing from Flutter.
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by watersb 3y ago
For a while, DBrand had skins that were basically photos of the respective machines with the case removed, full color internal components.
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by watersb 3y ago
Heck, MY computer literally had the infamous "Halt and Catch Fire" instruction: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computi... although by the time I got to computing, the HCF didn't a
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by watersb 3y ago
Somewhere around here, I've got a notebook, it's pages of hex dump written with a pencil in a child's handwriting. I couldn't afford a printer.
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by watersb 3y ago
Ah yes, I run Pi-Hole as well.
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by watersb 3y ago
There was a mode, included with the After Dark screen saver for classic macOS, that was basically an xneko port, named “Neko Neko”.
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by watersb 3y ago
Mad props for Hans Ecke’s XPlanet Resources page: http://hans.ecke.ws/xplanet/ For a year or three, I ran this setup on my Linux background desktop. Our team was returning to the United States after working with our co
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by watersb 3y ago
On my macOS box, I run Little Snitch, a nice UI that can be set to ask local user for explicit permission before allowing a network request. https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html I’ve occasionally
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by watersb 3y ago
IIRC, “neural network” style systems design started in the realm of computer vision with “Perceptrons”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptrons_(book)Perceptrons = https://g.co/kgs/8Un4eW Makes
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by watersb 3y ago
Am I the only one who thought this was about low-orbit adventure following menstruation? Because seriously I did. Thankfully, by the 1990s NASA had a bit more experience with female astronauts. A popular story of NASA’s initial accommodati
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by watersb 3y ago
Apparently, the host 'tools.aftertheflood.com' is still mapped to GitHub Pages. Backing out from the CSS file (many thanks!), turns out the top-level web page is still up -- BUT the links to download the zip file font collections
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by watersb 3y ago
Recent HN thread on another "graphing data" font, although this one doesn't simply map numbers to graphic, prompting a discussion on accessibility issues to consider: Datalegreya Font https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by watersb 3y ago
I try to keep my SVGs simple, and often tweak them by editing the XML data in a text editor. (Linus Torvalds relaxes with assembly language, I make image files smaller...) https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Re
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by watersb 3y ago
My daughter just told me, "If you really stretch it, you can make what you post on social media true." Alas, I must concede the point: upon actual cursory research, drinking distilled water is NOT a health risk. (I was once admitt
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by watersb 3y ago
In release versions of macOS, if you boot macOS in "verbose" mode (hold down the V key on keyboard when starting the computer), you get the text of the console messages scrolling on your screen, until the login manager starts. Lot
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by watersb 3y ago
> drinking purely distilled water on the regular sound's really bland Also potentially dangerous. If you drink a gallon of distilled water all at once, it could screw up electrolyte balance. Screwy potassium levels can cause heart f
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by watersb 3y ago
NBD = "Network Block Device" I'm not totally familiar with this in the context of low-level boot. I've used iSCSI (SCSI protocol over Ethernet), AoE (likewise, ATA) and FreeBSD has a network layer of their GEOM virtual s
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by watersb 3y ago
Metadata indexing for Spotlight? I've had very stubborn runs of the md* indexer (not at laptop can't recall name -- mdimport?) decide that yes, this coffee shop is a great place to crank it up. A similar one is a large initial i
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by watersb 3y ago
Exactly: we would use a screwdriver. That was my first reaction. Second reaction to this was "Nah, this is brute-forcing like running through all permutations that's not possible I'm not worthy." My third reaction was h
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by watersb 3y ago
Original Ventoy is a boot utility - a shim that boots ISO image files. You run the included script, it installs onto the USB thumb drive you select, and then you can copy ISO images to the USB filesystem. Each ISO automatically becomes a GR
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by watersb 3y ago
So close... The display with the smallest pixels in my collection has been the quirky Essential PH-1; its display is a silly 504 ppi. I loved that thing, but the device is no longer supported by official updates. It looks mighty nice, just
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by watersb 3y ago
And these days, 96 ppi is the de facto standard, via the CSS specification: https://webplatform.github.io/docs/tutorials/understanding-c... It's as if the Windows spec were retconned into being the historica
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by watersb 3y ago
Dementia is often horrible and I shouldn't joke about it... but I read this headline and immediately thought it sounded like my kind of town. :-) More seriously, this town is a beautiful, compassionate idea and I'm glad it's
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by watersb 3y ago
218 ppi matches the native displays on current Macs. The Dell 8k has 288 pixels per inch, which is 4x the detail of the original Mac. Macintosh 128k was released with a 72 ppi display, so every pixel was the size of a "point", a u
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by watersb 3y ago
Indeed, it was stellar... I worked for a large national telescope facility! Also, it was a good plan but more than we could carry indefinitely. My health collapsed and we were in the second year of trying to figure out why. So we needed to

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