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by watersb 5y ago
These photos are incredible. Art. I don't need realism here, it's magic. And it once again reminds me that human vision is very strange to quantify.
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by watersb 5y ago
So, not about kicking elephants out of perfectly flying airplanes. Which would also probably break an AWS network. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/jul/31/elephant-airli...
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by watersb 5y ago
Connectix VirtualPC started as a Mac product. I installed Windows 95 on a Mac with VirtualPC back in... 1995. All 26 floppies of it. Installation done, it rebooted the virtual box, and I had to go to a meeting. Cane back an hour or so later
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by watersb 5y ago
Halt and Catch Fire: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computi...
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by watersb 5y ago
I love Yurichev's books on assembly language, and he gives them away (CC-BY-4.0). https://beginners.re/
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by watersb 5y ago
From 2015? International Obfuscated C Code Contest. > This entry weighs in at a magical 4043 bytes (8086 nibbles, 28,301 bits). It manages to implement most of the hardware in a 1980’s era IBM-PC using a few hundred fewer bits than the
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by watersb 5y ago
This video announcement is very strange. Is this announcement style typical of Anonymous?
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by watersb 5y ago
... three days later ... Oh, I see: you are wondering why Apple M1 Ultra, as two chips linked by EMIB, couldn't just be the two chips adjacent on the wafer. See the difference? Apple knows what their yields are; if they could be sur
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by watersb 5y ago
The comic strip "Nancy" has been in continuous publication since the discovery of atomic fission; at the moment produced by Olivia Jaimes. https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/ I find it amusing once in a while. It
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by watersb 5y ago
> Schultz wrapped up Peanuts because he had terminal cancer. He died shortly afterward. In fact, his last strip was printed as he passed away. At the time, newsprint was the primary (only?) distribution method for Peanuts.
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by watersb 5y ago
I cannot imagine a greater pain than the death of my child at 2 years old. I would be lost. So I am praying for you. This doesn't help directly, but I hope you can know that we are out here, we hear you. I immediately got a question wh
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by watersb 5y ago
Can someone please explain what Okta is all about? I had never heard of it. It's an auth/ID service provider for many of the things I have heard about, I guess. For internal IT systems? Or for customer (public-facing) auth?
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by watersb 5y ago
> After all, Cerebras made a functional wafer sized chip. https://cerebras.net/ Yes, but the Cerebras wafer-chip is a repeating pattern of logic, memory, and interconnect tiles. Each pattern is well under the reticle l
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by watersb 5y ago
> I am utterly shocked it has taken this long for something like this to come around. Agreed. The default output of a spreadsheet these days should be an embedded web component. Live graphs, linked to data source, edit and customize.
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by watersb 5y ago
> The discrepancy in lines comes from whether you count certain rail-based transportation lines as part of the subway system or not. Ah, that makes some sense. Like in San Francisco, there is the regional BART light rail, but also ther
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by watersb 5y ago
I think @cyberpunk is reacting to the complexity of zsh versus more traditional shells. For some value of traditional. I look at zsh alias features and my head explodes a bit. The glob patterns can get so complex, they look like Perl or sen
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by watersb 5y ago
Netscape Navigator 4.0 (NS4) would let a page open new browser windows, but if you wanted to hide the Navigator UI (the stuff above "The Line of Death" in this article), you needed to sign your scripts with your developer certific
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by watersb 5y ago
If I can't understand my writing when using a screen reader, it's probably not worth your time. I know that audio navigation tools are far more sophisticated than simple text to speech, but I just try to keep it simple.
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by watersb 5y ago
A Facebook post, letter to the editor (London Times, I think): https://www.facebook.com/100058234413220/posts/3780988174745... The letter reads: "Sir, Richard Morrison is right to question the wisdom of banni
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by watersb 5y ago
Nothing wrong with being proud of your nation's accomplishments, and being appalled at its violence. We have been shown the strength of our culture, and the fragility of our institutions, in this era of super-power authoritarianism. I
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by watersb 5y ago
I'm staying in a house right now that features a SubZero refrigerator. It's at least ten years old, huge, and full. It's not very efficient, when it comes to power consumption. But the freezer is huge, and works for this fami
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by watersb 5y ago
My first ever large (> 4TB) ZFS pool is still stuck with dedup. It's a backup server, gets about 2x with deduplication. At the time, it was the difference between slow and impossible: I couldn't afford another 2x of disks. Thes
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by watersb 5y ago
I married a Librarian. Weeding is hard.
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by watersb 5y ago
Around 2000, I paid about $100 for a movie on VHS, in order to give it as a gift. It was the timing that was key: pre-recorded tapes were priced to be sold to rental stores upon initial VHS release, then sold at a fraction of release price
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by watersb 5y ago
That's a great story. When traveling, easy to be surprised at what aspects of my behavior would be considered way out of the local ordinary...
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by watersb 5y ago
If I understand correctly, this study saw the vaccine's mRNA integrated into the genome of cells in the liver. The particular site on the genome is a sequence that is known to encode immune response.
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by watersb 5y ago
Interesting! But I don't know if I want to use this unless I can see an example of the results of given input, and a quick scan of the GitHub README I don't see examples. Is there a demo you can point to? Thanks!
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by watersb 5y ago
This is a chiptune remake of legendary album "Kind of Blue". From ? 2010. I got into it when it was first released. You should, too.
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by watersb 5y ago
This is the Twitter clone that former President Trump has sponsored, in order to keep on tooting after he was banned from other social media services. Not sure what to make of it; I wonder how many fake accounts get set up.
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by watersb 5y ago
Even worse: the No Child Left Behind Act tested and funded schools based on improvements in student test scores. A school in an impoverished community that managed to excel, to overcome adversity, may well be penalized for doing so; when

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