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by wazoox 4y ago
See this page for examples: https://sites.google.com/site/jspanhomepage/l0rigdeblur impressive!
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by wazoox 4y ago
Used to be called a "mother".
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by wazoox 4y ago
Not only that, but now I watch all videos and listen to all podcasts at 1.5 to 3x speed. At some point I should accept the FOMO...
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by wazoox 4y ago
Renault did that last month. They sold their car factories and operations building and selling more than 500,000 cars a year in Russia at a very significant profit for one rouble . The Russian state company who bought it promised that it w
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by wazoox 4y ago
Unified memory was introduced by SGI with the O2 workstation in 1996, then they used it again with their x86 workstations SGI 320 and 540 in 1999. So it was a workstation-class technology before being a mobile one :)
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by wazoox 4y ago
Ah yeah, I remember that guy that was supposedly the investor's expert that we met right after lunch.Obviously his meal was copious and also helped with large servings of alcoholic beverage, so after 15 minutes of our explanations (we
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by wazoox 4y ago
I've read the whole book (probably from HN recommendation) and it's awesome what they achieved back in the 50s. Networking huge computers at sea for C&C and targeting back in the 50s and 60s. The writing may not be great, but
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by wazoox 4y ago
I never, ever look at the recommendations. I go straight to my subscription page. I'm subscribed to hundreds of channels, that's more than enough to watch.
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by wazoox 4y ago
Be extra careful with the power supply, though. Check that it still provide proper 5V and 9V, not 7 and 15V...
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by wazoox 4y ago
I've been using a Philips electric razor that someone didn't want and gave me for the past 15 years. The battery (I think it's still a NiMh, that's how old the thing is) is getting bad, but it's still OK. Never chan
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by wazoox 4y ago
Back in the 70s one of my mother's friend had his car to fail on a level crossing. A train arrived, crushed the car, the locomotive derailed, fell into the river, destroying the railway bridge over the river, then the following wagons
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by wazoox 5y ago
With perl, you can use Template::Toolkit, and there's even "PLP" that emulates exactly PHP behaviour, but using Perl as a language, and "<: :>" markers instead of "<?php ?>".
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by wazoox 5y ago
There is a SDK that looks quite decent: https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/sdk/
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by wazoox 5y ago
If there isn't any triangle, than the position of the handle on the little pump is the indicator.
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by wazoox 5y ago
I used to suffer from these auras from 2005 to 2015. I never had one before, and they completely disappeared since then. I don't think they were ever followed by any headache, either. A funny but related story: I was visiting Paray-le-
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by wazoox 5y ago
I used Digidesign Sound Tools and Sound Tools II on a Mac IIx at the studio from 91 to 93, also Opcode Studio Vision (using the Digidesign card); then we upgraded with another piece of Digidesign kit that was some sort of "ProTools lit
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by wazoox 5y ago
Ridiculous, and necessary :)
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by wazoox 5y ago
There are many such landmarks in Paris: the Eiffel tower (Exposition Universelle 1889), Grand Palais and Petit Palais (1900 Expo), Chaillot palace (1937 Expo).
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by wazoox 5y ago
There is a great Jewish joke about markets: Shlomo was returning from Antwerp, when he met Moishe: "Look at this bag of diamonds I've bought there! only 1000 florins, it's easily worth double that!" "Wow, that'
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by wazoox 5y ago
It's from 2017, and has been discussed previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15649062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16254122
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by wazoox 5y ago
Also "central planning works".
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by wazoox 5y ago
Exactly that. In France the new EPR nuclear reactor has been 15 years in the making and should (hopefully) start in 2023. The Chinese built 2 of these in 9 years. As some engineer from Framatome overseeing the project said, "they achie
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by wazoox 5y ago
> Creating film is high tech, both the film itself, the camera to expose it, and the lab to develop it. Absolutely not. See https://hmfi.handmadefilm.org/ Seriously, film is a 19th century technology. All of its process
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by wazoox 5y ago
Reading 35mm film isn't high tech. In fact, you only need a light source and a lens. You can perfectly scan 35mm film with a basic flatbed scanner, or a phone camera. If you're using only text and image paper wins. But as soon as
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by wazoox 5y ago
There's this one https://digifilm-corp.com/home And another one I can't find right now, it's a Norwegian company.
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by wazoox 5y ago
I'm talking about 35mm film infrequently accessed, not microfilm which is mostly degraded by repeated reading. Typical laser-printed paper doesn't last more than a few decades AFAIK. Color 35mm film is stable for at least 60 years
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by wazoox 5y ago
There are systems now to archive masses of data on film. Contrary to ordinary printed paper, film can easily last several decades and even centuries.
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by wazoox 5y ago
This seems to naively suppose that the gain could offset the losses. Except for the problem that large populations, cities, ports, industries etc are located on the coasts, while the land gains in cold, remote regions will be probably mostl
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by wazoox 5y ago
My son once grabbed a huge crate of ditched VHS on the sidewalk, filled with 80s action movies (complete Stallone, VanDamme, Schwartzenegger etc). He made a lot of 80s-movies-watching with his friends from these VHS. They loved the experie
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by wazoox 5y ago
My work PC was a Pentium 166Mhz overclocked to 225 Mhz (bus cranked up from 33 to 45Mhz) with 64 MB of RAM, a Matrox Mystique 4MB, two 1.2 GB disks and a SCSI 2x CD burner running Windows 98SE. However my other work machine was an SGI O2 :)

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