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by ynac 7mo ago
As anyone who is a phan of the bryphyte knows, looking and watching these plants up close it's fascinating to see how they are really forests in miniature. From the tall trees of their sporophytes, to the low protonema that collect de
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In Criminal Cases, Moss Is Often Underfoot and Overlooked(nytimes.com)
3 points by ynac 7mo ago|2 comments
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by ynac 7mo ago
Any other services down for anyone? I've had a credit service portal fail for hours today with a notice of server issues. As well as a credit union login with a similar message. These are all first times for me. Some big black cape
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by ynac 7mo ago
Kinda right there at #1. Explanations are one thing, but Humans have to own it. We'll see! The DoD AI ethics principles adopted 2020 1. Responsible – Humans remain accountable for AI development, deployment, and outcomes. 2. Equitabl
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by ynac 7mo ago
We've got a free art exchange box on main street in town. Always fun to see what's in there. Never empty and always different. Maybe it's from reading Capitalism by Beckert, but libraries, art exchanges, fix it parties, an
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by ynac 7mo ago
We had a science teacher in 7th grade whose teaching style was all overhead notes. She'd give us time to copy them into our spiral bounds or 3-rings and when we were all done, she'd swap for the next slide. She didn't lectur
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by ynac 7mo ago
* Remote viewing stock market trading programs - One version is with a buddy who shows me a colored board depending on the outcome for the week. The other is a solo version using a Swift app on Mac. We're just out of buggy beta (the
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by ynac 7mo ago
It was a weird time frame. My partner was living in the house, and I was moving to Seattle. The backup was pretty much inches from the system itself. Not the last time I learned that lesson. But, the original SCSI drive did survive, eve
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by ynac 7mo ago
You're inspiring me to attempt a rescue of my last BBS (MajorBBS system) from 1991-1993. It had some great ANSI room and section screens. It was run from a single 1GB(!!) drive that cost us $1000. We had email, a couple stores (one
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by ynac 7mo ago
Just checked out MoveOMeter.com Great idea - and I get how pitching to "an old coot" like my parents would get a laugh out of them before an insulting hurtful pass. Very clever positioning - I'd lean in on that. Your audie
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by ynac 7mo ago
Same here - it's like programming with a couple of buddies. Occasionally they goof off and wreck everything, but we put it back together and end up with a finished project. I'm literally going through my backlog of projects from
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by ynac 7mo ago
It has felt that way lately, but I can't say it is limited to HN. It's pretty tough to have a conversation last for more than a few minutes without it ending in a political discussion, a news item that isn't good, or a local
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by ynac 7mo ago
Agreed with others here...and updating intel for primary targets is customary. Which obviously didn't happen here. The targeting cycle and the F2T2 cycle, dynamic targeting loops (probably) should have brought the latest intel about
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by ynac 7mo ago
Newbie here! Still shopping for elements of my system. : )
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by ynac 7mo ago
My "hello world" for a new stack is always a version of Worm. Somewhere between Life and your Swarm, Worm wanders around looking for food and water, trying to avoid birds and other issues. Each round the worm survives it grows b
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by ynac 7mo ago
I hope you don't go! It's clearly a minority position you hold, but that doesn't mean it's a bad one. Or wrong. I've been perplexed by this and many other related issues. I wonder and hope every year, every step
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by ynac 7mo ago
I've messed around with remote viewing and GC data for stock trading systems. Less for the profit than just to have a separate system for balance. It's fascinating stuff. It's not nothing, and yet it's just so weird.
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by ynac 7mo ago
Going on the list! Thanks! It reminds me of a story I was told about a certain vault in Hollywood that contained hundreds of priceless films that were destroyed in a fire...but they locked up the vault and pretended everything was fine. A
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by ynac 7mo ago
I worked on a massive audio (78s) digitization project for the LOC and it was a blast to see the process of how these archivists and their outsourced crews (like us) worked to maintain the human arts. It was an odd feeling, I never had a c
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19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack(npr.org)
63 points by ynac 7mo ago|28 comments
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by ynac 8mo ago
Bullied? As I understand a few of the situations over the past 15-20 years I've been near, it was either a false bully (Godfather II, Michael at the Senate hearings) or just an outright delivery on promise - already paid for, thank yo
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Why Tech Giants Are Accused of Causing Social Media Addiction [video](nytimes.com)
2 points by ynac 8mo ago|0 comments
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by ynac 8mo ago
"The biggest heist of all would be if Google wins outright, trounces the competition, and did so because they tiptoed around antitrust legislation and made everyone think they were the underdogs." Can you break that out a little?
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by ynac 8mo ago
To all the replies herein: Dang - I haven't read that kind of hacker attitude anywhere, even here, in a long time ya'll. I ain't kiddin', I got a little weepy. I don't know what the rally cry of hackers would be, b
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by ynac 8mo ago
Not nearly on the article's level, but I've been operating what I call a fog machine (itsy bitsy personal cloud) for about 15 years. It's just a bunch of local and off-site NAS boxes. It has kinda worked out great. Mostly
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by ynac 8mo ago
I'll dig through the notebooks and see if there are any left. I printed them out when they got interesting. I can already see this turning into an all-day session of reviewing the decades of odd projects that I've forgotten abou
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by ynac 8mo ago
Triggered a great lost memory: When I was on a dev team testing the graphing systems for a scientific data presentation software back in the early 90s I would try to come up with "fictional data sets" that would make interesting
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by ynac 8mo ago
What class is this for?
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by ynac 9mo ago
Since we're of a certain level of interest and openness, I'll throw a pop fiction title into the mix: Dan Brown's /Secret of Secrets/ for a tip toe through the non-local mind and soul topic. It's a 4 index ca
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by ynac 9mo ago
Somewhere in the late 90s, I worked on the IETF IP over TV broadcast. I mostly observed and tried to ask smart questions, but it was really fun to be a part of the group. I learned a lot about both the technical side of radio frequencies,

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