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by zw123456 3y ago
Also, don't forget about air travel, especially private airplanes, something that is on the rise (e.g Netjets). Often the virtues of world travel are extolled as a way to learn about the world and bring people together etc. Except, it&
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by zw123456 3y ago
One other fun fact about numbering, the most frequently dialed exchanges, those for big cities would use the lowest numbers, e.g. downtown would be 223 for the exchange and big cities area codes 212 and so on. The reason was not for the con
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by zw123456 3y ago
Reason number 379 why I love HN.
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The Lunar Codex: why are humans sending art to the moon?(dazeddigital.com)
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by zw123456 3y ago
I know, I am way late to the game on this one. But WTF. I made a Scanning Tunneling Microscope, in 2001, spent an entire year doing it. Coolest F-ing thing I ever did. No money. No reason other than my curiosity. I learned Sooooooooooo much
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by zw123456 3y ago
Yeah, I get it, main reason I posted it to HN, usually these guys sniff stuff like that out. But didn't feel like that.
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First-ever experiment proves light travels through both space and time(thebrighterside.news)
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by zw123456 3y ago
OK, throwing my dental horror story on the pile. About 15 years ago I bit on something in a wrap, and it hurt like heck, and I went to the dentist, and he said I needed an implant. $3000 later, I had a cool fake tooth. Then a few years late
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by zw123456 3y ago
Everything can be addictive. My stepsister is addicted to buying things and never opening the item. Her husband enables this because they live out in the country and he had a sort of "warehouse" built for her with huge metal racks
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by zw123456 3y ago
I am sort of blown away by the response to my post. I feel like I need to respond. But the posts from so many people are so amazing. I have "retired" a couple of times, but I keep coming back because, this is fun. The thing I want
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by zw123456 3y ago
Hi there, old person here. Tomorrow is my 65th birthday. I had vowed to myself that I would completely and totally retire, Finally, at 65. But then, this "thing" cropped up and the day after tomorrow, I am pitching my 3rd startup
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by zw123456 3y ago
OMG Flashback memories of my internship there. It really should be turned into a tech museum or something.
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by zw123456 3y ago
Yeah, but How Fucking Cool would it be it if was a real thing. I think it is begging for B movie treatment... OK Down vote me as being Reddit-esque... But come on, it's Sunday afternoon, have a little fun... Tree Octopus's on a Pl
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by zw123456 3y ago
I just had a flashback to 1984 when I was at Bell Labs when the Bell System was broken up and someone called me and said they "Found a building that had been misplaced" and that it was full of equipment they could not figure out w
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Aim (Analog Iterative Machine)(microsoft.com)
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by zw123456 3y ago
OK, fair enough. I will stop doing it. I get down voted a lot for it :)
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by zw123456 3y ago
I was wondering the same thing. Even the prediction as I type this in is pretty good. It seems like LLM's could be even better.
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by zw123456 3y ago
That might be a bit too advanced for a 6 year old perhaps.
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by zw123456 3y ago
It's an analogy, meant to show the similarities between two things in a limited way, to illustrate an idea. They do not have to be exactly the same in every way.
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by zw123456 3y ago
The way I would explain it to a 6 year old would be like this: Infinity isn't a number really, it's a concept, like the word many or the word few. If someone says they have many of something, you don't think is that odd or ev
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by zw123456 3y ago
OK I watched it. I think it would have been better if I had smoked some weed before hand. One of those 80's stoner movies for sure. Very cool "trip" down memory lane :)
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by zw123456 3y ago
Nicely done!
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by zw123456 3y ago
I thought it's a control room for a reality TV show that we all star in.
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by zw123456 3y ago
I know, I was there once. But a time will come. Cherish the moments now. And later, enjoy the freedom. Perhaps too soon.
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by zw123456 3y ago
I call it a me day. I take a day off and do NOTHING. Not all the time, every once in a while. No plan, just do whatever I feel. So many times, it resulted in something interesting, I write something or invent something or just nothing but j
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by zw123456 3y ago
I know I have said this before on here, but when I was in college in the 1970's... yes, I am and old fucker. I lived in a co-op house and there was this guy that was studying environmental science, which was a new thing back then. He e
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by zw123456 3y ago
Yeah, but awaiting and expansion were in there so I guess we can cut it some slack perhaps.
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by zw123456 3y ago
I always thought it was one of those legacy things because the max frame size for frame relay was 9000 Bytes. But in theory, a frame for Ethernet can be 64K I believe but that is not really practical of course for reasons mentioned in other
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by zw123456 4y ago
Yes, I stuck a PDF of Godel, Escher and Bach, which is a book that my favorite prof in grad school gave me when I graduated back in 1980, of course the PDF is a much later version. But I thought it was pretty decent poem about the book. For
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by zw123456 4y ago
Me: Can you write a blackout poem inspired by this book? PDF: Sure, here's a blackout poem inspired by "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid": Golden strands of music and math, A puzzle of paradoxes and paths. Recursi

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