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by zwieback 3y ago
Good memories. We used OS/2 for a automated measurement tool and it was rock solid, at the time it was a great choice for true multitasking (pre-Linux and pre-NT). My OS/2 experience got me a job at a company that IBM contracted t
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by zwieback 3y ago
Publicly funded radio and TV in Germany was a mishmash of entertainment, education, news reporting but also music production. Entire symphony orchestras and Jazz bands were part of the state-run stations. Private broadcasting didn't ex
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by zwieback 3y ago
I'm so old that Fortran was actually my first language. Over the years I've seen language bindings to the old Fortran numerical libraries we all rely on but Python/numpy is the first wrapper I've actually enjoyed using.
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by zwieback 3y ago
brings back memories of playing Castle Wolfenstein on my Apple ][
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by zwieback 3y ago
My dad was always going on about how he never got colds because he did alternate hot/cold showers (as in hot/cold within one shower session). This is also something I saw the old folks do at the mineral baths in my hometown of Stu
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by zwieback 3y ago
How is the scooter rental market in general? In Portland I pretty much just see Lime now and maybe one out ten is being used, others are parked at the top of steep hills.
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by zwieback 3y ago
It becomes easier to answer if we have two return values: the start and end of the matched range, this is more general but less convenient
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by zwieback 3y ago
Very cool. Side note: the self-bios of lesser known artists are 99% painful to read. It would be great to use some kind of AI to suggest improvements.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Are the speedup numbers an Apple-Apple comparison or what's the baseline? A little unclear. Also, what makes linear algebra faster with Apple accelerate? Article could be a litte clearer.
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by zwieback 3y ago
The headline sounds like the final end of the experiments but to me it sounds more like a setback, e.g. eventually they hope to get a transgenic blight-resistant tree they can distribute.
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by zwieback 3y ago
That's 18.6 mph, slower than the speed limit around US schools. Is the expectation people will go 20 or 25 mph (32 to 40 km/h) in reality?
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by zwieback 3y ago
Planet Money (best podcast of all times) did an episode on this a while back: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197954459
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by zwieback 3y ago
"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Gabrielle Zevin, fantastic writing, touching and insightful "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy. I'm huge Hardy fan but hadn't read his masterpiece until thi
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by zwieback 3y ago
Ok, I think this is a funny comment but if you think about it for more than a second it really condenses what a lot of the AI handwringing is about: humans value what's difficult to humans, or at least what's difficult to a lot of
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by zwieback 3y ago
comcom: competitive compatibility. Hadn't heard this term before but I like it.
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Cory Doctorow: Freeing Ourselves from the Clutches of Big Tech(noemamag.com)
108 points by zwieback 3y ago|120 comments
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by zwieback 3y ago
I have the same question. From their block diagram it looks like there's a PD and a PI component that get mixed together and there's a classic feedback loop with some filtering. I think the main difference is the non-linear nature
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by zwieback 3y ago
Sure but the research in the article shows that hypertension caused a specific form of cognitive decline and that the effect could be slowed even if the hypertension itself isn't fixed. So, basically the article says there are cases wh
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by zwieback 3y ago
Sure but my main point is that the old internet is still there but it's less glamorous. In fact, the old elites benefit from a trickle up effect where the infrastructure is now orders of magnitude better due to the commercial world bui
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by zwieback 3y ago
Yes, correct, it was only with the CP/M card, not 6502.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Sometimes I wonder if the cozy feeling of the "old" internet so many people are nostalgic for was really just a byproduct of a few enthusiasts gaining an outsize following because the net was financed by universities, governments
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by zwieback 3y ago
Ran it on my Apple ][. It was interesting because another great platform on the Apple was UCSD Pascal but Turbo was so much slicker and easier to use.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Left me hanging, would not post something like this from my engineering blog. They don't have deeep debugging skills at gusto?
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by zwieback 3y ago
Agreed, I took off 3 months when our second was born, then 3 months part time. Looking back, now in my late 50s, I realize work life is so long and toddlerhood so short. If I could go back I'd try to take a leave of absence for maybe a
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by zwieback 3y ago
I usually read books recommended by other people, articles, goodreads, bookclub, etc. However, when I'm browsing in the library I always go by jacket art and blurb, then read a few random passages. How else to sift through dozens of bo
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by zwieback 3y ago
...and when you find yourself reading the errata sheet for your specific silicon revision you've arrived.
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by zwieback 3y ago
It's a fine RTOS, at least it was when I was working on Deskjet firmware. At the time the open source OSes and especially the tooling really wasn't up to the task. Things really have changed though, now there are alternatives.
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by zwieback 3y ago
So cute! And of Sunday afternoon a flying saucer with green tractor beam came by to check out what the fuss was about.
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Drinking Distilled Water(nayuki.io)
2 points by zwieback 3y ago|0 comments
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by zwieback 3y ago
Great list! I'm in my 50s and all of this resonates with me but when I was 30 I was missing a few. My top one at this point is "Help others succeed, and they’ll help you succeed in the long term." As I'm reaching the end

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