aquamo

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by aquamo 7y ago
Loved this story! Also good timing as a lot of us are watching the HBO mini-series now. I especially liked this quote: "The reason it's so beautiful and so peaceful is precisely because we can't consume it. Like, perhaps,
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by aquamo 7y ago
I like the ambition, has some similarities to this project: http://freedomcontroller.com
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by aquamo 7y ago
I couldn’t afford the ATARI 800 but my 400 still works today. Just played some missile command, star raiders, and Miner 2049 on it a few months ago. I learned BASIC and 6502 on mine so will always have a soft spot for them.
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by aquamo 7y ago
Congrats! Long live {,g}awk !
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by aquamo 7y ago
On my 2016 MBP, I also map CapsLock -> Control and Left_Control to ESC. It's goofy having ESC down there but I need a physical key as I do not look at the keyboard while typing in vim - there is no haptic feedback from the glass su
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by aquamo 8y ago
When I first saw the headline I was thinking it was this Komet :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_163_Komet Also an interesting aircraft.
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by aquamo 8y ago
One reason a small corporation might want a structure is to pursue industrial activities (building stuff, refining ore, etc.) that are either not available in the area or for a lower tax rate. You are correct that it wouldn't be to pr
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by aquamo 8y ago
I saved up money to buy one of these in college, was amazing, fast, sounded like a well tuned race car :-) Still have some CSCI homework and projects on paper printed on this from my Atari ST.
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by aquamo 8y ago
One option might be to use a hash of one's DNA sequence and be done with it. The name identifier can then just be an image with any markings made by the person. This would then move name / id search from a character set problem
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by aquamo 8y ago
My guess is no. Concrete fails under tension and with the irregular and natural assembly process the structure probably would have issues with tension and all the extra weight. The cost of filling each bamboo void would also make it costly
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by aquamo 8y ago
How to the skis they use differ from classic style cross country skis? In the image they look a little wider than any I've owned.
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by aquamo 8y ago
Thanks for this - with the release of the A12X Bionic, I've wanted to do something similar - i.e. build some specialized tools to leverage that CPU for atypical / non-mobile use cases. I wish Apple would get on with it and include
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by aquamo 8y ago
Wow. This is good to know. As a TriMix SCUBA diver, we should keep our iPhones away from the fill station and away from us when we are venting / testing our mixes :-)
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by aquamo 8y ago
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) I had to look that up.
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by aquamo 8y ago
I worked in the UofM CSCI department in those days. Vipin's parallel programming research brought in some cool hardware for the time including clusters of RS6000s, IRIX Challenge servers, an IBM SP2 and even a small nCUBE. Also we ha
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by aquamo 8y ago
enscript -2Gr yeah -). used to be my default mode as well!
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by aquamo 8y ago
I'd like to see version controlled text files used for important legal documents and many other government docs. Allow the presentation layer to be handled on the end points. Maybe something like markdown will be sufficient. I always
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by aquamo 8y ago
As a long time emacs user, I've always had cap-locks mapped as my control key (plus the emacs key-bindings work in html forms and in anything using gnu deadline) which is a bonus. So on my MBP with touch-bar, I have had this mapping s
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by aquamo 8y ago
IMHO the touchbar requires more effort and distraction to control the brightness and volume. What previously was one key-press to dim/brighten or mute/volume - all without me having to take my focus from the screen now requires a
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by aquamo 8y ago
It's interesting they didn't mention the high rates amongst veterans. According to Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_veteran... ), in 2012 there were 6,500 which seems like enoug
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by aquamo 8y ago
Yes indeed! One of the advantages of diving underwater with a re-breather is that you lose less heat through respiration compared to open circuit SCUBA diving. Also the type of gases you have in your mix matter but that's another topi
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by aquamo 8y ago
After reading some of the responses to the google demo, my first reaction was to assume this natural language processing magic was just a placeholder until the business had a proper api in place. After all, that would be more efficient, ri
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by aquamo 8y ago
Nice presentation. Is the hardenedbsd web site's security feature comparison table up to date? Edited to remove comment about my confusion that Carolinacon14 -> 2014; not the case. It's 2018.
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by aquamo 9y ago
Nice play-by-play analysis of the problem; thanks! Apple's authentication is not simple nor clearly documented (at least not where I could easily find it), I learned a lot following along.
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by aquamo 9y ago
When reading a book about Alan Turing, I came across a reference to "Natural Wonders, 1928" by Edwin Tenney Brewster (free in iBooks and on the web) - where he refers to Chapter 38: Of Sugar and other Poisons :=) It's not s
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by aquamo 9y ago
I use fossil for small projects and I often import trees from GitHub into fossil-scm to visualize and reason about the history. I really appreciate the mindset that Dr. H and friends have brought to both SQLite and Fossil - that is - minima
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by aquamo 9y ago
Feed fasting helps me too; I log into FB every 60-61 days or so. I'm thinking about limiting Twitter to days that start with a 'T' just make it fun. And hacker news is okay on days that end in a 'y' :-) Given that
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by aquamo 9y ago
Emacs org-mode w/Beamer or reveal.js export.
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by aquamo 9y ago
1) death by accident (or rm -rf'ing) is not suicide 2) has the bar been lowered that much now? a simple bash configuration makes a new O/S or distribution? :-)
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by aquamo 9y ago
I try to force email to look like an RFC (e.g. https://www.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc-index.txt ) or UseNet posting using GNUS or some other text only mail reader. Getting rid of all the animated images, markup noise,

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