bolangi

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by bolangi 7d ago
Dreaming of "virtual filesystems everywhere". Hmm, sorta sounds like Plan 9. Great to have an inside view of wrangling technologies for these behemoth data sets.
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by bolangi 10d ago
Thanks, this makes me happy.
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by bolangi 14d ago
I can't find the reference, but there are many integer or near-integer relationships among the planets of our solar system. Such a preponderance that it seems improbable.
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by bolangi 16d ago
Nice hacks! I made a similar script to extract clips from a source, possibly multiple files, and compress the result. https://metacpan.org/dist/App-fftrim/view/script/fftrim
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by bolangi 28d ago
I can't get the article at the moment, but will comment that not everyone has equal experience or comfort with face-to-face communication, what Stephen Porges calls the "social engagement mechanism". Some people can feel inti
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by bolangi 1mo ago
Long after the company was gone, the Ampex sign remained for years on the West side of 101 somewhere around Redwood City, was finally taken down ten or 20 years ago.
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by bolangi 2mo ago
Decker, a hypercard style app, seems to give quick gratification. Looks like an easy and fun way to get started with programming. Was just posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060856
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by bolangi 2mo ago
Satellites have many chlorinated and florinated chemicals, so being vaporized means introducing large volumes to the upper atmosphere where they can catalyze the destruction of ozone molecules. I'd be interested how the volume compares
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by bolangi 2mo ago
Sperm counts, too, have dropped precipitously.
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by bolangi 3mo ago
A specific example. Slangify: The Case for DSLs in LLM Workflows. https://rakujourney.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/slangify-the-ca...
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by bolangi 3mo ago
Some experts weigh in: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/he...
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by bolangi 4mo ago
And an unexpected transient load or heat flux can easily exceed material limits, or materials can have flaws. The ability to qualify the materials, components and processes for aerospace use is an achievement in itself.
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by bolangi 4mo ago
Not only costing money. Constant AI scraping constitutes a denial-of-service attack that has brought down websites.
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by bolangi 4mo ago
When war psychosis is not enough....
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by bolangi 5mo ago
Kurt Vonnegut and Charles Bukowski are good examples.
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by bolangi 6mo ago
Hah, github can have my crap code. Anyone trained on it will be in for a world of hurt :-)
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by bolangi 6mo ago
Japanese eat fermented foods and have a long life expectancy.
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by bolangi 6mo ago
FWIW, here's a simple command line utility for joining and trimming the multiple video files produced by a video camera. https://metacpan.org/dist/App-fftrim/view/script/fftrim
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by bolangi 6mo ago
Definitely needed to succeed in theater and take risks in life.
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by bolangi 7mo ago
For a screening procedure recommended as a mass conducted preventative measure in otherwise healthy people, harms must be regulated to a better standard than "doesn't happen often". The study that I read of was about serious
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by bolangi 7mo ago
There are legitimate questions if physical constants are constant everywhere in the universe, and also whether they are constant over time. Just because we conceive something "should" be a certain way doesn't make it true. Th
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by bolangi 8mo ago
After first experiences with linux shell scripting, sed, awk, and C in 1990s, I found perl a welcome refuge. Way more featureful than DOS .bat files or BASIC! Its capabilities (perl + cpan) have always well exceeded my need for CS goodness.
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by bolangi 9mo ago
Mainstream science has poo-poohed for years any notion that Oriental medicine practices for facilitating lymph flow have any utility. Nice to hear they're back on the allopathic table.
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by bolangi 9mo ago
This thought-provoking essay does not consider one crucial aspect of software: the cost of a user developing a facility with a given software product. Historically monopolistic software producers can force these costs to be borne because th
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by bolangi 9mo ago
An inlaw who worked as a stewardess (back when they were called "stewardesses") on international routes for many years always carried her own water.
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by bolangi 9mo ago
Good morning. An expanding plethora of buttons, tabs, menus requires geometrical memory that may have nothing directly to do with the function in question. The first GUIs were designed that functions be "discoverable," however the
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Ruby and Its Neighbors: Perl(noelrappin.com)
8 points by bolangi 9mo ago|4 comments
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by bolangi 9mo ago
This article gives a great background to Ruby's syntax origins in perl. Also, with a series of "What happened to perl?" articles appearing lately (maybe just one on HN) it gives a nice retrospective on both good parts and qui
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by bolangi 9mo ago
A slightly different audience, probably, but I was greatly assisted by Intuitive IC Electronics by Thomas Fredriksen. https://www.amazon.com/Intuitive-electronics-sophisticated-e...
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by bolangi 9mo ago
The war on drugs and millions of non-violent offenders in prison does not exactly suggest to me the term "sacrosanct." Every honest therapist looks at all components of a patient's life, and the patient, too, has a responsibi

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