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Howell Ivy, Co-Founder of Exidy and arcade gaming pioneer, has died(arcadeblogger.com)
2 points by icwtyjj 15d ago|0 comments
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by icwtyjj 3mo ago
Maybe humans are not the best electricity generator, but slavery is far from obsolete. In fact, there are more slaves today than ever before in history although it's difficult to define exactly what a slave is ( https://histo
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by icwtyjj 4mo ago
A lot of discussion surrounding the ram shortage seems to imply that it will recover, but AI companies slurping up ram for training hasn't gone down and probably won't ever. Is there any signs that the situation is improving or is
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Chinese entrepreneur Zhang Xue's homegrown motorbike makes historic win(globaltimes.cn)
7 points by icwtyjj 6mo ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: How did you figure out what you wanted to do with your life?
18 points by icwtyjj 6mo ago|39 comments
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by icwtyjj 6mo ago
> What recourse would Illinois (!) have against open-source operating systems? None but them corporations sure do. And with a little cash in the right place I'm sure they can push recourse onto people of power. We really need to end
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by icwtyjj 6mo ago
Firstly the at least according to the article the car was not even part of her "presentation" of herself. She was rejected because she ticked a box online saying her car is too old. Also even if she did show up in something you wo
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Kern Type: a letter spacing game(type.method.ac)
4 points by icwtyjj 6mo ago|0 comments
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by icwtyjj 6mo ago
I think there’s a pretty big difference though. Linux is open while windows almost certainly will remain closed so even if corporates start bloating up Linux users can rely on the gpl to give them choice while windows users are stuck
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by icwtyjj 6mo ago
Sorry i was referencing "Balloon grade H is the least pure at 97.5 percent." from the diving article
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by icwtyjj 6mo ago
https://www.bocgases.ie/files/balloon_grade_helium_factsheet... says 95% helium and 1% oxygen while https://dan.org/alert-diver/article/helium-gas-purity-what-i... says 97.5% helium but very
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Diels-grabsch2: Self Hashing C Program (2019)(ioccc.org)
10 points by icwtyjj 6mo ago|3 comments
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by icwtyjj 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/Rm1TB
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How Wikipedia Portrayed Humanity in a Single Photo (2018)(wired.com)
3 points by icwtyjj 6mo ago|1 comments
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Parakaryon: The only species with a unknown position in the tree of life(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by icwtyjj 7mo ago|0 comments
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by icwtyjj 7mo ago
Original post for the new Houston plant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143152 Thread on that post discussing this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144148
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Apple removing "Foxconn" from photos of workers at new Houston plant(imgur.com)
19 points by icwtyjj 7mo ago|2 comments
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by icwtyjj 7mo ago
What about a making it prerequisite? Demonstrate you have built the nuclear/solar/whatever capacity to cover your own energy before you're allowed to build a datacenter?
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ReferenceFinder: Find coordinates on a piece of paper with only folds(mutsuntsai.github.io)
80 points by icwtyjj 7mo ago|13 comments
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by icwtyjj 7mo ago
"Florida Man Arrested for Hanging on Traffic Light and Sh*tting on Cars Passing Underneath"?? (In picture library) It seems the whole story is a hoax and his faced is photoshopped in but definitely interesting choice of things to
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Suicide Linux (2009)(qntm.org)
116 points by icwtyjj 7mo ago|68 comments
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Hexapawn: Variant of Chess with 6 Pieces(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by icwtyjj 8mo ago|0 comments
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John Baez's Crackpot Index(math.ucr.edu)
2 points by icwtyjj 8mo ago|0 comments
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by icwtyjj 8mo ago
On the Komet too which makes me wonder if book quote use standards or their stringency were different back then/in other countries.
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by icwtyjj 8mo ago
First off thank you for designing this. Both iOS and Android have been focused on streamlining their user experience in the past few years but unfortunately it seems that text editing is just as annoying as before. In theory how would a &qu
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Eloquent: Improving Text Editing on Mobile (2021)(dl.acm.org)
5 points by icwtyjj 8mo ago|3 comments
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Why Catalonia Failed (2022)(palladiummag.com)
2 points by icwtyjj 8mo ago|0 comments
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All horses are the same color(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by icwtyjj 8mo ago|0 comments
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Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by icwtyjj 8mo ago|0 comments