interknot

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by interknot 4y ago
I've largely abandoned macOS for Linux when it comes to work stuff, but I still have a Windows desktop for games. That said, I've been very impressed by my Steam Deck. Windows 10 will probably be the last version of Windows for
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by interknot 5y ago
Amusing - The statistics from your Department for Transport seem to suggest that you are either an extreme outlier or just entirely wrong[1]! Or maybe this can be attributed to you having some lingering difficulties with kph vs mph? Hopeful
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by interknot 7y ago
This is just an anecdote, and I wanted this to be a reply to the OP, but I've always felt there's a weird sort of connection between the stonemasons who built these masterpieces and the hackers of today.
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by interknot 8y ago
Pushshift.io is pretty close to what you were talking about for Reddit comments; they make their archive available periodically at http://files.pushshift.io/reddit/ IIRC Pushshift is what powers sites like https:&#x2F
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by interknot 8y ago
As a software developer, the thing I love about the cubesat concept is the presumably reduced iteration time. The idea of waiting for years only to find out something went wrong once the satellite is in orbit seems absurd (sorry, GOES-17).
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by interknot 8y ago
Presumably attendees from Calais or Paris experienced slightly less culture shock.
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by interknot 8y ago
Emphatically agreed. I've wanted to hear about this for years.
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by interknot 9y ago
As much as I dislike Northern Virginia, I'll have to disagree with you about Maryland. Chattanooga has municipal broadband, and they even provide service to places within Georgia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPB
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by interknot 9y ago
It's a combination of the links that get posted, the people who post here, and the moderation. It's apparently enough of a draw to have me lurking on this place nearly daily for almost 10(!!) years.
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by interknot 9y ago
The specified limit was 2 submissions per week, according to the people organizing the competition: http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/announcement-June-...
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by interknot 10y ago
I've been exclusively using Linux (Antergos) on the XPS 15 since mid-February. Installing was remarkably easy, though I haven't had time to mess with the fingerprint reader or GPU switching due to work. My only complaint is that
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by interknot 10y ago
You might enjoy Stephen Baxter's "Xeelee" books. I started with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_Diagrams and enjoyed it, but could see its various stories coming across as too jumbled up and disco
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by interknot 10y ago
Maybe I could be hitting a cache or something, but here's what I see: $ host Altaba.com Altaba.com mail is handled by 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com. Altaba.com mail is handled by 1 aspmx.l.google.com. Altaba.com mail is handled
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by interknot 10y ago
Well, at least they registered Altaba.com. No IP address as of now, though it looks like their mail is handled by Google Apps!
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by interknot 10y ago
I'll punt as to the accuracy of your "moralizing America" sneer, but remember that Disney chose their mascot--not the American public. Additionally, my understanding is that Donald Duck had at least a few American fans. Tho
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by interknot 11y ago
Agreed. For the last two years or so I've found myself weighting text-heavy websites like HN, or Reddit much more positively. What I find disconcerting is that this shorthand seems entirely about ornamentation--the worry is that mayb
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by interknot 11y ago
This sounds like a great idea, and I can't help but think of this as a very "Valley" take on Renaissance-style patronage. Here's hoping this effort has similarly transformative results!
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by interknot 11y ago
You might find http://realearth.ssec.wisc.edu/ useful. Just be sure to click on either the "Presets" or "All" tabs within the "Layers" section. Oh, and if you decide to use the animation featur
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by interknot 12y ago
That's a pretty interesting way to think of it. The only other platforms (AFAIK) that come close would be the JVM and Mono/CLR. But the browser is more like a user-facing, interactive JVM/etc.
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by interknot 12y ago
For whatever reason, the following snippet prompted me to see who the author was: Amid the hundreds of congratulatory messages I received, one stuck out: “Were you a bully at school?” As it turns out, the author is Jon Ronson. H
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by interknot 12y ago
There's Nikki and the Robots: http://joyridelabs.de/game/ There's also Super Monao Bros (which used to be called Super Nario): https://github.com/mokehehe/monao/tree/master
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by interknot 12y ago
AFAIK this refers to ZipPy: https://bitbucket.org/ssllab/zippy
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by interknot 12y ago
Skybox is already launching satellites explicitly for this purpose (and others): http://skybox.com/products#applications Scroll through to the "Financial Trading Intelligence". If only they had offices in places b
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by interknot 13y ago
Mikko Hypponen, from F-Secure. http://mikko.hypponen.com/ http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/
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by interknot 13y ago
Along these lines is the (wonderful) Werner Herzog documentary, Encounters at the End of the World. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the_Wo...
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by interknot 13y ago
I agree with you, but it's worth remembering that the early days of HN predate things like the financial crisis. Maybe HN's stance on big business has changed because society's stance also changed? The prevalence of posts abo
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by interknot 14y ago
There's an interesting blurb in the following (bottom of the fifth page in the PDF): https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologs/cryptolog_... "In today's Age, the public has centered in on government as "the problem." Specifically,
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The Weather Company proposing new, restricted gTLD: ".weather"(washingtonpost.com)
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by interknot 14y ago
I hope you are right. That said, I think the points I raised are worth considering. FWIW I'd expect many of the featured people to be thinking much further ahead than 12 years.
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by interknot 14y ago
I am generally enthusiastic about teaching people to code. That said, I am ambivalent about the backing organization, "Code.org": Every single person on their advisory board ( http://www.code.org/about ) has a vested interest in there being

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