mohn

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by mohn 5mo ago
Whoops, my comment was supposed to say "instead of reframing", but the crucial "of" got lost when I reworded things. Too late to edit now.
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by mohn 5mo ago
Interesting question, a lot of search engine results claim that John Von Neumann was presented with the problem and quickly solved it by summing the infinite series instead reframing it as a constant speed for an easily calculated duration.
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by mohn 7mo ago
Good recollection of the title! Looks like it's from 1970 and written by Jo Freeman[0]. This subthread is also reminding me of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"[1], which I didn't realize had expanded beyond the original es
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by mohn 7mo ago
Nice, love a good grenade glitch! I owned and played a bit of GTA II, but never knew about this. I like the grenade glitches in the Command & Conquer series where, if you click again to retarget during the grenadier's windup animat
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by mohn 7mo ago
I agree with the sentiment, and the specific wording of your comment made me want to link to the classic bash.org quote[0] which has consistently been in the top 5 for a long time, but I just learned that we lost bash.org... :( [0] https:&
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by mohn 11mo ago
I'd like to read the accounts of contemporary curmudgeons bemoaning the way young Greeks are clamoring for mom's mirror, and how you should limit your kids to no more than one twelfth of a day of mirror time, setting the clepsydra
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by mohn 11mo ago
>1-bit audio output Hey, with the appropriate overclock, that could be audiophile-grade [0]! I want to see an appliance that takes DSD input and uses it to drive a 2.8224 MHz musical Tesla coil. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by mohn 1y ago
This reminded me of a Kurzgesagt video from a few months ago on the same topic [0]. I see that the author, Karen Lloyd, was one of the experts they consulted when making that video. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6xJq
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by mohn 2y ago
I enjoyed playing with that webapp [0], bummer that it's down now. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016
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by mohn 2y ago
>I don't think Google can fix it Can they eventually throw away Android and replace it with Fuchsia? In the reporting about Fuchsia that I read ages ago, it sounded like it was intended to be an Android replacement but, looking in
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by mohn 2y ago
It sounds like GP would benefit from satellite internet bypassing the firewall, but I don't know how hard the Chinese government works to crack down on that loophole.
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by mohn 2y ago
In the US, HIPAA grants you the right to access your own health information [0]. I recommend asking providers to burn the DICOMs to a DVD (or send your images to you via an online portal, if they and you prefer) whenever you have medical im
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by mohn 2y ago
For anyone wanting a better image of the "Modern model of the Lehmer Bicycle Chain Sieve" than what is embedded in TFA, it can be seen on page #4 of the Spring 1983 Computer Museum report (which is also a PDF): https://
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by mohn 3y ago
> there is a pretty famous former M$ performance engineer who worked on Xbox and bunch of other large projects, he has webpage about how he tracks down bugs and performance issues, don't it have it handy unfortunately. Bruce Dawson&
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by mohn 3y ago
Yes, lol, that ambiguity caught my eye, too. I can't imagine they mean it ended up on the south shore of Newfoundland (2.5 hours NE at Mach 0.85)
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by mohn 3y ago
Ahh, yes indeed.
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by mohn 3y ago
Cool project! I'm very interested in accurate preservation of the behavior of these old systems (chip decapping and scanning, FPGA reimplementation, accuracy-focused emulators) and using Ghidra to reverse engineer old games, especially
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by mohn 3y ago
I was researching the Armatron last weekend and was surprised to learn then about the single-motor operation. It's quite a complex system of linkages and transmissions [0] to enable the six degrees of freedom. I suppose that explains w
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by mohn 3y ago
> For example Target used to not include groceries until recently. There was a span of time where many of them didn't, but I was surprised to learn recently that the first ever Target store included groceries. See this 1962-05-03 ad
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by mohn 3y ago
We've got 27 remaining years until 2050, so a little under 15% per year would yield that 40x increase.
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by mohn 3y ago
Estimates of: > 1000000 space debris objects from greater than 1 cm to 10 cm > 130 million space debris objects from greater than 1 mm to 1 cm For high aspect ratio debris, it's not clear whether the given size ranges refer to th
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by mohn 4y ago
Part two starts at 1:20 here: https://rutube.ru/video/89a3426ca5b80b3363b17f30f976efdc/
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by mohn 4y ago
And here in the "Forest of Rhetoric" [0], anastrophe is just one of the 433 rhetorical figures currently cataloged, many of them with fun Greek names. You've got well over a year of word o' the day material. Epistrophe i
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by mohn 5y ago
Adding on in this vein: I'm curious if the late Presidential hopeful Ross Perot wrote any noteworthy software, or if his role in tech was only that of a salesman. He's another case of not winning the races for elected office, but
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by mohn 5y ago
lol, here's what the standards body has published [0]. Version 9 still in dev, with "recent" releases of: 1992 - French v9.a.e 2000 - French v9.e.m 2011 - French v9.m.q Don't be deceived by the dates, though. The project
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by mohn 5y ago
> Hounsfield pondered whether it was possible to detect hidden areas in Egyptian pyramids by capturing cosmic rays that passed through unseen voids. I also wondered about this possibility a few years ago and when I searched online, I fou
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by mohn 5y ago
When I first read this comment I was picturing a hot water radiator behind you, so it sounded unlikely based on the blackbody radiation curve for ~320 K. But now I realize you're probably talking about an electric heater. Given that th
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by mohn 5y ago
Your source says its numbers are "generated with the unix command line tool ping", which reports round trip time. In fiber, with light traveling at about (2/3) * c, the minimum latency from SF to Tokyo would be about 42 ms.
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by mohn 5y ago
I was not able to play the RealMedia streams from BBC, but here's an alternative link to lecture 4 at 15m01s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xttp5GpiVLs&list=PLez3PPtnpn...
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by mohn 5y ago
It is cool, but having fiber optics poking out of your head is pretty conspicuous. Chemogenetics (RASSLs/DREADDs)[0] and magnetogenetics[1] allow for more subtle activation. The interesting magnetogenetics results from the mid 2010s we

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