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by nategri 6y ago
I've got a big text file of 6502 machine code I wrote a few years back that I pull out and marvel at from time to time. One of those things that you have to be fully in the "zone" to pull off, so it seems like magic to presen
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by nategri 6y ago
When all you have is a hammer everything looks like an IBM clone, I guess.
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by nategri 7y ago
Ugh that namesake story is maximum Wall Street culture cringe.
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LeoLabs Monitoring Upcoming Close Approach Between Two Defunct Leo Satellites(twitter.com)
2 points by nategri 7y ago|0 comments
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by nategri 7y ago
Sounds like it might be a good pick as the energy source for an extremely long haul interstellar probe?
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by nategri 7y ago
Defender is probably one of the hardest games ever made, if only because of the wacky controls (a 1D joystick that only moves your ship up and down, and a button for reversing your direction).
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by nategri 7y ago
Would expect this to clock in somewhere in the neighborhood of $80 using my preferred fab of OSHPark, but their min. order is 3 boards. So if you find two other people who want one, you get one from there for under $30 or so.
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by nategri 7y ago
Would posit that HN is well into its "endless september" at this point.
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by nategri 7y ago
Learning about multiple wonderful things at once here. This is pretty much catnip for 6502 fans.
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by nategri 7y ago
While we're still perfecting the renewable situation we need to shut down all this coal bullshit ASAP and patch in nuclear. I guess people would rather be definitely killed by particulates and climate change rather than almost never
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Happy Hacking Keyboard Updated with USB-C and Bluetooth(theverge.com)
2 points by nategri 7y ago|0 comments
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by nategri 7y ago
Author here. They’re not actually that radioactive so they’re very easy to get ahold of. Amazon and eBay might work (I got mine from one of those sources, I think), but I also put a more specialized supplier in the parts list.
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by nategri 7y ago
Author here. Not a dumb question! I tried this approach using 4-microsecond ticks and was surprised to catch a (subtle) bias. So I in the end I basically used two different RNG algos (both with slight biases) and XOR’d them together. Would
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by nategri 7y ago
Author here. Even though its proximity puts it pretty far above background, the marbles are still a fairly weak source, so from the "electronics logic longevity" side it's not something I've really thought about. But the
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by nategri 7y ago
Ha! Good catch
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by nategri 7y ago
Author here. Sorry about that! I’ll push a plaintext CSV version of the part list later today.
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by nategri 7y ago
They use models. No model is perfect, they all have uncertainties.
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by nategri 7y ago
Today I learned entomologists have pareidolia for bugs.
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by nategri 7y ago
Excellent points. For many reasons, economists are going to have to give up their fixation on 2nd-derivative metrics sometime this century.
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by nategri 7y ago
After all the dire news in May I'm very happy so see good content on a Make domain :)
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by nategri 7y ago
Gets me thinking about then ending of the book version of Contact .
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by nategri 7y ago
Wow turns out email marketing is illegal everywhere. That's what it says, so no need to read it for yourself.
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by nategri 7y ago
This Atlantic article sums up the research nicely: https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/267016/
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by nategri 7y ago
Let me put this in a way that a HNer can understand: It's bad because happiness has a logarithmic dependence on income. A system that permits this amount of wealth concentration is isomorphic to one that actively creates misery.
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by nategri 7y ago
Both comforted and alarmed to see all that perfboard in something that crossed the Karman line.
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This Startup Just Built a New Radar System to Track Space Junk(forbes.com)
1 points by nategri 7y ago|0 comments
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by nategri 7y ago
200 years is a loooooooong time. Would expect even more bizarre shifts in digital communications, like attached emotional imprints from automatic brain scans or something.
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by nategri 7y ago
That stylization is very exhausting (yes, I know what a "ket" is)
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by nategri 7y ago
Have also wondered about this. At this point it must be well understood/accepted that clips this small fall under "fair use" (or else there would have been a major legal sh*tstorm by now) but I would LOVE it if someone coul
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by nategri 7y ago
So weird. Literally cannot remember if I've ever bought something from Shopify.

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