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by niftich 4y ago
archive.org has many results for "Shareware Breakthrough", look through them to find the right one.
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by niftich 4y ago
Carr also made Pirate Battles and Treasure Island, at least one of which I remembered from my childhood, whereas I've never played Capture the Flag. The sprites used in the shareware game I played remained etched in my memory, along wi
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by niftich 4y ago
Perhaps it's a terminology issue. No one in the visible map frames of the Charlotte links would consider themselves to live in a 'rural' area. Sure, their neighborhood might be pleasant and quiet, and there's abundant tr
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by niftich 4y ago
Norfolk / Virginia Beach, VA: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/36.7727569,-76.0409875/Harri... https://www.google.com/maps/dir/36.7651538,-75.9875131/ALDI,... https:/
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by niftich 4y ago
There are several digital encoding schemes that add enhancement layers on top of an older, established base layer. It's a key concept of backwards compatibility. Not including cases where additional channels or domains of information a
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by niftich 5y ago
Fijivillage.com reports: "All websites and apps hosted in Fiji with the dotcom.fj suffix are currently down and this has also affected Vodafone’s M-PAiSA services. This is due to an outage in the University of the South Pacific hosted
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by niftich 5y ago
The tech is neat but the reasons this isn't already in use has to do a lot more with railroading company culture (operational familiarity, risk of losing business to a competitor) than with any particular shortcomings of the technology
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by niftich 5y ago
BNSF Railway has a major classification yard in Galesburg. Just like other railroads, they use their Chicago yard for intermodal traffic (loading containers from the trains onto trucks and vice versa), and use a nearby yard outside of Chica
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by niftich 5y ago
Business travelers take taxis from their arrival airport to their destination and then get reimbursed by their company later. They are among the least price-sensitive travelers and are the ones least inconvenienced by the last-mile problem,
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by niftich 5y ago
In my comparison of HSR vs. cars for <300 mile travel, the rail being 'drastically less flexible' means that it's subject to the same last-mile problem as planes are, whereas cars do not have this problem. Therefore the ad
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by niftich 5y ago
Despite several flaws and uncharitable misrepresentations in his policy analysis, I actually agree with most of O'Toole's conclusions. I post a lot on here about rail, and I disagree with a lot of output from the Cato Institute, b
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by niftich 5y ago
The line from Spokane to Fargo hosts the Empire Builder, which is Amtrak's highest-ridership long distance train service [1]. [1] http://media.amtrak.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/FY19-Year...
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by niftich 5y ago
I see why you'd say that, but the difference between (a) commuter rail lines between the urban core and every suburban edge city [1] vs. (b) high-speed intercity rail between high-population city-pairs ~300 miles apart [2] is one of sc
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by niftich 5y ago
People who think the US needs high-quality commuter rail much more so than fast long-distance rail have the right idea. Long-distance intercity rail is for the incidental traveler who travels occasionally, and this traveler has many competi
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by niftich 6y ago
Though it's a buzzword now, the idea behind 'digital twins' was that you not only have a detailed and faithful model (of an item, or process, or system, or network, etc.) whose granularity is congruent with the level of granu
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by niftich 6y ago
Note that the article is about innovation and performance gains in general-purpose processors slowing, and about the increasing shift onto specialized computing engines by those who seek further performance gains for specific workloads. Thi
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by niftich 6y ago
The study cannot (and does not attempt to) distinguish whether the milk proteins found within the dental calculus of these thousands-of-years-old remains were as a result of drinking raw milk or consuming fermented milk products. Even the a
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by niftich 6y ago
Big Macs don't hold up well, because the sauce goes best with a warm burger and is no longer palatable when it's been sitting on top of a cold patty. The shredded lettuce is already sad when fresh, and will inevitably get everywhe
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by niftich 6y ago
The line "I knew it would be nearly impossible to compress this warm a capella voice" , a quote from MP3 author Karlheinz Brandenburg, first appeared in the article 'Ich Bin Ein Paradigm Shifter' [1] by Hilmar Schmundt,
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by niftich 6y ago
The yearly price to store 45 GB in Backblaze B2 is $2.10. After 12 years, your cost of storage-at-rest would total to $25.20. Then, it would cost you $0.44 to download all 45 GB on the same day. For $25.64 total (over 12 years), they store
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by niftich 6y ago
This is a good article about the weaknesses of the trust models of navigation on the web. The author uses a password manager that also fulfills the role of a personal 'have I seen this site before?' database, which helps them asso
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by niftich 6y ago
AVIF is a format that puts an AV1 bitstream into a HEIF container. You're thinking about what AOM said about AV1 [6], not AVIF; they should not (and in fact do not) make that claim for AVIF -- which builds on HEIF that isn't their
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by niftich 6y ago
Nucor steel mills in the US are set up to melt scrap with electric arc furnaces. A varying amount of semi-processed iron (pig iron or direct reduced iron) is added to a batch; they get this iron by shipment instead of producing it on site.
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by niftich 6y ago
AIR was wildly popular for making games and cross-platform applications around 2010. These could even be submitted to mobile apps stores, even for iOS. But AIR produces packaged applications you need to install, and not the embedded-in-a-we
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by niftich 6y ago
You can blame the lack of uptake of MPEG-2 in the personal computing space on the license terms set by the MPEG LA, which charged patent licensees an amount based on the number of encoders and/or decoders they wanted to ship [2], and b
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by niftich 6y ago
Hydrogen allows energy to be stored and moved in bulk, in physical space, and at the point of final consumption it will not produce carbon emissions. These are desirable properties for a country that imports most of its energy from far away
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by niftich 6y ago
Okay, sure, but Costco's real strength isn't people's abstract trust in the quality of the Kirkland brand, but the fact that there's (1) heavy curation, leaving very little selection, which limits consumer indecision and
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by niftich 6y ago
The traffic in the Greater Bay Area is so bad, the effect of chokepoints so profound, and the geographic concentration of jobs is so strong, that the Park-and-Ride model actually works there, and isn't just wishful thinking. This means
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by niftich 6y ago
The web has evolved because: (1) some operators only care about a handful of the URLs under their domain; (2) hardly anyone uses link relations, so most links are devoid of semantic metadata and are essentially context-free, requiring a hum
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by niftich 6y ago
URN namespace registrations are maintained by IANA [1]. One well-known example is the ISBN namespace [2], where the namespace-specific string is an ISBN [3]. The term 'URI' emerged as somewhat of an abstraction over URLs and URNs

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