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by nmg 23d ago
I'm pretty sure the robustness of watermarking has been a solved problem for at least 30 years, I remember visiting the mit media lab in the mid 90s and they were explaining how they could watermark digital audio by imperceptibly adjus
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by nmg 1mo ago
> The precise location in the sky where the signal apparently originated is uncertain due to the design of the Big Ear telescope, which featured two feed horns, each receiving a beam from slightly different directions, while following Ea
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by nmg 4mo ago
> ## Other organizations > These are organized along a spectrum of AI friendliness, where top is least friendly, and bottom is most friendly. This section is an extremely useful reference
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by nmg 2y ago
I'm surprised by the negative comments here so far that sound more indignant or "called out" than anything else. The article's argument is not only thoughtfully made and unusually well-written, in my opinion it's co
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by nmg 2y ago
"He'll see everything! ... He'll see the big board!"
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by nmg 2y ago
+1 for Terminator, my first install for 15+ years on Linux. Solid
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by nmg 2y ago
This would answer the question that i've not heard anyone asking: what incentivized the bad decisions that led to this catastrophic failure?
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by nmg 2y ago
> Sometimes they can sleep up to like 18 or 12 hours a day. That is a lot of sleeping for a cat. Can we just put the author of these pages in charge of the whole Internet please?
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by nmg 3y ago
Wow. The interstitial music from Dr. Katz just started playing in my head unbidden. What a fun show that was.
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by nmg 3y ago
I forgot there were column/line restrictions on FILE_ID.DIZ files
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by nmg 3y ago
You're right. Having hobbies IS fine. Totally agree.
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by nmg 3y ago
(Is it either/or?)
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by nmg 3y ago
> It has gorgeous display. This is a huge factor for me. I have linux on my desktop but my laptops are Mac - I do a lot of graphics and video editing and the color reproduction of Mac displays is reliably faithful at both the hardware an
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by nmg 4y ago
I'll never forget seeing Steve Mann roaming the halls and conferences at ACM '97 in his full gear [0], antenna rising above the crowd. I remember thinking, this guy might be on to something here... [0] http://cyborganth
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by nmg 4y ago
This game was so perfect. One thing I miss about this era was the cacophony of various games as you walked into the arcade. All those machines blaring their sinusoidal siren songs at once. The audio design of Galaga was extraordinary and a
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by nmg 4y ago
Same. I was lucky to see it on film once, and the theater projected it without masking, so you could see one of its most brilliant touches, that it has two aspect ratios (1.66:1 and 1.33:1) [0] depending on the scene, which enhances the &qu
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by nmg 4y ago
What I want is an FDD sound simulator for various historically significant computer models. The Tandy 1000 is burned in my memory, and I'd love to hear it again without having to visit a classic computer flea. Extra points if you can s
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by nmg 4y ago
Yes you did. One of these a day, please. I really like the hand-drawn / doodled style.. it disarmed me, which was good because solving this required me to be patient and to unwire my brain a little
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by nmg 4y ago
My first "a ha" moment using lisp, when i suddenly got my first glimpse of understanding the whole code-is-data-is-code thing and what it makes possible, was my favorite moment using computers, and nothing before or since even com
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by nmg 5y ago
The prince doesn't stop on a dime, this was a design choice. This recreated version plays the same as it did on OG hardware. If you're having difficulty, focus on holding and releasing the inputs and think of it as applying accel
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by nmg 5y ago
I've been a Firefox advocate for years, but after the recent update to 94.0.1 I removed it from my Mac, Linux, and Windows machines because of how it obscures multi-account containers - they are now a hidden icon that you can't cl
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by nmg 5y ago
If I may add my own recommendation — Ralph Kirschbaum's 1993 recordings of Bach's cello suites (blue cover). My entire Spotify subscription is basically "let me listen to this one album, please. Thanks."
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by nmg 5y ago
It's insane how many nuclear explosions occur unreported on this planet
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by nmg 5y ago
Thank you!
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by nmg 5y ago
I agree, I use += as shorthand, I wasn't aware it was fundamentally different under the hood.
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by nmg 5y ago
Savvy - for me Bitwarden's implementation of self-hosting is the biggest gesture of mutual trust that makes it feel so solid
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by nmg 5y ago
Absolutely, and wars waged without declaration that were equally traumatic. Within the lifetime of the Internet, I think 9/11 is the major inflection
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by nmg 5y ago
Big ups to full throttle, cinematic and fun, beautiful art & animation & voice acting, a game for kids that felt like it was made for grown ups - and vice versa.
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by nmg 5y ago
The site preferences allow you to enable tracking which is disabled by default. This checkbox is the single coolest thing I've ever seen on the Internet.
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by nmg 5y ago
> Now is it systemctl restart myservice or systemctl myservice restart? I have no idea as I’m not at a computer. I felt so alone in the world until this moment

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