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by ringshall 6y ago
Forget I said this. Clearly it’s impossible and the cranks at mit and nature should not have announced their findings.
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by ringshall 6y ago
You (and seemingly everyone else compiling news-from-2020 lists) forget about the discovery of signs of life in the atmosphere of Venus. Not to be grandiose, but, if true, in 500 years this will likely be the only thing generally remembered
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by ringshall 6y ago
I agree. (Edit: to add to this, I've always thought that the third-last episode of Futurama, 'Murder on the Planet Express', was a return to form and reminiscent of the heyday of the show). On the subject of tv shows, ‘Peep S
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by ringshall 6y ago
I find this really disgraceful. A flaw in procedure that led to the initial catastrophes is at least understandable in terms of insidious errors in complex systems. A continuation after the initial error is hard to explain other than by del
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by ringshall 6y ago
He says in the Computer History Museum talk that (paraphrasing) ALOHANet was eventually connected to ARPANet, making in effect the first connection of the Internet.
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by ringshall 6y ago
Surfing and invention sound like makings of a good life. Speaking for myself, 'underappreciated' is the right word to describe his achievements. Quoting the article, "Metcalfe and his colleagues at Xerox PARC adopted and twea
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by ringshall 6y ago
It's an odd colour scale on that map, red, then light blue through black. Usually it's something simpler, like blue through red. It takes a look at the scale to realize that the former Soviet Union countries actually have the best
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by ringshall 6y ago
It's been a long time since I've used C, but I recall strncpy being safe. I assume from context that I'm wrong, though.
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by ringshall 6y ago
Nature at least used to publish a single-page science fiction story at the back of every issue. They still publish online, though they've dropped it from the print edition. edit: https://www.nature.com/nature/artic
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A tech antitrust hearing misses the point(fsf.org)
2 points by ringshall 6y ago|0 comments
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by ringshall 6y ago
That’s a quote worthy of bash.org
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by ringshall 6y ago
Now that you point it out, that seems to be the case. The fuzziness around the edges (the east and north especially) threw me off, though that could probably be put down to compression in the image that was used as the source for the crop.
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by ringshall 6y ago
A nit pick, I guess, but it’s a square, not a cube. The edges are interesting. I wonder what part of the image processing results in the irregularity. Some kind of interpolation, I’d guess, but that’s pure speculation.
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by ringshall 6y ago
Same idea with parentheses, at least I understand them.
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by ringshall 6y ago
Dating myself, but I remember the first time I heard about mp3s. In a school trip, another kid told me that you could download songs in files that were only a megabyte a minute. I was incredulous. Up until then songs were wav files and vide
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Intel shares dive on apparent manufacturing retreat(reuters.com)
2 points by ringshall 6y ago|0 comments
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by ringshall 6y ago
That's coincidental; according to Wikipedia, Wald and his wife perished in a plane crash in India.
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by ringshall 6y ago
> "There are almost certainly multiple vulnerabilities at play here, since long gone are the days where a single vuln gave arbitrary code execution" Could you go into this in a little more detail? I'm inferring that chains
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by ringshall 6y ago
Correct about the comment in the livestream, see here: https://youtu.be/zNklfC6jgBs?t=14653 It was Bob. Rough transcript: "We were surprised a little bit at how smooth things were off the pad. The space shuttle is a pr
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by ringshall 6y ago
>> It might be helpful to have the age of comments listed > That's... currently the case Is it currently the case? I'm not seeing it, though it I may be missing it. I do see, at the bottom of comments, something like :: e
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by ringshall 6y ago
It might be helpful to have the age of comments listed as part of their metadata, ie alongside the date the comment was posted. Some formatting could be added (eg red highlight for comments > x years). I know this sort of feature is usef
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by ringshall 6y ago
Just be careful about 27.
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by ringshall 6y ago
He says in the second article you link that he doesn’t think hotlinking is bad per se, especially when it’s done in support of knowledge and education. I think the moral is rather that hotlinking is dangerous.
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by ringshall 6y ago
This looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing. From time to time I've looked around for good charts of the night sky, suitable for printing and browsing. These are the best I've found so far; they might be helpful to users of this prog
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by ringshall 6y ago
Also, “ roughly 10 billion words said, per person (16,000 per day * 26,280 days = ~420,480,000)“ Not sure if I completely missed something but it looks like 420m words per person. Edit: combine these two errors and it makes sense. The 10b n
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by ringshall 6y ago
I doubt you'd want what is essentially medical waste burning off inside a commercial food oven.
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by ringshall 7y ago
Well worth noting: If everyone is tested, the disease can be controlled: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/scientists-say...
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by ringshall 7y ago
Or excel, rc[-1]+366, assuming you typed in the date you want in the cell to the left...
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by ringshall 7y ago
There was a promise at the time (still active, I'm sure) that if your computer discovered a signal from ET, you would be listed as co-discoverer of alien life. I still remember watching the screensaver crunch through work units with th
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by ringshall 7y ago
Have the terrorists won?

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