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by vatys 1y ago
Much later in the year 2000 there was the 8-Bit Construction Set record: http://www.beigerecords.com/products/beg-004.html It had Atari and Commodore music (as audio) as well as Atari and Commodore software (as data).
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by vatys 1y ago
It appears to have taken San Jose’s place, from a combination of San Jose shrinking and Fort Worth growing.
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by vatys 2y ago
I wonder if the next generation of experts will be held back by use of AI tools. Having learned things “the hard way” without AI tools may allow better judgement of these semi-reliable outputs. A younger generation growing up in this era
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by vatys 2y ago
I had the exact same reaction: biology or computers? The only hint I can see anywhere on the page is "Statistics > Machine Learning" above the abstract title. I really want it to be about actual biological trees being studied o
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by vatys 2y ago
I’ll guess yes, since Fahrenheit 451 is by Bradbury. Great list, though.
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by vatys 2y ago
Further testing indicated that the taste was neither enhanced nor diminished, but remained ‘‘very much like a pickle.’’ Our conclusion is that the culinary potential of electrical stimulation is limited.
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by vatys 2y ago
> “I could manage quite well working as few as twenty to twenty-five hours a week—in other words, three full days or five half days. Even after I returned from Paris or India in the late 1960s and well into the 1970s, I could take care o
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by vatys 2y ago
I don't like this. While I understand the purpose of HN is to have meaningful and in-depth discussion, and simply stating an opinion doesn't really contribute much, this is something which is so obviously bad and gives such a visc
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Super Merryo Trolls: An Adventure from the Days Before VRAM(github.com)
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by vatys 3y ago
Virtually reaching for things far away might be interesting. I've alway been on the fence about VR, even for games, and never found any experiences to be compelling after a few minutes of fun. However, one thing that struck me about Ha
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by vatys 3y ago
I see them used in pro/prosumer audio equipment, synthesizers, and effects, which is relatively low volume and medium-to-high budget. FPGAs (and CPLDs, µC+AFE, etc) are great for these applications because they have great capabilities
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by vatys 3y ago
Perhaps the tardigrades spilled on the moon by the lander crash will become giants
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by vatys 3y ago
Yes, I definitely considered that as well. Basically, I knew that 23andme data would eventually exist outside 23andme, whether that be via hack, acquisition, or eminent domain. I accepted that and did it anyway, taking steps to at least no
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by vatys 3y ago
When I signed up for 23andme many years ago, it was via a friend in another country, who re-mailed it for me under a fake name and paid in cash. For some time I would log in through a locale-specific 23andme sub-domain until they eventuall
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by vatys 4y ago
If we started mining the earth’s core, it would seem infinite at first. Can we be trusted to only take a little bit and not eventually hollow it out?
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by vatys 4y ago
> 30 year old movie It may be a shock but that movie will actually turn 41 this summer. It seems the author has shown that a replicant can trick a bank.
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by vatys 4y ago
One step away from downloading more RAM
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by vatys 4y ago
> The Bell System standard was an extremely high Erlang number I wasn't aware of erlang the unit (measuring telephone circuit load) and at first thought this had something to do with the language. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by vatys 4y ago
Thank you for reminding me that SDF still exists. I just logged into my account there for the first time since 2005, and it still works.
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by vatys 4y ago
Perhaps our electromagnetic communication would seem as advanced as cave paintings, and we have no means to identify more advanced communication.
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by vatys 4y ago
Before I played the video and heard the sound it made, my first thought was that it would make a haunting clicking sound like a Geiger counter. Sure, it would be annoying, but I think it would be somewhat fitting.
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by vatys 4y ago
Yes, commonly referred to as a “battery emulator” in EE labs for mobile devices. Some are lab grade test equipment from big name vendors, and some are home-grown concoctions which use a power supply, capacitors, and adjustable load to shun
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by vatys 4y ago
That sounds like a smart TV, or at least what one should be. Like an actually well made, non buggy, secure smart TV.
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by vatys 4y ago
The worst thing about having read the USB PD specification is having to live with this knowledge
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by vatys 4y ago
That's what I'm saying, in response to the previous comment saying this is to work around a bug. Bugs are common to all parts, where defects are unique per part. Binning works around manufacturing defects and turns a yield probl
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by vatys 4y ago
For chips, that's commonly referred to as "binning" as in the sorting machine drops chips into different bins based on a test result. A big design with many cores, such as CPU or GPU cores, may have manufacturing defects that
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by vatys 5y ago
Certainty Elegance Professionalism Just Like You
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by vatys 5y ago
Thank you for making it! “Oh I love trash! I love it because it’s trash!”
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by vatys 5y ago
How does one know which category they are in?
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by vatys 5y ago
I feel like I have a fuzzy early 80s childhood memory of a gray Golden Gate Bridge but I can’t be sure or prove it. Maybe it’s like a Bernstein Bears thing, where I have the same wrong memory as other people.

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