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Perhaps not quite what you're looking for but related - I recently made this modernized Rust / WASM version of RIES, which finds algebraic equations from their solutions: https://m…

They have, it’s just difficult to have it catch on. Bitcoin being the prime example… but the compute is basically burned for no useful purpose beyond security of the network itself…

100 tapes is quite a mountain to climb. I would consider finding a discount code for a service like southtree (or similar) and sending at least some of them to be processed that wa…

That’s the biggest issue with trying to deal with dv tapes - the hardware is simply not very robust. Most cameras will either start ejecting tapes, eating them, or get filthy and s…

The articles covering this topic have shown deals where various forms of media were purchased at surprising rates. I’m not looking to start a company around this, my source of medi…

Thanks, seeing this before is actually what reminded me to make this post.

We have all seen the recent large deals made by tech companies to purchase access to various types of data for training their models (or Reddit, Photobucket). I have also seen some…

I had a Gateway Destination 36” monitor that I somehow acquired at a garage sale in my room as a teenager. Getting it into my upstairs room required my friends and I to all risk ou…

I have an account and half the time when I follow a link from HN to Twitter / X it just throws an error that something went wrong / can't load the tweet. And video content works ev…

Let’s not forget Reddit

It definitely would. And probably some that are not damaged when something gets jammed or the environmental conditions change and react with the paper. But if you’ve got a mountain…

Probably true for many. But there can also be the other side of things where you just need to fly a lot and you want to keep those costs from adding up over time. For instance, nee…

I’m pretty sure that Mac sales have been doing just fine since the release of the M1.

Crash every 30 minutes on a clean install sounds like a hardware issue. In my experience an Ubuntu install is able to run continuously for long stretches without issue. Whether you…

I wish it worked that way too, and we could all just care about ourselves. But others refusal to vaccinate / take precautions when necessary allows it to continue to spread (killin…

My Dad invented one of the products advertised in these. Imagine my surprise the first time I saw a collection like this pop up.

Great work and a good reference. I wish I had this to read when I went through a similar process after growing tired of storing a couple hundred miniDV tapes I had recorded as a te…

Never have I read so many words and taken away so very little useful knowledge.

Why?

I think for the purpose of this discussion, explorer IS Windows. It is the UI that we all wish didn’t have these issues. I like using the command line / powershell when I’m on Wind…

My anecdotal experience: Me in an incredibly dull Java class in college: This is awful! I dreamed of making computers do interesting things, but it turns out programming sucks and …