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Whoops, my comment was supposed to say "instead of reframing", but the crucial "of" got lost when I reworded things. Too late to edit now.

Interesting question, a lot of search engine results claim that John Von Neumann was presented with the problem and quickly solved it by summing the infinite series instead reframi…

Good recollection of the title! Looks like it's from 1970 and written by Jo Freeman[0]. This subthread is also reminding me of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"[1], which I didn't rea…

Nice, love a good grenade glitch! I owned and played a bit of GTA II, but never knew about this. I like the grenade glitches in the Command & Conquer series where, if you click aga…

I agree with the sentiment, and the specific wording of your comment made me want to link to the classic bash.org quote[0] which has consistently been in the top 5 for a long time,…

I'd like to read the accounts of contemporary curmudgeons bemoaning the way young Greeks are clamoring for mom's mirror, and how you should limit your kids to no more than one twel…

>1-bit audio output Hey, with the appropriate overclock, that could be audiophile-grade [0]! I want to see an appliance that takes DSD input and uses it to drive a 2.8224 MHz music…

This reminded me of a Kurzgesagt video from a few months ago on the same topic [0]. I see that the author, Karen Lloyd, was one of the experts they consulted when making that video…

I enjoyed playing with that webapp [0], bummer that it's down now. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016

>I don't think Google can fix it Can they eventually throw away Android and replace it with Fuchsia? In the reporting about Fuchsia that I read ages ago, it sounded like it was int…

It sounds like GP would benefit from satellite internet bypassing the firewall, but I don't know how hard the Chinese government works to crack down on that loophole.

In the US, HIPAA grants you the right to access your own health information [0]. I recommend asking providers to burn the DICOMs to a DVD (or send your images to you via an online …

For anyone wanting a better image of the "Modern model of the Lehmer Bicycle Chain Sieve" than what is embedded in TFA, it can be seen on page #4 of the Spring 1983 Computer Museum…

> there is a pretty famous former M$ performance engineer who worked on Xbox and bunch of other large projects, he has webpage about how he tracks down bugs and performance issues,…

Yes, lol, that ambiguity caught my eye, too. I can't imagine they mean it ended up on the south shore of Newfoundland (2.5 hours NE at Mach 0.85)

Ahh, yes indeed.

Cool project! I'm very interested in accurate preservation of the behavior of these old systems (chip decapping and scanning, FPGA reimplementation, accuracy-focused emulators) and…

I was researching the Armatron last weekend and was surprised to learn then about the single-motor operation. It's quite a complex system of linkages and transmissions [0] to enabl…

> For example Target used to not include groceries until recently. There was a span of time where many of them didn't, but I was surprised to learn recently that the first ever Tar…

We've got 27 remaining years until 2050, so a little under 15% per year would yield that 40x increase.

Estimates of: > 1000000 space debris objects from greater than 1 cm to 10 cm > 130 million space debris objects from greater than 1 mm to 1 cm For high aspect ratio debris, it's no…

Part two starts at 1:20 here: https://rutube.ru/video/89a3426ca5b80b3363b17f30f976efdc/

And here in the "Forest of Rhetoric" [0], anastrophe is just one of the 433 rhetorical figures currently cataloged, many of them with fun Greek names. You've got well over a year o…

Adding on in this vein: I'm curious if the late Presidential hopeful Ross Perot wrote any noteworthy software, or if his role in tech was only that of a salesman. He's another case…

lol, here's what the standards body has published [0]. Version 9 still in dev, with "recent" releases of: 1992 - French v9.a.e 2000 - French v9.e.m 2011 - French v9.m.q Don't be de…