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I've got a big text file of 6502 machine code I wrote a few years back that I pull out and marvel at from time to time. One of those things that you have to be fully in the "zone" …

When all you have is a hammer everything looks like an IBM clone, I guess.

Ugh that namesake story is maximum Wall Street culture cringe.

Sounds like it might be a good pick as the energy source for an extremely long haul interstellar probe?

Defender is probably one of the hardest games ever made, if only because of the wacky controls (a 1D joystick that only moves your ship up and down, and a button for reversing your…

Would expect this to clock in somewhere in the neighborhood of $80 using my preferred fab of OSHPark, but their min. order is 3 boards. So if you find two other people who want one…

Would posit that HN is well into its "endless september" at this point.

Learning about multiple wonderful things at once here. This is pretty much catnip for 6502 fans.

While we're still perfecting the renewable situation we need to shut down all this coal bullshit ASAP and patch in nuclear. I guess people would rather be definitely killed by part…

Author here. They’re not actually that radioactive so they’re very easy to get ahold of. Amazon and eBay might work (I got mine from one of those sources, I think), but I also put …

Author here. Not a dumb question! I tried this approach using 4-microsecond ticks and was surprised to catch a (subtle) bias. So I in the end I basically used two different RNG alg…

Author here. Even though its proximity puts it pretty far above background, the marbles are still a fairly weak source, so from the "electronics logic longevity" side it's not some…

Ha! Good catch

Author here. Sorry about that! I’ll push a plaintext CSV version of the part list later today.

They use models. No model is perfect, they all have uncertainties.

Today I learned entomologists have pareidolia for bugs.

Excellent points. For many reasons, economists are going to have to give up their fixation on 2nd-derivative metrics sometime this century.

After all the dire news in May I'm very happy so see good content on a Make domain :)

Gets me thinking about then ending of the book version of Contact .

Wow turns out email marketing is illegal everywhere. That's what it says, so no need to read it for yourself.

This Atlantic article sums up the research nicely: https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/267016/

Let me put this in a way that a HNer can understand: It's bad because happiness has a logarithmic dependence on income. A system that permits this amount of wealth concentration is…