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Frustrating that these aren't labelled! What's this NASA-ish one from? https://64.media.tumblr.com/75c79a0906e422a7072b9148b52d9501... I didn't spot any of the weirdpunk machinery …

An Italian friend was excited to visit a castle, and on arrival disappointedly exclaimed "but this is a " fortezza !".

See? Immortality through memes!

It's not just that they aren't free of bias. They appear to incubate truly wacky stuff - Leverage Research [1], the Zizians, all the AI/x-risk stuff. I am not the only person to ha…

> Timecube was an incoherent stream-of-consciousness website filled with bizarre cosmological claims. Was? Timecube.net will outlive any and all faddy Silicon Valley cults.

Reviving? I'm still running a 2007 EeePC 1001HA on Fedora.

Terrible, the cytoskeleton is the best bit of the cell! (not just grumpy because that's what I did my PhD research on)

Reminds me more remotely of scoops used in coal mining, in very low-ceilinged seams: https://www.komatsu.com/en-us/products/equipment/room-and-pi...

> The worst part, by far, was the emptying / prepping. As described in one of the great modern tales of legend: https://singletrackworld.com/2009/02/the-picolax-thread-retu...

Where does that come from though? I don't see any flow control or anything else compute-y in the bytecode itself. I know unpickling can run Python code, but i wouldn't say that mak…

The Python pickle format is a bytecode [1], although not a Turing-complete one, I think. [1] https://formats.kaitai.io/python_pickle/

If a tool had been replaced by a better tool, wouldn't it be natural to discuss that?

Perl is what I've spent the last thirty years running away from.

Not bad, but the subprocess invocation is too verbose given this is a staple of shell script type work, and the string mangling is a bit painful.

Not sure if this is related, but i'd love to see more scripting languages (mostly Python) offer facilities which let them take over from shell script for more scripts and one-liner…

Swatch Internet Time! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

The article mentions: > the German and Japanese point is 0.250 mm It's probably the sanest adaptation of the point to the metric system. A traditional point is close to a third of …

This is pretty much what GL.iNet does. A nice slick interface for normal people, full OpenWRT nerd power a couple of clicks away for HN readers.

If anyone is curious and near South Kensington, there is now a little exhibition on urushi at the V&A [1], which includes a film of a guy who harvests his own sap, processes it int…

What is going on with Japanese lacquer at the moment? There's this. There's the MSI Prestige 13 AI+ Ukiyo-e Edition [1]. The V&A opened an exhibition on it last weekend [2]. The Ti…

That was a long and dark time in history. We're still in the shadow of it. But these days a much better world is available - a more powerful language, good libraries, and much, muc…

jeberle made a completely factual reply to this, but people hate Java so much it's downvoted to dead.

> The boring choice is the right choice. It always was. Right, absolutely correct, Java is a great choice, so why does this post keep going on about Go?

I suppose you get into astronomy because you're interested in outer space. Your question is like asking a soil scientist about something you found on a pavement.