dmolony | 1 year ago | on: First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2k years
Luckily they explained what papyrus is. The BBC is now doing ELI5.
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dmolony | 1 year ago | on: Plankton balloon to six times size in newly discovered mode of oceanic travel
> To test what effects this rapid growth might have on the plankton
Yay nerd-sniping.
dmolony | 1 year ago | on: Dazed and Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of ReCAPTCHAv (2023)
I just click all the back buttons instead.
dmolony | 1 year ago | on: Inspectopedia: Analyze code against inspections in your IDE or CI pipeline
I think what they mean is 'an influx of AI-generated code (which is frequently garbage)'
dmolony | 2 years ago | on: Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story (1984)
The Apple ][+ (which I bought in 1981) had left and right arrow keys, but no up/down arrow keys.
dmolony | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you working on to become a better programmer?
CLR James once asked 'What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?'
I think the same applies here.
dmolony | 3 years ago | on: Help! Is This Arabic?
> I hope this will you help in case you cannot afford to hire anyone at all with a elementary school level of Arabic script reading.
Oops.
dmolony | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are the reasons behind your success as a self-taught programmer?
Sheer volume of work. I think the 10,000 hours theory has some validity.
dmolony | 3 years ago | on: Fix it, Fork it, Fuck off (2019)
Presumably 'The Fucking Article'
dmolony | 4 years ago | on: Vizio TVs are now showing banner ads over live TV
April fool?
dmolony | 4 years ago | on: A tool to detect bugs in Java and C/C++/Objective-C code before it ships
Warning: infer has been deprecated because it does not build!
dmolony | 4 years ago | on: Evolution of the Unix System Architecture: An Exploratory Case Study
[PDF]
dmolony | 5 years ago | on: Retrospective: An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming
Please add [PDF].
dmolony | 5 years ago | on: Mac SE/30 logicboard recreation
You can get an improved ROM from https://www.bigmessowires.com/mac-rom-inator-ii/
dmolony | 5 years ago | on: Original Dartmouth College BASIC manual (1964) [pdf]
I remember in 1976 we were using mark sense cards to write programs, and we definitely had to slash the letter O. I think we also had to slash the Z to distinguish it from a 7.
dmolony | 5 years ago | on: My New Old Apple IIe Computer
You might want to check this out - https://www.kansasfest.org/
dmolony | 6 years ago | on: Gresham’s Law: Bad Drives Out Good as Time Passes (2009)
You can add Canberra to that list. I know several apartment blocks that are close to collapse, one Owners' Corporation is currently suing the builder (and the local government authority) in a case before the Supreme Court.
dmolony | 6 years ago | on: Not everyone has an internal monologue
"I posted a poll on instagram to get a more accurate assessment of the situation."
Cute.
dmolony | 6 years ago | on: An art dealer disappeared with $50M. 17 years later a documentary crew found him
The documentary says he is in France.
dmolony | 6 years ago | on: Darktable 3.0
Check your VPN?
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