jcrubino | 1 year ago | on: Shakespeare's Game of Thrones Trilogy on Stage in Minneopolis
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jcrubino | 1 year ago | on: Shakespeare's Game of Thrones Trilogy on Stage in Minneopolis
While the audience can participate in singular performances, those that make the 11.5 hour marathon performance commitment will kindly be guided in an intimate journey from text book word wizardry of Richard II to the a fantastical dynamic story telling of Henry V that only the likes Shakespeare can reap critical acclaim for in a historical drama. The Guthrie Theater's staged and cast performance does not disappoint.
jcrubino | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?
# What is Paged Out!?
Paged Out! is a free experimental (one article == one page) technical magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics.
It's made by the community for the community. And it's not-for-profit (though in time, we hope it will be self-sustained) - this means that the issues will always be free to download, share, and print.
> Reminiscent of the vintage original Freaker/Hacker Publications, though clearly devoted to one page technical articles.
jcrubino | 2 years ago | on: Vice files for Bankruptcy
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jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism
jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism
Not ready to drop a book on HN regarding the nuance of Roman evolution just yet.
jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism
Thanks for posting the link. Much of my commentary comes from past research on Archimedes... so I am biased and amused.
If I recall the founding of Syracuse is by Spartans and Corinthians... Archimedes society cared enough about knowledge that he was sent to Alexandria to study. Syracuse was a melting pot of cultures from the start and the Phonecians and the roman conflicts reinforced that to the end.
jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism
They never made an overwhelming shift to mathematical / science based civilization. They took over Syracuse with a mandate to keep Archimedes alive, but that failed. Some scholars say the only roman contribution to math was numerals.
Basically they reaped the profits of empire, and fell into the cargo cults of opulent success, abandoning the prior agricultural based common sense by never integrating new ideas in the Aristotelian domains except for to pay homage to the originating culture enough to collect taxes.
jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism
Archimedes in the Sand Reckoner cites to be solving on a problem from the "Eastern Philosophers". The problem is also in the Vajra Sutra where the numbers of sands in the cosmos is contemplated.
Archimedes Father was an astronomer.
Great parallel lives material that never maid it into the original.
The Antikytheron is written in a Corinthian dialect, from where Archimdes father is said to have come from.
My musing consiracy theory for the Roman sacking of Syracuse was for the Antikythera from which harvest and thus taxes could be better calculated - i.e. Thales.
But the Romans killed the only guy who understood how the Antikythera worked.... so it became a generals paper weight.
jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore
jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994-2020)
jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994-2020)
jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: GitHub is fully available in Iran
If the current military gulf presence escalates to armed conflict having software open to the Iranian population keeps communication tools available until the internet gets cut.
jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: Bitcoin is a disaster
jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: Bitcoin is a disaster
jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: It’s dangerous to think humans have a destiny outside Earth
Technology has a cost in that people expect to be paid for their participation in the sector. Economies built on "defense" have huge technology capital in terms of knowledge and skill workers. This begs existential questions on the goals of productivity shared as nations and humans.
Tangentially, if the captains of Space really believed in life on mars or the moon, why aren't terraforming efforts being undertaken as center peices to the master plans to inhabit the moon or mars?
jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
Can there be a custom text option or similar tool available? I would like to practice code snippets.
jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills
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