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I have coded things you people wouldn't believe...
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notorandit··on Vivaldi 8.0
A decent solution with vertical tabs!
notorandit··on I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
The site has been HN-ed off!
notorandit··on The two oldest printing presses
It took me the entire web page to understand that the display is in Antwerpen, Belgium.

Maybe I am the one and only ignorant to not know it, but I am pretty sure I am not alone.

Nowadays we give a lot of stuff for granted.

notorandit··on Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux
What I see here is a great risk, something not immediately recognizable. A "hundreds of millions" initiative fueling a "trillions" market. I suspect that controlling the LF can lead to a really huge power over markets or, at least, a very cheap kill switch.
notorandit··on Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered
It would (maybe?) sound like an inappropriate book for children. Yes, in the 2nd half of the 20th century. Not so in either 19th and 21st centuries.

In 19th century Italian (but maybe also other countries') children had to grow quickly to cope with life and work brutalities. They often had no mother, died while giving them birth, and started working at 7 or 8 to help their families.

In 20th century, instead, they have been constantly exposed to either real life violence and harshness (like war) or fiction brutality from movies, cartoons and video games.

Nope, Pinocchio is not that weird. It is when compared to an idyllic and peaceful world that has never existed but in our wishful thinking minds.

notorandit··on Fire at Dutch NorthC data center, all personnel evacuated in time
The fire that broke out on Thursday, May 7, around 8:45 AM at NorthC’s data center on Rondebeltweg in Almere has not yet been extinguished.
notorandit··on Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test
> We know it holds incredibly well terrestrially and within individual galaxies

I somehow thought that this was not really holding true and that Mr. Einstein had something to say.

I thought that without Einstein's "corrections" stuff like GPS wouldn't be useful at all.

Maybe I misunderstood last 100+ years in gravitational physics.

notorandit··on San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names
Are you kidding? If you confound

> Mason St. and Masonic Ave., or Divisadero St. and Division St.

then you must be either very distracted or dyslexic.

What was the last time you gave or got an address by word of mouth?

notorandit··on CJIT: C, Just in Time
I wonder whether CJiT can compile itself a-la GCC and LLVM. FAQs don't mention this and maybe the next weekend I will try to boot cjit with cjit itself.
notorandit··on Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
Well, the library surely is not there anymore.
notorandit··on Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
I Hope more and more fragments of anything lost is found.

The burn down of Alexandria library was a pity

notorandit··on A Periodic Map of Cheese
I am thrilled to see how much Italy and France have contributed to world cheese world.

Mozzarella di bufala campana is my no. 1 choice, hands down.

notorandit··on All elementary functions from a single binary operator
It's about symbolic computation more than calculations.
notorandit··on All elementary functions from a single binary operator
Not sure it really compares to NAND() and the likes.

Simply because bool algebra doesn't have that many functions and all of them are very simple to implement.

A complex bool function made out of NANDs (or the likes) is little more complex than the same made out of the other operators.

Implementing even simple real functions out of eml() seems to me to add a lot of computational complexity even with both exp() and ln() implemented in hardware in O(1). I think about stuff sum(), div() and mod().

Of course, I might be badly wrong as I am not a mathematician (not even by far).

But I don't see, at the moment, the big win on this.

notorandit··on Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
Far side from Earth can be not dark.

Far side from Sun is always.

The point is that we are all Earthlings, so the former applies.

notorandit··on Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
The moon IS flat! Just like the Sun and the Earth.
notorandit··on Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
Far side != Dark side
notorandit··on Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why
The point is not running Windows or Outlook on a PC in space. The point is that the Software was not sealed, downloading upgrades while in space, sending telemetry back to Microsoft (or to whoever else). Those PC are like any other instrument onboard the spacecraft: it's status needs to be known and predictable by NASA.

Not to talk about the amount of unknown and unpredictable extra traffic caused by those PCs onto the "space internet links" which can easily clog any other communication.

And not to talk about smartphones.

This is actually rocket (and space) science, not the horse market fair!

notorandit··on Spanish legislation as a Git repo
That's how it should be everywhere!
notorandit··on [dead]
You can finally run your own local, self‑hosted, or on‑premise Docker, Maven, npm, and PyPI repositories with Repsy - completely free and open.
notorandit··on In Edison’s Revenge, Data Centers Are Transitioning From AC to DC
It does make a whole lot is sense. The amount of energy you loose to convert AC to DC can be humongous . And useless if you produce your own power (normally already in DC).
notorandit··on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads
Don't connect TVs to the internet as they are actually computers programmed to serve ads.

Actually, don't buy TVs at all. Buy books.

notorandit··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
Jokes aside, how can we discern between AI-generated and NI-generated textual contents?

And even if we could, for how long?

Reality is that AI is changing everything. Whether for the good or for the bad it's something to check.

notorandit··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
Why? I consider myself almost human...
notorandit··on Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over
Indeed.
notorandit··on RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard
Very good idea. Clearly no software, no LLM, no AI could ever use that character!
notorandit··on Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over
It's a big move. But I understand it.

Sometimes your code is "just" a proof of concept, a way to test the idea. Very far from a decent product.

That is the time you ditch the code, keep the ideas (both good and bad) and start over.

notorandit··on Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery
Honestly I would not buy such a dock: same weight and size of a laptop without the power.

But it's a cool idea.

notorandit··on JSLinux Now Supports x86_64
Incredible guy!
notorandit··on Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery
I would like it to have also hardware video output.

Then I could become a PC in our pocket.

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