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peterbmarks··on Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]
Did he really break the screen on someone's phone during the talk? He seems dangerous to be around.
peterbmarks··on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
Didn't Stack Overflow have a similar impact on Experts Exchange?
peterbmarks··on Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter
You think that's fun, rpitx will blow your mind: https://github.com/F5OEO/rpitx
peterbmarks··on Investigating MacPaint's Source Code
Bill Atkinson unfortunately has been diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/11/13/atkinson-prayer... I'm sure everyone wishes him well.
peterbmarks··on Forking Is Beautiful
It could be misdirection. Maybe I'll wait for the fork Matt doesn't like.
peterbmarks··on It is hard to recommend Google Cloud
Never forget what happened to Australian UniSuper when google accidentally deleted their account. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/...

"More than half a million UniSuper fund members went a week with no access to their superannuation accounts after a “one-of-a-kind” Google Cloud “misconfiguration” led to the financial services provider’s private cloud account being deleted, Google and UniSuper have revealed."

peterbmarks··on Everyone says Chrome devastates Mac battery life, but does it? 36 hour test
The test is dominated by YouTube watching which presumably Google Chrome is particularly optimised for.
peterbmarks··on The history of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (2009)
The codec2 project includes an HF OFDM that can be run from a command line. https://github.com/drowe67/codec2
peterbmarks··on Ask HN: Where are the good resources for learning audio processing?
If you are interested in Apple platforms check out https://www.audiokit.io
peterbmarks··on MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS
Reminds me of Idris from Whitesmiths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_(operating_system)
peterbmarks··on World Wide Web (1991)
I remember having an O'Reilly book titled "The Whole Internet". Hilarious concept. Gopher was pretty cool at the time.
peterbmarks··on A concrete example of what goes wrong with Apple's docs
I went through pretty much the same dance yesterday trying to figure out the right way to choose a directory in my SwiftUI app. SwiftUI is a wonderful UI toolkit but it's far from complete. The documentation Apple is creating for it is wonderful, check out: https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui
peterbmarks··on A look back at the Argus C44 rangefinder camera
Is "anyways" part of written English these days?
peterbmarks··on [dead]
"If you’ve notices, all of that happened preety quickly." is an odd phrase.
peterbmarks··on A lightweight (~5000 LOC) Python interpreter for game engines
I wonder how it compares with MicroPython?
peterbmarks··on QOA, the Quite OK Audio Format
I'd like to see a comparison with codec2 https://www.rowetel.com/wordpress/?page_id=452
peterbmarks··on How primitive building videos are staged [video]
YouTube ironically also listed a bunch of other videos about faked YouTube videos.
peterbmarks··on Mac OS Ventura Issues
The issues listed are Finder issues. I haven't seen them. Finder is vulnerable to connected storage devices. I did have a dodgy USB drive connected to one machine and all sorts of weird things happened, such as beach balling, until I disconnected it.
peterbmarks··on Software horror show: SAP Concur
Of course they are motivated to make it hard to claim expenses. This is genius.
peterbmarks··on YouTube channel with 100s of Apple WWDC videos taken down
One problem of having old WWDC content available is that it is confusing for a developer searching for how to do something to be shown deprecated approaches. It's hard enough finding the right way to do something in Swift with all the old versions of the language around.
peterbmarks··on ZX81plus38 – A ULA-less ZX81 clone
Took me a bit of research to figure out that ULA is "Uncommitted Logic Array"
peterbmarks··on Ask HN: Who acquires big macOS apps?
Interested to hear why you "don't want to deal with Apple any longer". What are the issues you faced?
peterbmarks··on Cheap technology for making optic lenses that could help 2.5B people and NASA
But how is the curve of the lens controlled? Is it some sort of surface tension guided by the edge height of the enclosing ring?
peterbmarks··on The Coverage of Theranos Is Utter Bullshit (2015)
Didn't age well. To their credit, they've left the story up.
peterbmarks··on An error message if you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object
Is it just me or does this site prevent the browser back button from working? I hate that!
peterbmarks··on Shirts of Peter Norvig
Someone should do "Shirts of Karl Kruszelnicki" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kruszelnicki he always wears amazing shirts which I believe are made by his wife.
peterbmarks··on CP/M for OS X
Anyone know how to run this on Big Sur? I've built the project and it runs but there's no terminal window and the New menu item is dim. I looked at all the forks but most are very old. I guess I need a CP/M disk image?
peterbmarks··on 50 Years of Pascal and Delphi Is in Power
I used to love Turbo C++ but the current versions are much too expensive to consider. "AU$1,819.40 – AU$5,918.00 Inc GST"
peterbmarks··on Are the brain’s electromagnetic fields the seat of consciousness?
Exactly. If this theory was correct an MRI would knock people unconscious very quickly you'd think.
peterbmarks··on Toilets in a Medieval Castle (2018)
Thanks for that. I'm using Safari on macOS and got no images in the article - the ads work flawlessly though. Clicking on them works. I assumed the site had been Hackernews'd
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