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r3dk1ngon Asus packs 12-core Intel i7 into a Raspberry Pi-sized board

How are they calling this Raspberry Pi-sized?

5.75" x 4" (DIMENSION row on https://www.aaeon.com/en/p/subcompact-boards-gene-adp6/)

isn't the same as

3.370" × 2.224" (raspi B size from wikipedia)

r3dk1ngon Notepad++ v8.4.3: Unhappy Users' Edition

r3dk1ngon Tilde.town is a computer meant for sharing

past discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24300907 (2020)

r3dk1ngon My default search engine changed after updating Firefox to version 98

might be related to this: "Mozilla intends to deprecate OpenSearch and eventually remove it from Firefox."

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/15/search-engine-add...

r3dk1ngon Modern IRC Client Protocol

an IRC service kind of like how this was? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12490685

r3dk1ngon Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto

I am neither a drug dealer nor an extortionist. I used bitcoin to buy a router from Newegg a month ago.

r3dk1ngon How the URL Was Built

gopher://zzo38computer.org/0textfile/miscellaneous/unusenet (copied that gopher link's contents into a pastebin) https://pastebin.com/raw/qJhSKGyv

r3dk1ngon I bought netflix.soy

> everyone here has certainly heard of softbank

not until your comment had I heard of "softbank"

r3dk1ngon Space Frigates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPilot

r3dk1ngon Building a more private web: A path towards making third party cookies obsolete

> can't track the effectiveness of TV, radio, and newspaper ads

Sure you can. "Use check-out code 'newspaper1' to get 5% off any purcahse!" or something.

r3dk1ngon Is true hacking dead? What we lost

Yes. Though if they were easy to find they'd be overrun with people who don't feel that what they found is worth protecting.

r3dk1ngon Does Your Website Fit on a Floppy?

I thought it meant the whole website at first. Looks like by website they mean a single webpage and all of the files needed to display it though. (images, css, scripts)

r3dk1ngon Minimal Viable Programs (2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5920732 most minimal viable program

r3dk1ngon Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth

Your comment made me think of whether a GRB could have caused the cambrian explosion. So I searched for that and found this paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.7303

r3dk1ngon Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)

> urine is sterile

orly? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957746/

r3dk1ngon The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective

It is an encrypted zip file. Not a password protected website. Not a rar. I downloaded it and ran file on it. Oddly the filename is .tar.

    $ file .reaxys.tar 
    .reaxys.tar: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

As one of the other top level comments said, the links to it are here: https://twitter.com/MichaelSLaufer/status/102263726560276889...

r3dk1ngon Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm

http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html maybe?

r3dk1ngon Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than Many Countries

I do not have a smartphone. I have purchased things using bitcoin. Smartphones are not necessary for BC transactions.

r3dk1ngon TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code

You're talking about Conway's law.

r3dk1ngon How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME

I've had a handful of computers with CPUs made by VIA, so there's at least a small third option.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_Technologies

r3dk1ngon A Lizard with Scales That Behave Like a Cellular Automaton

Another cellular automata seen in animals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30

r3dk1ngon Runners’ brains may be more connected, research shows

I always assumed all things that required effort and coordination between the two halves of the brain would increase the connectivity, specifically over the corpus callosum.

r3dk1ngon VR Resources

Sharing is caring. :)

r3dk1ngon Show HN: Mest – Place to talk with those you disagree with

Thank you for mentioning Instant Runoff Voting. I've been trying to get anyone IRL to have any interest in it at all. Even the third party nerds weren't interested even though it'd benefit them.