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throwmemoneyon The Hobbes OS/2 Archive logs off permanently in April

Would `lrzip` help here? How does the 18GB compressed down to by how much using lrzip? Anyone tried and able to give us some stats?

throwmemoneyon Ask HN: Anyone Using MacBook Air M2 24GB for Developement?

I am thinking about getting an M2 with 32GB RAM.

On a side note for back pain - have you tried acupuncture?

throwmemoneyon 2/3 Ace (Amiga Computer Expo) 2000 Bill McEwan CEO of Amiga Explains AmigaDE [video]

Bill McEwan CEO of Amiga talks and demonstrates a hardware-agnostic operating system... AmigaDE (Amiga Anywhere) 21/9/2000 at ACE (Amiga Computer Expo) 2000 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ~1,000 people attended. The software could be run on top of another OS or natively (without any other OS)… making it very flexible. The demo includes loading the same software onto 2 different OS's without recompilation (using the same floppy). The portability was achieved by writing a small virtual (under 120KB) virtual processor so that the software always sees the same hardware/processor. The virtual processor was easy to write. The small size of the virtual processor means it had no effect on the speed of the machine... and in fact the demo's Bill shows us run much better on the virtual processor than on Windows or Linux. It is unclear how much progress was made on AmigaDE after this.. but the explanation appears similar to the one Bill gave when demoing OS5 (the ACE demo actually has a lot more detail).

throwmemoneyon Alice in Wonderland syndrome: A rare neurological manifestation

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-get-a-strange-big-s...

throwmemoneyon Alice in Wonderland syndrome: A rare neurological manifestation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome

throwmemoneyon Brain activity of dying people shows signs of near-death experiences

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-pPBwFFWz_k

Some children can remember exact & verifiable details of their prior life they never could have come to know in this their current child life. These details can be objectively and independently confirmed. Remarkably & quite biologically enigmatic: Some of them have birth marks and birth defects at very same locations as the lethal injury causing their often abrupt and violent past life death. Eg. Born with 5 missing fingers after a prior life accident where they were cut off... Birthmarks at the exact location where they got gunshot wounds in their prior life, which could be confirmed from the autopsy report of their deceased individuality. Furthermore: Some can speak a language they never have learnt in this life (xenoglossy) corresponding to their past life language & nationality. They can in some cases remember names of siblings and other family members in their past life family who they never have met in this life...

throwmemoneyon After Qualcomm, Google now has plans to to take on Intel and AMD

On another website

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/14/google_prepares_its_o...

throwmemoneyon Does syntax highlighting help programming novices? (2018)

Take a look at

Bret Victor - The Future of Programming

https://vimeo.com/71278954

Programming could have been be something completely different.

throwmemoneyon Xz format considered inadequate for long-term archiving (2016)

No one seems to mention lrzip ?

throwmemoneyon Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do?

Try Vedic astrology also.

throwmemoneyon Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do?

Watch the following

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4FF2XkzGMCg

and try to understand and ask the universe for help.

throwmemoneyon Why Everyone Wants Arm

They have laid off so many people recently to make the books and company look more profitable than it is. All of that knowledge just shown the door.

throwmemoneyon Bitcoin's self-proclaimed inventor wins trial over stash worth $54B

Article say $5.4 billion:

The Australia-born Wright, who later moved to London, in May sued software developers to secure around 111,000 bitcoin now worth about $5.4 billion that he claimed he owns.

throwmemoneyon AI Weiwei: Credit Suisse closed bank account over China

Leading Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei has said he was told by Credit Suisse that his foundation's bank account in Switzerland would be closed over his "criminal record" in China.

The activist, noted for architecture, sculpture and documentaries, has never been convicted of a crime.

Mr Ai, who left China in 2015 and now lives in Portugal, made the comments on website Artnet.

Credit Suisse told the BBC it did not comment on client relationships.

The contemporary artist famously designed the Bird's Nest stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but ran into serious problems after he spoke out against the Chinese government. This saw him spend 81 days in prison in 2011.

In the Artnet article Mr Ai wrote that in spring 2021 he had received a "surprising notice" from Credit Suisse.

"The bank informed me that it was terminating my account in Switzerland. They did this, they wrote, in accordance with a new policy of closing all accounts with people who have had criminal records. They believed (or pretended to believe?) that I had been convicted of a crime in China.

"Just a bit of homework could have shown them that I was never formally charged, let alone convicted of a crime."

throwmemoneyon Engineering Future Society: Taavi Kotka / Engineer, Former CIO for Estonia

Engineering Future Society: Taavi Kotka / Engineer, Former Chief Information Officer for Estonia July 10, 2020

throwmemoneyon Bash PS1 Generator

What is the best way to have the long directory line above the prompt? Using PS2 or PS3?

throwmemoneyon Apple sued in nightmare case involving teen

Apple sued in nightmare case involving teen wrongly accused of shoplifting, driver's permit used by impostor, and unreliable facial-rec tech Theft spree repeatedly blamed on wrong guy – lawsuit Thomas Claburn in San Francisco Sat 29 May 2021 // 00:52 UTC

throwmemoneyon Cricut Backs Down – Cutting Machines

This obsession with making EVERYTHING a service is killing technology in so many ways.

This device could and should operate fine with an offline application run locally on a computer. Support that, add extra incentives for the cloud services, and call it a day.

throwmemoneyon Rosetta May Be Removed from M1 Macs in Some Regions on macOS 11.3

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt

throwmemoneyon Texas residents tens of thousands left without power and water

Interesting read of the comments section

throwmemoneyon Texas residents tens of thousands left without power and water

Texas mayor says government and utility services owe residents ‘nothing’ as tens of thousands left without power and water

throwmemoneyon BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

If the form factor is reduced to something like an NSLU2 you can attach a large spinning disk and have a desktop server/NAS device. i.e., an unlocked WD MY Cloud with open source community android and iphone app for the device

throwmemoneyon Roblox raises $520M at $29.5B valuation

It is more to do with volumes of product, hardware is costly and the margins are thin if targeting less than 1000 per year. The problem is the product is not versatile to be adopted in a more general sense. The Engineering accomplishment of the company are great, but it does not have a broad enough market and hence reflected in the cost of the product. Similarly, you can compare that to technical books and why they cost so much as the expected sales volumes are not high enough unlike a fictional character book, prime example Harry Potter, it also became a big screen hit with fans.

throwmemoneyon ZeroPi – $9.99 SBC with 512MB and Gigabit Ethernet

Anyone remember the Linksys NLSU2 it was the RaspberryPi of its day! Should have thought of the mass market back then... and crowd funded it...

Is it still possible?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2

throwmemoneyon DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system

How much does the compression of the perl repo become when compressed with

lrzip -UL9 filetarball.tar

It would be a good data point for everyone.

throwmemoneyon DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system

Compression - anyone using lrzip on production servers?

throwmemoneyon The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection

So the old saying that Japan could fit inside California is wrong?!

https://www.laweekly.com/these-countries-could-fit-inside-ca...

throwmemoneyon The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection

You may need to read more about Australian history, people were sent their from England if they committed a crime like stealing a silk handkerchief.

One example given below

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Thackery

throwmemoneyon AMD to Acquire Xilinx

It is really funny when you find out that Intel uses Xilinx FPGAs for prototyping as they cannot get what they acquired (Altera) working in house to make things work.

throwmemoneyon Ask HN: Why isn’t finance a part of the core curriculum at schools?

It is true for Europe too. We are not taught about money in schools. Is is a conspiracy theory? The fractional reserve banking system is what shocked me when I came to watch the money as debt video on YouTube. The more loans you take out to by stuff to impress the people whom you don't like is a live an kicking in the world.

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