grouchysmurf

Re:How to easily read 50 books a year on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @08:07AM (#29905838)

The question is whether why you would ever want to read 50 books a year; as if reading as many was an indication of... of what, exactly?

My take is that it is more worth to read 10 books year you learn / get something for you from rather than 50 just for the sake of ticking a checkbox off the list.

Re:Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:46PM (#29751812)

The main reason behind this is to enforce decision of letting Russian gas in i.e. to have NS2 officially opened. With power shortages -- in the whole Europe -- that this shutdown will only make worse, blocking NS2 will no longer look as a viable option.

Tough times are coming.

Sir Michael Atiyah to Announce Proof of Riemann Hypothesis on 24th Sep

Posted by grouchysmurf on Friday September 21, 2018 @03:39PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/HLForum/status/1042670700652318720

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The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Posted by grouchysmurf on Saturday December 12, 2015 @03:07PM
from the artandpopularculture.com dept.

http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Main_Page

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Reel-to-reel tape is the new vinyl

Posted by grouchysmurf on Friday November 13, 2015 @02:34PM
from the theverge.com dept.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/5/9409563/reel-to-reel-tape-retro-audio-trend

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The Devaluation of Music

Posted by grouchysmurf on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:07PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/cuepoint/the-devaluation-of-music-it-s-worse-than-you-think-f4cf5f26a888

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Computer Chronicles: a complete archive

Posted by grouchysmurf on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @05:25AM
from the archive.org dept.

https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles

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The War on Cash: Why Now?

Posted by grouchysmurf on Monday August 03, 2015 @06:09AM
from the mises.org dept.

https://mises.org/library/war-cash-why-now

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Learning from the Enemy: The Gunman Project (2007) [pdf]

Posted by grouchysmurf on Monday July 27, 2015 @05:14AM
from the nsa.gov dept.

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_histories/learning_from_the_enemy.pdf

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Re:D3.js visualization of a lambda calculus on Saturday July 18, 2015 @09:13AM (#9907468)

Crashes Pale Moon (25.2.0) on Win 7.

Unit 8200: Israel’s cyber spy agency

Posted by grouchysmurf on Saturday July 18, 2015 @08:47AM
from the ft.com dept.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/69f150da-25b8-11e5-bd83-71cb60e8f08c.html

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Curta: a mechanical calculator

Posted by grouchysmurf on Friday July 17, 2015 @01:42PM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

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

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Battle Lab: The Fog of War

Posted by grouchysmurf on Friday July 17, 2015 @05:40AM
from the grogheads.com dept.

http://grogheads.com/?p=8596

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How the best British agent of Cold War made it to the West

Posted by grouchysmurf on Thursday July 16, 2015 @11:20AM
from the dailymail.co.uk dept.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3151625/Spy-came-cold-thanks-packet-cheese-onion-crisps-true-story-gripping-Le-Carre.html

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How much does an exploit cost?

Posted by grouchysmurf on Thursday July 16, 2015 @11:10AM
from the wikileaks.org dept.

https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/15116

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HT's malware uses a UEFI rootkit to survive operating system reinstalls

Posted by grouchysmurf on Thursday July 16, 2015 @08:02AM
from the pcworld.com dept.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2948092/security/hacking-teams-malware-uses-uefi-rootkit-to-survive-os-reinstalls.html

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How the silent screen burst to life with color

Posted by grouchysmurf on Thursday July 16, 2015 @07:23AM
from the nautil.us dept.

http://nautil.us/issue/26/color/the-phantasmagoria-of-the-first-hand_painted-films

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ROT13 and Caesar Ciphers

Posted by grouchysmurf on Thursday July 16, 2015 @04:05AM
from the datagenetics.com dept.

http://datagenetics.com/blog/july42015/index.html

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Analysis of Reddit's publicly available comment dataset

Posted by grouchysmurf on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @07:15AM
from the reddit.com dept.

https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/3bxlg7/i_have_every_publicly_available_reddit_comment/

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Re:Ask HN : Upvote History? on Monday May 18, 2015 @02:43PM (#9566131)

User name -> saved stories.

The Mathematics Behind xkcd: A Conversation with Randall Munroe (2012)

Posted by grouchysmurf on Sunday May 17, 2015 @05:53AM
from the maa.org dept.

http://www.maa.org/publications/periodicals/math-horizons/the-mathematics-behind-xkcd-a-conversation-with-randall-munroe

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Solving Sudoku with SQL (2010)

Posted by grouchysmurf on Sunday May 17, 2015 @04:33AM
from the developerfusion.com dept.

http://www.developerfusion.com/article/84374/solving-sudoku-with-sql

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Solving Sudoku with SQL (2010)

Posted by grouchysmurf on Saturday May 16, 2015 @04:55PM
from the developerfusion.com dept.

http://www.developerfusion.com/article/84374/solving-sudoku-with-sql/

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Re:Brainfilling Curves: A Fractal Bestiary on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @06:49AM (#8686663)

The book is available online: http://archive.org/stream/BrainfillingCurves-AFractalBestiar...

Brainfilling Curves: A Fractal Bestiary

Posted by grouchysmurf on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @05:20AM
from the brainfillingcurves.com dept.

http://www.brainfillingcurves.com/

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The Journey to Find, Analyze, and Fix Pac Man’s Split Screen (2007)

Posted by grouchysmurf on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @09:02AM
from the donhodges.com dept.

http://www.donhodges.com/how_high_can_you_get2.htm

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The Impossible Architecture of the Stanley Parable

Posted by grouchysmurf on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @04:30AM
from the rockpapershotgun.com dept.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/11/21/the-stanley-parable-architecture/

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First Links in the Markov Chain (2013)

Posted by grouchysmurf on Monday November 24, 2014 @04:30PM
from the americanscientist.org dept.

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.15992,y.0,no.,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx

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Transcribing Piano Rolls, the Pythonic Way

Posted by grouchysmurf on Monday November 24, 2014 @10:06AM
from the zulko.github.io dept.

https://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/02/12/transcribing-piano-rolls/

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Re:Geologic Atlas of the Moon on Monday November 24, 2014 @07:49AM (#8652117)

This is the actual link: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/usgs/