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Re:Bitcoin’s energy usage is huge – we can't afford to ignore it
on Sunday August 19, 2018 @06:38PM (#17796574)
January the 17th. Vaguely relevant though, even now.
Re:Revisting Neuromancer After Three Decades
on Friday June 22, 2018 @08:27AM (#17373404)
To me, Ted Nelson's Zigzag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigZag_(software) - is a similiar view to Neuromancer's virtual reality. It's a shame it's not more popular. Gzz is an excellent version of it.
Re:Joseph Stiglitz Says American Inequality Didn’t Just Happen
on Sunday April 29, 2018 @11:58AM (#16952524)
TBL is worth over $50 million.
Re:Newsgroups and the Internet Archive: I Made a Difference
on Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:10PM (#16673501)
From what I can gather, I downloaded one tenth of Usenet - 11,000 groups. This means if I'd done all 110,000 groups it would have taken me about a year to download them, and an 8TB drive to store them (in 2013!). That wasn't really feasible...
Re:Newsgroups and the Internet Archive: I Made a Difference
on Saturday March 24, 2018 @07:15PM (#16669605)
Clucene was way too slow for body text, more than 1GB. I had my own header parser in C++ (though you can do that in Python easily).
I'm trying again on that 800GB with KISS DB (append-only hashtable), and Elasticsearch. Doesn't matter if GPL because it's a website.
Re:Newsgroups and the Internet Archive: I Made a Difference
on Saturday March 24, 2018 @03:53PM (#16668523)
It's my fault (not the IA), I thought I'd got all newsgroups but must have missed some. I just checked the main newsgroup list and it's incomplete, for some reason.
My plan though, is to dust off the old code, get a complete list of groups, get them, and then make it searchable.
Sorry about that, I didn't check. This was all done in 2013. Basically, I wanted to build a search engine but indexing the newsgroup posts (for header and text body search) would take too long. I abandoned it, then in 2016 I sent it to the IA.
So, I only just found out it's lacking a bunch of groups, 5 years on...