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Re:The Hobbes OS/2 Archive logs off permanently in April on Friday February 02, 2024 @07:41PM (#39236471)
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?
Re:Ask HN: Anyone Using MacBook Air M2 24GB for Developement? on Friday October 13, 2023 @03:59AM (#37868026)
I am thinking about getting an M2 with 32GB RAM.

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

Re:2/3 Ace (Amiga Computer Expo) 2000 Bill McEwan CEO of Amiga Explain... on Sunday September 10, 2023 @06:21AM (#37454508)
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).
Re:Alice in Wonderland syndrome: A rare neurological manifestation on Thursday August 31, 2023 @07:48AM (#37335724)
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-get-a-strange-big-s...
Re:Alice in Wonderland syndrome: A rare neurological manifestation on Thursday August 31, 2023 @07:46AM (#37335712)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome
Re:Brain activity of dying people shows signs of near-death experiences on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @08:16AM (#35786287)
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...

Re:After Qualcomm, Google now has plans to to take on Intel and AMD on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:09PM (#34810609)
On another website

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

Re:Does syntax highlighting help programming novices? (2018) on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @07:06PM (#32572771)
Take a look at

Bret Victor - The Future of Programming

https://vimeo.com/71278954

Programming could have been be something completely different.

Re:Xz format considered inadequate for long-term archiving (2016) on Sunday July 24, 2022 @04:54AM (#32211627)
No one seems to mention lrzip ?
Re:Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do? on Saturday July 02, 2022 @04:36PM (#31962121)
Try Vedic astrology also.
Re:Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do? on Saturday July 02, 2022 @04:33PM (#31962088)
Watch the following

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

and try to understand and ask the universe for help.

Re:Why Everyone Wants Arm on Friday June 24, 2022 @04:26PM (#31868861)
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.
Re:Bitcoin's self-proclaimed inventor wins trial over stash worth $54B on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @01:45PM (#29476526)
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.

Re:AI Weiwei: Credit Suisse closed bank account over China on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:21PM (#28462534)
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."

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