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There's an interesting startup company out of Shanhui Fan's group at Stanford that is commercializing something like this -- SkyCool Systems. Their panels radiate in the 8-13µm region (the mid-infrared atmospheric window, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_window) and are used to increase the efficiencies of HVAC systems. They claim efficiency gains of 10-40% as an add-on, and more if the cooling requirement can be handled solely with their panels. https://www.skycoolsystems.com/technology/

Explored brilliantly in "Learning To Be Me" by Greg Egan, a short story in his collection "Axiomatic."

It’s definitely not perfect, but I’m enjoying it, as someone who has been unhappy with Spotify’s haphazard approach to classical music.

I was exploring the “Harpsichord“ category and Bach’s Toccata No. 6 in G Minor, and saw a performance by Glenn Gould: “Glen Gould on the harpsichord? Oh, how interesting! [listens] How...not a harpsichord.”

So there are still a few bugs to be worked out.

Oh, how I loved this book (and the whole series) as a kid -- I probably read it for the first time in 1975 or 1976, when it was still science-fictional, and yet the personal computer revolution was just about to get underway.

As a traditionalist, I swear by good ol' X11 "fixed" (6x13) -- great density and legibility, with pretty much any glyph one would want.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html

I have very fond memories of my 1040ST — I bought one as soon as I got to college, and the “hi-res” screen made it perfect for writing papers and (more importantly for me) logging into the BSD VAXen from the dorms.

I loved Jerry Pournelle’s “Chaos Manor” columns, and Steve Ciarcia’s “Circuit Cellar” — it was nice to have both software and hardware represented. The articles on the Inmos Transputer were fascinating, and sparked my interest in parallel and distributed computing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer

One the insurance companies realize that this sort of device would be much cheaper than a home health aide, I expect adoption will grow.

English version from the same site: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2227/?nocache=true

As in William Gibson, author of “Neuromancer” and the originator of the term “cyberdeck.”

Meh. This was all solved decades ago with the turbo encabulator.

I know of Oklo, Helion, and UPower; there may be others. These three were relatively early (2014-2015 or so.)

I enjoyed it! One minor thing; typo on the final summary: “My closest guess had an color accuracy of XX%!” => (“…a color…”)

and Dropbox

I’m also fond of “When HARLIE Was One” and “The Adolescence of P-1.”

“You’ll soon be glowing with health!”

I grew up in an area absolutely covered in targets (Mather AFB, McClellan AFB, Travis AFB, various Army depots, and the California state Capitol.) I figured I was radioactive vapor if things got that far, so I didn’t obsess over it.

I was in the same boat at my first startup (a series of 70-100 hour weeks and I was completely fried by year 2.)

I had accumulated (and untouched) vacation time, so I wrapped up anything critical, drove to SFO, got on a plane to Mexico, and stayed for two weeks. I did not bring my laptop. I did nothing but swim, go to the beach, read (physical) novels and have nice meals at restaurants.

Exercise and sunshine pulled me out of a truly devastating spiral; it may not work in the same way for you, but could it hurt?

Good luck: I really feel for you.

I was very fortunate that he was friends with my sixth-grade art teacher, and he came by a few times to talk to the students.

The Crocker Art Museum in downtown Sacramento has a number of his works, and did a retrospective last year for his 100th birthday.

https://www.crockerart.org/exhibitions/wayne-thiebaud-100

The BBS lives again!

There are some recent startups (Glyphic Bio out of MIT, and Jonathan Rothberg's Quantum-Si) that are tackling next-gen protein sequencing. I'm eager to see what they can do once they're widely available.

Note: this is just a letter (someone’s opinion, not peer-reviewed.)

As someone who was at Sun during this time (and eventually worked on the CDE project), it was hard to give up a desktop environment (OpenWindows v3) whose look and feel I thought was better than the replacement.

Still, it was interesting to work with our counterparts at the other companies (mostly HP.)

I was 3-1/2 when it premiered, and it was my favorite show; apparently I could already read, but I’m certain the show helped improve that.

“It’s a word, it’s a plan…it’s Letterman!”

(narrated by Joan Rivers, Letterman played by Gene Wilder, with Zero Mostel as Spell Binder!)

To this point, the Wikipedia article on Veritas International University notes their doctrinal stance as follows: “Veritas International University has an evangelical doctrinal statement that emphasizes ‘three legs’ of biblical authority: inspiration, infallibility, and biblical inerrancy.”

I admire the rigor of the archaeology and physical/chemical analysis of the site, but think it’s important to note the above when evaluating the conclusions.

Not completely surprising (from Wikipedia):

“While Zuse never became a member of the Nazi Party, he is not known to have expressed any doubts or qualms about working for the Nazi war effort.”

Or, "Arm Wrestling"

“Note that there is one less blank line here; it has been replaced by the #! line. But otherwise it is identical. Sun has merely passed on the copyright notice. I wonder if Sun has written permission from AT&T to use blank lines in their code?”

Fun fact: SVR4 was a joint AT&T/Sun project, so this was a SunOS file originally — I believe the “SMI” in the #ident line stands for “Sun Microsystems Inc.” and was a standard feature of all our SCCS identifiers.

“Why doesn’t he seem to be fazed by more than a year of absolute isolation?”

This line from the review reads much differently in 2021 than it would have in 2015.

This may be the single best thing I’ve ever read on HN; truly awesome and generous for you to have reached out in this way.