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bori5on A new release for GNU Octave

“ 20 years ago Matlab was pretty good, but it's barely changed since the “ How do you define “barely” looking at just changes from 2015 to 2020 in just core MATLAB shows at least the following changes.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/release-notes.html?cat...

bori5on Benefits of Walking

Hey man a lot of this resonates and has improved greatly after I started focusing on core strength which I had never before. Worth trying but be careful. Wish I had of started in my 30s though. Good luck.

bori5on Why soil is one of the most amazing things on Earth

Meanwhile in Australia... https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2019-02-13/why-is-the-grou...

bori5on Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe

“ Table 1 of the new paper is an “error budget” listing 16 sources of error and uncertainty that affect the final measurement. These include gravity and the Coriolis force created by Earth’s rotation — both painstakingly quantified and compensated for. ”

That is dope!

bori5on Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective

100%, everything’s easy in your 20s! ;)

bori5on 30 years later, QBasic is still the best

And you can run it on your iPhone/iPad using iDOS app.

bori5on ‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies

The Parade https://archive.org/details/OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles/XMinusO...

bori5on macOS Big Sur

Thanks for this. After the whole phone home saga of this week I think this is now down the bottom of my list of concerns.

bori5on macOS Big Sur

I’m on Mojave still, are you able to move or hide the FaceTime dialog that appears in the upper right when making or answering a FaceTime audio call so it doesn’t block whatever is behind it such as the taskbar ?

bori5on Ozymandias

This makes a great appearance in one of the short stories in the movie the Ballad of Buster Scruggs. A brilliant Coen brothers movie on Netflix.

bori5on Ennio Morricone has died

Here’s the love theme performed by Pat and Charlie https://youtu.be/qEwXcgwzIYE

bori5on Tesla’s SA big battery just got 50% bigger after goals thanks to Autobidder

Thanks for the warning about the page, I found your comment helpful and no more off topic than countless other tangential comments that get made on HN.

bori5on T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across the US

Interesting had to search what stir/shaken was. Not obvious to the layperson.

bori5on Fast 2D Rendering on GPU

That links to iTerm2 which is what I’m guessing you meant to say ? Kitty is also a GPU accelerated terminal emulator and one that I enjoy using https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ Not sure if it uses Metal on Mac though.

bori5on A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952) [video]

For those interested in Bertie you may find Logicomix (https://www.logicomix.com/en/index.html) an entertaining read

bori5on Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help

Thats how some places operate by default.

bori5on Lit: A ridiculously small responsive CSS framework

Interesting it errors under safari technology preview r105 when I hit switch theme button, works fine under safari though both on Mac/iOS.

bori5on Maybe visual programming is the answer, maybe not

Simulink is a very successful and powerful visual language for doing all sorts of wonderful things with. In the right hands of course.

bori5on The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic

Hello nobody here, In my world 40plus crew everyone knows the Knack , my bologna first I’ve heard of it. So thanks for that.

bori5on Don't Make Students Use Eclipse

You missed two parentheses

bori5on Text Processing in the Shell

Thank you, did not know about this one!

bori5on Text Processing in the Shell

https://tldr.sh/

bori5on Stages of denial in encountering K

And many time’s I shake my head at how people miss humor/sarcasm on HN. Got me.

bori5on Stages of denial in encountering K

“ and you can add 5 to an entire matrix at once as easily as a single number. Why you would want this property remains elusive-...”. Why would that be elusive I wonder ? MATLAB has been doing it since the 80s as an example and that exact elusive feature would have been used countless times.

bori5on Freeman Dyson Has Died

RIP Freeman Dyson. Apologies for drifting from main thread, fell for the oldest trick in the HN book.

bori5on Freeman Dyson Has Died

In a similar vein there’s a story and YouTube video of Russians plugging an out of control burning oil well with a small nuke.

Edit. It was a gas well here’s the link https://youtu.be/S57Xq03njsc

bori5on WHO Director-General: “We may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg”

Pretty sure there was a story from a few years ago of a person dying from a then unknown virus after contact with a fruit bat in Queensland.

Edit. Here’s a link but not sure if this was the one https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-22/queensland-boy-dies-o...

bori5on macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated

I don’t have a samsung phone , only thing I have is there T5 SSD drive ?

bori5on macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated

Thanks for the tip, interesting list, wonder why Samsung is on the list for T5 SSD drive ?

  System Version: macOS 10.14.6 (18G2022)

  kextstat -l | grep -v com.apple | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 7,8 -d ' '

  com.logitech.manager.kernel.driver (6.62.1)
  com.samsung.portablessd.driver (1.5.02)
  com.intel.driver.EnergyDriver (3.7.0)
  com.bitgapp.eqMac2Driver (2.0)
  com.objective-see.lulu (1.2.3)
  com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (2)
  org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (6.1.2)
  com.intel.kext.intelhaxm (7.5.1)
  org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (6.1.2)
  org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (6.1.2)
  org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (6.1.2)

bori5on Browser benchmark battle January 2020

Glad I’m in the minority of millions who doesn’t