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fjarlqon Visual explanations of mathematics (2020)

Tom M. Apostol's Project Mathematics videos circa 1988-2000 are wonderful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mathematics!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpxWyJg4_1A&list=PL8_xPU5epJ...

This is true. For example, the following shebang/uv header works on both macOS and Linux:

  #!/usr/bin/env -S uv --quiet run --script
  # /// script
  # requires-python = ">=3.13"
  # dependencies = [
  #     "python-dateutil",
  # ]
  # ///
  #
  # [python script that needs dateutil]

fjarlqon The story of Rogue

I'm pretty sure that's a Link MC5 terminal, which emulates DEC VT220 by default, but that font doesn't seem very VT220ish. https://vt100.net/dec/vt220/glyphs

fjarlqon DEC PDP-1 emulator running "Spacewar", the earliest known digital video game

That was Space Travel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game)

fjarlqon Ask HN: What are your "Must Have" utility apps on macOS?

A recent thread with some good ideas: https://lobste.rs/s/d5qwzs/what_is_your_mac_os_setup

fjarlqon Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI

That interview, by Game Thinking TV, June 29, 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfXxzAVtdpU

fjarlqon Sea Change (2022)

This was written December 13, 2022.

fjarlqon A Sun-like star orbiting a black hole

And the Do Not Go Gentle novels by Mark Millstorm.

fjarlqon Meet The Extropians (1994)

> A thing I've never been clear on is whether the Extropian Mike Perry was the FIG F-83 Mike Perry or the Tor Mike Perry.

Neither, he's the Alcor Mike Perry:

https://www.alcor.org/library/alcor-member-profiles/michael-...

fjarlqon Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42

The author of that OpenSSH feature, Alexander von Gernler, tells that story:

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20080615022750

Video of Kaminsky exploring the problem and how to fix it, 10 minutes into "Black Ops 2006 Viz Edition":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT2hOyK2qv4#t=9m58s

fjarlqon The Node Is Nonsense: Better ways to measure progress than Moore's law [pdf]

There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law? (2020)

PDF: http://gaznevada.iq.usp.br/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/thomps...

fjarlqon Large explosion in Beirut

It's off-topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

fjarlqon Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

Videos of Ken Thompson and Rob Pike telling Unix history stories:

Ken Thompson (interviewed by Brian Kernighan, 2019, starts after 7m38s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o#t=7m38s

Rob Pike (Unix History presentation, 2018, starts after 3m40s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs#t=3m40s

fjarlqon New Mac Pro

A member of NVIDIA's CUDA Product Management wrote in October 2018:

"Apple fully control drivers for Mac OS. But if Apple allows, our engineers are ready and eager to help Apple deliver great drivers for Mac OS 10.14 (Mojave)." -- https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1042279/cuda-setup-...

fjarlqon Boeing may be now well and truly fucked

Workaround: https://web.archive.org/web/20190426150157/http://havecoffee...

fjarlqon With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

Here's a write up of a GPU passthrough solution involving two GPUs: https://medium.com/@dubistkomisch/gaming-on-arch-linux-and-w...

fjarlqon Ask HN: YouTube down?

AS = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)

IX = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point

fjarlqon The United States Is Now the Largest Global Crude Oil Producer

Check out the increase in tidal flooding on the US east coast: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/04/science/globa...

fjarlqon Where grep came from [video]

AR = Arnold Robbins, http://www.skeeve.com/

fjarlqon Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

  $ mpv "&& rm -rf /"
  Playing: && rm -rf /
  [file] Cannot open file '&& rm -rf /': No such file or directory
  Failed to open && rm -rf /.

fjarlqon AntiPolygraph.org appears to have been “de-listed” from Google on key searches

Quotes are indeed still respected by Google: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433

For example, this search without quotes doesn't mention Dennis Ritchie's NYTimes obituary on the first page of results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=became+more+interested+in+co...

Add quotes and the obituary becomes the first result:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22became+more+interested+in...

fjarlqon Beastly Numbers (1996) [pdf]

Correct link: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/tests/numbeast.pdf

fjarlqon Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia

I expect you're remembering User:Lupin/popups.js[1], which dates back to August 2005.

It soon became known as Navigation Popups[2], and is still available today.

The main documentation for Page Previews mentions Navigation Popups.[3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lupin/popups.js

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_pop...

[3]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews

fjarlqon Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

Van Jacobson, "A New Way to look at Networking" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z685OF-PS8

fjarlqon 1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service

1.1.1.1 does support DNS-over-TLS as well: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/dns-over-tls/

fjarlqon Apple's Failure to Check Kill Syscall Privilege “Not a Security Issue”

The quoted statement, "not a security issue", doesn't appear in the linked page, but via the Thread Prev link[1] I found Daniel Peebles explaining:

> Yes, we did try with them first and they told us they didn’t consider it a security issue, so we posted to oss-security after making sure Apple understood we’d do that unless they asked us not to.

[1]: https://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-dev/2017/Oct/msg0000...

fjarlqon NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive

According[1] to NASA's Richard J. Burley, as of just after midnight UTC Jan 25 2018, they haven't yet attempted communication using DSN, but they're working on it:

> I have attached the TLE I got this morning from JSPoC/CARA. Looks like a close match. We are in the process of engaging the Deep Space Network to see if they can get a signal lock. They (JPL/DSN) are in the process of digging up 13-year old configuration files for that attempt. The DSN has evolved since then so some adjustments to their system setups will be required.

> I have no schedule estimate yet for when that first attempt will be made. If we are able to get signal lock and verify that it is IMAGE, we will setup a MINIMAL ops setup to verify telemetry/command and make an initial assessment of the health and viability of the spacecraft bus. I don't have a credible schedule prediction yet for that step either.

> Thank you for all of your efforts for IMAGE. IMAGE made ~39 new discoveries about the Earth's magnetosphere and plasma-sphere. At the time it stopped radiating, NASA HQ ranked IMAGE as the 2nd most valuable space-physics mission flying. A follow-on mission called MMS, with a 4-spacecraft constellation is currently flying, in part, to follow up on these discoveries.

[1]: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jan-2018/0192.html

fjarlqon How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst' chip flaw

CPU side-channel attacks have been an active area of research for years. Here's an incomplete list of papers. "by 2016 it got crazy so this is nowhere near complete" https://twitter.com/csirac2/status/948575368956411904

csirac2's list on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/securityengineering/comments/7o2uzy...

fjarlqon Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8?

The Earthrise reconstruction by Wright and Gallagher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-vOscpiNc