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mvidal01··on Using an Amiga in 2021: Making an intro
https://youtu.be/8Xq0fgfXgq8
mvidal01··on Show HN: Sharing, command-line tool to share files with your phone
https://file.pizza is nice.
mvidal01··on US Government building AI tech to unmask anonymous writers
Cant someone also build an ai to unmask anonymous writers?
mvidal01··on US Government building AI tech to unmask anonymous writers
Cant someone also build an AI to mask anonymous writers?
mvidal01··on Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
I enjoyed this one a lot.
mvidal01··on Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
I enjoyed "The Painter and the Thief" https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_painter_and_the_thief

It's very well done and engaging. The filming is wonderful, and it almost seems like a fiction film. The story is also unusual.

and the movie "The Russian Woodpecker" https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_russian_woodpecker

The approach to the subject matter is very creative.

After seeing both movies several years ago both have stayed with me and I think about each often.

mvidal01··on American chestnut tree in Centreville is the 'holy grail' for conservationists
I read in the book "American Chestnut, The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree" by Susan Freinkel that when the blight was first discovered in the early 1900's scientists thought that cutting down chestnut trees in the east would stop the blight from spreading. Many trees were cut down that might have had some level of resistance to the blight.
mvidal01··on Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009)
For some reason this thread makes me think of this Steve Balmer on KLOCs rant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHI7RTKhlz0

mvidal01··on Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016)
Doesn't the content and the public speaking skills of the presenter play a role?
mvidal01··on Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?
Bumblebee populations are down in the US N.E. From October 6, 2021

The American Bumblebee Has Nearly Vanished From Eight States https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/american-bumblebee...

mvidal01··on Ask HN: Simple video editor for instructional videos
Vidcutter seems simple https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter
mvidal01··on How Much Garden You Would Need to 100% Survive On
What about goats?
mvidal01··on The Better.com CEO says he’s ‘deeply sorry’ for firing workers over Zoom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4
mvidal01··on Facebook tells LA police to stop spying on users with fake accounts
The story doesn't say who's doing the surveillance but the LAPD's Intelligence departments have a long and storied/scandalous history.

https://crimereads.com/the-lapds-secret-history-of-citizen-s...

mvidal01··on Toledo’s Last Swordmakers
>I'm going to be blunt here. I see what you did there.
mvidal01··on The wild pizzas of southern Italy
Ugly Delicious covers this subject pretty well. https://www.netflix.com/title/80170368
mvidal01··on Eating sardines regularly helps prevent type 2 diabetes
Unfortunatly sardines are high in purines so I get sometimes get gout when eating them.
mvidal01··on Lenovo ThinkStation P620 Review: A Vehicle for Threadripper Pro
I got one also. I'm liking it so far.
mvidal01··on How we made Typerighter, the Guardian’s style guide checker
I bet some of those those typos came about because the type was hand set.
mvidal01··on Never Pay for Online Dating (2010)
I think they got archived - https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/comments/aapn1l/okcupid_blog_...
mvidal01··on The Origins of Precision [video]
It's on Archive.org - https://archive.org/details/FoundationsOfMechanicalAccuracy
mvidal01··on Airbnb REQUIRES recording you call but if you want to record they REFUSE call
How do they know if they are being recorded?
mvidal01··on Herman Cain's verified twitter account shares posthumous attack on Biden/Harris
Do the terms of service cover this?
mvidal01··on What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture, part 2
That idea has been around for a while. I'm aware of similar tools for small farms.

(0) https://www.johnnyseeds.com/tools-supplies/transplanters/pap... (1) https://paperpot.co/

mvidal01··on Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
Pointcast, boy that brings back some memories.
mvidal01··on Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]
Lightworks also runs under Linux.
mvidal01··on VFIO – PCI/GPU passthrough allows VMs with native graphics performance
I just installed Arch on a Dell server that has 2 older GPUs. I wanted to do this exact thing.
mvidal01··on MBONE: The Multicast Backbone (1994)
And in large corporate networks.
mvidal01··on Farmers are hacking their tractors because of a repair ban (2018) [video]
I thought Horace Clemmons and his Oggun tractor was on HN before but I can't find the story. https://thinkoggun.com/
mvidal01··on A New York Farm Stand’s Success: An Eye for the Next Big Thing
Cornell has done a lot of research into High Tunnels. Farmers in NY State often use tunnels I think. http://blogs.cornell.edu/hightunnels/
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