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Coded stuff. Cofounded companies and a charity. Successes & failures. http://bitmason.comDarren Stone, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Once men turned their thinking over to
machines in the hope that this would
set them free. But that only permitted
other men with machines to enslave
them." - Frank P. Herbert, Jr., 1965
"The programmer, like the poet, works
only slightly removed from pure
thought-stuff. He builds his castles
in the air, from air, creating by
exertion of the imagination."
- Fred P. Brooks, Jr., 1975recent activity (1,004 total)
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Thank you. It's heartwarming to read about successes like this. Immediate recalling John Gilmore (GNU/EFF/etc.) in 1993: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around …
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An adjacent rabbit hole I'd recommend ... (functional but decidedly retro nav on that site) https://www.retrobrewcomputers.org Besides S100 you'll find there, the Eurocard Bus wh…
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I know there will still be prop noise galore but this is great. I lived in Coal Harbour across from their water runways for years. It was my every-morning wakeup call whether I needed it or not. Aside…
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It ticks these boxes for me: food and nutrition hacking, science, intellectual curiosity, community-funded research project, etc.
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I followed the instructions in their email: 1. change password, and 2. enable 2FA (confirm enabled in my case). Password change went fine. I expected existing sessions to my controller login would be …
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Indeed. One strange bright (?) side of Covid-19's probable persistence in the world for some time, even after successful mass vaccinations in 2021, is that wearing a mask in public for any purpos…
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FWIW, here's the Canadian plan,[1] since there seem to be a good number of us Canucks on HN and it's natural to wonder/follow/compare with our close neighbours. Some key points fro…
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Text of the 1968 memorandum by President Lyndon Johnson mandating ASCII as the federal standard. [1] https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/memorandum-approvi... [2] https:…
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Research published here: https://www.aging-us.com/article/202188/text "The protocol comprised of 60 daily sessions, five sessions per week within a three-month period. …