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This reminds me some of what I've read about Blackwing pencils (originally made by Eberhard Faber Company), which were discontinued in 1998. The originals (NOS) were apparently quite sought after…

Neal Stephenson has been involved with Long Now and the 10,000 year clock since 1999 and that involvement led to Anathem: https://www.nealstephenson.com/anathem.html …

Some previous discussion on coverage[0] here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19616970 [0] https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/monotype-launches-the... …

> It's always interesting to me the number of people who come out on HN to advocate vociferously for ownership of their private data, given that HN doesn't even let you delete your accou…

> For some observations, they've used the earth's moving position in space to create a synthetic-radar style image. That gives an 'aperture' of 180M miles. That may not work fo…

> We've maxed out the Earth's baseline, so it seems like orbital radio telescopes are the only way to better resolution. Going to higher frequency gives you higher resolution for a given …

> Are there any plans for a space based VLBI; not easy when you consider the utterly huge amounts of information they have to transfer, a radio telescope in a L5 would be a start. There is space-ba…

> If I'm not mistaken, the last update was in like 2017? Is it even in development any more? A 1.3.0-rc1 was tagged 9 days ago (17 March 2019): https://github.com/mumble-voip&#…

> Right, I'm (we're) obviously talking about 737MAX I think @ams6110 is saying that it may not be fair to identify the 737MAX as a completely new plane, since the 737MAX can be identifie…

I didn't downvote you, so I can't speak for those who did. But I replied because simply saying "20/850 is small" isn't sufficient to argue there isn't a difference b…

> So 20 MAX-related issues out of ~850. How is that significant? To build on what @ggm and @siwatanejo noted. The 737 debuted in 1967, so it is 52 years old now. The 737 MAX is 2 years old. In term…

I typically use Thunderbird, though I'll occasionally fire up mutt[0] when I crave writing emails in vim and using some of the text-checking scripts I've written. [0] http://www.m…

> Subsampling is often done because you can get the level of prediction desired at a much lower cost, both in terms of hardware and employee hours. While that's valid, I think the author'…

> Sounds like USPS is joining the panopticon-purveying surveillance capitalism game. "It's only metadata..." Letters and packages are already electronically scanned to do OCR and ad…

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19307160 which already has a few comments.

> How many insecurities are there going to be in software that doesn't connect to the internet or process input from untrusted users? In principle there are ways this can be exploited, though …

Discussion from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18944605

SageMath purports to also be an alternative to Mathematica: https://www.sagemath.org/

> OTOH a paper on arxiv that receives attention is likely to be better reviewed by the community than it would be by 1-2 reviewers at some point in the future. Anecdotally, I've occasionally …

Thanks. If I manage to work through it, I'll put it online somewhere (and post the link to HN).

> If you've watched any NBA in the past decade you can see a trend of calling fouls against teams that are winning too heavily against favorites. It's not hard. This should be fairly eas…