Not on the list, yet likely of interest to the Hacker News audience, is the dedication in the first volume of Donald E. Knuth’s “The Art of Computer Programming”: “This series of books is affectionately dedicated to the…
“world” is derived from “were” + “eald” (old), and meant “the age of humans”, which was distinguished from the age of the Gods, when the Æsir and Vanir dominated, and the age of the Jötnar. I find it interesting how the…
In Microsoft v. AT&T, decision 550 US 437 (2007), there was discussion about a golden disk, and the terminology changed to master disk during the course of the proceedings, because the disk wasn’t actually made of gold.…
I agree with you and the anonymous Reddit commenter that this is a “cool story”, and that it needs “a shitton of paragraphs”. But it also left me somewhat confused. The author’s note at the end states that “[the] story…
I’m old enough to have used (book) dictionaries and wooden case card catalogues in the local library. So when I learned about hashmaps/IDictonary a quarter century ago, that’s indeed the image that helped me grok the…
The first factor of the Drake Equation (the average rate of star formation in our Galaxy) has dimension 1/time. The last factor (the length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space) has…
Did the idea of emitting Morse code on the keyboard LEDs during kernel panics ever get working, and included in the kernel? I'm thinking of the LWN article “Morse code panics for 2.6.29-rc1” (2003)…
> The blockchain part is silly, because timestamping services exist without it Yet the timestamping service which I trust the most, is the Blockchain-based one. https://opentimestamps.org/
Not on the list, yet likely of interest to the Hacker News audience, is the dedication in the first volume of Donald E. Knuth’s “The Art of Computer Programming”: “This series of books is affectionately dedicated to the…
“world” is derived from “were” + “eald” (old), and meant “the age of humans”, which was distinguished from the age of the Gods, when the Æsir and Vanir dominated, and the age of the Jötnar. I find it interesting how the…
In Microsoft v. AT&T, decision 550 US 437 (2007), there was discussion about a golden disk, and the terminology changed to master disk during the course of the proceedings, because the disk wasn’t actually made of gold.…
I agree with you and the anonymous Reddit commenter that this is a “cool story”, and that it needs “a shitton of paragraphs”. But it also left me somewhat confused. The author’s note at the end states that “[the] story…
I’m old enough to have used (book) dictionaries and wooden case card catalogues in the local library. So when I learned about hashmaps/IDictonary a quarter century ago, that’s indeed the image that helped me grok the…
The first factor of the Drake Equation (the average rate of star formation in our Galaxy) has dimension 1/time. The last factor (the length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space) has…
Did the idea of emitting Morse code on the keyboard LEDs during kernel panics ever get working, and included in the kernel? I'm thinking of the LWN article “Morse code panics for 2.6.29-rc1” (2003)…
> The blockchain part is silly, because timestamping services exist without it Yet the timestamping service which I trust the most, is the Blockchain-based one. https://opentimestamps.org/