2021-11-13
Cool
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Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos
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The Amazing Disk II Controller Card | Big Mess o' Wires
For my Yellowstone FPGA-based disk controller I’ve implemented the equivalent functionality in a hundred lines of Verilog; Woz did it with a 256-byte ROM and a hex flip-flop.
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Horseshit
Obit
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Entrepreneur who traveled to space with William Shatner, dies in plane crash
De Vries, a private pilot in his spare time, was trained as a molecular biologist and co-founded Medidata Solutions, the most-used clinical research platform in the world. The company's software has managed more than 25,000 clinical trials involving more than seven million patients. Dassault Systèmes acquired the company in 2019 for $5.8 billion.
COVID / VaxCult
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Anti-vaccine groups embrace pseudoscience “detox” treatments to undo vaccination
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U.S. appeals court affirms hold on Biden Covid-19 vaccine mandate
In reviewing agency pronouncements, courts need not turn a blind eye to the statements of those issuing such pronouncements. See, e.g., FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., 556 U.S. 502, 515 (2009). In fact, courts have an affirmative duty not to do so. It is thus critical to note that the Mandate makes no serious attempt to explain why OSHA and the President himself were against vaccine mandates before they were for one here.
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ASIO raises alarm about single-issue violent extremism (Australian Intelligence)
ASIO director-general Mike Burgess said many violent extremists were focusing on individual issues rather than broad ideologies such as right-wing extremism or white supremacy, which gave authorities less warning time.
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Serbian cave hermit gets Covid-19 jab, urges others to follow
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"The real heroes are the Vaccinated" BC war memorial vandalized with pro vaccine message - The Western Standard
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US Government Kept a Ludicrously Irrational Covid Ban in Place for Months
For months, elected officials and ordinary citizens alike in both countries have been puzzling over the strange fact that Canadians were legally permitted to fly into the US via commercial aircraft — after having gone to a crowded airport and inhaling whatever particles happened to be in circulation — but barred from driving over the border alone in their private cars. Surely there must be some profoundly convincing epidemiological rationale for this policy, somewhere. But here’s the incredible part, which should be eye-opening even if you have no particular investment in whether the Canadian land border is open or closed: there appears to have never been any explanation for the policy.
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There’s no hiding from lockdown damage now
The painful realisation that the lockdown cure may have been worse than the disease is increasingly undeniable. This week, we learned that only six healthy children died of Covid, against the backdrop of a billion lost school days since the pandemic began.
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Regret can help explain why coronavirus vaccine mandates have been effective
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Moderna has fewer breakthrough cases than Pfizer's, but higher myocarditis rates
Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination
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comment:
It's ideological warfare to paint all eugenics with the same moral brush, as all having "unpleasant undertones". There is no moral flaw in seeking to increase desirable traits in the human species.
Edumacationalizing
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Welcome to the Texas GOP’s Potemkin Village of Conservatism | Chronicles
The day after the district claims they received Story’s formal legal grievance, he and Clark were simultaneously arrested at their homes, KTVN reported. Both were charged with “disorderly conduct with intent to disrupt a meeting” and jailed overnight at the Williamson County Jail. When NBC-affiliate KXAN asked both the Round Rock board and the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office why a warrant was issued for the two parents instead of a citation, they referred reporters to the RRISD Police Department, even though court documents show the sheriff’s office was the arresting agency. In short, a school district’s police department coordinated with the sheriff’s department to arrest parents at their homes under orders from a school board.
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Things You Are Allowed To Do, Academic Edition
- I like "give positive feedback", especially.
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University of Austin Draws over 3k Employment Inquiries in Four Days
Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship
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When All The Media Narratives Collapse - by Andrew Sullivan - The Weekly Dish
I still rely on the MSM for so much. I still read the NYT first thing in the morning. I don’t want to feel as if everything I read is basically tilted through wish-fulfillment, narrative-proving, and ideology. But with this kind of record, how can I not?
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Washington Post corrects, removes reporting that relied on discredited dossier
TechSuck
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Open Source Vibrotactile Haptics Platform for On-Body Applications
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(May 2021) Blog - The weirdest bug I've ever encountered
So there is old QNX source code lying around. Do you think anyone has modified the source code of the
psutility throughout the last 15 years? Me neither! Let's dive right into the old code. Does the ps bug still exist in QNX ecosystems more recent than QNX 6.6? Most likely, yes. If it was open source, I would fix it and send a pull request. Because it's not, they have to deal with the issue themselves. Maybe in a decade, an unfortunate soul runs into this bug again. Let's hope this blog post will save them some trouble. -
Vizio’s profit on ads, subscriptions, and data is double the money selling TVs
Economicon
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Debit cards as financial infrastructure
Consider again the median bank user, who might have a pre-tax income of around $60,000, post-tax post-transfers cashflow of $3.5k a month, and rent of approximately $1,000. (These numbers likely sound low to many readers; remember that the median American is not a professional employee in a coastal city.)
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16% of Americans say they have ever invested in, traded or used cryptocurrency
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Natural gas customers in Texas get stuck with $3.4B cold-snap surcharge
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Too Big to Sail: How a Legal Revolution Clogged Our Ports - by Matt Stoller - BIG by Matt Stoller
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The Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster Than Anyone Else
Gubmint / Poilitcks
Law / Crime / Police
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Hmmm. "We didn't leak anything to the NYT, our mail server was used without our knowledge when we got hacked!" .. Wanna bet?
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Tech disputes at Rittenhouse trial not new issue for courts - ABC News
James Armstrong, a senior forensic imaging specialist with the Wisconsin State Crime Lab, acknowledged on the stand Thursday that enlarging an image requires the addition of pixels. But prosecutors said the software Armstrong used is widely accepted — as is the method he used to enlarge the photos. But there is “no way” that any means of enlarging a photograph will “create structures, objects, people, handguns,” said Forsyth, who isn't involved in the case.
Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Surveillance cables mysteriously cut
A unique underwater observatory in strategic waters off the coast of Northern Norway has been knocked out of service, after more than 4.3 kilometers of its specially designed offshore fiberoptic and electric cables were cut and then disappeared. Sabotage suspicions are rising, and the damage has been reported to both the military and state police intelligence agency PST.
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Afghanistan's ghost soldiers undermined fight against Taliban - ex-official - BBC News