Know of any good programs that countries are offering to accelerate this?
Here's recent article going into how the EU and some of its members are responding https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-exploit-dunald-trump-...
Readit Newslordelph commented on Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March axios.com/2025/04/04/fore... · Posted by u/timvdalen
lordelph commented on Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one? saytheprime.com/... · Posted by u/robinhouston
I got strong "The Nine Billion Names of God" vibes from this!
Just as the last video is uploaded, without any fuss, the stars start going out...
https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...
lordelph commented on Show HN: 2d web paddle game raould.github.io/pn0gstr0... · Posted by u/cypherpunk666
Jeff Minter-esque! Nice work!
Would be cool if this data coule be injected in the signal to a TV. Bring back Ceefax! :-D
In some countries it still exists though, which is pretty wild.
That's exactly what he did - if you look at this history section, he was broadcasting analogue TV signals to his house, and embedding his own Ceefax service in the signal!
Very interesting tool! My Yorkshire grandfather would often say "kirk" instead of "church", which I always thought was more of a Scottish word. Doing a place name comparison of those words shows a fairly clear division of north and south - https://placenames.rtwilson.com/#W3sidGV4dCI6ImtpcmsiLCJjb2x...
lordelph commented on The Domesday Duplicator (2022) github.com/simoninns/Dome... · Posted by u/zeristor
It is ironic and tragic that the original Domesday Book has lasted nine centuries and the Domesday Project is struggling to last four decades.
It was available online at http://www.domesday1986.com/ but this now redirects to https://www.domesday86.com/ (which references the duplicate project in the linked repo)
I remember participating in the Domesday Project in the eighties when I was in primary school, and it inspired me to help set up similar project in 2005 (https://www.geograph.org.uk). At the time, we were in contact with the BBC to see if we could incorporate the Domesday data, and while they were warmly receptive to the idea, they concluded the legal framework under which the original data was collected did not allow for much flexibility in re-purposing it.
lordelph commented on The Army tried to develop a missile guided by pigeons taskandpurpose.com/histor... · Posted by u/zdw
Autonomous (Annalee Newitz, 2017) has a military robot character that uses part of a human brain for functions like face and emotion recognition. As a technical device it’s a smart use of capabilities; as a fictional device it’s a bit facile but not overwrought.
I'm sure I've read a much older short story, possibly by Frank Herbert, where in the future computers do all the calculations so humans have forgotten how to do basic arithmetic. It is rediscovered, only now it's much cheaper to put a human in a missile to perform guidance calculations than using an expensive computer! The HN hive mind will probably remember this better...
EDIT: It was "A Feeling of Power" by Asimov - https://archive.org/details/1958-02_IF/page/n5/mode/2up?view...
lordelph commented on Mystery GPS Tracker on a Supporter’s Car eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03... · Posted by u/cooperq
lordelph commented on Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop github.com/stenh0use/dock... · Posted by u/robfig
Has anyone done any filesystem speed comparisons on any of these? Mounting volumes on Mac in Docker Desktop is... not great. Anyone found any good comparisons?
FWIW, I recently switched from an Intel to an M1 Macbook, and found shared volumes with Docker Desktop were unusably slow (previously, I'd used VirtualBox host docker and shared files into it via NFS).
However, using https://mutagen.io/ to keep the container in sync has worked remarkably well - it's greatly improved the speed of the container.
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