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miramba commented on Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark   apnews.com/article/denmar... · Posted by u/isaacfrond
Empact · 3 days ago
Given human propensity to settle near bodies of water (exhibited even to this day), and the change in sea levels after the last ice age, the bulk of intra-ice age settlement artifacts are probably submerged within a relatively short distance from our existing coastlines. I would be personally interested in an effort to systematically investigate these areas.
miramba · 3 days ago
The Archeology of Europe‘s Drowned Landscapes: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-37367-2
miramba commented on The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis   statsignificant.com/p/the... · Posted by u/gmays
trhway · 16 days ago
The article doesn't mention the elephant in the room - iPhone. The fall of ringtones and the rise of iPhone isn't a mere coincidence. The feature phones had too little features, everything on them was controlled by the provider, and thus ringtones were something noticeable, one of the few available ways for customization, a way for that brick to do something else. With introduction of iPhone the ring customization - just use any sound file, etc, no payment - became just a very small insignificant feature drowned by a lot of other functionality like full featured web browsing, etc. and thus it lost user's attention. I don't remember anybody doing ring customization on iPhone or any other smartphone besides picking from the preloaded list of rings.
miramba · 16 days ago
Plus, the iPhone shipped with its own, very distinguishable ringtones which pretty soon signaled to everyone “I have an iPhone”. And the small switch to silence it was already a feature on the first iPhone, became a standard for all smartphones and vibration only turned out to be a convenient alternative. That said, the current ringtones on my phone are: -Nokia Attraction -Nokia Orient -the ringtone from Luigis mansion 3 -You’re so cool from True Romance and yes, putting them on the phone with garage band is a pain.
miramba commented on We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism   democracyjournal.org/maga... · Posted by u/nobet
dang · 16 days ago
"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

miramba · 16 days ago
One man’s snarkyness is another man‘s critical and teaching comment.
miramba commented on The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction   science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
pmontra · 3 months ago
TL;DR

> The temporal match between the ejecta layer and the onset of the extinctions and the agreement of ecological patterns in the fossil record with modeled environmental perturbations (for example, darkness and cooling) lead us to conclude that the Chicxulub impact triggered the mass extinction.

which is exactly what everybody believes. Was it still controversial in 2010, the publishing year of the paper?

miramba · 3 months ago
I think a competing theory was/is that the mass extinction was caused by volcanism of the Deccan-Traps, briefly mentioned in the abstract “…occurred within the time of Deccan flood basalt volcanism in India”. This article seems to confirm a direct relation between the meteorite impact and the extinction with the deccan traps activity possibly serving as a contributing factor.
miramba commented on I Built My Own Audio Player   nexo.sh/posts/why-i-built... · Posted by u/nexo-v1
mg · 3 months ago
Traversing local directories is supported via the File System Access API in browsers these days:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64283711

It works nicely in Chrome on the desktop and on Android. Not sure how the situation is on iOS.

miramba · 3 months ago
But unfortunately not on Safari respectively the iOS webview, which would have been mandatory for the author to use. If I am wrong, I‘d gladly take a solution. I think this is one of the main problems for PWAs: No good , platform-independent way to access the local file system. As in „pick once, access forever“.

Edit: https://caniuse.com/native-filesystem-api

Edit2: Just a few posts down: https://webamp.org/

miramba commented on I use zip bombs to protect my server   idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-... · Posted by u/foxfired
donnachangstein · 4 months ago
> Can you recommend an alternative for a non-technical organization, where there's someone who needs to be able to edit pages and upload documents on a regular basis, so they need as user-friendly an interface as possible for that

25 years ago we used Microsoft Frontpage for that, with the web root mapped to a file share that the non-technical secretary could write to and edit it as if it were a word processor.

Somehow I feel we have regressed from that simplicity, with nothing but hand waving to make up for it. This method was declared "obsolete" and ... Wordpress kludges took its place as somehow "better". Someone prove me wrong.

miramba · 4 months ago
“best viewed with Internet Explorer in 1024x768”
miramba commented on Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use (2019)   nurpax.github.io/posts/20... · Posted by u/amichail
miramba · 5 months ago
Looking at the page, I barely remember those assembler commands. LDX, STA, INX..I’m glad that this is obsolete now. But I wonder how common the knowledge is these days that ultimately, every programming language compiles down to this? Well the equivalent of this on a modern processor, but still.
miramba commented on Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use (2019)   nurpax.github.io/posts/20... · Posted by u/amichail
p0w3n3d · 5 months ago
On my ATARI there was no DOS too. When you start the 65XE you can hold (iirc) START to start loading an application from the cassette recorder, but it was recommended to hold both (again iirc) START and OPTION to bypass BASIC, because BASIC interpreter being held in the memory, somehow interfered with bigger games (I think this was due to memory, but I'd like to learn from someone who know). I myself got into this trouble sometimes. Also you could have a CARTDRIGE with DOS-like Turbo management which allowed to scan cassette for given filename with binary application, but no one used this because it would take crazy long. I never had chance to use floppy disk, but I think it was behaving in a similar way (you had to have a floppy with DOS and hold START when powering the computer to load it), but at that time the FDD drives for atari were horryfyingly expensive (they had the same CPU 6502, and even there were some demoes which used this CPU as a coprocessor), so I stayed with a cassete reader with TURBO.

Of course games were also sold on CARTDRIGEs and this was the fastest way to play, but it wasn't popular in my country.

miramba · 5 months ago
Yes, Option would disable Basic on boot. The first Ataris (400 and 800) came with a basic module that you had to put in and then start the computer to use Basic - or likewise Assembler. The module would then use certain parts of the precious 64 KB Ram - actually, much less because the OS in ROM would write itself into RAM on startup and take about 20KB away. So a program or game had about 40 KB space to use. Basic would take some more away. Which wasn‘t a problem on the 800, you would either plug the module in and use Basic but you wouldn‘t if you wanted to load a game. But with the XL, you needed a way to disable the automatic Basic load at boot time, or many games could not use all of the memory they needed. Hence, the Option-option at startup.

At least I remember it this way, but I only had an XL, not the older ones, and now I remember that the 800 had only 48KB of RAM, so it was probably more complicated than that!

miramba commented on Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a   grapheneos.social/@Graphe... · Posted by u/moelf
miramba · 5 months ago
I installed GrapheneOS on a spare Pixel 4a recently...through a browser window. I thought at first that I had to download a firmware flasher or something, but no, it updated the device from that webpage! That was impressive. The other thing I would like to mention: Chromium is installed, so PWAs can be installed instead of connecting to a sandboxed google play or something. The PWAs I tried looked just like on an iPhone or desktop. Yes, we are far, far away from PWAs being a complete replacement. But it is in theory possible:

An independent mobile OS with platform-independent apps. No Apple/Google ID needed, no appstores. That was the point of this test install, and it worked.

miramba commented on $70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money   data-and-politics.ghost.i... · Posted by u/pulisse
eastbound · 5 months ago
I’ll candidly assume that this is not a rhetorical question aimed at making me pass as a spoiled child, as is frequent with leftism:

- AOC, known as “the squad” (!), has claimed the Congress has too many white males. President Macron said the same about the US tech sector, and he’s not even part of the extremists, so this issue permeates society. Basically everyone says white men should be fewer of them. This is a direct threat.

- Feminism was supposed to give women more place at work and give family a better representation of both genders at home. What happened: Men can’t apply for some jobs anymore; while men are assumed to not merit to see the children by default at home. This has been going on since the 1980 in every developed country, moreso in France and US, a little less in Sweden. Judges and lawyer family courts are often 100%-women (80.2% in the profession).

- We helped women when they were 38% of the university students. But they crossed the 50% in 1990. Men now represent 39% of university students. Do we help them? No, we drop help programs. And Sweden also dropped equality programs the moment men were in need.

This is what various groups have been militanting for years, but they were harassed into submission by the left (from Facebook’s pro-left censorship at the time, to directly burning their cars or killing their dogs, and of course cancelling conference centers for men support groups which they presented as extremists - which is true, men are angry).

How is Trump helping?

- His program basis is based on a meritocratic econonic theory (that does not favour women, which is all the left complains about), but, granted, elected presidents generally implement another program, and Trump isn’t helping much,

- Men thrive in both meritocracies and in the wilderness/lawlessness, because they work more. To this, Trump has choosen the latter. The more economic crisis there is is, the weaker the government, and the more women will need men. Given the left’s program is “let’s take men’s/white’s people money”, the scorched earth is the best situation.

Granted, it would be nicer if leftists didn’t hate white men’s guts so much that they could listen to them when they make reasonable demands such as equity in family courts or meritocracy at the workplace. Barring being sensible…

miramba · 5 months ago
It wasn't rethorical and I appreciate your extensive answer. Being male myself, I can relate to some of the points you made. But I don't feel threatened. I guess there is a wide range of the meaning of this word, but I would describe it as perceiving a danger to ones life, livelihood, happiness or something. I did not experience any more disadvantages from being male than being young or old, short, brown-eyed, not too smart, overweight etc.

And your reasonable demands...are you seriously at a workplace where meritocracy is lived? Ever? Out of the many different non-meritocratic factors that come into play in a workplace, being male certainly was never in the top 10 for me. If anything it was an advantage. I'm sorry if you had different experiences. It's not true, where I live, that men can't apply for certain jobs, and I doubt that is the reality for you. The usual term is "everything else equal, a female candidate will be preferred", which is just an encouragement to women to apply. If you want the male candidate, you always find a reason that he is not equal to the female applicant. So if you have the feeling that you didn't get a job because you are male - perhaps it was because the female candidate was better.

And those recurring "leftist", "leftism" references make your statements a bit biased. The time to put everything in left and right categories is somewhat last century. It's all more complicated than that. Nobody hates you because your male and white. But it sure sounds a bit whiny what you are complaining about - imagine you'd be black and female, you really think you would be in a better position, you would have an advantage then? Come on.

u/miramba

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