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“You see, when you open new doors, there is a price to pay. Now imagine... tonight, you look under your bed, and, lo and behold, you find a monster! And you're immediately eaten. Now, if you hadn't looked for the monster, you wouldn't have found it and you'd still be happy in your beds, instead of being slowly digested in the stomach sack of the creature. But, with any luck, your sister or your brothers might have heard your screams, and your endeavor will serve as a valuable lesson to them.”

—Walter Bishop, "Fringe"

“Only those who could risk going too far can possibly know how far they can go.”

—William Bell, "Fringe"

Submissions

"The Borgias" vs. "Borgia: Faith and Fear" (accuracy in historical fiction)

exurbe.com
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Saying the Obvious Thing

seangoedecke.com
2 points·by walterbell·há 5 dias·0 comments

Alzheimers: The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns (2007)

rogerebert.com
2 points·by walterbell·há 13 dias·0 comments

Viture Beast Review: My New Favorite Display Glasses

cnet.com
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Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot

blog.aheymans.xyz
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The Illusion of Invulnerability in Cybersecurity

zeltser.com
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Progressive Glasses Elevate Fall Risk in Older Adults (2025)

optometryadvisor.com
2 points·by walterbell·mês passado·0 comments

Astaxanthin: Sources, Extraction, Stability, Biology and Commercial Use

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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768GB Intel Optane DIMMs to run 1T-parameter LLM with single GPU at 4tps

tomshardware.com
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Skill Distillation

tomtunguz.com
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How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer – Rory Sutherland

fs.blog
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Why 'La Strada' is the greatest road movie of all time (2021)

faroutmagazine.co.uk
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Mecha Comet is an open-source hardware, modular Linux handheld computer

cnx-software.com
2 points·by walterbell·há 2 meses·0 comments

Complexity, Problem Solving, and Sustainable Societies, Joseph A. Tainter (1996)

harbornet.com
2 points·by walterbell·há 2 meses·0 comments

Micron Virginia expansion advances DDR4 memory made in the USA

micron.com
4 points·by walterbell·há 2 meses·2 comments

Mecha Comet's April Voyage – Open Modular Handheld on mainline Linux 7.0 kernel

mecha.so
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American Keiretsu: A World of Increasing Interconnectivity (2025)

lom.com
1 points·by walterbell·há 2 meses·0 comments

Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)

rogerebert.com
151 points·by walterbell·há 2 meses·90 comments

Apple Launches New All-in-One Apple Business Platform for Device Management

macrumors.com
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comments

walterbell
·há 15 dias·discuss
HP offered FreeDOS as an OS option.
walterbell
·há 23 dias·discuss
> US. has held off adding.. memory chipmaker CXMT

Since CXMT was _not_ blacklisted, this is good for global RAM supply.
walterbell
·mês passado·discuss
Thanks for the pointer.
walterbell
·mês passado·discuss
See Chemistrie, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427032
walterbell
·mês passado·discuss
Lower ambient light, including dark mode, leads to pupil dilation, which is a loss of about 0.5 diopters.

Higher ambient light with low-blue content (from lights and screens), where the room and screen are matched has several benefits.

Natural light is always best and only light mode screens can match natural light.
walterbell
·mês passado·discuss
Progressives maximize legal compliance for automobile driving, with bonus impact on optical industry profits.

Multiple lenses for different focal lengths are now affordable and practical and offer higher optical quality and more comfort.
walterbell
·mês passado·discuss
The human brain mostly adapts. Big Optical makes $$$$ billions. A small percentage of human brains have persistent dizziness and depth perception errors, which can lead to physical injury and reduced quality of life. We don't have yet have a test funded by disablity insurance, which can determine which brains might fail to adapt.

The good news is that multiple glasses have never been cheaper or more accessible, so progressives are entirely a choice.
walterbell
·mês passado·discuss
Search for "Chemistrie" magnetic lens attachment in +0.5 increments. They can even stack for different focal lengths, e.g. reading vs computer screen at 36". Magnets embed in primary glasses. Expensive via local opticians, they will retrofit via mail order and buychemistrie dot com.
walterbell
·mês passado·discuss
Search HN for "ABBE". The very cheapest material has the highest optical quality. Thinner ones are for weight, which matters if you have strong prescriptions. Weight can also be countered with a smaller frame height/width, which might require a vintage or designer frame, but that's a one time cost that can used with cheaper and higher optical quality lens replacements.
walterbell
·mês passado·discuss
FDA approved red light therapy. About USD $100 for device.
walterbell
·há 2 meses·discuss
This is for US-strategic industrial use cases with long lifecycles due to certification requirements.

  The 1α DRAM node is the most advanced memory technology ever produced in the United States and is well suited to long-lifecycle memory for critical applications, including DDR4 and LP4 products.
walterbell
·há 2 meses·discuss
Similarly, https://sfstandard.com/2026/05/24/los-gatos-netflix-headquar... (with trail photo)

> One place where you’d always find someone from Netflix: the Los Gatos Creek Trail, a paved walking path right behind the office. “We would take our one-on-one [meetings] by just walking out of the building, down to the river, up to the reservoir and back, chatting,” .. Among the people frequently seen on the trail.. was [Reed] Hastings himself. That walk-and-talk tradition is still alive: On a recent spring day, it took just a few minutes after arriving for two people to emerge from Netflix’s office complex to stroll alongside the water, deep in discussion.
walterbell
·há 2 meses·discuss
Full series currently on Prime/iTunes for $20, with ~80% of the original music.
walterbell
·há 2 meses·discuss
Yes, Linux developers are officially supported by both Apple and Microsoft, with Microsoft developers being a major contributor to upstream Linux and WSL2 having grown into a capable Linux development environment.
walterbell
·há 3 meses·discuss
Apple Macbooks support virtualization of Linux on MacOS.
walterbell
·há 3 meses·discuss
Also keeps lawyers busy.
walterbell
·há 3 meses·discuss
Asahi focusing on M1 would also encourage secondary market sales of M1 laptops, which are already a primary competitor (see Apple marketing) to current Apple laptops. If Apple wanted to encourage Asahi Linux users to move from M1 or Qualcomm to M5/M6 Apple devices, they could improve device firmware compatibility with Linux, or contribute directly to mainline Linux.
walterbell
·há 3 meses·discuss
> bit of a red herring

It offers an A/B test of "similar" SoC performance and battery life (which users now expect from laptops), without a vertically integrated operating system that was also created by the company who designed the SoC.
walterbell
·há 3 meses·discuss
Circular talent economy, https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/legendary-qu...

  Just several months after leaving Qualcomm, distinguished CPU and system architects Gerard Williams, John Bruno, and Ram Srinivasan, who are celebrated for their high-performance processors developed at Apple, Nuvia, and, more recently, Qualcomm, established a new CPU startup — Nuvacore — that promises no less than to 'rewrite the rules of silicon.'
walterbell
·há 3 meses·discuss
A declared winner in the tug-of-war between commercial interests (forced bundling of Vision Pro headset and future smart glasses features into phone and tablets), security of individual users (heretofore claimed as a numerically small subset), collective resistance of users to unwanted UX, national and class-action groups with lawyers to opine on the security of their clients.