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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Nintendo Entertainment System. Is it the platonic ideal of an 8-bit video game system? Well, only because it’s so prominent and successful– it’s actually kind of an oddball in its expandability and design. But there’s something else about it. The picture is a bit… wobbly. Well, over composite video anyway. Let’s dig in and learn a little big more about the nitty-gritty of composite video. This whole blog post is only going to talk about NTSC encoding and timing. PAL encoding is its own…

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: On January 24, 1956, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was the largest private company in the world.Its revenues amounted to almost 2% of the U.S. gross domestic product. It employed 746,000 people. It owned Bell Labs, the fabled research division that had already produced the transistor, the solar cell, information theory, and radio astronomy, while also actively laying the first transatlantic telephone cable. In the following decades, it would add UNIX, modern cellular telephony, the CCD image sensor, the first active communications satellite,…

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: By: Al VigierThree weeks ago, the Canadian federal government released “AI for All” and named itself the “strategic anchor customer” for Canadian artificial intelligence. The pitch is that Ottawa will buy from sovereign Canadian businesses and drag a lagging country forward. Only about 12 per cent of Canadian businesses use AI, and barely eight per cent of small firms do. Ottawa’s new strategy wants 60 per cent by 2034. Government buying is supposed to lead the way. The inconvenient part is that the government is…

🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Disclaimer: no AI was used to write this. Any errors, awkward sentences, and weird tangents are 100% organic, free-range, and human-made. Picking up a puzzle I left lying around Last post, right at the end, I dropped a puzzle and walked away from it. Here it is again, because this whole post is basically me refusing to let it go. Imagine two files, and each one holds a million digits. The first one is pure noise — imagine I rolled a ten-sided die a million…

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A global DNS propagation checker for your terminal — a Rust TUI that queries 34 public DNS resolvers around the world in parallel, compares their answers, and shows the propagation of your record on a world map. Think dnschecker.org / whatsmydns.net, but in your terminal, with watch mode: start a check and it re-polls until the record has propagated everywhere. Resolvers span the global anycast networks (Google, Cloudflare, Quad9), North America, Europe, Russia, the Middle East, East Asia, and the southern hemisphere (Telstra AU,…

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I have just run across the following note in Section 05. Guidance, Navigation and Control of the NASA site [State of the Art of Small Spacecraft Technology]: GPS units are controlled under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and must be licensed to remove COCOM limits$💬^💬$ $⚡^💬$Office of the Federal Register, “FOREIGN AVAILABILITY DETERMINATION PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA,” vol. Title 15 Part 768.7, 2015. I then found this at the Cornell Legal Access Institute: § 768.2 Foreign availability described. (a) Foreign availability. Foreign availability exists when…

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers: Under no circumstances should you rush out and read the book that prompted Mark Zuckerberg to demand $111m and eternal auctorial silence. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Flame warriors; Cryptography and casinos; TSA v dying 95 year old woman's adult diaper; Neoliberalism and Brexit; Beyond solutionism; How Thiel cheated with his Roth; Inequality's stabilizer; Palm Pilot school; Gillmor on PR flacks; "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper; Conservative judge chokes liberal judge; Hollywoodnomics; Rubber fingertips…

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Starring the Computer skip navigation 0 | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Acer Acorn Acorn A5000 • A Mind to Kill - Season 1, Episode 3, "Gameboys" (1994) Acorn Archimedes • Bergerac - Season 8, Episode 11, "There for the Picking" (1990) • Capital City - Season 1, Episode 2, "Insider Trading" (1989) • Dark Season - Season 1 (1991) • Doctor Who - Season 25, "Silver Nemesis" (1988) • Howard's Way - Season 4, Episode 10, "Publish & Be Damned" (1988) • Howard's Way - Season 4, Episode 11, "Screwdriver" (1988) • Minder - Season 9, Episode 7, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Retiring" (1993) • Murder Story (1989) • Paddington (2014) • Rancid Aluminium (2000) • Strapless (1989) • Watt on Earth - Season 1, Episode 1 (1991) Acorn Atom • Micro Men (2009) Acorn BBC Master • Choose or Die (2022)…