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New comment by jespersaron in "Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time"

jespersaron — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 21:55:14 +0000

Retro gaming in general is about re-enacting the consumption of games, I have never though that you can also re-enact the development/production of them :) Good work!

New comment by jespersaron in "Wikipedia to the Moon"

jespersaron — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:06:53 +0000

Surviving artifacts are not a very good and coherent source of information for future archeologists, alien or human. After all, we are still kind of unsure about construction methods of Egyptian pyramids, which are less than 5000 years old.

And past civilizations at least seemed to have cared much more about longevity of their creations than we do, we can not even store our digital photos reliably over a decade without active replication. Without projects like this, future researchers will have to put the whole picture together using only plastic bottles and broken vinyl records :)

New comment by jespersaron in "First Photo From Space (2006)"

jespersaron — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 07:31:42 +0000

I think there was not a giant leap in perception - high-altitude balloons were quite common during 1930's and the curvature, clouds etc look the same at 20km and 100km from the qualitative point of view.

New comment by jespersaron in "Vinyl record sales hit 18-year high"

jespersaron — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:07:57 +0000

I think that from all the modern ways of storing information, vinyl might be one of the most resilient. Archeologists will dig out and put together pieces of vinyl on the year 5014, like they do with ancient pottery today.

We probably will be known as "the great lovemaking civilization" despite all the atrocities commited, because of all the sleazy pop songs pressed on millions of vinyl records. I bet the ancient greeks would have put much more effort into factual accuracy of their pottery decoration too, if they only knew.

Nearby supernova dazzles astronomers

jespersaron — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:33:07 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25860454

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7110075

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New comment by jespersaron in "Building an Open Source Laptop"

jespersaron — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:42:46 +0000

It works. Arduino, Makerbot, DIYDrones and a couple of others had 1M+ yearly revenues in 2010, they probably have all grown since then. Open source hardware is probably easier to commercialize than software, because it still has to be manufactured by someone.

New comment by jespersaron in "Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric vehicle charging network"

jespersaron — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:42:56 +0000

Your data is a bit outdated, currently about 20% of the electricity produced in Estonia comes from renewable sources (biofuel, wind) and the figure is growing rapidly.

Plus the electric cars can only buy renewable energy, it would nullify the point of selling CO2 quotas if they used fossil fuel to produce that energy ;)

New comment by jespersaron in "Python trademark at risk in Europe"

jespersaron — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:39:09 +0000

Tartu University in Estonia apparently uses Python for introductory programming course that is called "Programming".

Description of the course and its objectives, both in Estonian and English: https://www.is.ut.ee/reports/rwservlet?oa_aine_info.rdf+1010...

Learning material, in Estonian but there is Python code everywhere: http://courses.cs.ut.ee/2011/programmeerimine/uploads/Arvuti...