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Edit: Answer seems to be Willima James Sidis, though I'm having trouble turning up a citation.

I'm trying to remember the name of the young prodigy who'd been bullied as a child, somewhere in the US (Cleveland sticks in my mind though I may be wrong on that), took refuge in the library, read Principia Mathematica, and corresponded with Bertrand Russelll over errata. Russell mistook the youth for a maths professor initially.

Obviously early 20th century.

Ring any bells for anyone?

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VirtualBox Linux under MacOSX is very inconsistently laggy

I've been wrestling with this for a few weeks. Running a Linux guest under VirtualBox mostly under X11 (XQuartz) sees frequent GUI lockups of several seconds. It's not clear if the guest itself is freezing or if there's a networking issue.

Config shown below. Issue seems to have emerged after a host upgrade. I've tried virtually all the networking options (host only, bridged, NAT, etc.), with no change, also both the ethernet (en0) and WiFi port for bridging, dittos.

Occasionally after various restarts (guest soft boot, hard boot, OS host hard boot) things seem to improve, but I've gone through that full dance today with no joy.

No clear similar issues that I've noted elsewhere, though my search-fu may be weak.

I'll update this toot if/when the issue is resolved.

• MacOS: 12.7.4 (latest)
• VirtualBox: 7.0 (latest)
• Guest: Debian GNU/Linux 10.1
• Kernel: linux 4.19.0.25amd64
• Networking: Bridged en0
• X11: XQuarts 2.8.5 (latest)

Boosts appreciated.

#DearMastomind #DearHivemind #TechSupport #Virtualbox

Oh, and something that would be really useful would be a quick way of looking up a website and getting a rough classification as to what type of content it presents.

Wikipedia can offer some of this, occasionally sources such as Crunchbase, though the first is hard to parse.

The Alexa Crawl (Amazon, originally by Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive) used to offer this as well, though I think that's no longer active.

If anyone knows of other / better sources, I'd love to know.

#DearMastomind #DearHivemind #HackerNewsAnalytics

Is it just me, or does #Threadreader now need a Twitter login to create / view a thread?

#DearMastomind #DearHivemind

#DearHivemind / #DearMastomind: I'm trying to find an essay on the evolution of a "scene", possibly from the aughts.

It's on the evolution of groups and cliques. Possibly band scenes or artists. First you've got the artists / creators, then you get the afficionadoes who recognise great work on their own, then the groupies and fans, then the people who follow the crowd (and often: "social opportunities" to put that spin on it), then the opportunists who seek to benefit from the crowd itself: advertisers, pickpockets, scammers, swag sellers, etc.

If this rings bells, please respond.

Boosts appreciated.

Update: @oblomov has turned up "Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution" by David Chapman, ~2015: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

In this toot: https://sociale.network/@oblomov/110554257076535839

Thanks!

#SceneEvolution #Groupies #Creators

Is there any tool for aggregating long Mastodon #tootstorms into a more tractable reading format? Sort of like birdsite's ThreadReader?

#DearMastomind #DearHivemind #Help #Threading

Does the concept of dividing technology in "freestanding" vs. "integrated" ring bells for anyone?

I'm trying to track this down. Thought that #UsulaMFranklin might have been a source, but her Massey Lectures text doesn't include the terms AFAICT.

#DearMastomind #DearHiveMind #DearLazyWeb #Technology #TechOntology

Related to my printer question: I'm also looking for recommendations for a good flatbed scanner.

Alternatively, an all-in-one printer/scanner/copier, though I suspect the separate devices approach is better.

#scanners #peripherals #DearMastomind #DearHivemind

I'm looking for a freely-available full text (PDF, ePub preferably) of Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1846).

There's a start of one at Wikisource, but it's only the contents, index, and other supplemental material.

Neither LibGen nor Archive Org seem to have a copy of the text in English and out of copyright. (There's a copyrighted repriint at Archive.Org.)

#DearMastomind #PDFMe #Books #CharlesBabbage #DearHivemind #EconomyOfMachinery #TechOntology

Q: Why is holiday leave so stingy in the US?

Life, work, school, etc., are all structured so as to minimise free time.

Why?
By whom?

Inspired by an aside in Technology Connextras, "I took a cross-country train trip" (25 Sept 2021, YouTube) reflecting on how much rail travel cuts into the already-stingy holiday allocation (typically 2 weeks) of Americans.

#Holiday #Vacation #FreeTime #UnitedStates #AskMastodon #DearMastomind #DearHivemind