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by Hilift 2y ago
It's like I-70 was strafed by an A-10. Kansas I-70 uses concrete on a mostly stable substrate. It's flat, and doesn't pockmark like asphalt. Kansas tears out about five miles at a time and goes one lane during pours. Don&#x27
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by Hilift 2y ago
Seems a bit dramatic. I predict there is huge market for some data, that may require a bit of time for social acceptance. How about an app that alerts you when you are in a high crime area? Near a convicted violent offender? Like the person
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by Hilift 2y ago
The long term solution is to stop being naive about submarine cables. This is a well-known vulnerability, inevitable, and ignored. There are better alternatives now, and locally this may be temporarily re-routable. But there's no way t
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by Hilift 2y ago
All true, and there is still a viable used car market. Even cars that may require a bit more maintenance are a win by a large margin. Some things are just expensive. Ever price out a replacement 8" entertainment console in a vehicle? P
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by Hilift 2y ago
Another competitor shell at the time was "WordPerfect Office for DOS". Which I witnessed some people launch from Windows 3.11. I believe it had WordPerfect and what preceded GroupWise for email. https://mendelson.org&#
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by Hilift 2y ago
England forgot where Richard III was buried for 500 years. Or they just didn't like the Plantagenets.
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by Hilift 2y ago
"making its Office 365 products incompatible with rival clouds" This whole thing sounds lame and feeble. I predict a thorough roasting in discovery that would prevent most of this from seeing a courtroom. It's difficult roast
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by Hilift 2y ago
>England did not return to its pre-plague population until about 1625, 280 years after the first strike. During most of that period Western Europe had about half the population it had in 1345. And yet 1400-1500 ‘is the very century in wh
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by Hilift 2y ago
That quote was Russian observations on their securing valuable technical information, but lamenting on their inability to overcome their capability gap through spying due to changes in tactics of their "main adversary". In WW2, a
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by Hilift 2y ago
Unix was the first accessible real computer system like we know it. I worked with AT&T and Bell Atlantic for a project, and they provided several 3B2 systems for the project and for us to work on them in ~1992. They were used internally
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by Hilift 2y ago
California is a case study in gross over payment in utilities. From Enron, to eye-watering costs for nuclear plants, costs for fires caused by utility wire windfall, ... How about a sentence like "PG&E can decommission Diablo Canyo
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by Hilift 2y ago
True, but it became illegal in 1689 until ~1776. That's a lot of years. The proprietor converted to Protestantism, and I believe in 1725 the administration of the estate was returned by the Crown to the Calvert family. The net effect w
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by Hilift 2y ago
"Protestants also tried to impose their own bigotry but lacked sufficient coordination and authority. Had they been more effective, modern science and sustained economic growth might have never taken off." That's an interesti
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by Hilift 2y ago
Remember the Silicon Valley episode where they would have been fined $21 billion for not verifying the age of PiperChat users? Same way. All companies are one slippery slope away from being fined by Missouri for not protecting children enou
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by Hilift 2y ago
This is actually interesting for multiple reasons. One is the technology. The other is the positive outcome rate for cardiac arrest after 30 days is so low. The percentage of cardiac arrest survivors with positive outcomes 30 days after rel
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by Hilift 2y ago
The USFS (Department of Agriculture) never had enough resources. The amount of land is almost unprotectable: California: 20 million acres Idaho: 20 million Oregon: 16 million. Fighting fires really should be a state job. I think Idaho deliv
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by Hilift 2y ago
The sea level has risen 410 feet since the last glacial maximum. There are likely hundreds of submerged settlements around Europe and the Mediterranean.
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by Hilift 2y ago
Debugging Windows events is challenging. I once created a reproducible deadlock using events. I had a Windows application with a notebook computer base, so I had to provide for and handle the power save/resume event for a service in th
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by Hilift 2y ago
Actually the case that Lynch won was the US vs. Lynch criminal case. HP won their civil case against Lynch years ago (~$4 billion). The deal overall was a colossal failure by HP. The fraud was merely icing on the cake. "HP lost more th
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by Hilift 2y ago
Bloomberg was the source that claimed SuperMicro servers were compromised by a grain of rice sized chip that only had two conductor leads on it. https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/supermicro_bloomberg_..
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by Hilift 2y ago
Remember Better, the mortgage company? They were briefly notable for laying off 900 people on a Zoom call. However, no-one asked why a re-envisioned mortgage application/process was failing in the best possible market. My opinion is Dr
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by Hilift 2y ago
The driver signing blacklist file DriverSiPolicy.p7b had not been updated for years. It took a CERT analyst (Will Dormann) to ask why in 2022. It's being updated regularly now, but WTF. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/
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by Hilift 2y ago
This is one of those companies that has middleware or back office apps that are common to many health care providers. Many different markets have their own unique apps or places where data can accumulate. I remember when paper checks were s
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by Hilift 2y ago
China is a gold mine for archaeology. It seems like every year there are huge discoveries. Like forgotten cities or something. https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/the-lost-world-of...
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by Hilift 2y ago
The fines are symbolic. Even if you look at the fine for the hotel data breach in 2018, that was only $52 million (US) and $23 million (UK), total of $75 million. And the Equifax breach? An executive VP of IT sold $584k of shares right afte
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by Hilift 2y ago
Multiple recent moving violations is a red flag. There's probably a better story here, such as "my insurance company is prevented from or unable to cancel my policy, where I would normally end up on expensive state subsidized insu
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by Hilift 2y ago
That's probably true for consumers. For large, global corporations, IPv6 is a million miles away. I've worked with several, and they all have poorly managed kit, vulnerabilities everywhere, poor documentation/diagrams, poor p
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by Hilift 2y ago
It was designed by former DoubleClick engineers as an afterthought DIY db for another service because no other db met their requirements. Supposedly version 4.2.8 (2020) is fairly solid, i.e. no dirty writes. https://en.wikipedia
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by Hilift 2y ago
One of my neighbors conducted studies and published results for Lockheed in Georgia in the 1970's. This was during the development of very large transport aircraft, and solving the associated aerospace challenges. Those studies was usu