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by W-Stool 7y ago
What are the chances that the deal you found on Amazon involved counterfeit goods? That’s been a big problem with audio and electronics on Amazon recently.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
You left out: ... while the lifting body is also floating on the ocean. That's the mind bending bit for me.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
This ladies and gentlemen is what engineering is sometimes about - making something that seems at first look impossible, possible.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
To all the people that help make this happen: you are truly the heroes the world needs right now. A thousand thanks.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
I remember Mondo 2000 very well - there was nothing like it. It went away and Wired sort of filled the gap just a bit for a little while - the very early issues of Wired were actually pretty interesting. Now not so much. Then there's
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by W-Stool 7y ago
If this topic is an area of interest to you I can't recommend Eric Schlosser's book enough: "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety". It is a whole history of known accid
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by W-Stool 7y ago
Years ago Joel Spolsky on his site "Joel on Software" had a "Business of Software" forum where a lot of very small ISVs hung out and discussed items of mutual interest. Anyone know where those kinds of folks hang out no
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by W-Stool 7y ago
Excellent Cohen brothers reference.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
I wonder how GM would compare to IBM, another once great USA engineering and employment leader?
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by W-Stool 7y ago
Who are SUSE's main customers these days? Self hosted SAP shops?
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by W-Stool 7y ago
This is extremely useful and for me - timely. Many thanks.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
This looks like something out of the Terry Gilliam movie "Brazil".
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by W-Stool 7y ago
My first paying gig was to write PL/I code for a factory monitoring system on a VAX @ Buick City in Flint Michigan, 1981. Anyone remember DEC and those wonderful VAX systems?
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by W-Stool 7y ago
This company somehow managed to not make money in a store located in Napa Valley. Think about that for a minute.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
Don't forget the MiniDisc format that Sony also released years later under the "Walkman" brand - for a while there it was an audio storage format and playback hardware that briefly seemed ahead of its time. Sony, if nothing
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by W-Stool 7y ago
Absolutely the best book, everyone here should read it.
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Ask HN: Who are the significant adopters of IPv6? Does anyone run IPv6 100%?
3 points by W-Stool 7y ago|2 comments
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by W-Stool 7y ago
The Cray-1 was a pure vector processor, like the Intel CPU math units. Aren't GPUs massively parallel processors? Quite different beasts if so.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
Consider the Cray-1 supercomputer of the early 1980s - 100 MFLOPS for US$10M. A modern Intel processor will do 100 GFLOPS (1000x faster) for a couple of hundred bucks.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
If you're running some kind of IT infrastructure big enough for the whole world to use, you're going to want a cut of each transaction whether you are VISA/MC or Facebook's blockchain. Some sort of transaction fee is in
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by W-Stool 7y ago
This is exactly the scenario I was thinking of.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
Here's a scenario that gives me pause: you as a company goes all in to re-engineer your critical apps to use AWS as efficiently as possible. Your apps are now no longer portable away from AWS without a lot of time and work. Then Amazo
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by W-Stool 7y ago
I'm a bit astounded by some of the more intellectual / academic interpretations of this story. The moral of this story, if there needs to be one, is to "follow your nose" - go where your knowledge and interests take you
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by W-Stool 7y ago
The Montreal subway is my favorite in North America. Anyone have any recent numbers on how much it cost to build it and run it, per mile?
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by W-Stool 7y ago
I seriously have to assume that this is Trump's classic playbook to throw off the news cycle from scrutiny of Robert Mueller's public statement and fire up his base over those damn foreigners, even though we ultimately pay those t
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by W-Stool 7y ago
Soul of a New Machine and Masters of Doom are both outstanding. They're at the top of my list.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
How these guys are still in business and still collecting financial data on US citizens frankly baffles me.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
I ran NAS4Free for years but found that I could not configure it to email me an alert when the chassis fan failed or the RAID array degraded. You can guess what happened - fan failed and a drive cooked. Was this ever addressed/fixed?
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by W-Stool 7y ago
Not their first - they bought Convex way back in the day.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
There is literally no limit to the insanity of the audiophile universe. You can spend a thousand dollars on a three foot "reference quality" ethernet cable. I've seen "audiophile" SATA cables, USB cables, and USB

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