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by _ugfj 3y ago
Paul Le Roux also fits. He had the crypto knowledge and the coins haven't moved because he is in federal custody. He was also quite good at opsec.
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by _ugfj 3y ago
> There is no way to query all tables for something, Ha. I would bet anything you could adopt my MySQL findall() to SQLite for the purpose. https://stackoverflow.com/a/68915413/308851
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by _ugfj 3y ago
Let's hope we never do. Of course, there's very little hope but we all would be better off if this product didn't exist. Let me quote Paris Marx's excellent summary from his Apple Vision Pro preview https://di
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by _ugfj 3y ago
Oh yes, I have my eyes on the future. It ain't the cheery future described by Extremely Online (although even that book mentions the ugly but not enough, not by far). Not, it's the future of platform decay (to use a more polite wo
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by _ugfj 3y ago
The PDP-11 was unusually well suited for that. They designed it so you needed less skilled workers to assemble it which meant a lot of tolerance in components which leads to much easier maintenance. For example, the backplane is wire wrappe
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by _ugfj 3y ago
Nearing the finish line? https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12525 > One of the plan’s priorities is the retirement of the Business Master File by FY2027 and the Individual Master File by FY20
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by _ugfj 3y ago
Oh Win 3.11 is a modern system compared to support PDP-11 until 2050. https://web.archive.org/web/20161022133810/https://vcfed.org... (GE Canada tried to headhunt me for that but I don't want a job
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by _ugfj 3y ago
> What genocide is Canada committing? My educated guess based on "as well as freezing bank accounts just for attending a peaceful protest" in the same breath is vaccine mandates. Poster is a nutjob. The "peaceful protest&q
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by _ugfj 3y ago
There are countless articles and various government agencies reporting on how this ancient system is still in use. Eg. https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/finance_r_lette... https://www.ga
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by _ugfj 3y ago
> But Notes is nowhere near holding the record for the oldest piece of software still being used. The US Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), which takes care of contracts for the Department of Defense (DoD), is said to have a prog
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by _ugfj 3y ago
Oh first ISPs are fun. I worked for the first commercial ISP in Hungary in 1995. At the time phone lines were still a hot commodity -- it takes a bit of time to fix decades of neglect, after all (Hungary was a Soviet satellite until 1989 an
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by _ugfj 3y ago
Multiple someones, in fact. Why not? Someone makes a faster driver, another makes say a more power efficient one so the card is quieter. And yes it vould cost money. You could compete on this thing. Once upon a time there were competing com
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by _ugfj 3y ago
C code? Nah, my friend, firmware is written in SPARK to achieve the highest possible quality. /s (and yes it should have been written in it, arduous it is, it's a "you had one job" situation)
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by _ugfj 3y ago
Yes, much like Framework has completely upended the laptop industry. /s
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by _ugfj 3y ago
How close do they need to be? China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) has, for all intents and purposes, financed the genocide in Darfur. See for example https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2006/03&
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by _ugfj 3y ago
Of course it is. FTX collapses (November 2-11, 2022), crypto hustle-scam is over, the decision is made to release whatever there is at the moment at OpenAI to start the next cycle, a few weeks later (November 30, 2022) there we go. Same thi
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by _ugfj 3y ago
> his new priority is to figure out how to stop an artificial superintelligence (a hypothetical future technology he sees coming with the foresight of a true believer) from going rogue. that's cute. What worries me is the here and n
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by _ugfj 3y ago
Trans women are not males who call themselves women, though. If you insist they are , that's denial of trans existence and that's the road to genocide. Trans women are not males who call themselves women, though. If you insist the
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by _ugfj 3y ago
I find this hypocritical. C executives of tech orgs with world class products often have eight figures compensation -- if not from salary then from stock options. I do not see any excess here. You need to pay to compete.
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by _ugfj 3y ago
to me this smells transphobic but it's possible the trans genocide several US states are working on made me oversensitive
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by _ugfj 3y ago
There are fundamentally two kinds of attacks, preimage which splits into two: In a first-preimage attack, you know a hash value but not the message that created it, and you want to discover any message with the known hash value; in the seco
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by _ugfj 3y ago
I know at least one patent author for whom the system worked exactly as designed. That being my uncle. Imagine the literal bearded tinkerer in his garage inventing a (much) better sprinkler head. What's the next step? Without the paten
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by _ugfj 3y ago
Because anti vaxxers want to downplay the disease to convince people not to get the vaccine.
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by _ugfj 3y ago
> I'm offering what worked for me I choose not to believe you because you refused to vaccinate which makes everything you say suspect. Sorry.
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by _ugfj 3y ago
do not listen to this guy. long covid is not something you can combat with fresh fruits, it can cause a life long disability, brain damage and more. it's quite obvious an anti-vaxxer would try to dismiss it as a "sucks but you can
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by _ugfj 3y ago
There was a time when ML brought us things like https://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/ and we had a good laugh. Then came ChatGPT. The tens of billions dollars poured into the next hype, often by the same hustlers who hy
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by _ugfj 3y ago
The English Wikipedia might (or might not) have achieved this but certainly the Croatian and Polish were caught to be heavily influenced by right wing extremists, the Hungarian was not yet because no one gives a damn. But my recipe of addin
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by _ugfj 3y ago
Wise has recently made a big batch of account verifications which overwhelmed their verifications staff and support both and left a company we do in Austria unable to do payroll. That was fun. Of course we moved that company elsewhere (in t
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by _ugfj 3y ago
Well, they have TrackPoints. I did learn to live without a seven row keyboard the last two years -- previously I even bought the collector edition ThinkPad 25 to put that day off as far as I could -- but living without a TrackPoint? I am no
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by _ugfj 3y ago
Just an example https://www.newegg.com/p/2SW-003Z-00008 but countless examples on amazon,newegg,aliexpress

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