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by ci5er 10y ago
Ah. I hate it when that happens. Hopefully Monzo will keep up their end of the deal in the future!
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by ci5er 10y ago
Monzo was your only payment instrument? If so, they weren't the only fail today.
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by ci5er 10y ago
> AS/400 was more an industrial and controls system. Really? We used it a lot in payments. But it was paired up with Tandem and/or Unix (AIX, HPUX). There was certainly a lot of thrashing as mini-computer manufacturers were ha
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by ci5er 10y ago
I stopped posting code from side-projects I was done with, when it started taking on a maintenance life of its own, and getting angry emails. There was a simplicity of the time when you could put a tarball on an FTP server and post the path
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by ci5er 10y ago
How were the mid-90s a dark time for Unix? Every engineers desk at every place I worked and every d/c I deployed to, it was the the only option (I avoided the AS-400, workhorse that it may well have been). Now, which Unix (HPUX, Sola
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by ci5er 10y ago
Same piece, right? Or was there a mini-series?
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by ci5er 10y ago
Remember, if possible, reduction to zero use is best of all! Imagine how much better off the world would have been if we hadn't found cures for polio and small pox and minor bacterial infections - and reduced the incidence of many more
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by ci5er 10y ago
> I think back to how we handled the Brendan Eich debacle. I (regretfully) came down on the punitive side of that argument. Can I ask why? I know many sober, moral and analytic people who got themselves quite riled up and (in my eyes) bu
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by ci5er 10y ago
And the system for means-testing at that level would be expensive enough to run, with opportunities for graft, false-positives, and false-natives, that means-testing would be a losing proposition. Just pick a level and make sure no one is d
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by ci5er 10y ago
He's talking about iterative/cumulative asymmetric choice markets. And signaling. That's all. EDIT: I almost didn't read the article because of your comment. That would have been a mistake.
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by ci5er 10y ago
> Bring us worthy opponents and I'm sure there won't be protests from students. Seriously? I'm on your side (I guess) but they have speakers that are credible.
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by ci5er 10y ago
This is maybe orthogonal to the point, but i receive more than a little bed-time satisfaction by reading supreme court decisions. Those judges ain't dummies!
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by ci5er 10y ago
And go unread. And later, if the practice continued, go unpublished.
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by ci5er 10y ago
How could it be otherwise? First, your self's subjective view of the world, is of course centered at/on/from the self. It's the origin of your coordinate system. (Note that the way I am using "(your)self", here
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by ci5er 10y ago
Makes sense. Thanks. It seems as if what I would consider "natural usage" is a bit different than yours. I don't use my phone to access anything critical -- the attack surface is too big and changes too rapidly (sometimes out
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by ci5er 10y ago
> How do you clone a YubiKey? It's a one-time write of a seed at device set-up time. It's not an exact clone, but will give the same response to certain challenges. https://www.yubico.com/support/knowledge-
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by ci5er 10y ago
I think I'm not understanding the problem. I have cloned keys (for backup + two locations), with Yubico Authenticator. Is the problem NFC on iOS or that you don't want to clone your keys?
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by ci5er 10y ago
> when people only live somewhere for a month or two, they don't participate in the community. I bought a house and lived in it with my wife at the same address for 15-or-so years, and wouldn't have recognized my next-door neig
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by ci5er 10y ago
Thank you. Many many things have now been made clear.
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by ci5er 10y ago
I'm guessing that you don't live in Japan. There, opportunities may or may not come after you have executed your card exchange, but don't leave home without them.
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by ci5er 10y ago
How so? As recently as 2015, sendmail, Microsoft Exchange Server, Postfix, and Exim together represented over 90% of SMTP service. Or is this one of those pre-emptive "called it first!" kind of comments?
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by ci5er 10y ago
On top of room & board?
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by ci5er 10y ago
Nobody ever got a bonus for putting herculean efforts into extinguishing a fire that didn't start.
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by ci5er 10y ago
I remember people wondering how the hell we were going to ever use the 50 million transistors per die that Moore's law assured us was coming straight at us in just a few years...
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by ci5er 10y ago
If you are truly nomadic, why wouldn't you visit for a bit to see for yourself?
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by ci5er 10y ago
> I had the impression they focused on technologies like Prolog rather than Lisp. It was a "full stack" thing. From silicon on up. And it definitely got fuzzier the higher up in the stack you went. Prolog-ish was big in the upp
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by ci5er 10y ago
I only played with one on a VMEBus on a Sun, so I wasn't aware of their stand-alone form factor (i.e. I was guessing) > The AI winter didn't help Lisp's popularity. Really? I wouldn't have thought a symbolic machine c
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by ci5er 10y ago
Aren't Lisp machines always ahead of their time? What killed them? The advances in COTS microprocessors that also killed the minicomputer?
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by ci5er 10y ago
Sounds as if you are proposing that they put a lot more time and work into nurturing the top and middle of their funnel. Do you believe that this incremental (but not small) investment of their limited resources would yield them better outc
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by ci5er 10y ago
> However few people realize that a singleton is a fancy name for a global variable and have all the downsides of a global variable. Really? It's been twenty years (maybe a bit more?) since I read the book, but I think this was pret

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