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by cpr 7y ago
Can you refute his specific stories about eBay's misguided advertising, etc.?
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by cpr 7y ago
Boy, every new Apple laptop release people harp endlessly about the cost. Look, people, Apple high-end laptops generally cost $3-4K. And if you think that's high, you're forgetting that (in many of our cases) you're running y
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by cpr 7y ago
https://rense.com/general96/the-epstein-funded-child-porn-hu... sounds like science fiction, but the circumstances around Aaron's death are suspicious enough that it warrants a read.
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by cpr 7y ago
But IIRC there was an earlier flag date when all the TOPS-20 and TENEX systems switched to TCP/IP (somewhere in 1979-80?), and that was the real breath-holder for those of us dependent on (and responsible for) those systems at the time
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by cpr 7y ago
Wow, best argument I've seen in a while for not switching. ;-) I'm holding out hope for new keyboards so I can stay with macOS. For now using wonderful Realforce keyboards 99% of the time anyway.
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by cpr 7y ago
Fantastic work, John. I've long wanted to build a web site just to use Ghost. ;-) If you could figure out some way to integrate tightly with Webflow (the world's best html/css codeless site builder), that would be an absolute
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by cpr 7y ago
Yes, the number connected to a rolling bank of lines.
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by cpr 7y ago
Even better, back in the early days of the ARPAnet (maybe 15-20 machines in 1973-4? probably faulty memories) every site had a guest account, and some of us would spend hours at night telnet'ing to one machine, then from there to anoth
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by cpr 7y ago
Even better, you didn't log in to a TIP--as long as you knew the phone number, you were all set. And phone numbers were generally available.
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by cpr 7y ago
Ah, happy memories of late-night sitting at a teletype (TTY) by the IMP in the PDP-1/PDP-10 Harvard CRCT machine room, hearing the phone ring on the IMP, and a voice on the other end from BBN HQ asking me to reboot the IMP, as it was h
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by cpr 7y ago
Funnily enough the first mailing list in the Arpanet (circa 1973) was about mailing lists. I have no idea why I jumped on it (freshman at the time using HARV-10), but it was loads of fun, and of course included flame wars from the start...
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by cpr 7y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2002/09/11/hard...
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by cpr 7y ago
Wow, quite viscerally brings back memories of using punch card decks (Fortran on an IBM 1130) in a high school Explorer post at Teledyne Ryan in San Diego in the late 60's, then in the early 70's (last year of high school) at the
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by cpr 7y ago
Isn't it obvious that way you pay for, you get more of? I don't mean that cynically--just seems like common sense.
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by cpr 7y ago
Remember when Rumsfeld announced that 2.3T USD were missing from the military? https://www.city-journal.org/html/americas-missing-money-157... Yeah, nor do most people. The date he announced that? September 10, 2001. T
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by cpr 7y ago
If you look at the various testimonies of MK Ultra victims now surfacing, it's clear that the program is ongoing.
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Confessions of a Climate Scientist(fabiusmaximus.com)
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by cpr 7y ago
This is a truly hard problem. I read somewhere (citation needed) that if truly race-blind admissions were used in the UC system, they'd have 98% Asian students. (As a dead white male, that's amusing. Just shows how culture affects
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by cpr 7y ago
What they should have been examining is why "legacy" (read: people who have already donated, or are likely to donate seriously to Harvard) candidates are so favored... (Speaking as an old Harvard alum ('76).)
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by cpr 7y ago
@drpancake -- aren't you nervous about Slack doing something just like this? They seem to own all the technology required.
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by cpr 7y ago
If you're in the right victim group, you can get away with anything. E.g., https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/08...
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by cpr 7y ago
Yes, there are still standing timber frame tithe barns in England from the 800's. Just gotta keep the timbers dry and insect-free (or -free-enough). But all the modern stick frames, hmm, no so much..
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by cpr 7y ago
Please don't perpetuate lazy SJW "alt right" = "Trump supporters" memes.
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by cpr 7y ago
Click bait: Why not just say "we don't approve of proprietary operating systems" and leave it at that?
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by cpr 7y ago
Here's an interesting aspect to the source of flouride of which most people are unaware: https://origins.osu.edu/article/toxic-treatment-fluorides-tr...
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by cpr 7y ago
Odd that someone who doesn't need to work ever again would become a spokesman for this cause...
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by cpr 7y ago
Do you really think there isn't a vast conspiracy by the powerful to protect themselves? It's a bit too obvious to be called a conspiracy.
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by cpr 7y ago
Whenever random folks post dire climate change articles, I like to point to a somewhat less random engineer's take on things: https://rps3.com/Pages/Burt_Rutan_on_Climate_Change.htm https://en.wikipedia
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by cpr 7y ago
This was in the lobby of the old Aiken Computing Center my undergrad years, but moved out when they built the new "cheese wedge" Gates/Ballmer building on the same spot. Always entertaining to walk by and see the "bugs&q
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Microsoft Fluid Framework Vision Keynote Demo // Microsoft Build 2019(youtube.com)
1 points by cpr 7y ago|0 comments

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