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811.
by fmajid 2y ago
They support Raivo like a noose supports the hanged man.
812.
by fmajid 2y ago
AI hype effect rubbing off from nVidia. Although Intel's Gaudi GPUs are probably just as competitive as AMDs, if not more.
813.
by fmajid 2y ago
Like "careerist lapdog" in the article. I gave up reading after that. After 4 years of WFH, not all due to COVID, I make it a point to go to the office 5 days a week even though my company is hybrid 3 days in, 2 days out. Humans a
814.
by fmajid 2y ago
All of the above, and also increasingly IoT devices, specially printers and routers. There is no simple way to block them.
815.
by fmajid 2y ago
Extortion is usually the motive. “Nice porn/gambling/crypto website you’ve got here. Shame if something happened to it”.
816.
by fmajid 2y ago
Botnets usually, sometimes amplification attacks against NTP or DNS, although the Chinese government’s Great Firewall also has offensive capabilities known as the Great Cannon, although they are generally used against GitHub because it host
817.
by fmajid 2y ago
The old vote, and the young don’t. The Tories are the natural party of seniors in any case.
818.
by fmajid 2y ago
Meta provides employees with a dedicated support line called Oops@ to address requests from friends and family, they are not allowed to deal with the issues directly: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/14/facebook-o
819.
by fmajid 2y ago
On the contrary, it seems like microwaves that will last more than a year or two are now the exception.
820.
by fmajid 2y ago
Two-time founder here. I think this naivety reflects more unrealistic founder expectations raised by the bubbly fundraising environment of the ZIRP (zero interest rate phenomenon) than any fundamental change in VC.
821.
by fmajid 2y ago
They will probably go to Ukraine: https://www.wired.com/story/why-teslas-totaled-in-the-us-are...
822.
by fmajid 2y ago
I like the Plessey Electronics (UK) logo. Looks like an oscilloscope trace, but when you look closely, it’s like “plessey” in lower case.
823.
by fmajid 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
824.
by fmajid 2y ago
Do they require a recovery address? If so, that is a design flaw that should be rectified.
825.
by fmajid 2y ago
remake is a more powerful tool, a fork of GNU Make that adds a debugger and profiler, among other extensions. https://remake.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
826.
by fmajid 2y ago
Exactly, or Anthropocene, describing the changes wrought by humans including climate change.
827.
by fmajid 2y ago
The Italian word for it, “Merdocene”, sounds even pithier.
828.
by fmajid 2y ago
I think the Czechs are also doing the whole triangular thing, but they don't have the financial muscle of the US.
829.
by fmajid 2y ago
There's this ancient Roman story about unbreakable glass in Petronius' Satyricon : https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology...
830.
by fmajid 2y ago
Keep in mind your neighbors might not appreciate your insect-ful garden if it rubs off on theirs.
831.
by fmajid 2y ago
Don’t forget the 1812 War and British support for the Confederacy (granted, they apologized for the latter and paid reparations, something unheard of from the British). That said, the UK are docile vassals, not allies, which is why they get
832.
by fmajid 2y ago
Isn’t South Korea withholding weapons from Ukraine, though, notably artillery shells, at a time when North Korea is supplying Russia without reservations?
833.
by fmajid 3y ago
Or in Tracey Kidder's book The Soul of a New Machine , the hardware engineer who tires of debugging nanosecond timing heisenglitches, moves to a commune in Vermont where he will not have to deal with units of time less than a season.
834.
by fmajid 3y ago
And back when, Dubai's main industries were pearl fishing and smuggling gold to India.
835.
by fmajid 3y ago
Amazon’s search is terrible. They used to have Udi Manber, who literally wrote the book on Search , so it’s got to be deliberate.
836.
by fmajid 3y ago
Why choose? There is such a thing as diamond aerogels: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-05/new-diamond...
837.
by fmajid 3y ago
A substrate for CPU chips. In fact a lot of the synthetic diamonds for gemstones is a way to bootstrap the R&D for that end goal.
838.
by fmajid 3y ago
It’s remarkable how Krishnamurti turned out to be so grounded despite being raised amidst such kookiness. To be filed with other 19th-Century nonsense like homeopathy, Marxism, Freudian psychoanalysis, osteopathy, etc.
839.
by fmajid 3y ago
Maybe Gutenberg was right on his market positioning after all.
840.
by fmajid 3y ago
Hollywood has this dictum that you are only as good as your last movie. The streaming services have been jacking up their prices and reducing new shows, Disney+ is down to one decent show per quarter if that. It makes sense to subscribe onl

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