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by ghc 6mo ago
Here I was thinking this article would tell me how to turn my unmanaged switches into routers, but no, "anything" actually means "any fully featured general purpose computer with networking".
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by ghc 7mo ago
Something many may not know is that beyond his own novels, Tracy was also deeply involved in Jonathan Harr's book, "A Civil Action." He and Harr were friends, and he told Harr about the courtroom case. Later, when Harr would
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by ghc 7mo ago
He always spoke more about "Mountains Beyond Mountains" than his other works, I think because of what he had to endure to write it. It caused him severe illness and health problems due to the locations he had to go to.
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by ghc 7mo ago
He was extremely proud of the other work he did, like "Mountains Beyond Mountains," but I'll always remember the bookcase where he kept every edition of "The Soul of a New Machine" in every language it was printed i
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Tracy Kidder has died(nytimes.com)
274 points by ghc 7mo ago|70 comments
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by ghc 7mo ago
This is why I love HN.
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by ghc 7mo ago
I feel like I've been waiting for this to mature for a decade. I love that the vision has been realized despite the enthusiasm for functional programming languages cooling off somewhat.
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by ghc 8mo ago
That's actually brilliant! Most of my classes only taught what tools were needed to accomplish coursework, not generally useful tools. Even our OS class focused on the workings of the kernel, not the Unix philosophy and how it influenc
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by ghc 8mo ago
While Russia is not quite a western country, the European upper classes around St. Petersburg and Moscow were no less "western" in philosophy and thought than people from nearby Latvia, Ukraine or Finland. Tolstoy delighted in Sch
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by ghc 8mo ago
I'm sure European aristocrat Leo Tolstoy would be astonished to find himself lumped in with an Indian as being non-western.
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by ghc 8mo ago
As an adolescent in Fayette (Maine), I had great fun helping out our neighbors with summertime tree-pruning parties. FWIW we had few power issues during winter, and our winters frequently featured 4-6 feet of snow cover.
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by ghc 8mo ago
Sure, but that's not the same as losing power during the first snowstorm every year. The massive ice storm was back in 2010 IIRC.
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by ghc 8mo ago
living in New England, I have also never heard of this and I don't think it's understandable at all. Trees are pruned around power lines for a reason .
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by ghc 8mo ago
If the whole VW saga tells us anything, I'm starting to see why CEOs are so excited about AI agents...
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Instagram Emails Links Are Dangerous by Design(github.com)
2 points by ghc 8mo ago|0 comments
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by ghc 8mo ago
If it were me, instead of writing all these bespoke services to replicate cloud functionality, I'd just buy oxide.computer systems.
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by ghc 8mo ago
Apple can't hand wave away prompt injection attacks. They would be absolute fools to deploy the technology as it exists now at their scale.
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by ghc 8mo ago
> Why did you write that it was? You misread. You can't legally pay through transfers (between wallets). You need an intermediary that verifies identity linked to wallets and does escrow to satisfy anti-fraud requirements.
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by ghc 8mo ago
It's not illegal to pay W-2 employees in US currency as long as you satisfy IRS withholding and reporting requirements. Paying employees in non-currency assets (gold, crypto, etc.) is highly regulated since it's often used as a ta
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by ghc 8mo ago
It's not illegal, but you have to do all the paperwork the same as if you pay in USD. That means tax withholdings and all that, on a per-pay-period basis. Doing this basically means going through a payroll provider. When I had an emplo
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by ghc 8mo ago
> Transferring money across regions with the best 'normie' tools (eg Transferwise/wise.com) is multiple orders of magnitude more expensive than $0.0000015 (tranferring USDC or another GENIUS-compliant stablecoin on Solana)
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by ghc 8mo ago
I found that surprising, so I looked on Wikipedia. Soyuz-2 capacity to LEO: 8,600KG Falcon 9 capacity to LEO: 22,800KG when expended, 17,500KG when not. Soyuz-2 Cost to Launch: $35 Million New Falcon 9 Cost to Launch: $70 Million Used Falco
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by ghc 8mo ago
Breadboard area? That's a super cool! I had no idea the Apple I had such a hobbyist-centric inclusion. I wonder what people did with it.
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by ghc 8mo ago
> Yeah 10 years ago. Tesla unveiled the Roadster 20 years ago . That's plenty of time for other companies to catch up. They made a bet that once the battery moat evaporated the millions of miles of driving footage, powering afforda
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by ghc 8mo ago
> the stores you need are within a 5 min walk, or more likely, right by the subway exit when you’re returning from work, you buy stuff as you need it, rather than stocking up for days. Yeah, so for me that changed after having kids. Once
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by ghc 9mo ago
> Original Flot maintainer here. I discovered flot during my academic research career circa 2008 and it saved my ass more times than I can count. I just wanted to say thank you for that. I wouldn't be where I am today without your h
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by ghc 9mo ago
> the same thing happened to the Mac chess app with the release of the M1 I fired up Chess shortly after getting an M1 and got destroyed a bunch of times. I thought that I was just extremely out of practice and quit playing for years. I
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by ghc 9mo ago
In my field, the X data error (measurement jitter) is generally <10ns, which might as well be no error.
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by ghc 10mo ago
As a child I lived near Gorey and accumulated a collection of little picture books signed by him. As a child I never knew what to make of them...they weren't anything like Calvin & Hobbes or The Far Side. Until reading this I'
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by ghc 10mo ago
Pretty sure Anthropic is hoping the answer is Claude.

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