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by herodoturtle 5mo ago
Interesting timing when one also considers that the Musk vs OpenAI trial is set to get underway. https://www.dw.com/en/musk-vs-openai-trial-to-get-underway/a...
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by herodoturtle 6mo ago
> His letter (at the top of Apple's web site) is moving As an aside, I absolutely love the minimal elegance of that web page.
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by herodoturtle 6mo ago
This was a neat design choice I remember it well. And also that my “sound card works perfectly!”
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by herodoturtle 6mo ago
There’s a pretty great penguin colony site seeing area in Cape Town called Boulders Beach for those of you that happen to visit and are keen to see them up close. Also this article is just great.
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by herodoturtle 6mo ago
In long term archival use cases this is less of an issue. Especially if it’s many exabytes we’re talking about, needing to be stored for decades. But I 100% agree with your main point about possibility vs productionisation.
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by herodoturtle 6mo ago
Indeed it is forced savings but with the benefit of covering your funeral expenditure if it is required suddenly and unexpectedly. For context, it might cost you $5 per month, and give you funeral cover of $500. As OP mentioned it is very c
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by herodoturtle 6mo ago
I’ve read elsewhere that the cut-away during booster separation was intentional given the high risk manoeuvre. If something went wrong / explosion etc, then they wouldn’t want to broadcast it. Something to that effect. I’m paraphrasing
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by herodoturtle 6mo ago
I heard this in a Justin timberlake as Napster guy voice
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by herodoturtle 6mo ago
This is such a cool way to build brand awareness - kudos to the author. I'd never heard of dbpro.app until now - and this article is just so awesome. Nice job!
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by herodoturtle 6mo ago
Hacker news attracts all sorts of curious people, including luddites like myself! ^_^
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by herodoturtle 6mo ago
Tried to open this page on my mobile, good grief the changing advert spam overload kills the reading experience.
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by herodoturtle 6mo ago
> And at a moment when the climate demands immediate action to reduce our footprint on this planet, the AI boom is driving data centers to consume a full 1.5% of the world’s total energy production in order to eliminate the jobs of the p
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by herodoturtle 7mo ago
This is great advice we will look into this thank you
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Ask HN: What would it take to provide free AI to the underprivileged?
1 points by herodoturtle 7mo ago|2 comments
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Hong Kong: New rule forces people to surrender passwords(dw.com)
3 points by herodoturtle 7mo ago|0 comments
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by herodoturtle 7mo ago
Found your comment mightily insightful, so may as well ask: Can you recommend a handful of similar “historical” works that you’d consider a must-read (or simply just darn interesting). Thanks!
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by herodoturtle 7mo ago
> That's when I learned about phone phreaking. “And never again have to pay for a service that would be dirt cheap, if it weren’t run by a bunch of profiteering gluttons!” - Razor & Blade
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by herodoturtle 7mo ago
Agree with your overall point. Curious what you’re basing the “not in the next 30 years” claim on, if you’d care to expand.
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by herodoturtle 7mo ago
I remember upgrading my 486 DX2 66Mhz to a DX4 100Mhz and all of a sudden being able to run winamp and Quake. That felt pretty epic at the time.
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by herodoturtle 7mo ago
Lots of comments here critiquing the article for allegedly being written by AI. I see the post is even flagged now. Irrespective of who wrote it or how it was written, the essay is packed with wisdom. I’ve been programming for 30+ years and
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by herodoturtle 8mo ago
Random plot idea: Imagine the year is 2035. Crash & Burn had a kid, and that kid is now a young adult. An agentic ClosedAI has granted itself chmod 666 on the interwebs, and is wreaking havoc on a global scale. Hackers of the world must
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Ask HN: Can we use AI to make a Hackers (1995) sequel starring the same cast?
2 points by herodoturtle 8mo ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Hackers sequel, same cast, 30 years later
2 points by herodoturtle 8mo ago|0 comments
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by herodoturtle 8mo ago
Certainly not the only old fart ‘round these parts. Your comment reminded me of Dr Dobbs Journal for some reason.
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by herodoturtle 8mo ago
Like tears in rain <3
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by herodoturtle 8mo ago
I didn’t catch this reference, so adding the below for other folks in the same boat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September “Eternal September or the September that never ended was a cultural phenomenon during
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by herodoturtle 8mo ago
I’ve probably watched Hackers over a hundred times. My all time favourite movie. My first crush as a young teenager was Burn. It led to a career in software. So many kindred spirits on this thread - makes me smile. And after 30+ years of wa
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by herodoturtle 8mo ago
Not mentioned in the article, so I'd like to give a shout-out to cmus. https://cmus.github.io/ For all my fellow terminal friends <3
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by herodoturtle 9mo ago
thanks, that's an insightful comment. so defs not a globally consistent usage of the term then? judging by the article's authorship, i'm guessing denmark and US the same so perhaps US and EU but not elsewhere?
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by herodoturtle 9mo ago
i feel like you're onto something here... a marketing campaign for middle-aged men perhaps

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