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by thatoneguy 4y ago
Meanwhile, Windows 95 didn’t install TCP/IP by default when setting up a new network card. It was such a problem in the late ‘90s / early ‘00s still that it was an interview question for my university dial-up support job.
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by thatoneguy 4y ago
Yes, they wouldn't accept it because my credit was poor. I told them I could cut a check or go to the bank and get the cash for a whole year but they didn't want it because my FICA was in the crapper (thanks former roommates!).
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by thatoneguy 4y ago
NASA thinks we can just park an MRI machine's worth of magnetic shield a million miles in front of Mars to fix the issue. https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmo...
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by thatoneguy 4y ago
I’m not a fan…the credit score system kept me homeless during my freshman year of college even though I’d saved up enough money to pay a year’s worth of rent.
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by thatoneguy 4y ago
I’ve read about lots of different points in the brain that may be the seat of consciousness over the years, but consciousness is probably an emergent, embodied phenomenon so there probably isn’t a lot of point to trying to find it (if it’s
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by thatoneguy 4y ago
You don't even need location services to be on, wifi alone is enough to derive location if the app can tell what wifi networks you're near. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_Wireless
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by thatoneguy 4y ago
Yeah, there is a lot history of people calling the Bay Area over and the Bay Area always wins. It shows up even in fiction with those two cops in Vertigo complaining about how San Francisco had changed since the late 19th or early 20th cent
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by thatoneguy 4y ago
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores false and reboot.
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by thatoneguy 5y ago
...which will mean you'll still end up indirectly paying Google: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/29/icloud-data-stored-on-g...
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by thatoneguy 5y ago
Modafinil is simply amazing for jet lag, too. And by "simply amazing" I really mean "the cure" at least for me.
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by thatoneguy 5y ago
I got immense joy out of working in Google's original SF office that was right above where the "handoff" scene took place and it's funny in the movie how there's a long hill of dirt in the shots that look out toward
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by thatoneguy 5y ago
Hasn't this always been Google's plan? They were buying up "dark fiber" way back in the aftermath of the dot com bust: https://www.lightreading.com/ethernet-ip/googles-own-private...
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by thatoneguy 5y ago
Google patented a social graph that decays based on level of interactions awhile ago: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9020965B1/
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by thatoneguy 5y ago
My solution for this problem I figured out in 2015 is a satphone on a monthly low-minutes plan. My Inmarsat IsatPhone 2 last for weeks on standby mode, and has something like 8 hours of talk time. I recharge it maybe once or twice year when
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by thatoneguy 5y ago
As a 21 year old cable guy in 2001 who had yet to go to university, I wasn't the only one on the web at the time who thought The Invention was some sort of hoverboard-like flying machine or other fantastical device. Waking up early the
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by thatoneguy 5y ago
I've been to Longyearbyen and besides a trip to the seed vault, drinking, worrying about the polar bears, thinking the obnoxiously cute Svalbard reindeer are polar bears, getting to Pyramiden, and kicking ice into the bay, there is ver
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by thatoneguy 6y ago
Yeah, I started at Google in early 2006 and definitely remember using the awful Oracle Calendar product for all calendaring. I know because I set up a calendar entry in Oracle Calendar for the day in 2015 that Back to the Future takes place
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by thatoneguy 6y ago
It's mostly done with Wi-Fi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system
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by thatoneguy 6y ago
The hybrid location tracking technology was actually invented by another company that later sued Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_Wireless
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by thatoneguy 7y ago
Ritual I've had since at least 1994: naming a new hard drive volume under MS-DOS/Windows "PLEASE_WORK"
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by thatoneguy 7y ago
Not a real quote by Socrates, BTW. But by a Cambridge student in 1907. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
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by thatoneguy 7y ago
Seems kind of negligent not to mention Saul Bass' WB worms logo (the one that looks like \\') used for a decade by Warner Bros and still trotted out for movies set in the '70s & '80s like Joker.
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by thatoneguy 7y ago
I picked up an English copy of the Culture Shock series of books at a bookstore in Japan that was focused on the US (where I was born). Hugely enlightening. The biggest "ah ha" moment was how Americans always worried about owing p
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by thatoneguy 7y ago
Unions never take root at tech companies because software engineers seem themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed 10x programmers.
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by thatoneguy 7y ago
I know it definitely sounds ageist. Is a 45 year old fresh-out-of-university-to-start-new-CS-career going to be considered and hired by Shopify on a regular basis (i.e. not just hiring one and being like "see, we're not ageist&quo
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by thatoneguy 9y ago
FWIW, when I was at Google I had at least two colleagues with felony records. It made me even more proud to work there as it showed the company was willing to look beyond mistakes made in someone's past.
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by thatoneguy 9y ago
Yes and even though I'm happy with my current position, I typically inquire if the position comes with a semi-unreasonable but still believable salary to help move the needle on wages for my fellow engineers.
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by thatoneguy 9y ago
Not all acquihires have to interview to keep their jobs. For example, one company I'm familiar with made sure that as part of the acquisition, its employees would not have to go through the Google interview process.
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by thatoneguy 9y ago
JFYI, Elysium is currently in a lawsuit with its supplier of the two key ingredients for its Basis product. https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/16/a-new-lawsuit-alleges-anti...
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by thatoneguy 10y ago
I'm no fan of Uber but taxis in Rome, Italy, at least, are the worst out of ~40 countries I've been to. And when you write the city to try and complain after photographing the taxi that ripped you off? They basically ask you fill

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