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by tpmx 4y ago
> I find his post-Cryptonomicon stuff more focused (or at least more cohesive? Structurally cogent?) on a conceptual level. Are you looking to be delighted by words rather than ideas? Perhaps I'm extrapolating a bit here, but you se
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by tpmx 4y ago
> academisches viertel That's probably where Swedish universities got it from ("akademisk kvart"). At least back in the 90s, typical blocks for four 45+45 minute lectures a day were: Before lunch: 08.15-09.00, 09.15-10.00
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by tpmx 4y ago
I were a [Chinese|Russian] agent tasked with how to steal credentials from as many large western companies as possible, this is how I would do it. "It's probably safe to run that .exe"
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by tpmx 4y ago
Yeah Cryptonomicon (1999) was good. It had great parts but as a whole it wasn't great. Way too unfocused. In that aspect a preview of things to come.
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by tpmx 4y ago
I really miss the 90s version of Neal. Snow crash was foundational/awesome. Then he just went weirder and weirder and weirder. I kept waiting for a return to that awesomeness for like 20 years before I gave up.
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by tpmx 4y ago
PRC and its banks tend to be helpful towards NK.
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by tpmx 4y ago
Relevant reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34471720 Ask HN: How did Sam Altman fail upward so well? (33 days ago, 119 comments) (skip down a bit for the real content)
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by tpmx 4y ago
No.
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by tpmx 4y ago
How is Microsoft connected to Google When Google falters, Microsoft will be there to scavenge. I'm worried that Microsoft again will become the dominant software company.
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by tpmx 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation (that the article writer clearly didn't know about)!
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by tpmx 4y ago
Let me say it: HN would be a better place without the obligatory downvotes for MS-critical posts. The other large companies' employees somehow avoid doing this, why can't you? Are you really that insecure? ('you' here n
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by tpmx 4y ago
The vast majority of possible impact zones on Earth are mostly uninhabited. We'd be really unlucky to have one of these hit a city. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/...
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by tpmx 4y ago
Ah, this will be fun to watch. I give this about a 3% chance of producing something the end users will actually enjoy using. Hardware manufacturers are generally extremely bad at building software teams. It's against their DNA. Their e
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by tpmx 4y ago
Know what's even worse than Google on autopilot? Microsoft.
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by tpmx 4y ago
On the renewed China-Vietnam tensions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Vietnam_relation...
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by tpmx 4y ago
Under the lids is.. another layer of lids?
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by tpmx 4y ago
Well, you're making some money off it via RUAG.
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by tpmx 4y ago
Sounds like the EU I know and loathe. /EU citizen from the north
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by tpmx 4y ago
But it isn't free. Edit: I see a random hustler got me to flog some paid saas. Apologies. Do feel free to downvote the shit out of this subthread.
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by tpmx 4y ago
Don't become a customer of them if you can avoid it.
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by tpmx 4y ago
Questionable strategy, but all-in-all low cost. What's the point of this post?
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by tpmx 4y ago
Somewhat off-topic: goaccess (the tool the author is trying to work on, which isn't written in Go but rather C) does look very appealing. https://goaccess.io/features All panels and metrics are timed to be updated eve
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by tpmx 4y ago
"imgur will never have ads" Still kind of upset that that immediately obvious lie back in back in 2009 paid off. I was there in the background noise in that first reddit post, saying the obvious. It would not surprise me one bit i
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by tpmx 4y ago
Hyperlocal random discoverability is the missing ingredient. I guess the 2023 equivalent would be the local FB group. Or a QR code/url on a local (physical) bulletin board.
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by tpmx 4y ago
Perhaps eventually Ariane Next/SALTO, with an architecture very similar to Falcon 9? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_Next
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by tpmx 4y ago
I'm pretty happy with lots of stackable plastic boxes with click lock lids in a few different sizes (mostly 1 and 2 liters). Like these: https://cdn.abicart.com/shop/9024/art24/h3597/181473597-orig.
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by tpmx 4y ago
Hmm. I had somehow assumed that James Cameron was first down there. (I think I learned about this from slashdot in the 90s.)
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by tpmx 4y ago
Microsoft is not a plucky underdog. Microsoft is a monster. Beware.
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by tpmx 4y ago
They really should take care in destroying bacteria/virii/(bed) bugs before giving away the toys to kids. They don't seem to care about this aspect at all.
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by tpmx 4y ago
Including AWS? (their golden goose)

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