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by trevithick 2y ago
> One of his later schemes involved opening a checking account with a bank that was offering a promotional $500 to each new customer; he would withdraw the cash at the earliest opportunity, close the account, then repeat the process ove
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by trevithick 2y ago
This may not be his best article. But I have enjoyed some of the author's other writing. In particular this one about the sinking of the ferry Estonia . https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/
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by trevithick 3y ago
The example of buying options given in the article would take literally minutes for anyone with an existing brokerage account.
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by trevithick 3y ago
Earlier HN discussion on this topic (different article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30270286 I mentioned Tom Wolfe's book "From Bauhaus to Our House." I don't think he likes Bauhaus much. http
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by trevithick 3y ago
I use one of these. https://www.p3international.com/products/p4400.html
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by trevithick 3y ago
Probably too late with this comment, but from today's WSJ: "Scientists Resort to Once-Unthinkable Solutions to Cool the Planet" Lends some support to the author's thesis. A little unsettling that the reflective SRM mater
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by trevithick 3y ago
You would be a vexatious litigant. https://www.courts.ca.gov/12272.htm
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by trevithick 3y ago
This is really cool. My bot score stayed low because there was a single dot remaining near the middle which Pac-Man couldn't reach. They went back and forth for a long time until the ghost became fast enough to get him. Still fun to wa
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by trevithick 3y ago
Do Cisco certifications still carry any weight? If not, is there another, non-Cisco cert that's worthwhile? I know CCNA etc. used to have value, but it seems most certifications in general are pretty worthless anymore.
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by trevithick 3y ago
This is really cool. I thought it was Hank Snow, not Johnny Cash, who made this popular. Not that it matters. (Looks like it was both, and a boatload of other people too.)
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by trevithick 3y ago
Yeah, I guess this is the answer. When I posted the question I had this[1] in mind, and was thinking of something like that with simplified labels maybe. But I guess the file structure is so organized it would explain itself to anyone inter
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by trevithick 3y ago
Does a graphical representation of the files in the Linux kernel exist anywhere? Like a graphical file explorer but for the different kernel components.
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by trevithick 3y ago
From later in the article: > MD5 is considered a weak hashing algorithm these days; we use BCrypt, which is stronger.
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by trevithick 3y ago
Non-human "life forms on earth" to quote OP. Maybe not birds or bears, could be just a slime mold, but something here will still be going strong after we wipe ourselves out.
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by trevithick 3y ago
I agree with your second paragraph but am confident other life forms will ultimately prevail.
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by trevithick 3y ago
Good points about Slackware being perfect for learning. It really was, for the reasons you gave. I started with Slackware 9.0, which I think was the last release to fit on a single CD-ROM. Like you I learned a lot about Linux, I wrote lots
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by trevithick 4y ago
Check out the OpenWRT Table of Hardware.[0] It runs on all kinds of stuff. [0] https://openwrt.org/toh/start
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by trevithick 4y ago
Same here. I appreciate the projects like OpenWRT that make this kind of thing possible for mere mortals like me. I flashed OpenWRT onto an old Verizon combo DSL modem/router[0] and now it's a VPN endpoint. I think the most compli
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by trevithick 4y ago
I see the logic in your initial comment. But getting a big pile of money is as realistic as much of what you listed here. How is "Just marry someone wealthy" more realistic than getting a pile of money (not to mention that that su
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by trevithick 4y ago
A bloated script to automate creation of an Arch Linux Qemu VM. The subscript that runs in the VM is useful by itself for setting up a new Arch installation. https://github.com/trevorgross/installarch/blob/mai
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by trevithick 5y ago
This sort of thing never stood out to me until I read Tom Wolfe's sardonic "From Bauhaus to Our House."¹ I recommend it. ¹ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41001.From_Bauhaus_to_Ou...
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by trevithick 5y ago
Congrats Patrick and Slackware. I started with Slackware 9.0, which I think was the last release to fit on a single CD-ROM. Like others I learned a lot about Linux, I wrote lots of simple shell scripts and did a lot of ./configure; mak
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by trevithick 5y ago
https://crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com/the-bit-short-insid... Posted on HN a while back. "To be crystal clear: every time you sell Tethers on Kraken, you are forcing Tether Ltd. to pay you in US dollars. If you can m