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by warrenm 3y ago
Apparently, the EU has not seen TikTok Or Facebook
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by warrenm 3y ago
iwon.com - a search aggregator / search gaming site that a) produced pretty good results (back in its day) and offered prizes for using it altavista.com - before Google, the single best search engine in existence (predated by altavis
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by warrenm 3y ago
My favorite talk was the one I gave at OLF: Syslog for Fun (and Profit?) - https://antipaucity.com/2023/09/08/syslog-for-fun-and-profit... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2QaUrt2DDo&t
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by warrenm 3y ago
Curious ... what do you dislike about your LinkedIn-generated resume? I find that just opening my resume every 3-6 months and adding anything relevant, and removing anything irrelevant, is pretty simple
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by warrenm 3y ago
That...would seem to require a lot of cooperation from ever power generation plant, all the utility companies, etc An interesting idea, though
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by warrenm 3y ago
It is "as volatile as ever" - the swings may not be as high, but they're of more "value" ... 20% of $35k is more than 90% of $5k :)
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by warrenm 3y ago
>> something that is not fixed in nature is, IMHO, a far better system >Why? Simple - wealth has never been a "finite resource" ... `"Wealth grows wherever men exert energy," Arkad replied. "If a rich man
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by warrenm 3y ago
20% per month swings is incredibly volatile
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by warrenm 3y ago
Transaction costs are definitely a major drawback to adoption ... when you can 'only' do a few hundreds of transactions per second worldwide ... you are destined to fail
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by warrenm 3y ago
>At least with magic cards I can go play a game or a piece of art I can look at or actual money I can spend anywhere to get things. Bitcoin does none of those things. All bitcoin seems to be good for is let weirdos live in the Bahamas in
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by warrenm 3y ago
That's nice ... today No benefit for those of us who lost coins early on when it looked like a goofy fad
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by warrenm 3y ago
I want to live forever But this world is incredibly broken - and extending lifespans (without the attendant expansion in birthing years, etc) can only create a self-collapsing system
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by warrenm 3y ago
Awful big "ifs" in that second sentence ... "if this continues" ... "if it continues further" "Volatility is steadily going down" ... it IS ?! Everything I see shows it as volatile as ever Gold is co
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Enterprise(futilitycloset.com)
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by warrenm 3y ago
>Most of these films have been lost, but the project as a whole was added to the National Film Registry in 2012. The Texas Archive of the Moving Image has a collection of surviving films.
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by warrenm 3y ago
figured there was a way to do it in one pass ... but didn't have the brainwidth to do it :)
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by warrenm 3y ago
I learned on BASIC for the Tandy 102 Then moved to QuickBASIC for the Mac Then TurboPascal Then C (via C++, taught by a FORTRAN programmer) BASIC will always hold a sweet spot in my heart :)
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by warrenm 3y ago
assume nothing will exist "forever" HN will one day go the way of the dodo bird Whether that is in a month, year, decade, or century is up for realization But like every other website/service in existence ... it will have its
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by warrenm 3y ago
I wish no ill on [most] Cloudflare employees I do wish the company a great amount of ill They are a pariah on the internet and need to be eliminated
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Throwing Star LAN Tap(greatscottgadgets.com)
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by warrenm 3y ago
Kinda interesting ... inaccurate (put a contraction in the text box, it broke it into "don" and "t") ... but mildly interesting Punctuation is always a difficult corner case - dealt with various rules for managing them w
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What services do you want replaced?
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by warrenm 3y ago
Just like I do not necessarily spite employees for working at other scuzzy companies, I will not necessarily say this person lied ... but Cloudflare is a company that does not care about anyone but themselves They do not care if they enable
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by warrenm 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzFhBGKU6HA
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by warrenm 3y ago
>Uniqlo has one of the first implementing RFID chips in individual items I remember IBM advertising that as a capability of future retail back about the turn of the century
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Who Should Fund Science?(quillette.com)
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Apps vs. Platforms(hydrick.net)
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I always thought it was a trapezoidal prism
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Demonstration of bias in AI-generated images(flowingdata.com)
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by warrenm 3y ago
summary of https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/a...

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