Grosvenor

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by Grosvenor 8d ago
^^^ this guy fucks. You’re right. So Russ was an amalgamation of sacca, cuban, and probably a few more.
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by Grosvenor 8d ago
I thought Chris Sacca was the inspiration for Russ Hanneman. The beard, the shirts, the sexual assault allegations. The three nannies suing him - one for no good reason!
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by Grosvenor 14d ago
This is hacker news. Good work.
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by Grosvenor 15d ago
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by Grosvenor 21d ago
This reminds me of William Gibson's "Burning Chrome", where the head of a syndicate is a Russian AI (Chrome) running things behind a smuggling front. Gibson basically predicted the AI CEO forty years early! A warning: Don&#x2
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by Grosvenor 25d ago
Why bring the constitution in line with Estonia's? What's special about them?
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by Grosvenor 1mo ago
Go build something in the wine import / distribution business. You have the domain knowledge no programmer or ai will.
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by Grosvenor 1mo ago
> Imagine a cartridge with a physical model on it. I can finally have my own Dixie flatline. Cool.
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by Grosvenor 1mo ago
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
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by Grosvenor 1mo ago
I think it was a Neal Stephenson quote from cryptobimicon. It certainly increases shareholder value.
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by Grosvenor 2mo ago
Sorry for the late reply. Email in profile.
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by Grosvenor 2mo ago
I'm learning to break 4-rotor Enigma encrypts.
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by Grosvenor 2mo ago
Heavy drug wars vibe. I love it.
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by Grosvenor 3mo ago
My hypothesis is markets are fractally efficient and fractally competitive. Much like a strange attractor, they swing between states of efficiency and competitiveness. The default regime is instability. Computational capacity is unstable th
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by Grosvenor 3mo ago
SEEKING WORK | Data scientist consultant | Canada/Remote Worldwide Most of what people call "data science" is now doable with an LLM and a weekend. I focus on the messy, ambiguous, regulation-heavy gnarly problems where nobod
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by Grosvenor 3mo ago
A major plot point in the Red Dwarf books is about Coca-Cola sending a fleet of space ships out to blow up stars so they can spell "Enjoy Coca-Cola" in the sky. One of those ships crashes and the boys from the Dwarf find the servi
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by Grosvenor 3mo ago
Microsoft did this with its "Playsforsure" program. Naturally it got shut down and your media no longer plays.
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by Grosvenor 3mo ago
Microkernel, and hard RT scheduler from the start.
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by Grosvenor 3mo ago
How could I forget this! He also recommended the name. Wolfram had come up with some normal techie names "computron", "math-o-matic" or whatever. SJ said No those suck, use something simple like Mathematica.
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by Grosvenor 3mo ago
Steve Jobs and Stephen Wolfram were friends for years. Mathematica shipped preinstalled on early NeXT systems. SJ recommended some of the UI bits of the notebook. Particularly the separators between cells.
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by Grosvenor 3mo ago
I'm using AI to de-compile NeXTStep applications back to Objective-C source code. The idea is decompile something like Wordperfect or Framemaker, then port the NeXTStep code to GNUStep and have WP on GNUStep/Linux.
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by Grosvenor 3mo ago
Fuuck. Did Spud use vim? We know Sick Boy (Zero Cool) would be an emacs user.
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by Grosvenor 3mo ago
"format" is what Nigerian scammers call a playbook for each scam type. So a pig butchering "format", romance scam "format", inheritance scam "format", etc. They offered to help me setup an Upwork acco
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by Grosvenor 4mo ago
I've gotten the north Korean wanting to use my upwork account... I'd have to create one first. But now the Nigerian "format" scammers are into job scams. I got an email that reeked and played along a bit. I was "hir
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by Grosvenor 4mo ago
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by Grosvenor 4mo ago
SEEKING WORK | Data scientist consultant | Canada/Remote Worldwide Most of what people call "data science" is now doable with an LLM and a weekend. I focus on the messy, ambiguous, regulation-heavy gnarly problems where nobod
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by Grosvenor 4mo ago
I feel like there's honestly a space for "Greybeards Inc". Maybe a consultancy of people who have seen and done it all before - Very selective of their clients.
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by Grosvenor 4mo ago
Back when I was a young lad I wanted engineering to be a real discipline - formal qualifications, codes, held to account, and limitations on who could call themself an Engineer(TM). But the money was so good we (The royal we) didn't th
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by Grosvenor 4mo ago
No one. The influencers are simply telling you you're wrong if you think you need that. Which is the thing, we do need a single key that can be used for all those things. So we get PGP.
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by Grosvenor 4mo ago
> * when I say time savings I mean dick measuring contest And in this case smaller is better?

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