W-Stool

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by W-Stool 2mo ago
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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by W-Stool 2mo ago
If you make money shorting a stock, who do you make money from?
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by W-Stool 4mo ago
SomaFM is streaming music on 46 channels and it is all free (but give Rusty some money if you can). Just saying.
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by W-Stool 6mo ago
Furlongs per fortnight. This was a real unit of time on VAX/VMS systems.
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by W-Stool 7mo ago
One of my favorite movies, and more relevant than ever today.
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by W-Stool 8mo ago
If these kinds of machines interest you I highly recommend the book "The Supermen" by Charles Murray. It has all the details you would ever want on Seymour Cray and others in the business. I was working at a geophysical company i
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Ask HN: Anti-AI Open Source License?
44 points by W-Stool 9mo ago|102 comments
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by W-Stool 9mo ago
What about Ken Thompson?
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by W-Stool 10mo ago
Thank you General Turgidson.
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by W-Stool 10mo ago
Was there ever a cooler guy who could actually write? I don't think so. Anyone who rates "Dr. Strangelove" as a great movie is OK by me.
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by W-Stool 11mo ago
"Play It Again Sam". Diane Keaton++.
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by W-Stool 1y ago
East St. Louis, Illinois would like to have a chat with Decatur about which is worst.
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by W-Stool 1y ago
TI Silent 700?
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by W-Stool 1y ago
Frankly I am glad to be an older American. I'd hate to be young and comtemplating America's future right now.
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by W-Stool 1y ago
I was going to say that the whole thing is more than a whiff of WeWork, but the article's author beat me to it.
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by W-Stool 1y ago
Excellent Sopranos reference.
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by W-Stool 1y ago
"I'm not afraid of women, Mandrake. But I do deny them my essence."
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by W-Stool 1y ago
One of my all-time favorite movies that not many of my friends have seen. What a shame ...
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by W-Stool 1y ago
All this winning.
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by W-Stool 2y ago
One state not to visit.
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by W-Stool 2y ago
Where have I heard that before?
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by W-Stool 2y ago
Now do chicken. Here in the USA chickens are getting bigger (I saw a 6.5 pound chicken in the store the other day) and blander. The tissue to me seems very spongy. What is going on with chickens?
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by W-Stool 2y ago
This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
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Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Go?
13 points by W-Stool 2y ago|16 comments
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by W-Stool 2y ago
Many, many years ago I saw a Connection Machine running. Let me just say it was not a machine that you just walked by. "What the hell is that thing?!?" was more like it.
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by W-Stool 2y ago
I don't know who this is so please name names.
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by W-Stool 2y ago
Was working in Seismic Data Processing at the time and, a Cray being way too expensive, the Convex machine looked like the next Big Thing in our business, which was dominated by VAX 11/780 machines running attached array processors. W
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by W-Stool 2y ago
No one interested in railroad simulations running Run8 here?
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by W-Stool 2y ago
Donald Sutherland as "Hawkeye Pierce" in M.A.S.H. made such an impression on when I saw this movie on its release as a very young teenager. I've pretty much never got along with authority since. RIP Donald Sutherland.
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by W-Stool 2y ago
You are frankly out of your mind if you think Elon Musk and any of his companies are going to take you where you want to go.

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