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by cpr 3mo ago
The same holds true of precious metals, most definitely. If things really HTF, you're gonna want to not be blocked by a closed bank, etc.
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by cpr 4mo ago
I remember reading Unix source in Geoff Steckel‘s office at Harvard who got the first Unix distribution outside of their labs and the line printer would just would use overstrike on parentheses to designate curly braces and upper case (lowe
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by cpr 7mo ago
Helped Carl Helmers start Byte along with another Intermetrics co-worker Dan Fylstra (who founded VisiCorp a bit later, the first PC software company that published VisiCalc) in the summer between semesters at Harvard. Wrote a couple of art
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by cpr 7mo ago
Look up "where did the towers go?" on Youtube, a lecture by materials scientist Judy Wood. She argues I think conclusively that the towers were turned into dust by directed energy weapons. (I know this will get downvoted to hell,
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by cpr 8mo ago
I think he was referencing Ted Kaszinski (sp?).
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by cpr 8mo ago
Would love link to olive oil farm…
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Footprints in the Sand(twitter.com)
2 points by cpr 8mo ago|0 comments
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by cpr 1y ago
"Muh Russia". C'mon, that's such a cheap take. The Fed has done nothing but destroy the value of the dollar since its founding in 1913.
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by cpr 1y ago
> When 1200 people compete for 1 open internship position, can I really afford to waste my time like this? If you think of education as trying to lead people into being whole humans, seems like literature and philosophy (properly taught)
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by cpr 1y ago
Wow, that brings back memories! First saw the C compiler sources on Geoff Steckel (local guru)'s desk around 1973 at the Harvard graduate computing center, and was absolutely floored at this fascinating-looking language. (Harvard got t
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by cpr 2y ago
I loved visiting the Mill back in the day when I was part of the crews buying DECSystem-20's for Columbia University and later the Fairchild AI Lab. What a great place to work, and hanging out with the OS developers like Dan Murphy w
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by cpr 2y ago
Yes, helped start it (first or second employee back in 1980(?)). Wild! I had forgotten the LispMs had Impress support; I think that came out of the time when we worked with Janet Walker, head of documentation at Symbolics.
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by cpr 2y ago
Nah, it'd come out too much as "almost famous". I did manage to avoid being Microsoft employee #12 or so (my buddy Bob Greenberg was #8, I think?, and encouraged me to come join them), and Adobe employee #8 (I knew Chuck Gesc
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by cpr 2y ago
And you know because...?
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by cpr 2y ago
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/ivermectin-testim... -- see "New and improved Joe Tippens protocol". Has worked for hundreds of people, and what has he got to lose? It's all natural medicines.
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by cpr 2y ago
That March 1977 map always brings back a flood of memories to this old-timer. Happy nights spent hacking in the Harvard graduate computer center next to the PDP-1/PDP-10 (Harv-1, Harv-10), getting calls on the IMP phone in the middle o
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by cpr 2y ago
Because it was lab created. That's been well established.
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by cpr 2y ago
Are you joking? The current US government is the most corrupt entity in the history of the world, if you multiple corruption times power. And I love my country (USA), but just hate what the government has become over the past 60-80 years.
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by cpr 2y ago
The problem is that if you want to provide a full-featured file picker, and not rely on Google's limited browser-based version, your app will require the full "drive" scope. (We do, and we do, for our InDesign-to-Google Doc
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by cpr 2y ago
There's nothing quite like the "flow" you get into when you're a fast, accurate typist and the code just pours of you like honey. (Well, that sounds slow. ;-) Especially when using a fantastic mechanical (Hall effect) ke
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by cpr 2y ago
Wow, memory lane! Used it (only amateurishly) about 30 years ago...
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by cpr 2y ago
Very censored. Pukes out the standard lies about vaxx dangers.
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by cpr 2y ago
Any examples anywhere? Being prompted to log in/sign up is a show-stopper.
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by cpr 2y ago
Even better, you can get a 15m Ethernet cable that brings the network to the point of power (with the standard 15m power cable). I had my Mini set up outside and extended the power line as far as it would go, but then once inside, the Wifi
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by cpr 2y ago
Post-collapse, will we even have power?
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by cpr 2y ago
I started my own software company 34 years ago after 10+ years in tech (operating systems & networking at a laser printer spinoff from Knuth's TeX project in SV and a mini-supercomputer spinoff from Josh Fisher's VLIW research
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Ask HN: Best Domain Registrar?
4 points by cpr 2y ago|5 comments
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by cpr 2y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird . It's certainly going on today, especially in various three-letter agencies trying to control the narrative and keep the truth from public view -- see the Tw
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by cpr 2y ago
Can't vote this high enough. Nothing in this life compares to helping young souls grow into their best self.
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by cpr 2y ago
I did this for decades (using Emacs) but finally gave up and am using Notes.

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