netfortius

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by netfortius 7d ago
He denied being a nihilist, himself, multiple times, as well as those having studied his work. He was an extreme sceptic.
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by netfortius 8d ago
Cioran claimed to have been able to avoid killing himself by fully embracing the idea of suicide.
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by netfortius 8d ago
Harvard study authors never read Emil Cioran.
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by netfortius 8d ago
It's been over 25-30 years since we've been using honeytokens as means to track data of all sorts showing up in places it shouldn't exist. Why isn't research material embedding such?
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by netfortius 11d ago
The French original version of the book appears to be 12 years old (2014). Is the English translation linked here a somehow more up to date book?
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by netfortius 13d ago
Is this getting out of control, or is it "business as usual"?
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by netfortius 19d ago
> That being said, I am not sure what's the killer application for this technology... Build it, and they will come ;)
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by netfortius 22d ago
I saw him live in a presentation he gave in Chicago, early 90s. He and his book are the cause of my switching from a very young PhD in thermodynamics career to going back to school for CS, then working in the latter field until retirement,
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by netfortius 23d ago
Does anyone have a solution for reading progress sharing across macos library (now using calibre) and moonreader+ on android? What about highlights sharing?
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by netfortius 1mo ago
Kindle format link == 404
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by netfortius 2mo ago
Emil Cioran, in "A Short History of Decay", thinks that if humanity were deprived of work and sustained action for an indefinitely long "Sunday afternoon," boredom would become so unbearable that violence—crime in partic
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by netfortius 2mo ago
Obtainium works just fine with the github source
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by netfortius 2mo ago
This reminds me of the time I was (still working) in the US, for one of the big insurers, and we were researching ways to detect on which side of the car our client gets in, to assume (if from the right, in the US) that our app shall not tr
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by netfortius 2mo ago
Some more info in an earlier thread [1] [1] CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808928
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by netfortius 3mo ago
Reminded me of Maturana and his autopoiesis.
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by netfortius 3mo ago
Putting the parts in the same box, in the US, may cost more than the tariff for the whole thing being built in China or India.
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Ask HN: Who remembers Fry's Electronics – the "church" of IT people?
8 points by netfortius 3mo ago|4 comments
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by netfortius 3mo ago
There are few things more exciting, in relationship to attempting to restrict access to (data) communications, than a government which thinks geeks won't find ways around such. Now sit back, relax, and let's wait for the next gene
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by netfortius 3mo ago
100% agree. I had to install a browser extension when I use HN with such (vs app on android, when it does it by default), just to force open links to new tabs.
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by netfortius 3mo ago
Been toying with the idea for a long time, but I'm concerned about US financial institution apps and multiple countries specific apps (local transport, finance, medical and governmental), whose apks do no exist, as well as (crucial for
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by netfortius 3mo ago
Reminded me of the first honeynet I set up, during my second college degree (late 90s), in a lab where access to the internet was via individual machines direct connected public IPs (no firewalls at the time, just routers). I wasn't su
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U.S. Military Helping Move 7M Bpd Out of Persian Gulf, Wright Says(oilprice.com)
4 points by netfortius 3mo ago|2 comments
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by netfortius 3mo ago
Which data should drive the markets now?
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by netfortius 3mo ago
And how exactly are they going/hoping to do that with GV?
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by netfortius 3mo ago
In my 35+ years in IT, the "hero attitude" was the one in the top three I most hated traits in a person working with or for me. And talking about traits, I considered crucial to always have in my teams a "saboteur" engin
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Pentagon Says Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree Support China's Military(techcrunch.com)
4 points by netfortius 3mo ago|4 comments
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by netfortius 3mo ago
To me untying laces, so I can take my shoes off ASAP, its far more important than the reliability of the knot. I just need to pull an end, and free my feet, without things tangled by mistake.
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by netfortius 4mo ago
A car you'll never be able to get four people in, in the same time, using all four doors. Oh, well, if it's Ferrari...
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by netfortius 4mo ago
Thank you for this. Is your python script in any way English language bound, or could it still be applied to other languages (e.g. the French version, with all of its diacritics), of course with the appropriate (sub/full)titles, path,
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by netfortius 4mo ago
As an atheist I have an obligation to finish reading it all (still going through, and taking notes, probably having to revisit), but I am not sure how many (christian) believers will feel the same.

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