retrocryptid

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by retrocryptid 4mo ago
Oh man. I was just reminded of ClearCase and Perforce and sort of threw up a little in the back of my mouth. You young whipper-snappers who didn't have to use ClearCase and have only used hg or git don't know how bad it could
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by retrocryptid 4mo ago
That being said... it's actually somewhat uncommon for humans to drive into flooded streets. To the degree that people think it's notable enough to take videos and post them to social media. I don't have the data, but would
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by retrocryptid 4mo ago
I thought Weymo's were supposed to be "supervised" by humans in the Philippines. Maybe driving in circles in the suburbs and driving into flood waters happens only when the cars are out of mobile data range? Did Weymo pay t
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by retrocryptid 4mo ago
NICE!
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by retrocryptid 4mo ago
Natalie mentions the Newman & Nagel's text "Gödel's Proof," a (//the//?) 1958 classic on the subject. [[ 1 ]] Having left IBM in December 1990, I spent a month with the
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by retrocryptid 5mo ago
I just hope they stop him before he nukes the west coast. He said something about ending a society, I just wonder if he meant he wanted to to nuke San Francisco.
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by retrocryptid 5mo ago
Data point: A couple years ago I worked for a company that calculated sales tax for customers. They had developed expertise in knowing where each jurisdiction kept it's tax code and how to turn that tax code into software. I was per
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YouTube Video Critiques Facebook's Push into the Metaverse(youtube.com)
2 points by retrocryptid 6mo ago|1 comments
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by retrocryptid 1y ago
but the metric the OP was using was power density. nuke fuels are MUCH more energy dense than hydrocarbon fuels. but putting a reactor on each plane would probably have negative externalities. but mixing your comment with a few others, ma
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by retrocryptid 1y ago
it might be fun to try to make a modern wooden sailing ship cargo fleet. maybe with an emergency diesel engine in the back.
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by retrocryptid 1y ago
i wish there was more talk about this. it seems i heard a lot about making hydrocarbons from co2 in the air + solar or algae a couple years ago. if your hydrocarbons are made this way it seems they would be carbon neutral. i'm guessi
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by retrocryptid 1y ago
i would have given this guy credit if he compared cost of production for petro fuels when talking about energy debt. also conflates power with energy, but fine. if you talk about cost (dollar or kilowatt hour) per joule delivered to a vehic
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by retrocryptid 1y ago
Back in the day Convex Computer Corporation was laying off a large fraction of its staff. The plan was to come into the warroom and just hang out. Your manager would come and get you and take you into a private conference room to discuss y
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by retrocryptid 1y ago
Modern CS programs teach to what they perceive to be the interview their students will encounter after graduation: what is a tree data structure, how to craft a SQL query and how to calculate a CRC with a python library. More advanced CS&#
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
Maybe we'll see a boost in worker productivity.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
I couldn't find reference to quintrophy or quintrophy1x in the IACR eprint archive (or on a google search.) And I think you forgot the references to external review.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
yup, there was just so much money flowing around. it was like the dot com era for aeronautical engineers and machinists.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
we lived in rona hills for about 4 years. not biking distance, but close enough to visit frequently. and as a youngster they let me conduct the AF orchestra there at the AF 25th anniversary. Very good memories.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
They tell the most pernicious lies about radiation.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
not really.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
I remember seeing this beast at the Air Force 25th anniversary in '72 at wright pat. Pretty sure the one I saw didn't ever fly again.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
Apropos of Don't Look Up, 2024 YR4 doesn't yet have an official name (or at least I haven't heard it if it does.) So my friends have started calling it "2024 Dibiasky" as a joke.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
I was sort of pulling for the asteroid and got depressed when I heard this, but then realized... 0.28 percent is not zero. There's still enough of a chance it'll hit that we're going to be forced to take it seriously. In th
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
I guess this is for DOS only systems? I used elm on BSD/386 in the 80s, and honestly was a little surprised to learn it's still being maintained by Kari Hurtta. And then I was thinking, Pegasus can't be older than Pine, Alp
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
no.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
you might want to have a few special agents swing by big balls' apartment and go through whatever hard drives can be found. ive got to think they've already made an offsite backup.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
I suspect there was a human who posted a link to the OP's post here on HN. It is -that- human who was being asked to provide context since they should have know that by posting a link to HN, they are posting a link to a community that
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
Whether or not 30k tps is slow depends on what kind of transactions you're talking about and whether you're measuring the whole system or one core. One of the nice things about HTTP(S) is it has rerdirect semantics (to shed load)
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
2024 YR4 isn't that great of a name. I'm guessing the discoverer gets to name it. Is there a more human-friendly name?
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
dude is definitely a dude. cheezed off that someone can take leave after a miscarriage.

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