thinking001001

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by thinking001001 3y ago
Good point! Taiwan is a political anomaly, an accidental offshoot that came about as a result of the rise of the CCP in China (people moved to Taiwan for refuge), and Taiwan has become enormously successful in an organic, unplanned way.
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by thinking001001 3y ago
That was fascinating, thank you.
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by thinking001001 3y ago
Simple: Chrome captured the market with a good product, at the right time. I remember when Chrome was new, and it was fast, and Google had other game-changing products (like email with enormous storage). I was just an average consumer back
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by thinking001001 3y ago
Computer Science is, on a evolutionary level, a whole new field, something between a branch off of Mathematics and physical engineering so... no, it won't stop changing anytime soon. If you wanted something more timeless, perhaps you s
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by thinking001001 3y ago
There are only 24^3 possible combinations of 3-letter file extensions, 34^3 if we start mixing in numbers. And they potentially will need to be constantly available for decades to come... We should probably use more sparingly to prevent a r
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Ask HN: How did Digicert come to dominate valuable PKI certificates?
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by thinking001001 3y ago
The Runescape 2 economy is quite a fascinating semi-simulation/semi-reality case study. It was originally a free market economy - players traded freely and advertised wares in public places, such as the incredibly busy server World 2 i
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by thinking001001 3y ago
Big surprise, a state-funded (kinda) organisation doesn't know how to sell. Economics is all about sales, guys... But the UK is getting a triple whammy from the financial fallout of Covid-19, Ukraine invasion & fossil fuel prices,
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by thinking001001 3y ago
But maybe there isn't much to 'improve'...? I suspect this is the feeling shared by those who appreciate it.
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by thinking001001 3y ago
Would somewhat agree/disagree. Debian installer is kind of a monster, but Ubuntu's changes to the installer broke compatibility with tried-and-tested PXE install software (i.e. Cobbler). Ubuntu's packaging of Firefox as a Sna
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by thinking001001 3y ago
Depends if you're running Python or not (or an equivalent scripting language with OS dependencies i.e. Ruby, PHP, Perl)
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by thinking001001 3y ago
Given the privilege escalations in sudo and the bajillion untestable features built-in, arguably the Linux community should've moved on from it many years ago, following OpenBSD's lead...
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by thinking001001 3y ago
Just want to add that you can also create a full Alpine Linux filesystem with Alpine's official "apk-static" (statically compiled version of apk) and then run it as a container, with automatic network configuration, using sys
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by thinking001001 3y ago
"Being smart is important, but knowing how to sell it also important. Americans know how to sell." - South African guy I met, who went to Yale on a scholarship
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by thinking001001 4y ago
The reality is the technology industry has become heavily privatised, and privatisation means sales, and good engineers aren't interested in sales, but funding is required to build things... So, you need companies or governments with a
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by thinking001001 4y ago
Given the Ukraine situation, there should at least be a read-only/no-login Tor service, I think
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by thinking001001 4y ago
Oh so people are getting like facebook-login.tk and catching passwords or something, I guess. I'm sure there are tonnes of (free) @gmail.com or @yahoo.com accounts used for phishing though? Or AWS hosted serves? Maybe Meta should be pa
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by thinking001001 4y ago
It is true, encrypted /boot on Linux (i.e. where the Linux kernel lives) is time-consuming and error-prone to setup, even if you have been using Linux for years. GRUB only understands LUKS version 1, and is poorly optimised, meaning LU
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by thinking001001 4y ago
Bravo, it is much more likely to be reliable if everyone is going down the same kind of path to set it up
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by thinking001001 4y ago
At my last job, what I least looked forward to was having to go back to the office someday. It is an anti-freedom, but it is the only viable option for certain kinds of roles.
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by thinking001001 4y ago
Undesirable work culture, or mentally unstable? Both?
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by thinking001001 4y ago
Oh man just reminded me of a strange dream, the other day. A lady was enthusiastic about Haskell and was trying to encourage me to get into it. I was like "I like the language but the official docs are bad, I don't know how to lea
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by thinking001001 4y ago
In regards to using a VPN for privacy: The important thing about a shared VPN service is that it makes it difficult to distinguish traffic, and by sharing multiple IPs across different countries it becomes even harder to track an individu
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by thinking001001 4y ago
Learn C?
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by thinking001001 4y ago
There may be something to be said for working in industry generally, e.g. all the soft skills issues such as dealing with management, colleagues, deadlines, interviews, the touch-and-go nature of private companies. These can help with caree
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by thinking001001 4y ago
As if office politics wasn't tricky enough already, throw in Elon Musk
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by thinking001001 4y ago
Oh my, was just thinking about this phone this morning. God bless, R.I.P., never forget. So much potential, just too late to market. Hope the developing world will see it before it is too late.
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by thinking001001 4y ago
Emacs as a religion
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by thinking001001 4y ago
Maybe any of Cloudflare, Oracle, IBM, since they don't have as much data (yet)
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by thinking001001 4y ago
I dread to think of all the state-funded technology companies with backdoor-ed firmware/software coming out of China

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