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> Imagine a cartridge with a physical model on it. I can finally have my own Dixie flatline. Cool.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

I think it was a Neal Stephenson quote from cryptobimicon. It certainly increases shareholder value.

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I'm learning to break 4-rotor Enigma encrypts.

Heavy drug wars vibe. I love it.

My hypothesis is markets are fractally efficient and fractally competitive. Much like a strange attractor, they swing between states of efficiency and competitiveness. The default …

SEEKING WORK | Data scientist consultant | Canada/Remote Worldwide Most of what people call "data science" is now doable with an LLM and a weekend. I focus on the messy, ambiguous,…

A major plot point in the Red Dwarf books is about Coca-Cola sending a fleet of space ships out to blow up stars so they can spell "Enjoy Coca-Cola" in the sky. One of those ships …

Microsoft did this with its "Playsforsure" program. Naturally it got shut down and your media no longer plays.

Microkernel, and hard RT scheduler from the start.

How could I forget this! He also recommended the name. Wolfram had come up with some normal techie names "computron", "math-o-matic" or whatever. SJ said No those suck, use somethi…

Steve Jobs and Stephen Wolfram were friends for years. Mathematica shipped preinstalled on early NeXT systems. SJ recommended some of the UI bits of the notebook. Particularly the …

I'm using AI to de-compile NeXTStep applications back to Objective-C source code. The idea is decompile something like Wordperfect or Framemaker, then port the NeXTStep code to GNU…

Fuuck. Did Spud use vim? We know Sick Boy (Zero Cool) would be an emacs user.

"format" is what Nigerian scammers call a playbook for each scam type. So a pig butchering "format", romance scam "format", inheritance scam "format", etc. They offered to help me …

I've gotten the north Korean wanting to use my upwork account... I'd have to create one first. But now the Nigerian "format" scammers are into job scams. I got an email that reeked…

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SEEKING WORK | Data scientist consultant | Canada/Remote Worldwide Most of what people call "data science" is now doable with an LLM and a weekend. I focus on the messy, ambiguous,…

I feel like there's honestly a space for "Greybeards Inc". Maybe a consultancy of people who have seen and done it all before - Very selective of their clients.

Back when I was a young lad I wanted engineering to be a real discipline - formal qualifications, codes, held to account, and limitations on who could call themself an Engineer(TM)…

No one. The influencers are simply telling you you're wrong if you think you need that. Which is the thing, we do need a single key that can be used for all those things. So we get…

> * when I say time savings I mean dick measuring contest And in this case smaller is better?

You can't beat this though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35015#35079