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Nekhrimah

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About Nekhrimah

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    Comment #46849262

    Oh look, it worked again.

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    Comment #44166223

    The framing of this story right from the start is disingenuous. The Microsoft job losses are explicitly reported as "part of a broader strategy to streamline operations and acceler…

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    Comment #44034646

    [flagged]

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    Comment #42067740

    It's explained further down the page that this launch time will facilitate the Indian Ocean landing in sunlight, for improved visual capture of that.

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    Comment #42010755

    The axiom: AI allows wealth to access skill, while denying skill access to wealth, ringing especially loud from this story.

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    Comment #38466839

    What's the bet that there was no single approved requirements document covering this design.

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    Comment #38451925

    The follow up Episodes One and Two are fantastic. And the leaked storyline for Episode Three looking really strong as well. I hold out hope that the Crowbar Collective (the group t…

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    Comment #38209628

    >TVC Apologies, could someone de-acronym this one please.

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    Comment #37579680

    > If anyone has any stories that I should add, please send them my way! https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem... Worthy, but no where near as circulated!

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    Comment #37514016

    Threes! was literally the perfect game at launch. Of course, the shitty free clone 2048 took the concept, made it worse, and somehow (because it was free) captured the majority of …

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    Comment #37504842

    Have you caught these couple of Max Fosh videos? I Broke Into The International Security Convention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM3imMiERdU I Broke Into The U.S. Security Conve…

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    Comment #37476730

    > We very much do "look up" and have been for decades. In case you didn't pick it up, Don't Look Up is a callout to a recent movie [1]. I imagine that in this context it's more of …

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    Comment #37460243

    >whoever decided that reusing an old flag was a good idea. My understanding is that in high frequency trading, minimizing the size of the transmission is paramount. Hence re-purpos…

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    Comment #37255530

    With those letters, not surprised!

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    Comment #37255393

    Not sure about that third row, the "A" is in the second row.

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    Comment #35896956

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_d... Basically looks like another exercise of legislating for the hell of it, rather than making lives better for America…

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    Comment #35682373

    > nearly done With silicon based physical chips, I imagine this is true. I would guess, like some speculative science fiction, that the next leap in performance would be an entirel…

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    Comment #35647056

    1) Horrible headline. Why can't we focus on the positive test objectives met. SpaceX made it clear that getting off the pad was the main goal, everything else was bonus. 2) This to…

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    Comment #35431054

    While it may eventually deliver results, the primary goal of the SLS is a massive jobs programme, across the states of the politicians that support it.

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    Comment #35032902

    Thanks. That was my intent, but guess I mucked it up.

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    Comment #35028822

    Interesting IT war story on Reddit. It's mid-thread so maybe not widely read. Real 500 mile email stuff.

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    Comment #34902017

    > Profit. Well yes, but also substantial life saving interventions become possible.

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    Comment #34875841

    The movie Yesterday has a relevant plot point. Late in the film, when Jack is putting out another album of Beatles music he really wants it to be called Abbey Road, but the modern …

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    Comment #34604433

    Fairly axiomatic since US health care is for-profit by design.