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One cool feature is that you can use C-Kermit to do inline file transfers over the open SSH session. It doesn't work over a terminal muxer like screen/tmux, but it is pretty useful…

At least with me (married filing jointly), when Trump raised the standard deduction so high, the mortgage interest deduction doesn't come into play. It hasn't seemed to change my t…

Micron isn't exiting the consumer business. Their consumer brand (Crucial) is going away. You don't buy SK Hynix or Samsung RAM (unless you are an OEM typically.) Consumers can sti…

Thanks for the insight. I'm glad you thought the Home Depot store and your interpretation makes sense. I don't have a good save, but starting at the 28:43 mark in this YT video the…

Awesome doc. I've taken some pictures of real life in comparison to the game, but not to the extreme level you have. Any fans of the game who wants to visit Seattle this summer, th…

I still see it in stock for pick up in Bay Area and in Seattle. I tried a Montana zip code and it showed it as available also. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/pny-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4…

Bestbuy has the PNY 4060 Ti 16GB in stock right now for $450.

I would recommend the full video on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEg8cOx7UZk Another fascinating bit is when he describes the flat management structure NVDA has. He, as…

It hasn't been for years now. The systems get a unique password from the factory and is on the tag.

The guy you are replying to was employee 2 or 3 depending on how you count at Amazon. There was a ton of various scripts written in perl that kept everything running for sure. The …

Website was written in C for NSAPI. obidos was the name. If you see current URLs that contain /gp/, that is when they transitioned to java backend. GP stands for Garupa.

Cool. I don't think I understood that aspect back then. I was tasked to look at converting the sun box sitting in the sodo DC to something else. I logged in and found latex but did…

Well, like every internet company in 99, there was SUN servers. There was a lone sun workstation that printed some of the shipping docs in latex. I believe that was left by Paul Ba…

He is wrong and is corrected later on in that tweet. At that time, AMZN was mostly DEC Digital Unix. The DNS and mail servers were Linux in 97. AMZN started with SUNW (pre 97), but…

There is a field of study around "mindset". The fairly famous book is called Mindset by Carol Dweck. This infographic summarizes the ideas very well. http://i.imgur.com/HGBY1tW.png…

A (the?) big reason Microsoft got the IBM contract was because Bill Gate's mom (Mary Gates) was on the board of United Way with the CEO of IBM at the time (John Opel.) Bill Gate's …

Misleading article. The news is that Kubernetes is going to support coreos's rkt. It already supports Docker.

Brings back old memories of TheDraw in the DOS days. Made some ANSI art back for some pirate boards in the early 90s. Someone archived it and I was able to find one of the ones I d…