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In a day dream, it'd charge the batteries!

or at sea! Nuclear mines, torpedos, etc. A lot easier to take out that SSBN or carrier I guess.

Are you thinking of Dave in 2001? "Open the pod by doors, Hal." "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that."

there are so many intersecting problems here, that I feel like we argue about different ones at the same time. Are you a human and want to query a database? SQL is probably it. (a …

ok, ok, the headline here is more descriptive but the one actually in the article is a good one: The Hole Truth

There's a scene in Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 that I think about often: Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the…

Elon Musk, to customer: I'm sorry for your experience also Elon Musk, to product management: why don't we have a targa option? that looks amazing

The struggle between semantic and page description is old. In some early arguments HTML "what's this markup thing, why not postscript with hyperlinks?" the most succinct counter ar…

also: earlier recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24358850

the world should be append only!

and they surely weren't the first to do that either, I assume now.

This gets reinvented as a system matures, I think. IBM mainframes had TCP offload in the early 90's at least. (The NIC in that case was a PC running PS/2 plus some routing software…

I agree: it catches entry errors, which is really handy in a system where you're hand-writing them twice. But if you're writing a computer system that's simply duplicating one entr…

or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdgzsF_O7oI&t=47 ?

I feel like https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen really drives this home.

One day a chicken will finally win, which will be a pullet surprise... But seriously, congratulations to the winners!

or honeypot rooms with super secret sounding military talk

or honeypot rooms with soft porn

I have to agree that Zoom just doesn't seem to care very much about privacy or security. Once? Sure, maybe an honest mistake. But, come on. Also, I have been enjoying this: https:/…

great article! It's not mentioned there, but I think the "conventional phone lines" meant fax, which was a pretty common gateway from the internet at the time. One of the McCools (…

I should re-read Snowcrash. Was one of those texts the namshub of Enki by any chance?

Tangent, sure, why not COBOL? COBOL in the cloud for example with Elastic Cobol: https://www.heirloomcomputing.com/elasticcobol/ ? I mostly just love the name.

I was even going to say it was a missed opportunity for gittyup but maybe giddyup is better for TM avoidance!

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