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e40

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About e40

https://e40.github.io/ (new)

I deactivated my twitter account on Feb 5, 2023.

Email is hackernews a-t known d-o-t net.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49216874

    I had no idea the idea was so old!

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    Comment #49214029

    Not Canadian. Real question: is this the impact of having a normal human at the helm?

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    Comment #49204684

    Following a route through a tunnel (less than a mile long), Google Maps on iOS zooms forward on the route many stops and many miles (5+ miles) in the tunnel. I had assumes Apple Ma…

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    Comment #49203020

    What choice do they have? This is not your usual vigilante group. This is a reaction to an overwhelming force of criminal gangs killing citizens and the government being powerless …

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    Comment #49199836

    You moved the goalpost. You said they are clean as could be. While temporary, sure, it was a horrific situation for the nearby residents.

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    Comment #49194446

    > Datacenter is like the cleanest and most ecofriendly business you can imagine. Tell that to the residents of Memphis.

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    Comment #49107907

    My guess: technical debt makes fixing it impossible. I can’t believe many Microsoft developers didn’t try to fix it.

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    Comment #49107867

    Losing the race? Get your political buddies to help “level” the playing field!

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    Comment #49107854

    > Sorry, if you are unwilling to take 10 minutes to learn how to sign your code, you have no business maintaining software releases millions of people depend on. Full stop. The cru…

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    Comment #49107831

    3rd paragraph

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    Comment #49104284

    Yep, me, too. My reddit usage went down 10x (maybe more) after Apollo was killed. Probably a good thing, in retrospect.

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    Comment #49096679

    Thanks, will try!

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    Comment #49085946

    When I updated my Homepods to 26.5.2 I wasted 4 hours trying to get them back online. It was a complete nightmare. I never really figured out why it was so hard. I just kept gettin…

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    Comment #49082667

    You can’t leave is hanging like that! What happened?

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    Comment #49062856

    Yeah, I miss him, too. I think about how he died alone. What a terrible thing.

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    Comment #49062845

    Around the time of his ascent in comp.lang.lisp is when I stopped reading it. It was just flame wars, and I think he had a good bit of the responsibility. Seeing his dual personali…

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    Comment #49015632

    So many people who have big personalities on the internet are like that. My example is Erik Naggum. I spent a lot of time with him and the gulf between his in-person and on-line pe…

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    Comment #49009588

    > I think this is because the demand is so extreme for datacenters now Point to _any_ analysis that says the current building boom is anything but speculation. xAI is renting out t…

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    Comment #49009089

    IMDB shows this info.

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    Comment #48946441

    Details please on the AT&T CEO story

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    Comment #48930878

    People like that are never friends. It’s a relationship of convenience and power exchange. The public riff was because Elon got upset over something and threw a tantrum. Some think…

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    Comment #48915204

    So, giving access via tailscale but using OpenSSH is safe, right?

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    Comment #48904488

    To what? Serious question. Remember, we’re talking about grandma here.

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    Comment #48904111

    Namecheap was recently sold to PE. I had been with them for decades and immediately transferred to Cloudflare. Lessor of evils.

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    Comment #48887534

    Sorry to hear this. I was hopeful of pressure on Putin.