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euroderf

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About euroderf

yanqui ex-pat in southern finland. formally retired but with continuing interest in tech comms, Go (simplicity wins, "the NJ way"), wasm. could do p/t gigs in one/multi. voiceovers too - am in ads & imdb.

easily bored. new to parenthood - he's 6yo. festival stagehand VETERAN. märklin n00b. arduino n00b. IoT n00b. dreams of bass proficiency. hex-based wargames. g.u. msfs 1988, unused in the workplace.

done vic-20, cp/m, tape readers, punch cards, vax vms, pl/c, pl/1, dos tsr's, other retro atrocities. and then along came c & unix v6. SATORI! way to Go.

"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough." -Mario Andretti

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #49209716

    Ya have to wonder if there is a DOGE-Musk-Palantir connection.

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    Comment #49193557

    Someone please inform the Safari team.

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    Comment #49185897

    What you describe could pass for the USSR all over again.

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    Comment #49173740

    > If they can exhaust all their firepower in a couple weeks fighting Iran, China would have no reason to feel threatened in the first place. Well but war will be like this now. Lik…

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    Comment #49173551

    +1 on Proto. It focuses on the tremendous amount of information revealed by DNA analysis, and it weaves this together with historical linguistics and archeology.

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    Comment #49159702

    Seabed "mining" (if you consider strip mining to be mining) was studied a lot even in the 1980s. It's not new. Maybe the economics are finally working out.

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    Comment #49156234

    How about a grand trade: Age verification for Corporation ownership verification. - No more shell companies. - Only humans may own shares. - Public ownership registers. Know thine …

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    Comment #49156031

    "Hi! I'm from the government and I'm here to defraud you."

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    Comment #49125642

    Only the pensions making risky bets on AI

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    Comment #49122829

    Coming soon, a haircut like none before.

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    Comment #49121427

    AFAIK, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo(sp?) made it quite a bit harder to build the case for warming. What about the effects of that big kaboom in the Pacific a year or two ago ?

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    Comment #49121381

    35 consumer drones delivering 35 chunks of metal.

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    Comment #49121341

    When water is outlawed, only outlaws will have water.

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    Comment #49109222

    What's the secret sauce for transferring one's own annotations and notes among all these apps ?

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    Comment #49107931

    Yes, and Organic Maps and Maps.Me do the same - download entire countries or regions. It is SO tremendously useful when traveling. Have not tried CoMaps yet.

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    Comment #49107194

    This really matters in map apps when you're on the road. Apple Maps is all very nice with transit planning but without a solid net connection it lies there mutely. Organic Maps (an…

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    Comment #49097219

    I need this for Safari.

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    Comment #49091079

    Where is my home router that is Lean-validated ?

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    Comment #49072921

    Of course! It charges my personal taser (which I wisely left at home on this trip out of the country).

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    Comment #49070684

    Wise man say: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single tractable beachhead.

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    Comment #49070543

    It has to be a once-only effect tho. If it's repeatable, they've got you for some string of felonies.

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    Comment #49067120

    In Finland in summer you can have around 20 hours of sunlight per day, so there's a lot of energy free for the taking. But could this tech work affordably at the level of individua…

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    Comment #49062528

    You might run into "security thru obscurity".

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    Comment #49062489

    I'd try hanging long sheets of aluminum foil in too-large windows. I imagine someone in academia has studied this.

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    Comment #49060983

    But then perhaps your photocopiers would need constant updates - to do the usual banknote detection and refusal to copy ?