Viewing profile — marianov

Most properties are bought cash. That's dollar bills, no bank transfer, no pesos.

Zero interest is a lie. The interest is already on the price

Argentina

Except nobody questions when people at the office "steal" time ot the coffee machine, talking about sports, talking on the phone or just wandering around thinking about something. …

Leatherman tools 5 meters of Spectra rope I've owned for 20 years and use for everything Thinkpad X220 Shimano bicycle drivetrains

I'm replacing my 10yo Thinkpad camera thia week. Guess what will be my next laptop? Wish phones were like that

X220 owner here. Do all modern laptops (even thinkpads) have those crappy keyboards? Need to upgrade soon, or maybe I'll RDP to a bigger system

Paywalled? How would you use it?

Let's say 200k in the US vs 100k Euro in Portugal. What's the best offer taking into account cost of living, purchase power, etc? Numbeo.com seems like an aoproximation. Using the …

Google Earth traces back to the Mars demo? That was amazing when I was a kid

I found the references to 90's tech fun (like Chaos Computer Club).

Yes. And it was discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7301630

I know. I just wanted to emphasize on Zoom being the only thing that makes an otherwise perfect computer not powerful enough (for me of course).

X220 is my primary computer. It never uses more than 4 of the 16GB RAM. I ran the fan almost all the time at full speed tough. The killer app (in a bad sense) is Zoom. It kills the…

I played rugby and there is no way I'll let my children play. Spinal injuries from scrum collapses are way too common, and there is a view of scrum being a fundamental part of the …

Yes

High inflation question: Given 40% inflation. An item is offered for $1200 in 12 "zero interest" payments of $100 or $800 in cash. How do you compare their real cost taking into ac…

AWS Casio as a service.

I thought this was about adding a digital signature with an x509 certificate, which has been a PITA for ages because of the PDF standard, plus browsers isolation from certificate s…

It also launched many information security careers :)

This is a new private satellite from Satellogic. I guess the best spy images this days are obtained with droned but that's a whole different budget

Dynamite. Lots of it. Or a nuke.