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netman21

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    Comment #42836384

    Interesting fact: University of Southhampton developed 5D disks for dense data storage. The capability was acquired by the Arch Foundation which seeks to preserve data longterm. Th…

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    Comment #42836266

    Largest in recorded history is a bit of hyperbole. In the 1800s something like 80% of all Americans had the TB bacillus and of those that came down with TB a huge percentage died.

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    Comment #42724874

    It's an offshoot from dashboard.it-harvest.com

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    Show HN: AI Assistant for cybersecurity product research

    We built this to give people access to the data we collect on 11,300 cybersecurity products from 4,070 companies.

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    Comment #42662675

    Hee, hee. "Imperial Library of Trantor."

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    Comment #42660902

    As a kid I learned to see stereograms in 3D by crossing my eyes. Exact same technique. Comes in handy for Mars images today.

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    Comment #42091880

    Surviving Cyberwar There Will be Cyberwar: How The Move To Network-Centric Warfighting Has Set The Stage For Cyberwar

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    Comment #41829497

    Man I would die of shame if I ever wrote something as bad as "it’s not yet clear if the increase in seismic activity is anything more than just an unusually high number of tremors.…

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    Comment #41051748

    All of my business comes from Linkedin. I get inbound leads from content I post to Substack. I then promote it with a pithy summary on Linkedin. I don't encounter any of the stuff …

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    Comment #40634307

    Remember when Cliff Stoll wrote a whole book about how the internet was over-hyped, Silicon Snake Oil? In 1995. We are in the same stage with AI.

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    Comment #40234885

    Supademo is great for creating interactive demos. You record your screen then script out the actions a user would take. Super simple.

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    Comment #40234850

    Now I envision a multi-story lunar habitat with a 30 foot diameter well that you have to run on to get from one level to the next. At least to get up. Getting down may just involve…

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    Comment #40097213

    Well, I hired my intern in January 2022. He used no-code to launch our product in March of '22. Now he is co-founder and CTO and still has a year to go in school!

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    Comment #40030485

    If you qualify for itemized deductions, which you do if you have a mortgage, you can claim things you need for professional development, etc. Subscriptions are a good catch-all. Th…

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    Comment #40026290

    I was introduced to monkey management principles at my first job out of school. This was 1982. My boss taught it to me. Has helped me ever after.

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    Comment #39968723

    I read Endurance many times when I was younger. Had lunch with someone who turned out to be the son of the architects who designed Alfred Lansing's house! I know, obscure...

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    Comment #39742937

    Now combine this approach with concepts of no-code, which takes the task of writing lines of code out of the path from concept to production. An AI could easily create instructions…

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    Comment #39260470

    Self employed on and off for 20 years. I am an industry analyst, former Gartner. If you have questions about that I wrote a book about it. :-) https://www.amazon.com/Curmudgeon-How…

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    Comment #39197062

    When are we going to stop calculating BTC total value by multiplying number of BTC times what is, let's face it, a spot price. There is no way you could sell 2 billion euros worth …

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    Comment #39197018

    We have always been 100% remote. I have people who live in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, NC, IL, and CA. It's the only way to go.

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    Comment #38990144

    I launched RustNet in 1992 as "the first ISDN ISP in Michigan." We offered a blindingly fast internet speed of 125k! At the time Silicon Graphics had added an ISDN port to its late…

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    Comment #38856542

    I feel this. I write non-fiction in the tech industry. I start every project estimating the potential number of readers. My second book is the only one written for a particular pro…

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    Comment #38820769

    All I know is that I was quoted $50K from a Ukraine team to build an MVP, as long as I could provide detailed specs down to every function. I hired an intern who used bubble/airtab…

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    Comment #37865814

    Glanced through it. Just another CICO argument. Totally ignores that eating carbs makes you want more carbs, leads to being hungry in two hours and thus over eating.