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Go to telehack.com and type 'notes'. It's not comprehensive, but will give you a taste of the flavor of what Usenet was like.

Minsky and Sussman slaving away in front of that apocryphal PDP-10 in 1970. And 50 years later…last November..suddenly BOOM. Everything they yearned for comes into view.

In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to pla…

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But why is this bad? Let people choose how to spend their money how they want. On geo, on food, on trips, on saving..on whatever. Pay them for their work, let them allocate their s…

Well done! This must have been a massive project. 1000 hours? Don't miss the project photo album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/7yxiuzpsFReUh5Yy5

“The pennies you save will be the dollars your widow’s husband spends.”

Why is it important to leave something behind?

https://startingstrength.com/article/barbell_training_is_big...

We had shadow banning in the Topix forums in 2005.

We've been using logging like this but with jsonl lines. Still easy to grep as straight text, but very handy to be able to parse with jq or other tools and be able to have rich val…

IBM's 3 year vest schedule on cash retention packages was 10% at 6 months, 10% at 12 months, 30% at 24 months, and 50% at 36 months. So half of your retention pay happens on the 3r…

A previous genius industrialist - Isambard Kingdom Brunel - built an "atmospheric railway" in 1844. https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2014/apr/04/b...

Did something change recently with the HN ranking algorithm?

'eq' does the test you are asking for.

Agreed. The IRS doesn't take stuff like this lying down; see http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0328/092.html

I've got most of those games up in http://telehack.com/ Just type basic and then dir to list them.

Salesforce is a publicly traded company with a market cap of $16B, with $2B in annual revenue. The gap between the reality of their place and power in the market they enjoy, and th…

http://telehack.com/ has a 'talk' command and a web interface, although you'll have to make an account to use it and CLI your way to the command. The simple web interface at typeto…

Wow...this is seriously cool. I like how the old threads are preserved in the newsreader interface. There is also something about having the clock advance in "realtime" that makes …

There are about 25,000 hosts, mostly mined from old uucp maps. You can login to the hosts or finger @them and see users logged in who posted from them at the time. Try e.g. finger …

From http://telehack.com/telehack.html "Telehack is a simulation of a sylized arpanet/usenet, circa 1985-1990. It is a full multi-user simulation, including 25,000 hosts and BBS's …

Nobody "invents" lifeforms. They hack a few strands of dna cobbled together from other sources and wait until a batch actually grows. Which is what the plants do all by themselves.…