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If they're this useless when you're trying to give them money, how do you think they're going to perform when you need something that costs them money e.g. customer support?

The-Old-Hacker··on Show HN: DeepNode – A tool to search smarter and learn better

Fake engagement. Complimentary comments from two sock puppet accounts created less than an hour ago.

The-Old-Hacker··on The Passport Question (1931)

https://archive.is/Ypicw

The-Old-Hacker··on A Century of Human Detritus, Visualized

https://archive.ph/hnLxq

The-Old-Hacker··on Israel Weakened Civilian Protections When Bombing Hamas Fighters

https://archive.ph/0uRus

The-Old-Hacker··on If you own your business you can expense everything

https://archive.ph/Vv3hZ

The-Old-Hacker··on $2,100 mechanical keyboard has 800 holes, NYC skyscraper looks

It's wedge shaped and full of holes, so I guess the inspiration was in fact a piece of Swiss cheese.

The-Old-Hacker··on Employees Are Coffee Badging to Avoid Full Days at the Office [video]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_badging

The-Old-Hacker··on Disruptive 10-Minute Deliveries Enter India's Food Business

https://archive.ph/czyVf

The-Old-Hacker··on Chronic pain is surprisingly treatable – when patients focus on the brain (2021)

https://archive.ph/OB8ti

The-Old-Hacker··on Pat Gelsinger's initials are etched into every 386 processor ever made (2023)

I did something similar back in 1986 when I was working for GST Software. I created the English dictionary used by the 1st Word Plus spellchecker and included the names of all the developers.

The-Old-Hacker··on Oldest known stone tablet inscribed with Ten Commandments to be auctioned

Interesting backstory:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ten-commandments-tablet-up-for...

The-Old-Hacker··on Oldest human genomes reveal how a small group burst out of Africa

https://archive.ph/WLcdD

The-Old-Hacker··on A year in, here's how Argentina has performed under its new president

https://archive.ph/0CMkb

The-Old-Hacker··on Miles of Russian Forest Couldn't Keep These Two Tigers Apart

https://archive.ph/F7fIg

The-Old-Hacker··on Ask HN: Best password manager? (end 2024)

KeePass

I've been using it for about 10 years now after an ex-colleague at a cybersecurity company recommended it. It's freeware, with a prompt a couple of times a year to buy the developer a beer.

Pros: It has a nice clean interface, with more features than I've ever found necessary.

Cons: Oddly, the fact that it's got so many features. The help is quite technical, but it may well suit someone better qualified than me.

The-Old-Hacker··on $1 phone scanner finds seven Pegasus spyware infections

Interesting forensic report on Pegasus from Amnesty International (2021):

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-...

The-Old-Hacker··on How the World’s Most Expensive Spice Is Grown

https://archive.ph/sUb3l

The-Old-Hacker··on Manual for PUB (a markup language in 1971) – Larry Tesler

This 2020 document says that it's a “cut-and-paste” from a Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) woodcut print. Which seems much more likely. https://www.saildart.org/simple/booklet/SAILDART_PREVIEW_202...

The-Old-Hacker··on Elon Musk Has a New Project to Run: Trump's Government

https://archive.ph/gr7le

The-Old-Hacker··on How the hell did Jane Street alumni end up creating FTX? (2022)

https://archive.ph/0deV2

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