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atlbeer··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
Is this Cursor the product? Or AnySphere the company?
atlbeer··on RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard
RFC9999 obviously should be to propose RFCs having 5 digits
atlbeer··on How shut-down Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear
Tack!
atlbeer··on How shutdown Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear fast
Can you name drop some examples?
atlbeer··on Ask HN: Has autocorect ever landed in an HR meeting?
*autocorrect
atlbeer··on macOS Ventura
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33319367
atlbeer··on Top USB Drives on Amazon are a Scam
Attorneys General
atlbeer··on Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
Basis points
atlbeer··on AWS Region Coming to New Zealand
You don’t explain why but, can we all assume it’s cost?
atlbeer··on DRM says no water for you
Pretty much standard in the US. Even at sit down restaurants, free refills of soda is normal.
atlbeer··on Microsoft exec: “Summary of meeting with Steve Jobs"
People searching for something is reflective of what people search for, in some cases for products it's reflective of popularity but, I would argue in this case there's a good chance people are searching for Excel more for tips/troubleshooting/how to, than purchase intention.

If you look at a range of wide range business functions, opening and editing text documents is more prevalent than using spreadsheets.

atlbeer··on Microsoft exec: “Summary of meeting with Steve Jobs"
Excel may be globally more important of a product but, Word is certainly more popular.

Now it depends on how you calculate value.

atlbeer··on LG dryer sending 1GB+ daily traffic
Push notifications for when a cycle is complete is the prime feature
atlbeer··on Petabyte tape cartridges are coming
Google: "tape library robot"
atlbeer··on How we processed €5M in donations in 2 hours using Cloudflare and Stripe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25264506
atlbeer··on US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
I’ve always been curious about the “on-ramp” here

How does a legit company purchase $4.5M of BitCoin in 24 hours?

I would assume using a “K&R” style broker but, without one of those how would you do it?

atlbeer··on Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?
Using large data stored in S3?

Make sure you are fetching it via a S3 endpoint in your VPC instead of via public HTTP. You are paying for an (expensive) egress cost you don’t need to be paying for.

atlbeer··on What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?
Tough luck: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/13/us/citizen-nasa-engineer-d...
atlbeer··on Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
You have to fail FACTA regardless if you hold an overseas account. If you hold less than $10k USD than it's a few check boxes and takes less than 10 minutes
atlbeer··on Google loses data as lightning strikes
The real clouds are getting angry at companies misappropriating their name
atlbeer··on Confessions of a Grown-Up Kick-Scooter Rider
https://www.google.com/#q=Confessions+of+a+Grown-Up+Kick-Sco...
atlbeer··on Hacker shows he can locate, unlock and remote start GM vehicles
Where is my car in this parking lot?

"Hey look, I can beep my horn from my phone!"

atlbeer··on A Look at Backblaze’s Toshiba Hard Drives
Well, technically a NAS isn't connected to your computer. It's connected to your network, which your computer is connected to.
atlbeer··on Google Moves Its Corporate Applications to the Internet
The probably falls in the general category of a Good Thing™ for employees and people developing B2B applications since internal systems are more easily accessible but, this will be a gut check/squeaky bum time for traditional on-premises B2B vendors like PeopleSoft/SAP/IBM and the like. The corporate firewall has always been a bastion of security they have been able to hide their applications behind. As the concept of a corporate firewall begins to fade their security risk increases and previously non-worrisome attack vectors become serious problems for them.
atlbeer··on Go crypto: bridging the performance gap
Off-topic but, they probably shouldn't be using a Southeast train image in this blog post as they are notoriously bad for delays and slow service in the UK[1] :)

[1]http://www.which.co.uk/home-and-garden/leisure/reviews-ns/be...

atlbeer··on Warren Buffett Just Wrote His Best Annual Letter
One makes him money, the other's are expenses.
atlbeer··on A Richter scale for outages
An example that sprung to mind while reading was the arson/suicide attack on Chicago's air traffic control facility late last year

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Air_Route_Traffic_Contr...

atlbeer··on Dozens arrested in cybercrime 'strike week'
How have "cyber-specialists" not heard of a 'Mouse Jiggler'?

http://www.amazon.com/Wiebetech-Mouse-Jiggler-Slow-Version/d...

atlbeer··on “Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered
You don't have to actively infect every HDD in the US through the front door.

- Target the build machine used by the dev team to make the firmware

- Target the manufacturing plant and alter it before loading

- etc

atlbeer··on The Doctor Who Championed Hand-Washing and Briefly Saved Lives
Doctor? Doctor Who?
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