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cable2600··on Why they clapped for Sam Bankman-Fried
They had invested money in him and his business, so they had to clap for him because if he sinks they all sink.
cable2600··on Elon Says He’ll Make His Own Phone If Apple and Google Deplatform Twitter
Musk should use this OS on his phones: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/pureos-mobile/
cable2600··on San Francisco politicians to vote on policy endorsing lethal force for robots
Da da duh da da! Terminators.
cable2600··on Alabama failed to complete an execution by lethal injection for a third time
I heard they do this on purpose to get back to firing squads because a bullet is cheaper than a lethal injection.
cable2600··on Climate change isn't helping matters as global sperm count declines
I thought that was because of the growth hormones used in the foods (meat) and pesticide used in plants? Men are becoming obsolete anyway and now infertle.
cable2600··on Twitter’s Last Gasp – Death Is in the Air on Twitter
Not if they innovate out of the problems? Banning and censorship seem to be the past issues that turned people off of Twitter. Even Yahoo made mistakes and had everything before Google had it and it still exists in some form. Yahoo removed their Groups and Geocities sites that were very popular. Users policed their own groups for banning and censoring.

The thing is if nobody does the banning and censoring, bad stuff leaks through. Why not meta mod like Slashdot has? Have the users decide collectively and then meta mod the votes to see if it was fair.

cable2600··on SteamOS Desktop Imaging Could Be Coming Soon
I just run the Steam client on Ubuntu, seems to work fine. Valve does not need to make SteamOS unless it is for the noobz who can't figure out how to install Linux.
cable2600··on Reverse Engineering Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D
My N64 won't read carts. Playing SW:RS 3D in a N64 emulator is slow. Maybe they can make it a native game on MacOS, Linux, and Windows?
cable2600··on Eli Lilly stock fell by $20B because of a fake tweet about free insulin
It shows you the power of Twitter and rumors and fake news.
cable2600··on Ask HN: Why are so many people still convinced blockchain is a viable solution?
It has been proven to work well in Cryptocurrency it can work in other applications.
cable2600··on Running a pinball game from a disk image doesn't make me a pirate
Without PINMAME and other Pinball emulators you wouldn't have: https://zenstudios.com/games/pinball-fx/ to sell Pinball games on.
cable2600··on What were you doing before learning to code?
I wanted to be an Astronaut so I was studying Math and Science a lot. Turns out Math and Science is good for engineering and programming code as well.
cable2600··on [dead]
Must be a time bomb a senior developer put in the web code? If he doesn't reset it every day the error goes off.
cable2600··on Twitter Is Already a Hellscape
I thought Twitter was a Hellscape before Elon bought it? That is why I left Twitter. Mastodon is much better.
cable2600··on Former President Donald Trump says his Twitter account reinstated on Monday
Trump doesn't need a Twitter account now that he built a Twitter alternative called Truth.
cable2600··on Can humans regrow limbs? A lab study with frogs offers hope
I always think of Dr. Curt Conners in Spider-Man who lost an arm and regrew it with a study on lizards, until to turn into a man sized lizard.

This is good news for military vets who lost limbs, they can regrow them back.

cable2600··on Math Scores Fell in Nearly Every State, and Reading Dipped on National Exam
I am Generation-X we had no Internet and iPhones and PCs and online gaming consoles to distract us and we actually studied to get to use what we had or we couldn't use them. Atari 2600 with block graphics, Commodore 64 for a computer no Internet but a MODEM to access BBSes.

Plus all this woke stuff being taught instead of math and reading doesn't help. Teach math and reading let the parents teach the woke stuff.

cable2600··on Roubini: We're Heading for a Stagflationary Crisis Unlike Anything We've Seen
If you just check the prices on gas, food, and other things they have been going up with inflation since after Biden took office. Things are not fine and property taxes and values are going up and so does rent. We are one step away from WWIII with Russia and Ukraine. The draft in the USA is going to come back as soon as war is declared.

People keep saying buy silver and gold, nothing printed. But you can't eat gold and silver when the food runs out and there is a shortage. Learn how to grow a victory garden and eat vegetables.

cable2600··on Apple II Textfiles
https://www.computerhope.com/unix/dos2unix.htm
cable2600··on VirtualBox 7.0 with macOS M1 M2 support and Windows 11 support
Download is here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Linux, Windows, and MacOS

cable2600··on Canonical launches free personal Ubuntu Pro subscriptions
It is still in beta.
cable2600··on Man 3D Prints 110 Guns, Sells Them to Buyback Program for $21,000
3D Printed guns are Ghost Guns because they have no serial number. Also made of plastic so metal detectors cannot detect them.
cable2600··on Metabolism may not slow after 20 – so why do we still gain weight?
Processed foods, lack of exercise, Starbucks with a lot of sugar in them.
cable2600··on Biden’s Student Loan Plan Has Issues
Most people will have to apply for it. They get $1000 a year for 10 years. It isn't as easy to get as you think.
cable2600··on Windows Will Die: 90 Minutes to Do 5 Minutes of Work
Sure the sub$500 PCs and laptops will struggle to run Windows fast enough to matter, they run Linux faster anyway. But the $1000 and up Mega Max hardcore PCs will run Windows just fine only problem is that they are gaming machines and corporate doesn't want to spend the money on gaming machines.

Just upgrade to better hardware or run Ubuntu.

cable2600··on Tell/ASK HN: The fn iPhone will not allow me to turn off voice spying
Curious that Apple does not mention how to turn it off but adjust it: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/change-your-voiceover...
cable2600··on How to write programs in C# .NET to run them on Linux/Wine/Mono? (2012)
I currently have DOTNET6 on Unbuntu 22.04.1 with Visual Studio Code, and code doesn't support DOTNET6 yet for Linux. Any ideas?
cable2600··on Ask HN: Why are there so many data breaches?
Lack of quality control in programming, weak passwords, not updating the server software quick enough, holes in the firewall.
cable2600··on You wonder [whether] every student is doing a computer science major
Humanities jobs are almost gone, you'd have to get a job as a teacher teaching humanities. Everything is done with computers these days. They have to get a good enough job to pay off $80K in student loans, and clerk and retail jobs won't do that.
cable2600··on Battlefield 1942 turns 20 today
I still have it, but I lost two CDs and the serial number to install it. It worked on Windows XP.
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