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genjii931on Ask HN: What is the best non CS/IT/coding course that you have taken?

The history of cinematography.

genjii931on Ask HN: How do you handle underperforming remotes at your company?

Same as any employee, of course.

genjii931on Ask HN: How do you block high-pitched child wailing on flights?

A pillow.

genjii931on Ask HN: Am I Getting Paranoid?

Not sure about most of that, but try Dreamhost.

genjii931on Framework Laptop 13.5 Ryzen 7 7840U review

The upcoming 16" version will have optional dedicated graphics (AMD 7700?). I'm waiting for that one. I do wish they had an OLED screen option, and TB4.

genjii931on Ask HN: Why company should increase profit every year?

I believe you misunderstood the OP. The OP is talking about increasing profit YoY.

If you have a company that makes a profit of $1 billion, and the next year they make another $1 billion in profit, they have not increased the amount of profit, and if they are publicly traded, the stock price will probably suffer, even though they made 1 billion freaking dollars! That is insane and it's not physically possible to continue growth forever.

genjii931on The “Modem Tax”: An Urban Legend with the Ring of Truth

http://phrack.org/issues/37/13.html

genjii931on The “Modem Tax”: An Urban Legend with the Ring of Truth

Not an urban legend in Kansas City history. The GKCSA was created in the early 90s to fight back against the phone company's announced plan to charge business phone line rates to ALL BBS operators, even for free BBSs. We hired a lawyer and won and got more than we needed. :)

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Wow.

genjii931on List of Usenet (eccentric, criminal or unusual) personalities

Kibo

genjii931on Ask HN: Why is this site so stubbornly against readability and accessibility?

It's called egotism. So just accept it and make your own stylesheet or site.

genjii931on Tell HN: My bank just sent me brownies (and it's pretty f'd up)

Tell us more about these brownies.

genjii931on Russian Chipmaker Baikal Goes Bankrupt, Assets Valued at Only $5M

You'd think they'd still be making money off of 6502 clones.

genjii931on Ask HN: Do you still play Wordle?

Yep

genjii931on Front-end is harder than back-end

Isn't this obvious?

genjii931on Scientists in Antarctica say they were left alone against sexual harassers

“scientifics”?

genjii931on Fox TV license renewal may be in jeopardy as FCC invites public response

It would be Orwellian if that's what was going on, but it's clearly not. It's obviously NOT a matter of “not liking” what FOX News says, but that FOX has been proven to be knowingly spreading lies that are actively harmful to this country. That's quite a leap you made there.

genjii931on Commander X16

Agon Light shows what's possible at a low price. If you're going to spend a lot on a new retro machine, I'd get a Mega65.

genjii931on Why does writing 14 bytes to a file write 73 kilobytes to disk?

Inflation.

genjii931on Why do hurricanes hit the East Coast of the US but never the West Coast? (1999)

Hurricane Hilary is not impressed.

genjii931on Musk Says Twitter Will No Longer Let You Block Other Users

Byeeeee!

genjii931on Hick's Law

Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

genjii931on 256TB SSD from Samsung

I'd worry about heat issues doing that.

genjii931on This 8-bit computer has two CPUs and one acts as a GPU [video]

There were also some classic arcade games that used twin 6809 CPUs. I think Time Pilot was one, but I can't remember for sure.

genjii931on Nuked-MD-FPGA – Emulating Sega Mega Drive chipset using decapped chips photos

Wasn't the Genesis dev machine a Sharp x68000?

genjii931on Miyazaki’s Magical Food: An ode to anime’s best cooking scenes

I highly recommend Makanai (both anime and live action). Great story and great food imagery.

genjii931on America’s largest tool company couldn’t make a wrench in America

Raising the price of imported goods via tariffs is designed to make domestic products comparatively price-competitive. Once you've driven all of your manufacturing offshore, tariffs won't work. While there are a few toolmakers left in the US, there are, for example, no cellphone makers, etc.

genjii931on Full Text of the Federalist Papers

I'd put it at less than a tenth of a percent, and even then I'm probably overestimating it.

genjii931on What planes can you fly without a pilot’s license?

Police also aren't legally allowed to straight-up murder people, but...

genjii931on QubesOS – A reasonably secure operating system

How is this different than an immutable distro like Fedora Silverblue?