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lazyfanatic

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lazyfanatic··on Telehealth startup Cerebral shared millions of patients’ data with advertisers
you know how it is, cookies in bed @ midnight, then they get everywhere and somehow they sell all your information to advertisers. C'mon Technology, amiriteguys?
lazyfanatic··on Ahrefs saved $400m in 3 years by not going to the cloud
No, throw hardware at it! My life for the last 25 years has been trying to optimize code via I/O.

My favorite design pattern is a for loop that tries once per item and completely fails to never try again, nor report it failed at all. /s

lazyfanatic··on Antidepressants help bacteria resist antibiotics: study
once I know you have an agenda, I invalidate what you have to say.
lazyfanatic··on IBM creates 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license
This answer contains more truth in it than any technical answer ever will.
lazyfanatic··on IBM creates 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license
Oracle Support has gotten absolutely terrible over the last four years. I support a full Oracle stack, and seeing all that beautiful Sun engineering turned to sludge because of poor support is really sad in many ways.
lazyfanatic··on Ask HN: What's your proudest hack?
That floppy drive requirement for drivers lasted for YEARS it seemed like. Lol.
lazyfanatic··on Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds
Clint is great!
lazyfanatic··on What to do if a nuclear disaster is imminent [pdf]
Isn't it something like 99 percent of species go extinct?
lazyfanatic··on Let's make the web personal again
Anyone remember webrings?

Technology is so circular, old becomes new, over and over again.

"Join our network!" at the end reminded me of them.

lazyfanatic··on Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team
I feel like that team spent a lot of time at the water cooler.
lazyfanatic··on Jeff Bezos Is Being Knocked Back Down to Earth
from 1 afternoon a week to 2...

changing the world, Jeff, changing the world.

lazyfanatic··on How I Experience Web Today
I miss stumbleupon too my friend.
lazyfanatic··on Modern IRC Client Protocol
What did you write it in?
lazyfanatic··on Ask HN: Does your job make the world a better place?
I used to think so; loved it, helping people. Fixing the broken things. Technical challenges, helping people learn, and fulfillment. Because I hate myself, it filled me up, but I don't know how to care anymore.
lazyfanatic··on Flawed data led to a connection between time spent on devices and mental health
Sounds like a defensive device addict to me. Relatively speaking.