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spudwaffleon How bad have universities got?

> gender differences

I’m only denying the identity of their colleagues, why do the liberal professors hate me? This is cancel culture!

spudwaffleon BCHS: OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite web stack

How is the overhead of creating a process per-request in this type of system?

spudwaffleon Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max

My M1 Pro has none of these problems. I would try a fresh install.

spudwaffleon Project Euler

Did you try an experimental approach?

spudwaffleon Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos

It’s time to go to DX Heaven https://youtu.be/X9L60BUux1k

spudwaffleon Show HN: I made a tool to convert images of tables to CSV

It would be cool if you could put a license for this!

spudwaffleon Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch

Love that public radio where the incentives are aligned.

spudwaffleon Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open (1994)

> Digital cash, Mr. Zimmermann explained, is "a combination of cryptographic protocols that behave the way real dollars behave but are untraceable."

> In other words, they are packets of worth that have value in cyberspace, the same way dollars have value in the real world, except that they have the properties of anonymity, privacy and untraceability. Many details remain to be worked out, Mr. Zimmermann said.

Very cool how people were predicting cryptocurrencies from the beginning!