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throwawaysoxjje··on Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
> At the start of 2007, the latest Windows version was Windows 5, one more than Windows 4

Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) was released in 1999. Vista was NT 6, and released in 2006.

throwawaysoxjje··on Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029
Yikes
throwawaysoxjje··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
You don’t have to go that far: Earth itself would be a black hole
throwawaysoxjje··on Scientists Find Worms in Almost Every Fish in a Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected
It won’t. sushi is flash frozen for exactly this reason
throwawaysoxjje··on A Small Telescope That Surprised Me
The idea that the writer is orthogonal is WILD
throwawaysoxjje··on Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework
Not really
throwawaysoxjje··on EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
That’s not even what the post you’re replying to said
throwawaysoxjje··on Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
> The idea that living things, which are far more intricately organized at every level than any machine we have made, could have arisen by some unknown series of chance steps is a fairy tale.

Really? Because when you look at something like the human retina, the organization is embarrassing.

Especially since there are older, extant examples with better organization.

throwawaysoxjje··on Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
Like the government doesn’t already have that power?
throwawaysoxjje··on Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?
Same reason you can look at a sunset but not the noonday sun
throwawaysoxjje··on Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring
For reference the quote is “ During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”
throwawaysoxjje··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
Dude, are you okay?
throwawaysoxjje··on Don’t use AI to write things that you present as your own work
That summary makes the point but doesn’t communicate the meaning
throwawaysoxjje··on 10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module
If you just want to use LC connectors everywhere, they’re the same price. Plus single mode fiber has the advantage that there’s only two kinds and we really only use one of them.

The math worked out just to move to single mode a decade ago

throwawaysoxjje··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
And companies using the many individuals to magnify their leverage.
throwawaysoxjje··on Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
This is a collectible market so Lego sets aren’t fungible, so being unable to keep track of that sounds like negligence.
throwawaysoxjje··on Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It
Macs originally didn’t have filename extensions because the file type was stored as metadata in the file system
throwawaysoxjje··on Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend
You’re still anthropomorphizing.

They’re not communicating, you’re just being observant.

throwawaysoxjje··on Your hex editor should color-code bytes
I’d expect the greater length of the encrypted data (which should look random) vs the structured header/footer to rapidly push the Shannon entropy to the maximum
throwawaysoxjje··on FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account
I wonder if this has to do with the massive number of google calendar invites I’ve been getting as payment/billing notifications lately.

I’ve not been reporting them because I already know they aren’t valid and do not google’s work for them

throwawaysoxjje··on Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email
But his emails!
throwawaysoxjje··on Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art
Which case decided that?
throwawaysoxjje··on Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art
Of course you don’t, because it’s not the EULA that enforces the copyright. Copyright law is what enforces the EULA. It’s right there in the fact it’s a Licensing Agreement.
throwawaysoxjje··on Anthropic, please make a new Slack
> I'm pretty sure the company you work for owns your work chat, and that what you say on company slack constitutes business information.

That’s not a valid argument. The company itself would still need to consent.

throwawaysoxjje··on Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
This post is a prime example of why the Pope said what he did.
throwawaysoxjje··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
Because Apple been continuously doing deprecating hardware regularly since the mid 90s. And they’ll processor architecture every 10-15 years.

Microsoft was the backward compatibility king.

throwawaysoxjje··on Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping
Scraping for search engines is different. They need to scrape the data to build the index, otherwise the search wouldn’t work.
throwawaysoxjje··on Lessons from the PG&E outage
Why would I be, when I don’t have any standard for comparison.

How many human drivers did similar because the power went out?

throwawaysoxjje··on Unifi Travel Router
Except that sometimes you can’t. I don’t know if the Unifi router checks for this, but I’ve run into more than one network where the VPN conflicted with either the captive portal or the wireless network itself (and at least one in the DFW Admiral’s club that had draconian blocking)
throwawaysoxjje··on Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe
Kinda weird you had to bring Stripe developers up where there’s pacemaker, and insulin pump, and ventilator developers.
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