From casual observation of people, I feel that alcohol consumption has a large effect on ability to learn.
Tim Hunkin's The Secret life of Machines. It is on youtube. I see a couple of dozen hours of TV a year because the nearest pub has often has a TV turned on with subtitles, sound off, I would like to watch less.
It was posted to hnn as a 'public beta' in January 2024, so about 2 and half years.
Nice idea, this reminds of of the few models of USB stick drive with a physical keypad for entering a PIN.
"Remember to set the BIOS to not try to boot from floppy, to avoid people leaving a disk in the drive then complaining that the computer does not start up, and boot sector viruses."
I presume OP is referring to Microsoft Windows Vista, released at the end of the year 2006. It had a poor reputation. My vague recollection is that I experienced an irritating number of driver-related BSODs. To me, it…
see also "Douglas Adams biscuit story"
I did read what you wrote above and I'm confident that it is entirely incorrect for reasons that have been explained.
Current quantum computers are toys for physicists that are of zero practical use. See the recent research paper about recreating quantum factoring records using a dog, an abacus, and a vintage computer
Tell them a UDP joke and don't care if everyone gets it.
Matthew Prince the cloudflare CEO has, in 2023, denied that Cloudflare is extensively participating in mass surveillance of USA people. His hnn account is Eastdakota. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36937413 I'v…
Five months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915664
For clarity: Do you mean "I want to block incoming spam email to my email addresses" or "I operate an email mailing list and I want to block bots from joining the list" ?
I typed my intrusive thoughts in to a document and analysed them. It turns out I had a hundred of them. It really helped to write up why they don't matter now, such as "I was a child when that happened, I'm now an adult…
There is also Hack::Soho
There is dc4420 which is this evening near Euston and the last Tuesday of the month. They have talks and the people who attend are mostly corporate IT and infosec company people. First friday of the month is London…
CB radio Specifically 27MHz CB radio. People miles away can hear your conversations with your friends. Sometimes in the daytime the radio signals bounce off the ionosphere, the noise level goes way up and local chatting…
Somewhat facetious technological solution suggestions: 1) Old laptop (because it has separate volume control and loudspeakers) that once an hour plays an audio file of a voice saying "are you wearing your glasses?".…
Also, Facebook/Meta said they would not be able to link WhatsApp accounts to facebook accounts. After they were allowed to buy WhatsApp they unsurprisingly began using metadata for things like knowing who Facebook users…
This is an ok way of doing things but you don't need Caddy server (or similar), you can put all the http servers on different localhost ip addresses eg 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, etc. They can all use port 80 but on…
https://torrentfreak.com/laliga-blocks-cloudflare-again-new-...
My response would be along the lines of: "The USA fought a war in part because they did not like the use of general writs of assistance to allow agents of the British King to search peoples houses and papers where their…
There is a piece of software called CloneSpy that is a utility for finding duplicate files. I like the user interface. https://clonespy.com/features/ I find it useful for finding that I have four copies of a 50MB pdf in…
This brings back memories of being a clueless script kid in the 1990s. I knew those tones as CCITT5 tones. In the days of blueboxing I had a 486 laptop that I acquired because the harddrive died and booted from floppys,…
I am not a lawyer. I would be a little worried about the possibility that the SEC would consider this to be an investment contract, thus making it a security, thus requiring it to be registered with the SEC, which will…
From casual observation of people, I feel that alcohol consumption has a large effect on ability to learn.
Tim Hunkin's The Secret life of Machines. It is on youtube. I see a couple of dozen hours of TV a year because the nearest pub has often has a TV turned on with subtitles, sound off, I would like to watch less.
It was posted to hnn as a 'public beta' in January 2024, so about 2 and half years.
Nice idea, this reminds of of the few models of USB stick drive with a physical keypad for entering a PIN.
"Remember to set the BIOS to not try to boot from floppy, to avoid people leaving a disk in the drive then complaining that the computer does not start up, and boot sector viruses."
I presume OP is referring to Microsoft Windows Vista, released at the end of the year 2006. It had a poor reputation. My vague recollection is that I experienced an irritating number of driver-related BSODs. To me, it…
see also "Douglas Adams biscuit story"
I did read what you wrote above and I'm confident that it is entirely incorrect for reasons that have been explained.
Current quantum computers are toys for physicists that are of zero practical use. See the recent research paper about recreating quantum factoring records using a dog, an abacus, and a vintage computer
Tell them a UDP joke and don't care if everyone gets it.
Matthew Prince the cloudflare CEO has, in 2023, denied that Cloudflare is extensively participating in mass surveillance of USA people. His hnn account is Eastdakota. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36937413 I'v…
Five months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915664
For clarity: Do you mean "I want to block incoming spam email to my email addresses" or "I operate an email mailing list and I want to block bots from joining the list" ?
I typed my intrusive thoughts in to a document and analysed them. It turns out I had a hundred of them. It really helped to write up why they don't matter now, such as "I was a child when that happened, I'm now an adult…
There is also Hack::Soho
There is dc4420 which is this evening near Euston and the last Tuesday of the month. They have talks and the people who attend are mostly corporate IT and infosec company people. First friday of the month is London…
CB radio Specifically 27MHz CB radio. People miles away can hear your conversations with your friends. Sometimes in the daytime the radio signals bounce off the ionosphere, the noise level goes way up and local chatting…
Somewhat facetious technological solution suggestions: 1) Old laptop (because it has separate volume control and loudspeakers) that once an hour plays an audio file of a voice saying "are you wearing your glasses?".…
Also, Facebook/Meta said they would not be able to link WhatsApp accounts to facebook accounts. After they were allowed to buy WhatsApp they unsurprisingly began using metadata for things like knowing who Facebook users…
This is an ok way of doing things but you don't need Caddy server (or similar), you can put all the http servers on different localhost ip addresses eg 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, etc. They can all use port 80 but on…
https://torrentfreak.com/laliga-blocks-cloudflare-again-new-...
My response would be along the lines of: "The USA fought a war in part because they did not like the use of general writs of assistance to allow agents of the British King to search peoples houses and papers where their…
There is a piece of software called CloneSpy that is a utility for finding duplicate files. I like the user interface. https://clonespy.com/features/ I find it useful for finding that I have four copies of a 50MB pdf in…
This brings back memories of being a clueless script kid in the 1990s. I knew those tones as CCITT5 tones. In the days of blueboxing I had a 486 laptop that I acquired because the harddrive died and booted from floppys,…
I am not a lawyer. I would be a little worried about the possibility that the SEC would consider this to be an investment contract, thus making it a security, thus requiring it to be registered with the SEC, which will…