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Computers Don't Argue (1965) [pdf]

Posted by gfitz on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @02:25PM
from the nob.cs.ucdavis.edu dept.

https://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/classes/ecs153-2019-04/readings/computers.pdf

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Project Astra [video]

Posted by gfitz on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @01:35PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXVvvRhiGjI

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EP17 Engineering Victory with Elon

Posted by gfitz on Monday December 13, 2021 @07:28AM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Fa50Zc_3Y

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Re:Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:28PM (#28794046)

I don’t think housing would be the “official” reason as Elon is keenly aware of how hard it is to buy a house in central Texas right now. Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-austin-texas-housi...

Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin

Posted by gfitz on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:40PM
from the kxan.com dept.

https://www.kxan.com/news/business/elon-musk-announces-teslas-headquarters-will-move-to-austin/

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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021) on Monday May 03, 2021 @05:41PM (#27031107)

Location: Austin, TX

Remote: Hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Java, Python, AWS, Angular, MySQL, PHP, Git

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jpRw0g_mgWeFEu-sfnJiyv3D-yl...

Email: [email protected]

'The biggest boomtown that America has seen in 50 years' – Elon Musk on Austin

Posted by gfitz on Friday February 12, 2021 @12:19PM
from the msn.com dept.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/elon-musk-predicts-austin-texas-will-be-the-biggest-boomtown-that-america-has-seen-in-50-years/ar-BB1dC2tm

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'Real-time Uighur warnings’ – inside Dahua’s facial recognition technology

Posted by gfitz on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @02:11PM
from the latimes.com dept.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-02-09/dahua-facial-recognition-china-surveillance-uighur

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Visa Introduces AI-Powered Innovations for Smarter Payments

Posted by gfitz on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:40PM
from the usa.visa.com dept.

https://usa.visa.com/about-visa/newsroom/press-releases.releaseId.17701.html

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Samsung is reportedly building a $10B chipmaking plant in Austin

Posted by gfitz on Friday January 22, 2021 @09:03AM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/22/22243994/samsung-chipmaking-texas-plant-3nm-10-billion-report

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Re:Google outage – resolved on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:20AM (#25416515)

The nature of this downtime is quite severe. How are Googlers resolving this if their internal communications are down?

Huawei has tested facial recognition software that could send 'Uighur alarms'

Posted by gfitz on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @02:52PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/8/22163499/huawei-uighur-surveillance-facial-recognition-megvii-uyghur

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Elon Musk tells friends he's planning to move to Texas

Posted by gfitz on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:22PM
from the cnbc.com dept.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/02/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-plans-to-move-to-texas-friends-and-associates-say.html

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Leaves Silicon Valley for Texas

Posted by gfitz on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @06:08PM
from the hpe.com dept.

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/blog-post/2020/12/deeper-in-the-heart-of-texas-hpe-to-move-headquarters-to-the-houston-metro.html

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Re:US may not be back to normal until 2022, Fauci says on Thursday October 29, 2020 @10:56AM (#24931142)

Why blame the people when the leadership has been so shoddy? Here is the same Dr. Fauci on masks as the pandemic was first spreading throughout US: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=PRa6t_e7dgI

Re:Levandowski files suit against Uber [pdf] on Friday July 17, 2020 @09:32PM (#23878153)

Damn I’m sure he’s appealing to the AI godhead that he is victorious here and doesn’t spend too long of a time in prison.

https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-i...

Visa guarantees a job to black scholars with $10M fund

Posted by gfitz on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @07:27PM
from the vi.sa dept.

https://vi.sa/36XQ81P

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Visa Says Majority of Employees Will Work from Home Rest of Year

Posted by gfitz on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:51PM
from the bloomberg.com dept.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-19/visa-says-majority-of-employees-will-work-from-home-rest-of-year

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Common Sense 319 – A Recipe for Caesar

Posted by gfitz on Thursday April 02, 2020 @11:05AM
from the hwcdn.libsyn.com dept.

http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/4/2/e/42e4be28ea9950de/cswdcd19.mp3?c_id=68719259&cs_id=68719259&expiration=1585846751&hwt=5a6154adebcf074b992d4516f06619a4

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”Wuhan has stopped testing, that is why new case = 0 there.“

Posted by gfitz on Saturday March 21, 2020 @08:04PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/lokinhei/status/1241220936906338304

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Show HN: John Legere Listed as CEO of Salesforce

Posted by gfitz on Friday August 10, 2018 @01:58PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.google.com/search?q=salesforce&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS800US800&oq=sales&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j0j69i60l2j0.998j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Stallman Was Right

Posted by gfitz on Sunday March 25, 2018 @09:23PM
from the reddit.com dept.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/

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The Third Pillar of Health

Posted by gfitz on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:54PM
from the gfitz.me dept.

http://gfitz.me/blog-1.html

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Re:The Valedictorian of University of Maryland drops out right before ... on Sunday May 21, 2017 @08:14PM (#14390037)

But this is definitely a real student.

Re:The Valedictorian of University of Maryland drops out right before ... on Sunday May 21, 2017 @08:11PM (#14390026)

Thing to note: it's brought to my attention that he may never of been Valedictorian, and the UMD might not even give out that award.

The Valedictorian of University of Maryland drops out right before graduation

Posted by gfitz on Sunday May 21, 2017 @08:09PM
from the linkedin.com dept.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/valedictorian-university-maryland-drops-out-school-two-managadze?trk=v-feed&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3BofcRyCoUE%2FR8KI665VXTVQ%3D%3D

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Re:Hanging up my spurs on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:27PM (#14204464)

Just making a joke about his distinct style. I should've put his name in the title but most of HN seems to be catching on.

Re:Hanging up my spurs on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:19PM (#14204384)

Name another VC that wears spurs

Hanging up my spurs

Posted by gfitz on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @10:01AM
from the lowercasecapital.com dept.

https://lowercasecapital.com/2017/04/26/hanging-up-my-spurs/

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Rubber Duck Debugging

Posted by gfitz on Friday March 10, 2017 @08:47PM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

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