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Cliff, reading `The Cuckoo's Egg` in the 90's when I was in my early teens was a watershed moment in my life. Set me up upon a path of discovery and fascination with technology of all kinds. Countless thanks!

I too thought of this video and it is what introduced me to this particular form of "art". It's a good critique.

Not the person you're asking, but the book is over 80 years old and one of the best selling books of all time. Not exactly the same, but it's like asking where they heard about the Bible. It's everywhere.

When someone does this it means both the things you asked are being answered in the affirmative.

People who hold reprehensible ideas or support those who do, should be held to task, no matter how many of them there are.

I don't disagree, however... human beings can be lazy, short-sighted or take short-cuts. I wouldn't put it past someone to keep something where it shouldn't be, intentionally or by accident.

Your recollection does not comport with my own. A lot of sensitive classified information was leaked, a good deal of it having nothing to do with warrant-less wire-tapping, etc.

Only three? I'm pretty sure I can already count at least 3 UI fads that have come and gone in my Windows 10 install. Somehow it's gotten worse each time... I'm trying not to sound like a grumpy old man but it feels like each revision is more geared towards mobile device users and the product sees a corresponding loss of flexibility and configurability.

I'm the opposite. Back when in my early teens, friends and I would attempt to hijack opposing groups' channels via takeovers during net-splits (and ofcourse having the same done to us). What a time to be alive.

Could just be sloppy, inaccurate writing. But yeah that would be pretty bad.

I've been using tig a lot recently; I've always just used git from the command line, but if you're working with a number of files, tig is hard to beat when you learn a few of the hotkeys.

Search has always been absolutely terrible... it's nearly 2021... how can a billion dollar outfit still have terrible search?

I could not be happier that wearing a mask is more or less societally acceptable now.

Definitely a password-less, Internet facing MongoDB instance.

This isn't Digg

I prefer Gitlab for private installs, but the community edition lacks many critical features that are only present in the paid version (export/import of issues, I'm looking at you)

Wow, I'm so happy to see this is the first result (the reason I came to comment.) I've tried and failed many times to pick up a fundamental, from the ground-up understanding of electronics and electrial theory. Forrest Mims' "Getting started in electronics" was good, but the All About Circuits text book had the depth and accessibility and I was looking for.

And it's free!

Choice of editor is subject to taste, but I find VI/Vim keybindings and modal editing an absolute must-have for productivity.

A YouTuber (carykh) made a video where he explains an algorithm he made to automatically process lecture videos by speeding up, condensing and removing parts of the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ8orIurGxw

Can you elaborate?

It says so in the article:

> And that’s why I am excited to announce that Andreessen Horowitz is leading the Series B financing in Superhuman.

Ryan Dahl created Node.js prior to being hired at Joyent, and then sold them the rights to it.

I found it very distracting that none of the ostensibly Russian or Ukrainian characters have an even remotely slavic accent.

At my old work we used to call this PWP: Ping with Payload.

I "randomly" discovered (if that is such a thing in today's world of machine learning) ChessNetwork, and it's become my primary resource for improving my chess beyond the beginner level. Their beginner to master series describes so many little things that would have taken me ages to learn or many books read.

Really? I use it frequently while programming in Vim. Definitely one of my top ten operations.

They've made a powerful enemy of the Internet.

> isn't all that bad

So, how would you characterize it? Somewhat bad? Doesn't it bother you to work somewhere so universally reviled?

"War,” writes von Clausewitz, “is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will…This is the way in which the matter must be viewed, and it is to no purpose, it is even against one’s own interest, to turn away from the consideration of the real nature of the affair because the horror of its elements excites repugnance.”