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Einstein wasn't even the best Einstein, that was that Super Dave Osborne!

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

Before they could, theoretically, just roll past, but now Finland will be compelled to join due to Article 5.

Not that they'd need much compelling.

They'll have to fight their way through Finland which has a history of not working out for them.

They're certainly focusing on a more sophisticated market, especially in the corporate space.

At some point I wonder if Apple might share compute across your devices so you can do things on low-power hardware like the Watch while leveraging the CPU on the phone, etc. If Apple's dedicated to on-device compute, this ends up being your own "private cloud" of sorts.

It's good to see that 1Password is staying several steps ahead here to avoid being "Sherlocked" by Apple.

The new SSH key manager feature is an example of something Apple's unlikely to address for years, if ever. https://developer.1password.com/docs/ssh/manage-keys/

If only they still made Heritage Minutes.

Free!*

* User assumes all liability for use as these are almost exclusively registered trademarks.

The Canadian Venture Exchange was absolute anarchy, and that was compared to the already lax Toronto exchange that had been chock full of sketchy mining stocks, the poster child of which was Bre-X.

Which of course was from Calgary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bre-X

You need problems to solve, but most importantly, problems that are highly relevant to you and your interests so you won't give up easily if they become unexpectedly difficult.

You'll be forced to learn new approaches, new tools, perhaps even new languages to solve these problems if they're challenging enough, and don't worry, you'll almost always assume something is easy when it turns out to be a lot harder than you could ever imagine.

Get exceedingly good at breaking down difficult problems into smaller steps you can actually achieve. Try and estimate how much time these steps will take so over time you can get better at estimating how much work is involved in something, which can inform which approach to take or which tool to use.

Above all else, when you learn something and want to know more, learn both in terms of deeper fundamentals, but also in a more strategic sense, like how it is applied, and what are the ramifications of this knowledge, how it fits into the bigger picture.

Remember, it's abstractions all the way down, but also all the way up!

Back before documentation became available online, the technical books section at this store was perhaps the largest repository of technical documentation available in town. The selection was in a part of the store bigger than most mall bookstores, entirely technical books on the tall shelves from top to bottom.

I bought dozens of O'Reilly books from that location over the years.

Dynamics of a small town versus a large metropolis.

It's just that the small town back then had John Carmack diligently updating his finger profile as he was working on major projects.

I don't know. Collectors?

The "map" is straight up stolen from this:

https://www.iclarified.com/17844/hand-drawn-floor-plan-of-ap...

You can re-ink a ribbon if you're adventurous, or you can find new ribbons for many popular typewriters.

No harder than finding ink for a stamp.

Are the other 2% still with us?

That's like asking someone from an unconnected tribe why kids are doing stupid stuff on TikTok.

The hardest part is not the cable, or even the installation thereof, it's finding a contiguous right-of-way you can install it on, or having to fuss around with thousands of land owners who want their cut for the rights.

This is why most cables are laid alongside train tracks, not unlike telegram wires of years past. You negotiate with a handful of entities and can get permission relatively easily.

Of course, this presumes there's tracks, which is less and less likely as they keep getting ripped out.

If there's anything modern infrastructure build needs, it's more right-of-way access where you can provision dark fibre without getting mired in the legal issues.

It is nearly impossible to delete an accepted answer you don't want to have any more. I've had several which are wildly out of date and incorrect now and I don't want to update them, but the mods refuse to remove them.

Don't worry, hedge funds will snap up those as soon as they realize the potential they've created.

"I think HTML sucks" is a bogus argument.

Why not HTML? At least it isn't RTF or some wonky SGML evolutionary dead-end.

"It cannot cost that much to start a vet clinic" implies vets are cheap.

There is not an infinite supply of vets, especially those free from debt and who can borrow enough to start a practice.

MIME is needed, and with MIME, HTML is basically right there, so people are going to use it.

I assume you haven't read nearly enough Douglas Adams.

It's easy to say this, but can you imagine the hodge-podge of proprietary garbage we'd have to deal with if you couldn't email a simple file attachment to someone?

Alas! https://www.caniemail.com/search/?s=strongbad

Credit was on display down in the cellar in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard'.

The character design is. The image, however, is clearly Disney flavoured if not traced directly.

His version, for example, does not have the distinctive bow. The art style is also completely different.

I was just thinking that's "cease and desist" bait right there.