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eccentricwind··on Consumer Rights Wiki
Dear Santa, please make consumer rights true; The other entities didn't really listen.
eccentricwind··on Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century
If It's not all hype and hyperbole, It could be a massive breakthrough in data storage, but It's better to remain prudent and reserve some doubt.
eccentricwind··on Millihertz 5 Mechanical Computer (2022)
What a gem of a site Thank you for sharing
eccentricwind··on I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of the year (2025)
>Maybe they're right that they've been doing easily automatable work for these few years.

It makes sense if this is the case, he might have even anticipated being hit by the next wave of layoffs and quitted early

eccentricwind··on Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says
The notion of those hyenas having morals in the first place is hilarious on its own
eccentricwind··on Why blog if nobody reads it?
> Remember when maintaining a blog was THE way to build your developer brand?

Jeff Atwood's (co-founder of Stack Exchange) Coding Horror comes to mind, and how the teenage me was amazed at how someone got offered such a good job with such an amazing office [0] because of blogging.

The smaller, more intimate internet was truly something else.

[0]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/five-things-you-didnt-know-abo...

eccentricwind··on Hacker Typer
A gigabyte of Ram should do the trick
eccentricwind··on In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (2015)
It's basically "You didn't lose money because I pirated your product, I had no money to begin with".

I can relate to this, coming from a poor background. I would've never be where I stand today If I didn't have access to the published material on the internet for free.

Also, the prices of scientific papers are atrocious! And that's not even considering the fact that the researchers who wrote the paper and peer reviewed it for free won't receive a penny!

What do you expect from me when even Harvard says It's expensive?