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fireeyed··on Sublime Text 4 [video]
How many of you have paid for Sublime ?
fireeyed··on What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur
Startup advice ;) if you are not profitable just find a SPAC. All the dumb money (institutional, hedge) will follow it
fireeyed··on Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account
Why does every US Government agency needs a Twatter account ? There is a whole agency with in these agencies called Public Relations that have been in existence since WWII. They have websites that cost million of $$ to build and maintain. The imbeciles who man the US Military playing with their twatter accounts. I could only arrive at one conclusion: Too much tax payer money wasted on hiring extra imbeciles to run these government twatter accounts.
fireeyed··on The mysterious user editing a global open-source map in China’s favor
Mysterious user is a CCP media operative.
fireeyed··on Laser Bear Honeycomb lidar
This ^ just ask CIOs about the kickbacks they receive from offshore outsourcing companies in the form of condos purchased by anonymous LLCs and held by “trusts”. Somebodys gotta get a cut of the billions in profits these offshore companies reap.
fireeyed··on China now generates 54 percent of the world's coal-fired electricity
Its even worse. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/05/china-five-yea...

Grifting western diplomats and politicians slobber up their BS.

fireeyed··on AT&T lobbies against nationwide fiber, says 10Mbps uploads are good enough
Simple they bought off all the policy makers and politicians. “It’s a grift that keeps on giving”. I don’t trust a word that comes out of a politicians mouth.
fireeyed··on 68k.news: A Netscape 1.1 makeover of Google News
Love this. Loads much much faster than Google PWA page.
fireeyed··on Ada for the C++ and Java Developer [pdf]
Boeing 777 flies on 99.9% Ada

Used in aviation extensively where toy and aspirational languages don't do the job. http://archive.adaic.com/projects/atwork/boeing.html

fireeyed··on Ask HN: Is My Machine Hacked?
Doesn't seem to be pihole calls. Pihole was running on a Raspberrypi connected to the main router. I am thinking a malware somehow got on the RPi is calling anything on the network with a port 80 with the calls I mentioned above.
fireeyed··on Ask HN: Is My Machine Hacked?
Update: After eliminating all candidates - browser extensions, vscode, npm packages, I finally disconnected my pihole power supply and these GET calls stopped. The macpro is not using the pihole, is it possible the pihole is compromised is calling all ip ranges with port 80 ? I configured my flask app to run on port 0.0.0.0
fireeyed··on Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
Hello, this is great to see. However, the site is not recognizing login on Brave browser even with lowered filters. I logged in via Github and can see your app is authorized. The site still thinks I am logged out.

Also, I block facebook pixels, reddit tracking and google tag manager that you have on the site. Could that be the reason. I don't want FAANG scum to get my data each time I lift my toilet lid :)

fireeyed··on Major employers scrap plans to cut back on offices – KPMG
This has gotta be a PR piece by Commercial Real Estate interests. I bet they are offering “multi year lease discounts” to lure the company property divisions. This pandemic has proved and reinforced the notion that all knowledge work can be performed remotely and more efficiently. The other class of workers don’t need offices: manufacturing, food services, maintenance you name it.
fireeyed··on Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
Didn’t YouTube and Twitter start banning people for evening broaching this topic.
fireeyed··on The price students pay for a prized IIT seat
This is what happens when supply side overwhelms demand side. I remember in my teens, a person who graduated highschool with a modicum of technical aptitude could get hired as an entry level engineer in electronics, manufacturing, automotive etc. No longer the case. They won't even hire you for dog catcher with that background.
fireeyed··on Show HN: Make continuous reforestation part of your daily workflow
Someone should work on “YC21 Guilt shedding as a service” These “guilt shedding” projects rarely serve any good purpose. There is no way to track the end result. Same goes for donating wads of money to social justice projects. You still see homeless defecating and shooting needles despite “guilt shedding” by SV denizens. Meanwhile the grifters who run these guilt shedding projects get rich.
fireeyed··on Launch HN: Taloflow (YC W21) – Find the top cloud or dev tools for your use case
Shovel for locating other shovels. Neat idea
fireeyed··on The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter (2017)
Woking ourselves to societal disillusionment and eventual collapse. Saying this as a colored person who never saw myself “colored”. Did I face indirect racism ? Yes a hell lot more than I can count. But I ignore / stay away from people who don’t like me. That’s where it ends. I don’t want to be judged by the color of my skin but by the content of my character to borrow the phrase from a famous activist everyone knows. I don’t like where the society is headed canceling ourselves back into the history and then into the future until there is nothing left.
fireeyed··on Show HN: I built a zero-cost, ad-free alternative to LinkedIn
Not likely. The work permit immigration spigots have opened up again with new administration relaxing previous constraints. My vendors Cognizant, Wipro and TCS are very excited for lots of contract work in SV. We can come back and revisit this comment at the end of the year. The wages will barely budge.
fireeyed··on SpaceX delivers 3rd batch of Starlink satellites in two weeks
They get “Jack Maa’d”
fireeyed··on RethinkDB: why we failed (2017)
> paying untenable salaries to kids with more ultimate frisbee experience than Python, whose main job will be to play foosball in the googleplex and walk around trying to get someone…anyone…to come see the demo code they’ve just written with their “20% time,” doing some kind of, let me guess, cloud-based synchronization… between Microsoft and Google the starting salary for a smart CS grad is inching dangerously close to six figures and these smart kids, the cream of our universities, are working on hopeless and useless architecture astronomy because these companies are like cancers, driven to grow at all cost,
fireeyed··on Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar
Amazing, thank you. I will be using this. They were probably "inspired" :wink by your service
fireeyed··on Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar
YC funds widgets ? What are the economics of this thing. A thousand developers can copy or open source similar alternatives.
fireeyed··on Bats and the Origin of Outbreaks
The question news media and “investigative journalism” if it exists anymore needs to ask is how come this particular outbreak/ transmission from bats didn’t happen before 2019. The “wet markets” exist all over China and people consumed bats before 2019.
fireeyed··on ISO-8601 date format reference not publicly available
The people running ISO and other “commercial standards” are in it for the grift. If they make the standards free their gravy train runs out.
fireeyed··on WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
No need to say sorry, I would have never known. A guy who wrote an important piece of history died on the streets ? What a shame !
fireeyed··on Bitcoin Is Time
> because dense urban development, public transit, walking, and cycling is better

Why is dense urban development better ? I could cite 100 studies why it’s not better not to mention all the people who hate living in “dense” living conditions

fireeyed··on Speed Is the Killer Feature
Front end JavaScript framework scourge introduced a lot of this.
fireeyed··on Boston public schools suspend advanced learning classes
Obama wanted class warfare and he got it.
fireeyed··on Boston public schools suspend advanced learning classes
I was waiting to see how far the bone headed wokeness will destroy families. This is not the first and wont be the last.
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