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This is so beautifully written.

The internet needs more of this.

“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise!” - Ted Turner

Side note, for those of you that enjoy biographies, his autobiography “Call Me Ted” is a real page-turner (pun intended).

A highly inspirational story of entrepreneurship, which includes a raw and authentic account of his flaws.

A true legend.

Rest in peace Ted.

> Here's something random about "Neanderthal"

If you'll permit me to throw in some fun (and arguably related) trivia:

Niander Wallace is the main antagonist in Blade Runner 2049. He's a genius industrialist that manufacturers high-tech human "replicants" for profit, and in pursuit of his ultimate goal to "storm Eden and retake her". An yet the thing that holds him back is his inability to get his replicants to procreate.

Mauritius for one.

Interesting timing when one also considers that the Musk vs OpenAI trial is set to get underway.

https://www.dw.com/en/musk-vs-openai-trial-to-get-underway/a...

> His letter (at the top of Apple's web site) is moving

As an aside, I absolutely love the minimal elegance of that web page.

This was a neat design choice I remember it well.

And also that my “sound card works perfectly!”

There’s a pretty great penguin colony site seeing area in Cape Town called Boulders Beach for those of you that happen to visit and are keen to see them up close.

Also this article is just great.

In long term archival use cases this is less of an issue. Especially if it’s many exabytes we’re talking about, needing to be stored for decades.

But I 100% agree with your main point about possibility vs productionisation.

Indeed it is forced savings but with the benefit of covering your funeral expenditure if it is required suddenly and unexpectedly.

For context, it might cost you $5 per month, and give you funeral cover of $500.

As OP mentioned it is very common in South Africa, likely owed to the unpredictable life expectancy. All the large insurers offer it, it’s a massive market.

I’ve read elsewhere that the cut-away during booster separation was intentional given the high risk manoeuvre.

If something went wrong / explosion etc, then they wouldn’t want to broadcast it.

Something to that effect. I’m paraphrasing someone else.

I heard this in a Justin timberlake as Napster guy voice

This is such a cool way to build brand awareness - kudos to the author.

I'd never heard of dbpro.app until now - and this article is just so awesome.

Nice job!

Hacker news attracts all sorts of curious people, including luddites like myself! ^_^

Tried to open this page on my mobile, good grief the changing advert spam overload kills the reading experience.

> And at a moment when the climate demands immediate action to reduce our footprint on this planet, the AI boom is driving data centers to consume a full 1.5% of the world’s total energy production in order to eliminate the jobs of the poor and replace them with a robot that lies.

That sentence jumped out at me.

This is great advice we will look into this thank you

Found your comment mightily insightful, so may as well ask:

Can you recommend a handful of similar “historical” works that you’d consider a must-read (or simply just darn interesting).

Thanks!

> That's when I learned about phone phreaking.

“And never again have to pay for a service that would be dirt cheap, if it weren’t run by a bunch of profiteering gluttons!”

- Razor & Blade

Agree with your overall point. Curious what you’re basing the “not in the next 30 years” claim on, if you’d care to expand.

I remember upgrading my 486 DX2 66Mhz to a DX4 100Mhz and all of a sudden being able to run winamp and Quake. That felt pretty epic at the time.

Lots of comments here critiquing the article for allegedly being written by AI.

I see the post is even flagged now.

Irrespective of who wrote it or how it was written, the essay is packed with wisdom.

I’ve been programming for 30+ years and leading teams for the last 20 - and I found the essay deeply insightful.

I realise I’m a sample size of 1, but just figured I’d comment here to advocate against this post being flagged. Surprised that it is.

Random plot idea:

Imagine the year is 2035.

Crash & Burn had a kid, and that kid is now a young adult.

An agentic ClosedAI has granted itself chmod 666 on the interwebs, and is wreaking havoc on a global scale.

Hackers of the world must unite once again to overcome evil.

Certainly not the only old fart ‘round these parts.

Your comment reminded me of Dr Dobbs Journal for some reason.

Like tears in rain <3

I didn’t catch this reference, so adding the below for other folks in the same boat:

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

“Eternal September or the September that never ended was a cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993 and early 1994, when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users. Before this, the only sudden changes in the volume of new users of Usenet occurred each September, when cohorts of university students would gain access to it for the first time, in sync with the academic calendar.”

I’ve probably watched Hackers over a hundred times. My all time favourite movie. My first crush as a young teenager was Burn. It led to a career in software. So many kindred spirits on this thread - makes me smile.

And after 30+ years of watching Hackers, it only occurred to me recently that the biggest noob in the movie Joey beat the Gibson, twice. Sure he had assistance the second time, but still poetic imho.

Hack the planet <3

You’re in the butter zone now, baby!

Not mentioned in the article, so I'd like to give a shout-out to cmus.

https://cmus.github.io/

For all my fellow terminal friends <3

thanks, that's an insightful comment.

so defs not a globally consistent usage of the term then?

judging by the article's authorship, i'm guessing denmark and US the same

so perhaps US and EU but not elsewhere?

i feel like you're onto something here...

a marketing campaign for middle-aged men perhaps