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ngold··on If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Groovy, always looking for a new one and this looks good. I wonder when Dan Carlin is coming back?
ngold··on Is the web getting slower?
I use a note 3. Not sure what your talking about. It's super zippy.
ngold··on A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons
Where's my barebones umatrix browser? That should be a thing...right?
ngold··on How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries
Getting someone that talks the syntax let's you know what questions to ask.
ngold··on Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (2009)
Well it was Frances first revolution. It took a couple to get right...ish.
ngold··on Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage
Everything was going haywire for me except the amazon prime movie i was watching, and it was fine.

It was a head scratcher until this mornings news.

ngold··on The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet
In a couple decades I suspect getting a license will be as common as people getting motorcycle licenses today. Might happen.
ngold··on Level 3 Global Outage
Great write up. It is embarrassing that most of America has no competition in the market.

>To use the old Internet as a “superhighway” analogy, that’s like only having a single offramp to a town. If the offramp is blocked, then there’s no way to reach the town. This was exacerbated in some cases because CenturyLink/Level(3)’s network was not honoring route withdrawals and continued to advertise routes to networks like Cloudflare’s even after they’d been withdrawn. In the case of customers whose only connectivity to the Internet is via CenturyLink/Level(3), or if CenturyLink/Level(3) continued to announce bad routes after they'd been withdrawn, there was no way for us to reach their applications and they continued to see 522 errors until CenturyLink/Level(3) resolved their issue around 14:30 UTC. The same was a problem on the other (“eyeball”) side of the network. Individuals need to have an onramp onto the Internet’s superhighway. An onramp to the Internet is essentially what your ISP provides. CenturyLink is one of the largest ISPs in the United. Because this outage appeared to take all of the CenturyLink/Level(3) network offline, individuals who are CenturyLink customers would not have been able to reach Cloudflare or any other Internet provider until the issue was resolved. Globally, we saw a 3.5% drop in global traffic during the outage, nearly all of which was due to a nearly complete outage of CenturyLink’s ISP service across the United States.

ngold··on How two British orthodontists became celebrities to incels
It's the same reason anti fascist turned into antifa. I think at least the majority of people are anti fascist. But cutting it down to a meaningless word turns the word itself into a weapon to be used to bludgeon.
ngold··on Ultralight lithium-sulfur batteries for electric airplanes
That was my first thought as well. But I don't have a clue if it's practical.
ngold··on Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety
If you are an awful person, it must be depressing to come to grips with that. But worth a try.
ngold··on Apple, Epic, and the App Store
A purse is a purse, do you think some purses are so ahead of the curve that people pay thousands of dollars for one, or do you think they are buying a brand name despite the cost?
ngold··on Fortnite seems to have been removed from the Play Store as well
Fdroid pops up and ask to update apps. It's very easy.
ngold··on Why are currently no ads on Techdirt? apparently Google thinks we're dangerous
Yes google should have as many people working for it as the advertising industry that it savaged. It should at least have customer service. You know a phone number you call to talk to someone.

These apologies to mega corporate is very sad. I am disappointed in you.

ngold··on Sumner Redstone, media mogul who headed Viacom, has died
Own the network and charge 30% tax on anyone delivering content.
ngold··on No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US
It's supposed to be science, not am opinion piece.
ngold··on A man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb (2015)
I have to agree, most Americans are using nothing but Chinese made products. If there was some commie scare that would be the first thing to go.
ngold··on Create a fully functioning command line interface with 1.5 lines of code
>Note that parsing and conversion takes up just 0.5 lines of fired_main().
ngold··on Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels
If I had a guess why Facebook has stayed around as long as it has.

It started with college students. That quickly became adults that continued to use it into their careers. Skipping the myspace teen generation fad cycle.

ngold··on Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot
Working with unity that also does not have a visual script feature, sorta, I like using c#.

It's simple and straight forward.

ngold··on Stopping Pollution with Pine Needles
So the secret is making charcoal with pine needles at 550 degrees.

Thank you.

ngold··on Stopping Pollution with Pine Needles
On a side note, same thing happened to me in the 90s. But instead of pine needles, it was a weed wacker and acres of waste high thistle weeds.
ngold··on Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B
And selling for only 32 billion seems really low for a company that significant.
ngold··on Ancient trash heaps reveal the Plague of Justinian’s economic toll
Thanks for the follow up. That is..shocking.
ngold··on Ancient trash heaps reveal the Plague of Justinian’s economic toll
On a side note. Mike Duncan's been silent since april 7th. At least on revolutionspodcast.com.
ngold··on Opera GX Gaming Browser
Found a workstation for a $179 with 96gb of ram and a quadro card. King of pci 2.
ngold··on Chronic mania and persistent euphoric states
This sounds a lot like chronic decision fatigue. Without basic human help, we are told to go get the American dream, but never ask for help when you get cancer and it wipes out all future generations wealth accumulation.
ngold··on Ancient trash heaps reveal the Plague of Justinian’s economic toll
>Plague of Justinian: the bubonic plague's first-known visit to Europe, in 541 CE. The first wave of plague killed 20 percent of the population of Constantinople. Infection also devastated the trade port of Alexandria. Over the next 160 years, wave after wave of plague may have carried away up to half the population of the Byzantine Empire.

Imagine looking at a crowd and 1/5 to 1/2 of everyone is just gone.

ngold··on Del.icio.us
Kevin Rose had some great shows all the way back to tech tv Leo Laporte days.

I wonder what happened to that guy. I would gladly trade a drunk Kevin for a Zuckerberg.

ngold··on How to be a Roman emperor
I can't wait for Mike to come back and finish the revolutions podcast. He's been MIA since april. I know he's busy with his book, but common man, throw us a bone. I miss you mike.
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