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What’s the prefered uuid these days?

This is what gets me - entropy is hard, but not that hard. I get it goes against everything a computer is built to do, but so does telling time.

SGI was pretty amazing. I know some folks who worked there - Cray too. There’s a loyalty that just doesn’t exist any more - and arguably isn’t earned anymore.

Oh wow that’s really amazing. What’s the source - I love Von Neumann.

I’m guessing it’s below market rates. Silicon Valley and all.

That may be true, but I find Australian accents the most beautiful.

Matrix isn’t cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is a sub-genre of punk. Think bikers, street gangs, heavy metal. The first two Terminators.

By the time Matrix came around, punk was out. Not a bad thing. Things come and go.

But sadly the cyber and punk parts got confused: Steampunk and Biopunk, which aren’t very punky.

I’m usually not a genre stickler, but I just got done reading anthology of early 80s cyberpunk punk. It was shocking. Really shocking. It was more about heavy metal and raves than technology.


I just want it to cook and clean.


Learn how to calculate longitude and latitude by eyesight using the Ptolemaic system.

Then add a telescope or sextant.

This is lots of fun, if you’re into that sort of thing.


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It sounds weird there is a pro-rat constituency.


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