I need to know why the opposite of 'rain' is 'yo'.
yo it's time to go out!
Readit NewsDban1 commented on I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard hawksley.org/2026/02/17/t... · Posted by u/saeedesmaili
Dban1 commented on Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish (2005) stevejobsarchive.com/stor... · Posted by u/walterbell
Dban1 commented on Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish (2005) stevejobsarchive.com/stor... · Posted by u/walterbell
It’s interesting that for how successful Jobs was, there really aren’t many young people who seem to emulate his life path. The guy went to an extremely unorthodox college, took some “impractical” courses like typography, dropped out, and basically lived a hippie-esque existence until Apple worked out.
This seems to me like the opposite of the typical ambitious young person’s plan today, over filled with extracurriculars, prestigious degrees, and well-worn paths to success. You’d think that Jobs’ success would lead to more people trying to emulate his roundabout path, at least superficially.
Maybe you could make the argument that Jobs was just too unique to serve as a role model for everyone else. And the labor market is a lot different today vs. back then. But I do think that his apparent lack of institutional hyper-optimization contributed to his success in a fundamental way.
Can't make pasta with a cookie cutter
Dban1 commented on We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002) web.mit.edu/jemorris/humo... · Posted by u/giancarlostoro
About the same time the 500-mile email problem happened (mid 1990s), I had a difficult to understand issue with my office PC. Every morning, I'd come in, slide my hard drive sled in, and turn the computer on. We had 128 Kbps ISDN internet at the office and I had the same at home, but that was too slow to do much work. So I'd take the drive home so I could work at night, especially in the winter when the office was too cold at night.
Suddenly one winter morning, the PC wouldn't boot. I had to run to a meeting. When I got back, I turned the PC off and on again and everything was fine. The next morning, the same thing happened. The third day, I didn't have a meeting. I turned it off and back on, still no boot. I'd gotten in late, so I just turned it off and took an early lunch. When I got back, it still wouldn't boot. But I had a meeting, so I ran to that, leaving the computer on. When I got back, it booted fine.
The next morning, same thing. I decided to look inside, not having any idea what might cause such symptoms. As I took the shell off, a tiny mouse came out, jump off my desk, and ran across my lap before jumping on the floor and scurrying out of sight. From inside the computer came the smell of mouse urine. Apparently he'd been crawling in through the open drive bay to keep warm every night, and urinating while he was in there. Once the computer had been on for a while, the heat and airflow would dry it out enough to eliminate whatever electrical short was keeping it from booting. I went to the store and bought an empty drive sled to put in the drive bay whenever I took my drive out, and the problem never came back. I felt lucky that the liquid didn't cause permanent damage.
My mouse doesn't do that
Dban1 commented on Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal iranintl.com/en/202601255... · Posted by u/mhb
The internet is fragile. Access can be so easily cut off for the masses in dire times.
Finally in 2025, a revolutionary advancement in technology.
Linux please.
Dban1 commented on America’s semiconductor boom [video] youtube.com/watch?v=T-jt3... · Posted by u/zdw
Dban1 commented on Play snake in the URL address bar demian.ferrei.ro/snake/... · Posted by u/macote
So yeah, age verification should be taken down, as well as the datamining these companies do and the opaque tunning of their algorithms. It baffles me: people are concerned about their children's DMs but are not concerned about what companies serves them and what they do with their data.