Fiction: Independent People by Halldór Laxness or Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Non-Fiction: The Feynman lectures on Physics.
Readit NewsSirAllCaps commented on Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
Its a good idea. I'm surprised there aren't trackers on all cars already, like a 21st century license plate. I thought toll passes would do this, but looking at the size of the sensors over interstates it isn't so easy.
> I'm surprised there aren't trackers on all cars already, like a 21st century license plate.
Are you referring to a state or government tracker on every vehicle? If so, it seems like you're implying that's a good idea. If that's the case, I hope there's some joke in here I'm missing.
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Found this while scouring this list of HTTP status codes, because I wanted to make sure I was giving appropriate responses in this web API I'm developing.
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SirAllCaps commented on NASA Power Hack Extends 45-Year Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer gizmodo.com/nasa-power-ha... · Posted by u/taubek
Whenever I read something related to the two Voyager probes I feel a little bit sad about them since they’re out there on their own. At the same time I feel pride for humanity as a species, since we managed to send these two probes so far away.
Getting the probe out there is no doubt indeed remarkable in its own right, but to build it resilient enough to remain communicative at this distance, after all this time in such hostile environment, along with the foresight that enables these lifetime measures to be taken almost a half century later, makes it all more remarkable, and to think all this accrued knowledge and ingenuity being generalized from things like chipping flint axes.
Finance is default not trusted. If documents are missing, fraud is presumed. Tech doesn’t seem to have reached that point just yet.
At my company (not finance, and never gotten sued), documents are ephemeral
primarily due to GDPR reasons.
Many of them contain various personal data of clients and/or employees, legal makes us specify for how long each service needs to hold on to it, and purge as soon as possible to minimize chance of leaks.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip