Like it or not, 4chan was a major hub of Internet culture. Especially early on some of the best stuff on the internet happened on 4chan (and a good chunk of the worst, of course)
early belongs to slashdot
Readit Newsleemailll commented on 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak knowyourmeme.com/memes/ev... · Posted by u/LookAtThatBacon
Do not underestimate the urge to procrastinate (by still doing productive things, like learning Mandarin) while pursuing a PhD.
I am not sure if this will be the author's experience too, but pursuing a PhD will often leave you exhausted without any hope of ever finding "the final missing ingredient" to solve the problem you are currently tackling. So turning to entirely unrelated problems, however productive they may seem to outsides, suddenly becomes an attractive alternative in order to procrastinate.
haha, so true. I had the same experience while in graduate school.
leemailll commented on Ford patents in-car system that eavesdrops so it can play you ads motortrend.com/news/ford-... · Posted by u/arkadiyt
imaging ford is granted and then sue around and win
Why Poland is high?
Also I suspect most of the countries on the map with low rates are not low with cancer rates but worse public health system. So not very telling
In 1993 I was interviewed for an operating job in a power plant for a major airline, assigned to their data center. At my current job, I was working in a high rise office building with sixty-six floors.
The operating system computer was a JC8520, which was running a version of MS-DOS. All commands had to be typed in correctly or nothing would happen. While operating the plant, several commands had to be entered every shift, since the owners didn't purchase a very automated package.
In the interview for the data center job, I was asked if I had any experience with Windows. I didn't understand the question because I wasn't aware they were talking about a computer operating system! So, I replied at the office building I worked in there were outside contractors who cleaned the windows.
After my reply all seven of the interviewers were all grinning and I was aware I said something they weren't looking for. One of the men politely told me Windows was a computer operating system. My reply was, "Oh, I see."
When I returned home I told my wife what happened and we shouldn't get our hopes up. To my utter shock, a week later I was offered the job, which I took and after some training, learned something I didn't know before.
>a power plant for a major airline
an airline owns power plant?
leemailll commented on Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend? · Posted by u/nishithfolly
A minimalist MP3 player for my grandmother.
The whole user interface is a single physical button on her desk :
- ON : indefinitely play all MP3 files randomly
- OFF : stop playing
The longest task was to find her favourite pieces of music from my aunts and uncles.
iPod Shuffle without copy files
EDIT: wait, after take a look at the repo you do remake iPod Shuffle
leemailll commented on Southwest Boeing 737-800 flight from Denver loses engine cover cnn.com/2024/04/07/busine... · Posted by u/janpot
ATC recording from VasAviation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBQkk4RcidA
leemailll commented on Choosing a Name for Your Computer (1990) datatracker.ietf.org/doc/... · Posted by u/kezcub
I use ship and cylon names from battlestar galactica
leemailll commented on Japan bets $67B to become a global chip powerhouse once again finance.yahoo.com/news/ja... · Posted by u/jonbaer
"looking to mass produce state-of-the art 2 nanometer logic chips in 2027 from an initial starting point of zero"
They have bold goals