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I’ve done this as well. I’m only making twice what I was 30 years ago at 18. (Though to be fair, I was making a ridiculous amount of money for a 18 year old - my first job was in the Qwest network operations center.)

Hacker? Straight to jail.

No no, spend three months in an untraceable maze of ICE holding facilities, then to jail, then deported to a 'shithole' country that you didn't come from in the first place.

You only get deported to a third country if you refuse to be deported to your home country.

The information you would need to be able to state this categorically is not publicly available.

I think deporting you to Switzerland is no fun and won't teach you any valuable lesson.

Works fine in Chrome on both my W11 and MacOS 15.7.2 machines.

As a very small (like, two digit spend a month) AWS user, I still have gotten a human to help me when I've needed one.

Amazon is amazing to be a customer of. Just not an employee of (not one, know many).


Exactly. I give services like this - generally coded as someone's first "wow I know PHP now!" or the modern equivalent - approximately 5 years shelf life, at best.

Whereas I have notes-to-future-me on my calendar that I put there 30 years ago.


What calendar system have you been using for 30 years, that's survived that long?

I think I sent one of those "mails to the future" in the 90's, asking 2002 me how I am. I don't think it ever arrived, or the free email domain I was using ceased operating.

Sheesh, anyone old enough to remember the services offering a free email address with a choice of maybe 50 domains in a dropdown?


> Sheesh, anyone old enough to remember the services offering a free email address with a choice of maybe 50 domains in a dropdown?

Mail.com is still around and offers a lot of domains, though I think the amount of domains has reduced over the years.


Not the same one all that time, but I've always exported/imported when I have changed.

For the same reason, I have every email I've ever sent or received, going back to my 1988 FIDOnet account.


The absolute best teaching of the Fourier transform I've ever encountered is the extremely bizarre book "Who is Fourier?"

https://www.amazon.com/Who-Fourier-Mathematical-Transnationa...


This was my first exposure to the Fourier transfer. I also highly recommend this book. It was recommended to me by the head of the math department at university.

i can’t tell if your comment is satire or not

Replace “reddit” with “google” in your sentence. Now how does it sound?

Like you're talking about something completely different in function and purpose.

Not for quite a lot of people it isn’t, no.

I’m guessing you’re over 35 (as I am).

I know plenty of people in their 20s whose entire online life is centered on Reddit.

They make hundreds of comments a day. It’s where all of their social interaction is. it’s where they coordinate activities with people. It’s where they chat with people. it’s how they communicate with everyone.Losing that handle would be disastrous. You can’t just change it.


I want to learn more about your definition of “everyone”.

Possibly, but given it can also read my handwriting- which is much, MUCH worse than Boole’s - with better accuracy than any human I’ve given it to- that’s probably not the explanation.

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