Microsoft Updated 2025-07-16
They are evil because they produce closed source offline software used by millions: Microsoft Windows.
And also their monopolistic practices: United States v. Microsoft Corp.
So, as put in Video "Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs by Epic Rap Battles of History (2012)" by fake Steve Jobs to fake Bill Gates:
However, like all big tech companies with infinite money, they do end up doing some cool things in their research department, Microsoft Research, notably for Ciro Santilli being:
- Lean
- their quantum computing work. C is of course a bad idea, we don't need yet another domain-specific language, Python library based solutions like Qiskit are obviously the way to go
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro can relate strongly to the level of passion depicted in this film: Section "Don't be a pussy". It almost feels like a business film in that a sense, where the startup is the authors career and passions.
How to blackout your window without drilling Removal wall damage review Updated 2025-07-16
After removing it:
Of course, we already knew that minimal plaster work would be needed from the start, since we have to hammer two small nails into the wall. But that level of damage might have been easily dealt with by a non-professional tenant himself. But the level I had was a bit more than I felt I should handle myself.
How to blackout your window without drilling Swimming goggles plus sleeping mask hack Updated 2025-07-16
The problem with virtually all sleeping masks on the market is that they leave a lot of room near your nose for light to come in.
Ciro Santilli discovered a useful workaround for that: make the mask tighter with a swimming goggles!
Just make the goggles as loose as possible to not put pressure on your eyes, and then strap them over the sleeping mask.
If you are a back sleeper, put the googles forward as normal. If you are a stomach sleeper, put the googles on the back of your head, and the straps over the mask. This way you wont get your head squished by the goggles and the bed.
Once Ciro understood the idea, Googling "swimming googles sleeping mask" led to: mantasleep.uk/ might be a good option.
Window function (SQL) Updated 2025-07-16
Wolfgang Pauli Updated 2025-07-16
The dude was brutal. Ron Maimon praises that at youtu.be/ObXbKbpkSjQ?t=944 from Video "Ron Maimon interview with Jeff Meverson (2014)".
CIA 2010 covert communication websites securitytrails.com Updated 2025-07-16
They appear to piece together data from various sources. This is the most complete historical domain -> IP database we have so far. They don't have hugely more data than viewdns.info, but many times do offer something new. It feels like the key difference is that their data goes further back in the critical time period a bit.
TODO do they have historical reverse IP? The fact that they don't seem to have it suggests that they are just making historical reverse IP requests to a third party via some API?
E.g. searching
thefilmcentre.com under historical data at securitytrails.com/domain/thefilmcentre.com/history/al gives the correct IP 62.22.60.55.Account creation blacklists common email providers such as gmail to force users to use a "corporate" email address. But using random domains like
ciro@cirosantilli.com works fine.Their data seems to date back to 2008 for our searches.
Mitochondrial DNA mutates faster than nuclear DNA Updated 2025-07-16
Wikipedia mentions "Since animal mtDNA evolves faster than nuclear genetic markers" with a few sources.
Some sources:
- Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane (2006) page 361 mentions:so this property is also important for the human mitochondrial molecular clock.
While nuclear DNA can barely distinguish between chimps and humans, the mitochondrial clock ticks fast enough to reveal differences accumulating over tens of thousands of years
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350313 says it for metazoans
- www.quora.com/Why-does-mitochondrial-DNA-mutate-faster
Tin compound Updated 2025-07-16
Wilhelm Ostwald Updated 2025-07-16
Works about Richard Feynman Updated 2025-07-16
Bitcoin hello world Updated 2025-07-16
- buy some at a cryptocurrency exchange. This is the only viable way of obtaining crypto nowadays, since basically all cryptocurrencies require specialized hardware to mine.
- send it to a self hosted Bitcoin wallet without a full node, e.g. Electrum
- then send something out of the wallet back to the exchange wallet!
- convert the crypto back to cash
X-10 Graphite Reactor Updated 2025-07-16
This was an intermediate step between the nuclear chain reaction prototype Chicago Pile-1 and the full blown plutonium mass production at Hanford site. Located in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
19-inch rack Updated 2025-07-16
Fermi-Dirac statistics Updated 2025-07-16
IBM System/360 Updated 2025-07-16
CIA 2010 covert communication websites SSL certificate Updated 2025-07-16
The CGI comms websites contain the only occurrence of HTTPS, so it might open up the door for a certificate fingerprint as proposed by user joelcollinsdc at: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36280801!
crt.sh appears to be a good way to look into this:They all appear to use either of:
- backstage.musical-fortune.net:
- clients.smart-travel-consultant.com
- members.it-proonline.com
- members.metanewsdaily.com
- miembros.todosperuahora.com
- secure.altworldnews.com
- secure.driversinternationalgolf.com
- secure.freshtechonline.com
- secure.globalnewsbulletin.com
- secure.negativeaperture.com
- secure.riskandrewardnews.com
- secure.theworld-news.net
- secure.topbillingsite.com
- secure.worldnewsandent.com
- ssl.beyondnetworknews.com
- ssl.newtechfrontier.com
- www.businessexchangetoday.com
- heal.conquermstoday.com
- Go Daddy
- Thawte DV SSL CA
- Starfield Technologies, Inc.
crt.sh/?q=globalnewsbulletin.com has a hit to: crt.sh/?id=774803. With login we can see: search.censys.io/certificates/5078bce356a8f8590205ae45350b27f58f4ac04478ed47a389a55b539065cee8. Issued by www.thawte.com/repository/index.html. No hits for certificates with same public key: search.censys.io/search?resource=certificates&q=parsed.subject_key_info.fingerprint_sha256%3A+714b4a3e8b2f555d230a92c943ced4f34b709b39ed590a6a230e520c273705af or any other "same" queries though.
Let's try another one for secure.altworldnews.com: search.censys.io/certificates/e88f8db87414401fd00728db39a7698d874dbe1ae9d88b01c675105fabf69b94. Nope, no direct mega hits here either.
Change of basis Updated 2025-07-16
where:
- : matrix in the old basis
- : matrix in the new basis
- : change of basis matrix
Instrumental convergence Updated 2025-07-16
There are unlisted articles, also show them or only show them.



