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New comment by lorislab in "Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels"

lorislab — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:53:20 +0000

One thing that changed is that modern engineering moved a lot of complexity from the construction site into the design phase. A project today may take longer because we simulate, certify, model failures, and optimize before pouring concrete. The old projects sometimes had more visible physical labor, but less computational overhead.

New comment by lorislab in "Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID"

lorislab — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:52:03 +0000

The interesting part is not really the existence of a machine identifier. Almost every modern OS has some equivalent. The bigger question is the boundary: which components can access it, and when does a local identifier become a remote tracking identifier? A machine-id sitting on disk is very different from an OS vendor correlating it with network activity.

New comment by lorislab in "Early Web Links"

lorislab — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:38:52 +0000

can t remember where I saw that exact design, perhaps a Cloud code demo YouTube video?

New comment by lorislab in "Happy Independence Day"

lorislab — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:26:45 +0000

happy 4'th of July from France :)