Not news to me, either, Drew.

Aaw, I should have told you. Thereâ(TM)s some equation that relates energy, mass, and the speed of light. Probably most physics postdocs have heard of it.

Thanks, Will-O. I quite remember this cia guyâ(TM)s rubber stamp collection with dozens of great stamps: NOFORN, EYES-ONLY, and different fonts of Secret and top secret. Damn, but the guard at the place seized my paper with all those stamps.

On the other hand, I still have a VIP parking pass for the CIA headquarters â" Lets ypu park right at the front steps. Valid, if you have a time machine going back to April 5, 1988.

My warm thoughts fly over to you, Kill (owatt-) Hour â" last weekâ(TM)s eclipse fund me beneath stratus clouds just east of Buffalo, having a wonderful (though cloudy) day with 4 generations of my family. Itâ(TM)s a joy to see how my home town has evolved â" memories of climbing the Michigan Avenue Lift Bridge at midnight and watching them tap the redhot coke ovens at Bethlehem/Lackawanna Steel mills.

Following up, I am honored by the attention and kindness of fellow nerds and online friends. When I first started on that chase in 1986, I had no idea wrhere it would lead me.

A curious accounting error led me through Unix internals, tcp/ip protocols, early Arpanet connections, and backwards to a group of computer hackers working for then Soviet & Stassi agencies. Along the way, I met people from the FBI, NSA, CIA, AFOSI, and plenty of very smart computer jocks.

It was a time of analog phones and dial up modems; when you would carry coins in your pocket to make calls on the street.

Since then, thanks to the support of online friends and math folk, I have explored and shared interests in topology and math. Along the way, Iâ(TM)ve made plenty of mistakes and bloopers; pretty much the same as student times. Goofups in grad school are easier to sweep aside!

To all my friends: May you burdens be light and your purpose high. Stay curious!

- Cliff

Iâ(TM)ve been away from slashdot for a while, and Iâ(TM)m now on a post-eclipse trip on the east coast.

With good fortitune (and Amtrak), Iâ(TM)ll be home in 10 days; Iâ(TM)ll then fill the tsunami of Klein bottle orders that havve arrived in the past few hours. Over a dozenâ" Iâ(TM)ll be catching up for a few days!

Smiles all around,
-Cliff on a rainy Saturday in Potsdam, NU

anyone under the age threshold found with a cellphone with up to one year in prison

The theory being that a year in prison will be less harmful than phone use?

If we had a 1% battery improvement to market for every "major breakthrough" we see in the news, we wouldn't even need the breakthroughs.

I'm starting to feel like I should pay $11.99 a month to subscribe to YouTube Premium

Sounds like it's working as intended

First of all they are not building and running anything. It is interpreted server side code and front end code that gets loaded by the target browser at runtime.

It's been a while since Facebook ran on simple PHP files and static JavaScript.

if it was code that gets built they would build on the server

Yes, this is what they're describing in the article.

You simply have no idea how software development work

I'm not disputing that, but I do work for Facebook, and (anecdotally) I find that my beefy dev server helps a lot for my large builds and runs.

A network mount is not a good solution for working with massive server software in a monorepo.

You end up downloading a hundred gigabytes of source material across millions of files, with the associated latency of on-demand access, just to build and run on laptop hardware.

Would you be willing to bring me a club sandwich with fries for less than $3-5?

The first post that's not about how technology is dumb and how 1080p ought to be enough for everyone.

I wish I had mod points.