ggm-at-algebras

Thank you kind stranger for motivating me to get up and check all my Google accounts and legacy Gsuite. And yes, to my surprise this did appear enabled, and now isn't.

In Shenzhen for a tech meeting. The streetscape is quieter, despite high traffic levels and I hear not only MORE birdsong, but the birds do more complex songlines.

The air is clean. For sure some of this is because it's a coastal city and has fresh sea breezes, but I've been in other Chinese coastal cities in times past and the air was significantly less clean.

There are social upsides for an almost-all-EV city.

This is an 18m person city. It's not exclusively wealthy people, its just a city with a very high local EV population and it shows.

I really want Europe to succeed but I keep thinking the tpm/trust zone keys are going to be a killer here. We need something akin to DNSSEC key ceremonies, combined with the CAB forum to police who gets admission.

It would seem passing strange that Gentry Lee came up with all the awful bits and the consulting oversight didn't.

Nothing in this thread makes me feel I should change my mind but de gustibus and all that.

If he'd stopped after one, it would have been fine. He decided to do a series. It got weird. I still read them but the original is a decent standalone and you won't die unhappy if you never read the following.

The same could be said of 2001.

Mate, we're not talking about the future, but about 3 letter guys now. I'm one, I've carried it with me for 40+ years as have the ten or twenty peers of mine I know by their tla. I got it at pobox.com when the door opened, the guy at the desk next door got a one letter name. I set up campus email for the entire uni in 1989 and gave myself the tla with my superuser rights before that. I'd done the same at ucl-cs in 85, and before that in Leeds and York.

My point here is we're not famous we're just old enough to have a tla from the time before HR demanded everyone get given.surname.

Every Unix system used to ship with a dmr account. It doesn't mean we all knew Dennis Ritchie, it means the account was in the release tape.

There are 17,000 odd of us. Ekr, Kre and Djb are famous but the other 17,573 of us exist.

Not to trivialise but being a 3 letter guy means being old. So, it's at best a celebration of achieving longevity and at worst a celebration of creaky joints and a short temper.