Or not so secret. He has a huge compound on Kauai.

You're basically describing the Rope. Fancier versions use self balancing trees, allowing other string operations to be fairly efficient too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)

Wow, if that is true then that‘s the most succinct explanation of Ropes I have seen. Super helpful if you are trying to learn about them, like I am.

It's partway to being a rope, I would say some balancing and the ability to replace substrings are crucial to a real rope.

There is no government in an end stage Communist society.

Interestingly "no government" also appears to be exactly what is happening in the US with what some people might describe as end stage Capitalist society.

I have fond memories of the Navy commissary my parents did most of our food shopping at when I was growing up. Huge variety of reasonably priced goods.

Once upon a time there was a guy who went by Kibo who would search Usenet feeds for posts mentioning his username and reply to them...

I bet Musk hacked something together (or has a column in TweetDeck if that's still around) that continuously searches for mentions. I wonder if there's a tool like that that covers more of the internet, although the primary users would only be famous people and/or their agents / social media staff.

There are lots of tools that do this if you are willing to pay for it. "Social Media Monitoring" or "Brand Monitoring" would be the keywords to search for

Kibo greps

Nah, it's right up Supply Side Jesus' alley.

https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2003/09/the-gospel-of-supply-...

I imagine that if you do it enough it starts to become second nature.

If they ever kill off old reddit I'm going to have to find a new way to kill time because I'm not touching the new UI with a ten foot pole.

same. been cutting back on the reddits and if they lost the old.reddit subdomain I'm just done.

enshittification at its finest

Seems to be working again.

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45810107

Speaking of turbines and fire apparatus, back in the 60's a few jet turbine powered engines and one ladder truck were made: https://www.aeroflap.com.br/en/when-fire-trucks-used-boeing-...