Simmons wrote one of my favourite short stories of all time Vanni Fucci is Alive and Well and living in Hell.

While I'm definitely not willing to put myself through any of his books after 9/11, I haven't stopped recommending Vanni Fucci as an introduction to Dan Simmons.

Rest in peace.

They run 4000 VMS as a stingy aerospace company so you can definitely assume less than a 100 physical machines.

Without further enterprise negotiations, it's 1800 per host/year. $180k max.

I don't blame Vates for refusing to chase down the company. They'll bring you way more pain as paying clients than the shameless theft they're perpetuating.

OP here. I edited the title from Partner to Lover to distinguish between business and romantic partners but I just found out "Lover" carries an incendiary connotation in American English as opposed to British English.

Not my intention at all....

I grew up in America and didn't find it incendiary at all. The extreme reaction was surprising to me, as well. The word was very common in 80s and 90s songs with no illicit or incendiary connotation whatsoever! In fact, I find headlines phrased like this article's annoying. It's just unclear and poor writing, IMO.

It really didn't help:

https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-health-elizab...

How about something simple and accurate like "baby daddy"?

They were engaged, but never officially married.

https://people.com/elizabeth-holmes-relationship-billy-evans...

She had a recent interview[1] where she claimed she's actively working on her research behind bars and still wants the opportunity to change the world with her invention.

This is not a coincidence at all.

[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_xyGbUNZ0&pp=ygUWZWxpemFiZXR...]

In case anyone can't view that link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_xyGbUNZ0

This would have to factor into any future parole considerations, wouldn’t it?

No, because federal parole isn't a thing for crimes committed after November 1, 1987.

Federal parole may not be possible, but a pardon definitely is.

Yes, and given the current administration’s pardon practice, being shamelessly unrepentant and flagrantly likely to be a recidivist looks more like a positive than a negative consideration.

A thought just came to me, that the selling of indulgences triggered the Reformation.

It's been a moneymaker for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31-line_Indulgence

Maybe they can raise enough money for a pardon.

What would be expected from a complete psychopath.

Not a catholic but I kept a tab on the process because the Catholic church seemed to lean towards a very conservative candidate and i was interested to see how it pans out. Turns out we have an American Pope and he wasn't even a top contender.

He was listed among 10 leading candidates in the Guardian, yesterday: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/07/who-next-pope-...

I'm really disappointed that Notion acquired and killed a far better product (Skiff) just to release what is essentially an overdressed Gmail client.

There's no decent selling point over other competitors in the industry and Notion just missed the chance to tie customers into a alternative workspace suite.

Footnote: "Unlimited fonts, no extra charges, already licensed."

Might have to change the title to Show HN: LeetGPU, a playground to learn GPU programming.

Or even change it to "to learn CUDA programming". I thought this was for shaders or something at first.

To be fair, They had the "Wise" name first and only had to rebrand after TransferWise rebranded.

Still gave a major scare though.