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LaurieWired

@lauriewired.bsky.social

made a new friend from sun microsystems

pretty sure he’s older than me lol

April 26, 2026 at 5:56 PM

Astra ⭐

@astrra.space

sun microsystems

big hat tako @takoro.bsky.social · Jun 29

June 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM

Ed Zitron

@edzitron.com

I invented it but the patent was stolen from me by Sun Microsystems

September 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM

Caræsten 🇵🇸

@cara.city

Sun Microkittens

Basil the black cat on a large sun microsystems CRT monitor

March 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM

Nanoraptor

@nanoraptor.danamania.com

The Sun Dreamstation was Sun Microsystems' brief and deeply confusing attempt to answer the question: What if a Sparcstation was also really good at Crazy Taxi?

May 29, 2026 at 12:25 AM

keke

@kekekeball.bsky.social

A nice little Sun Microsystems compy! Testing out reduced canvas sizes.

June 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM

austin (e/accordion 🪗)

@thebadcode.com

sun microsystems laser eyes dot png

cafkafk @cafkafk.bsky.social · Aug 22

The idea of cloud computing as a thin client computer driving a massive computer remotely for heavy tasks is actually really nice when you own all computers involved.

August 22, 2026 at 6:29 PM

Justin Garrison

@justingarrison.com

Pretty sick garage sale find

May 16, 2026 at 4:37 PM

Gammitin (Ben) 💾

@gammitin.bsky.social

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

December 21, 2024 at 5:06 PM

Sun Microsystems Official

@sunmicro.systems

hi i bought a new domain i am now sun microsystems

June 13, 2026 at 1:50 AM

Joshua J. Friedman

@joshuajfriedman.com

Sun Microsystems finish the job

April 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM

Guy Gavriel Kay

@guygavrielkay.bsky.social

This evokes, for me, Scott McNealy, head of Sun Microsystems, way back (20-25 years?), saying ‘You have no privacy, get over it.’

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

September 25, 2026 at 12:46 PM

WebDesignMuseum

@webdesignmuseum.org

In September 1996, Microsoft implemented JavaScript into Internet Explorer 3.0 under the name JScript 1.0. By changing the name to JScript, Microsoft wanted to avoid potential patent litigation with Sun Microsystems.

September 6, 2026 at 1:16 PM

bakoon

@bakoon.bsky.social

egg man, urine soaked twitter moron, tesla slaves, sun microsystems hitler and the pedophile who got biggie shot

John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · Mar 21

x shareholders -
Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Jack Dorsey, Ross Gerber, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Sequoia -Larry Ellison, Sean Combs Capital , Vy Capital, Q Tetris Holdings LLC -

March 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM