8bitsrule

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by 8bitsrule 6mo ago
Same here. And when you encourage students to ask good questions, that goes double ... you're forcedd to see how important their new perspectives are, and to create your own!
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by 8bitsrule 6mo ago
Always good to learn more about the timeline of techniques lost in the mists of time. Some of the finest works of art were 'coded' in fibers, much more durable that most other media!
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by 8bitsrule 6mo ago
> This was the same before, if you had a novel idea and make a product out of it others follow. March 20, 1926: Hungarian physicist, electrical engineer Kalman Tihanyi applies for his first patent for a fully electronic television system
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by 8bitsrule 6mo ago
Looks like we're heading toward some resolution to the old problem 'ignorance of the law is no excuse'. Born in a world with plenty of laws, the jeopardy that goes with them, and no easy and reliable resources, that would cer
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by 8bitsrule 6mo ago
I don't think for a minute that this stuff is anything new ... to the contrary. I think what is new is that, every time they step in it, the whole world now quickly knows.
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by 8bitsrule 7mo ago
The way to happiness is to stop chasing it. Never mind all the ads ... It isn't 'out there somewhere'.
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by 8bitsrule 7mo ago
I'm reminded of how adults struggle to keep up with urban-dictionary-speak. I doubt they'll keep-up wif teen-speak-on-steroids. 6-7.
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by 8bitsrule 7mo ago
The major flaw in Panspermia is that it all had to start somewhere without Panspermia. If it did that there, why not here?
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by 8bitsrule 7mo ago
It was incredibly well-done TV (my fave) and we have Brett's dedication to the character and ITV's Granada (not BBC) (and PBS here in the US) to thank for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV_Granada
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by 8bitsrule 7mo ago
Who was a memorable show! The first broadcasted show I saw was already in the Baker era, and that was because I was living near the Canadian border. After I moved, I greatly missed it for decades until world demand brought it back.
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by 8bitsrule 7mo ago
No doubt there will sho as hail cum too pas lingo wot am un-clanker-lock. Betcha bottum dolah.
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by 8bitsrule 7mo ago
>stop doing our useless jobs and go back to the real world LOL ... that's almost an exact quote of words once spoken by an exasperated, major university philosophy professor at a departmental meeting Like being a medieval monastery
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by 8bitsrule 7mo ago
>The envelope is sealed and signed by the citizen. Alas, the signature must reasonably match one on file (from somewhere ... presumably a state ID) or the ballot may be rejected. Since human signatures can vary wildly for reasons, this n
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by 8bitsrule 7mo ago
You may not have learned much about them, or thought through the potential costs of a pipeline being built through your property. Some of those 'eco-warrior types' are not protesting a pipeline, they are protesting the potential i
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by 8bitsrule 7mo ago
Gotta say, good luck with that effort. Lenat started Cyc 42 years ago, and after a while it seemed to disappear. 'Understanding' the 'physical world' is something that a few -may- start to approach intuitively after a
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by 8bitsrule 7mo ago
Back in the day, for people who spent many hours each day in front of a 'display': 1. People using TTY's used black ink on very-light-yellow roll paper, or 2. Those lucky enough to have ADM-3 VDT's often chose light gree
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by 8bitsrule 7mo ago
Damn ... I'll be so glad when all this trendy shit goes away.
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by 8bitsrule 7mo ago
Interesting. The IIs and early Macs were great hardware. Still, I always liked the software the best ... until they stopped supporting it (e.g. Hypercard). But the hardware? The very first Mac I actually owned, a iiSi, was designed to suck
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by 8bitsrule 7mo ago
> the water is boiling. Not necessarily. It might refer to heating water to bring it to a boil. Q. What are you doing over there? A. Oh, just boiling water.
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
IME, in prose writing, arguing with LLM can help a newer writer to gather 'the facts' (to help with research) and 'the objections to the facts' (same result) to anticipate an initial approach to the material. This can s
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
Astonishing how late London was getting into the University game. (Last major European city to do so? Paris was 1150 ...)
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
>SingleFile does the archiving fairly well. As does Tranquility Reader, if you're interested only in the primary content of the page ... and, usually, in a much smaller footprint ... with a PDF option.
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
Crawlers accessing public data could be required to provide searchable access to the public data they collect. Value-for-value.
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
> better at running civilization If by 'running' you mean 'colonizing', then yes.
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
Quarrying (human erosion), as in 1303 Egypt, and with what the Spaniards did to Cuzco/Sacsayhuamán.
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
Uh-oh ... thinking outside the box is frowned on by the prevailing religion.
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
Ursula was one of the finest authors in my lifetime, and was a real-life class act to boot. I dared talk to Ellison,Niven, Sturgeon but I only dared a smile in that presence!
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
Somehow humanity survived 10,000 years of the last ice age. Without central heating. Of course, furs will be harder to come by.
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
It sold for $2.2 million then. It'll be interesting to see what's happened to that price.
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
Yet another demonstration of the fact that much of archeology is a result of adding a scientific veneer to simple treasure-hunting. 'Artifacts', 'culture' and 'history' notwithstanding. Once 'discovered&#x

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