ButlerianJihad

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by ButlerianJihad 11d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Command#Development ... Theurer put two conditions to his work: neither the attacking nor defending states would be named, and the game would be purely defensive and never put
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by ButlerianJihad 11d ago
You link to a 7-year-old podcast and an SEC filing dated March 31, 2026. Have you read their update announcing changes as of March 31, 2026? https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t...
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by ButlerianJihad 12d ago
This must be the origin of the saying, “People who start stone rows shouldn’t build glass houses”.
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by ButlerianJihad 12d ago
There is a retail shopping mall here; it is not an outlet mall, but a Nike Store opened up and it feels like an outlet. It was bustling with a lot of people milling around. There were bags available at the front, which I thought were durabl
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by ButlerianJihad 12d ago
JPEG isn’t from IETF.
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by ButlerianJihad 12d ago
I began a dispute on the English Wikipedia which revealed that more than a few people use “GIF” to describe, not a file format, but a visual style of looping animation.
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by ButlerianJihad 12d ago
Wait until you hear about Tron
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by ButlerianJihad 12d ago
I can testify that it's bonkers when a shell script is overwritten in place, and the interpreter bombs out with an irreproducible error message, because the contents shifted around that much. Or I suppose it would be even worse if the
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by ButlerianJihad 13d ago
The file's blocks exist in the filesystem. "Those pages" just refers to the ordinary buffer cache for any other disk-based file. No cached pages are necessary to hold open a file on disk.
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by ButlerianJihad 13d ago
Altho' it be not a living CGI script, mayhap the Internet Archive shall regale us with nigh-on 250 bespoke insults, plucked from the very copper tendrils of ye olde webbe: https://web.archive.org/web/19990515000000
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by ButlerianJihad 13d ago
> Light moves at the speed of casualty - C C is coulombs And casualty is a dead person
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by ButlerianJihad 13d ago
Chris Siebenmann: "Our options in remote server installation and management" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/RemoteServerMa...
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by ButlerianJihad 13d ago
7 Up says that 7 Up was using it. The primary marketing campaign of 7 Up from its inception was its lithiated benefit. Soda jerks were the baristas who sold carbonated beverages at drug-store counters. The soda pop, tonic beverage, patent m
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by ButlerianJihad 13d ago
Gamer Nexus videos are hackneyed and their methodology is haphazard. There was no systematic analysis or procedure. There was no structured explanation of the situation. Various risks and capabilities and actual activity has been conflated.
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by ButlerianJihad 13d ago
I like how you've piecemeal blocked the same subdomain 4 times. Will you do the same for the other 4-component subdomains? In fact, I'm curious what it means to "block a domain at a router". Really? Did you give Claude t
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by ButlerianJihad 14d ago
By the way, Wikipedia attempts to contradict the claim about 7Up containing lithium citrate and says it was never an ingredient . There is no source supporting this claim. An unreliable source, by "Bill Lockhart and Bob Brown" ne
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by ButlerianJihad 14d ago
As of this writing, Waymo only permits unaccompanied minors in the Metro Phoenix area. The incident occurred in San Francisco, so it seems that they should not have riding without an adult. https://support.google.com/waymo&#
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by ButlerianJihad 14d ago
I live near a Korean pan-Asian convenience store, and I've been enjoy the variety of beverages and ramen available there. Oceania today exports foods with significant influence by Italian cuisine, in particular. There are some fruit dr
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by ButlerianJihad 14d ago
Lest we forget, the seminal guerrilla daytime drama: IKEA Heights https://youtube.com/@ikeaheights?si=ZP7jYR1cUw16yhvo Why and how it remains available, only Google knows!
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by ButlerianJihad 14d ago
7-Up contained lithium citrate until 1950. The soda jerks were literally treating manic depression during WWII. There were advertising signs for it at crosswalks on city streets. Make 7-Up Yours, Baby! Any product that contains ethanol but
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by ButlerianJihad 14d ago
See, the thing is that swapping or paging to a file does not use the VFS layer, except when activating or deactivating it. So swapfiles may not be materially different from swap partitions during operations. https://utcc.utoronto
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by ButlerianJihad 14d ago
https://www.johnbradshaw.com/books/healing-the-shame-that-bi... John Bradshaw defined toxic shame as distinct from a healthy sense of dignity, manners, and modesty. Also, he addresses how toxic shame can be "carri
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by ButlerianJihad 14d ago
Instruments on the far side of the Moon will need some communication with Earth. While you can fantasize about running very long surface cables, the common solution consists of orbiting communications satellites. There are currently at leas
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by ButlerianJihad 14d ago
The Star Trek future may be right on schedule. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/World_War_III World War III was the last of Earth's three world wars, lasting from approximately 2026 to 2053. The conflict
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by ButlerianJihad 14d ago
It's proposed in a Niven-Pournelle novel that grain domesticated humans: we gave it the largest premium territories, we carefully propogated the finest varieties, and we elevated it to a holy sacrament and a symbol of sacrifice, divini
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by ButlerianJihad 15d ago
I went shopping for a 4K OLED pregnancy test with 3 HDMI ports, but they threw me out of the pharmacy
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by ButlerianJihad 15d ago
> People say “play it again, Sam” So, they haven't watched Casablanca ?
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by ButlerianJihad 15d ago
I believe that you mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrashing_(computer_science) Chris Siebenmann discusses when the OOM killer triggers: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux
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by ButlerianJihad 15d ago
Google Lens
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by ButlerianJihad 15d ago
I've got a few pet peeves about bread and American food service. Bread is spongy, and it's designed to sop up liquids and sauces. But when you're served bread in a restaurant, or incorporate a recipe at home, there is seldom

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