ButlerianJihad

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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
I subscribe to YouTube Premium Family (and yes, they raised my monthly rate too.) YT's search functions are nerfed very deliberately. YouTube's main purpose is to shove content at the user that we don't want. Ads or no ads, w
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
I am also 54 years old, and I've grown up with every single user interface conceivable in a computer or device. However, though that gives me an advantage in knowledge of how the systems work, I don't think I'm very good at n
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
Over the past few months, more than a few Google Doodles have simply been Gemini search prompts. This was extremely underwhelming as I usually expect a fun game or some kind of clever hack to ensue. I was also rather irate that Google could
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
What is the age of a script that I wrote to be triggered by cron? What is the age of a script that my 10-year-old son wrote to be triggered in his dad's crontab? If I do "sudo -l" to my son's account, what is the age of
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
Most pirates are careful to strip out any copyright notices, but if Franklin did not consider themselves as pirates, then obviously the smart move is to retain the notice intact, because that is giving proper attribution. That seems like a
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
GNU Info and many Web 1.0 navigation schemes involved a hierarchy which did involve "Next", "Previous", "Up", and "Home" type dimensions. For example, the Bacula documentation is still online, as a pr
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
I live in a unique community which is sandwiched between a public-transit light rail line, and a freight line as well. The light rail can run a frequency of 12-20 minutes in each direction. The freight's schedule: who really knows? But
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
Do the pilots also decide whether to issue a parachute to the ejected passenger?
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
The USA's westward expansion was indeed facilitated by the timely development of railroads, and so many of the cities were built around the ability to haul freight and service depots along the rail lines, much like ancient cities spran
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
I sincerely doubt that pilots decide "when to eject a passenger". Mostly it would be the cabin crew: the flight attendants are 100% in charge of flight safety, and they would be managing relationships with passengers, and they wou
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
Incorrect usage of semicolon in title/headline. Should be a comma. Tsk, tsk.
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
You're Absolutely Right! Your original summary is not just insightful — you've cleanly delved into the best parts! What else can you share with us tonight?
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
From my youth, I was infected with the desire to graduate college at all costs. I was adopted, and I was told that both of my birth-parents were college graduates (I later validated this as truth!) My adoptive parents were also both college
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
I noticed that this headline is in lowercase, and I can tell you why Google/Android is doing this: because of the uppercase app "Photos" by Google. Recently, I've been struggling with adding locations to some photos afte
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
> the discussion turns to implantation details Do not try and derail this thread with facts about vaccines!
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
It was only 2 weeks ago that I donated my HP LaserJet MFP, which was manufactured in 2010. It was still 100% functional and had never required a repair. Even the paper rarely jammed. My father has always insisted on purchasing the latest in
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
I was wearing my NASA shirt last Monday when a neighbor quizzed me on the mythical "Crewed Mission to Mars". I told him that it seemed quite absurd and unattainable, at present or near-future levels of technology. I told him, we c
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
Yeah, obviously, Free Software vendors can support themselves in certain ways, chiefly being the selling of support contracts. The people who are confused are claiming that "Free Software" is zero-cost, and you yourself contradict
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
The really hilarious thing about Gmail is: there have been at least two class-action lawsuit announcements, that are totally legitimate from the legit senders, regarding a settlement with Google in some regard. Each of the messages has been
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
Overall, this relationship and all the others on YPP were a net-positive for me, and I had immensely wonderful times playing "the social puzzle" as well as blockading, and pretending to be a wealthy mogul, and "governing&quot
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
When I broke my leg in 2006, I had a Windows machine and a modem. I searched around to discover a game that could occupy my free time. I wanted a puzzle game: I knew that much. I was looking for multiplayer games, so I happened to find “Yoh
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
Yes. Indeed. Ironically, the privacy matter involved with the Quinlan case is that the parents/guardians sought to terminate a medical treatment. The medical establishment regarded this termination as tantamount to murder. That is, wit
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
If you wanted and desired to die immediately, but you had no means of articulating it or indicating those wishes beforehand, would someone grant you that wish? Would that be a licit and legal thing for someone else to take action upon you
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
How arrogant to subvert the "scientific we" to presume to know things that you cannot ever empirically know through the scientific method. No, "we" never knew how "aware" these patients were. Speaking for mysel
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by ButlerianJihad 7mo ago
It's clear that people in this thread do not understand what "Free Software" is, and what it isn't. Let's recall the classic analogy of rms: "Free as in Beer" and "Free as in Speech". "Free