FrankWilhoit

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by FrankWilhoit 5d ago
The states got nothing. Pure memory-hole theater.
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by FrankWilhoit 5d ago
Mime.
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by FrankWilhoit 7d ago
Why not ban automatic transmissions and power steering while they're at it?
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by FrankWilhoit 8d ago
Well, let's see. There's the cops, and the BMV, and... ...hmm, I guess you got me.
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by FrankWilhoit 10d ago
1. Create scarcity. 2. ??? 3. Profit!
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by FrankWilhoit 11d ago
Any discussion of this must center the fact that the surveillance began in Jan.-Feb. 2001, NOT after 11 September. The one telecom executive who objected was instantly framed into prison.
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by FrankWilhoit 12d ago
He thinks it's like the wind machine with money blowing round in it.
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by FrankWilhoit 12d ago
They've never told the truth before, why start now?
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by FrankWilhoit 12d ago
Pour encourager les autres.
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by FrankWilhoit 12d ago
Gold bits or no support, no liability, no E&O, no auditor signoff.
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by FrankWilhoit 13d ago
It knows that jobs are not the valuable things.
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by FrankWilhoit 13d ago
There are no blue states. There are only blue cities. If they wish to "secede", what that indicates is that they have not thought through how easy it is to block a road.
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by FrankWilhoit 14d ago
It is easy to say that we live in a bad time. It is also empty, because there has never been a good time, and because each bad time-and-place (h/t Tolstoy) is bad for its own reasons, which must be accurately understood in order for &
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by FrankWilhoit 16d ago
Censorship isn't done because it "works", just as torture is not. The public discourse is worth protecting IFF people think it is. (There are things that Freddie-baby wants it protected from. (The preceding sentence is one
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by FrankWilhoit 16d ago
None of the above. If (as is far too likely) AI is given any "control" over infrastructure -- the power grid and banking come first to mind; transportation might be a little more resilient -- the results could cascade into a gene
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by FrankWilhoit 16d ago
It had more to do with the ecosystems and the corporate relationship. The -10s came from a earlier perspective. It was open source before "open source". You bought the software and you got the source, because of course you did
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by FrankWilhoit 17d ago
Profound apologies -- on the basis of one of your earlier comments, I took you for someone with the same initials.
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by FrankWilhoit 17d ago
DEC quit making them in 1983.
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by FrankWilhoit 17d ago
Systems Concepts may have had other prospects, but they had so much trouble getting the product out the door that Compuserve ultimately helped them finish it, licensed it (? exclusively), and produced all but a couple of the machines that w
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by FrankWilhoit 17d ago
I find this offer acceptable.
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by FrankWilhoit 18d ago
There is a guy on YouTube playing with SC-40s who has part of the TOPS-10 based stack, which I guess is what you mean. The Internetty stuff went by the umbrella name of HMI (Host-Micro Interface) and was guarded like the recipe for Coca-Co
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by FrankWilhoit 18d ago
I was there. What killed Compuserve was an attempt to build an entire back-end infrastructure, software and hardware, de novo , using immature consumer-grade technology. It was a shocking thing to witness from the inside. The pivot from
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by FrankWilhoit 19d ago
Wars aren't meant to end. They are meant to go on forever.
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by FrankWilhoit 22d ago
All of your questions assume that prevention has already failed (where never-being-attempted is a category of failure). In this, you are in numerous, perhaps effectively universal, company. Humans are born mad; the purpose of education (a
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by FrankWilhoit 23d ago
Language, how does it work? Is PeopleSoft "consequential"? If so, in what ways?
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by FrankWilhoit 23d ago
Here is how to see it. Business rules evolve over decades by the gradual accretion of special cases, often at the whim of a single whale customer; their implementations are usually untested (except for the narrow edge cases that surfaced t
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by FrankWilhoit 27d ago
By the end of 2027, the data centers will be white elephants, monuments to misallocation born of confusion born of devolution.
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by FrankWilhoit 27d ago
Ideology -- any ideology -- is a newborn lying in its own shìt.
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by FrankWilhoit 28d ago
He doesn't get it. Solving the wrong problem is better than solving the right problem, but you're not supposed to solve any problems at all.
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by FrankWilhoit 29d ago
America's safety net isn't ready for any damn thing, what is your point?

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