HocusLocus

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by HocusLocus 10mo ago
Have you looked into script-fu? It would probably be a very steep learning curve.. BUT there is an opportunity to do something impossible 10 years ago, and that is to use AI and an external application. BATCH-FU is one such attempt but it
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by HocusLocus 10mo ago
Old sci-fi story of mine, maybe the only one ever inspired by NTP THE TIME RIFT OF 2100: How We lost the Future --- and Gained the Past. https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7132077&cid=493082...
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by HocusLocus 10mo ago
As a caveman pondering "Stoned Ape Theory" during the rise of MRI in the 80s, having done light reading of Huxley, McKenna et. al, the claim that vascular variations were so tied to thought patterns in a purely calm and cognitive
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by HocusLocus 10mo ago
How come no one has suggested tiny screens and huge Fresnel lenses like Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil'? Is this the wrong thread? If you place the apparatus in front of a window to catch the afternoon sun, it would also harness s
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by HocusLocus 11mo ago
Parked overnight at a midwest Walmart (when that was a thing) and got out to do something at 4am trying not to look like a predator. Ten carts were pushed over the embankment into the creek. Lifted them out and put them where they could be
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by HocusLocus 11mo ago
That must have been a really big backhoe...
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by HocusLocus 11mo ago
catbox.moe is up https://files.catbox.moe/9r3zgr.png
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by HocusLocus 11mo ago
A whole generation of people who click all over to find places that do something. People have this problem where they feel 'proudly vested' in learning things that just weren't designed well. 10 years ago someone decided tha
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
In an ice storm and cold cloudy snap that sweeps the country, NO lithium batteries will save the grid. I'm weary of this tunnel vision of the absurd. The only 'storage' that works is to pump water uphill with 'surplus&#x
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Some things are just too cool for their shirt. Check out Dymaxion ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map ). "Outside a globe, with a a dymaxion projection humans will see the true shapes of their world. In
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Now do Cuba. The American Mafia was running Cuba by 1959 because, casinos and American tourism. Fidel Castro's revolution was genuine and did reflect the desire of most Cubans when it kicked the US Mafia out. The mafia expressed inte
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
I sit here in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box and dispose of it in the cold ground. And in the million ages to come, I will never breathe, or laugh, or twitch again. So won't you run and
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
If you are a fan of irony, the paper is also available in PDF format.
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
thx kindly
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
or gain controls behind buffer delay. You know you're on the brink of disaster as soon as you notice it.
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
I'm trying to understand Section 174 impact especially because your friend's persistence seems like a good litmus test that positive changes are afoot. Also I have a daughter who will be looking for R&D/R&E EE positi
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
SPLAT Antarctica bug spanning the whole windshield and people fuss about orientation? They're looking at nothing but guts!
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Modern equalizers on screen are most often parodies of the original they were designed from. How can you get excited about photorealism and shiny looking knobs and 'skins' when it's 'grab with grabber hand, hold mouse a
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
I use a discussion board that has migrated from React to uber-React. Now the system has become completely hostile to saving local pages. Now any local copy when opened locally shows (then blanks completely) all visible content and mutters
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
"Anything less than an infinite universe is a waste of space. Anything less than an eternal universe is a waste of time." ~My Very Clever Dad. Miss you Dad.
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
To diagnose 'narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)' you have to be an Olympic class athlete of the ice who skates effortlessly around and between the edges of frozen lakes of "people I just do not like".
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
No, I just know the mechanism (UV/spark) is missing and the air has no odor of it. I know the smell of O3 because an old boss had one of those cracking sparking monsters that projected blue on the ceiling when the light was off. It bl
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
My primary device is a 2010 Comtech (good luck finding one). It's just a voltage multiplier off of 110VAC( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_multiplier ). I bought 8 $5/ea Chinese 'neg ion modules&#
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Breathing and sleeping in negative ionized air for 40 years. Just high voltage potential -7 to -10kVDC and spread carbon hairs (better than metal spikes) to launch it. Walls and floors always have positive charge conducted from the ground
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Used a trackball since 1994. Desktop publishing and photo editing, if you've ever needed to position precisely and lift finger off the ball and click or mousedown without moving the focus again you'll just know. Kensignton makes
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
It was a failed underwater weld between bulkheads on a oil barge and 30,000 gallons of oil caught the wind and drifted into the cove overnight. Are you thinking I poured it into the ocean myself, was suing myself?
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Apple Lisa was priced way too high. We had an Apple store with one and people loved to play with it for a few minutes but at its price point no one made a connection with it. Not even people we knew to be independently wealthy and collect
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Difficult to see people anthropomorphize LLMs undeservedly, it's an extension of the childhood trauma inflicted by The Brave Little Toaster. Inanimate objects projected into personhood and subjected to a cruel and indifferent world. Da
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
LLMs are not 'ruining' em dashes. It's just a convenient device to unmask people who make critical judgements based on ridiculous and flimsy evidence. It is good they are being unmasked. You must avoid those people and warn
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Vikings acquiring automatic weapons would be a winning strategy, it would not hasten their demise. Vikings with drones would endanger commercial airspace. Vikings with nuclear weapons would be funny, from a distance.

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