RupertSalt

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   by RupertSalt 8mo ago

   That's an outright and verifiable lie. I have never seen or visited that website ever in my life. Why would I? I wrote my comment completely originally, and your accusation of bad faith is, in itself, bad faith. In fact, none of the co
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   by RupertSalt 8mo ago

   You do not have an atomic clock. Seiko does not manufacture “Atomic Clocks” for the $30 shelf in Target. You (and others here) don’t seem to know what an atomic clock is, or how it works, or what it costs! Your Seiko is a radio clock. It’s
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   by RupertSalt 8mo ago

   This may seem like hyperbole, but this is the reality for students and test-takers every day in virtual environments now. I assisted as TA in a virtual learning environment. While we didn't make it strictly mandatory to keep the camera
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   by RupertSalt 8mo ago

   In the days of Windows 3.1 and prior Macintosh art, we sort of took it for granted that menus were labeled with English words to reflect the actions taken. Icons provided additional information, like "Hold down Command to do this"
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   by RupertSalt 8mo ago

   Woah, like, "green Acura"? Where are you driving that you ever see one of those? In the USA? I looked up an image catalog, and it seems that if an Acura's going to be green, it is likely to be an NS-X, which are fairly exotic
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   by RupertSalt 8mo ago

   Honestly, we could make a case that witch-hunting and persecutions were pro-science. Witches and "cunning folk" are people who use metaphysical, occult means of spirituality to influence people and the environment. Witchcraft does
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   by RupertSalt 8mo ago

   A seasoned motorcycle rider should be unable to rip out any hair, due to safely wearing a helmet!
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   by RupertSalt 8mo ago

   So first of all, I believe that St. Katherine of Alexandria's hagiographies are the personification of the mythical Library, especially because her monastery now boasts the largest collection of ancient papyrus and codices ever assembl
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   by RupertSalt 8mo ago

   That is baffling. I swear that I heard or received a direct communiqué, many many years ago, that ARIN and ICANN and IANA were sweeping out all of the unannounced networks and reclaiming them. Word went out during the initial pressure of ad
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    by RupertSalt 8mo ago

    Obligatory xkcd: "Sky Color" https://m.xkcd.com/1145/ Obligatory xkcd[2]: "Rayleigh Scattering" https://m.xkcd.com/1818/ Others?
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    by RupertSalt 8mo ago

    You agree not to license, sell, lend, or transfer your account, Discord username, vanity URL, or other unique identifier without our prior written approval. We also reserve the right to delete, change, or reclaim your username, URL, or oth
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    by RupertSalt 8mo ago

    How does anyone know whether a family is engaging in that time-honored tradition of passing down accounts from grandfather, to father, to son, to child, and their posterity, in perpetuity? Seriously though, unless you have positively identi
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    by RupertSalt 8mo ago

    He was actually replaced by Nelson Mandela
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    by RupertSalt 8mo ago

    I remember two huge speedups back in the day: `gcc -pipe` and `make -j`. `gcc -pipe` worked best when you had gobs of RAM. Disk I/O was so slow, especially compared to DRAM, that the ability to bypass all those temp file steps was a go
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    by RupertSalt 8mo ago

    In ancient times, salt developed an extraordinary reputation. Not only was it prized as a preservative, but it was a nutritious seasoning as well. Salt had great value, and much of that nutritional value could be ascribed to the trace miner
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    by RupertSalt 8mo ago

    My introduction to RCS was indeed spurred by a command typo! I was learning Pascal on AT&T 3B2 systems. They were running SVR3. Perfectly normal clustered systems with nifty things like RFS. We were all logged in via dumb terminals, and
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    by RupertSalt 8mo ago

    I found it! https://rscott.org/OldInternetFiles/network-contacts.1996061... I had named it "HEARTLAND" rather than a Cthulhu-related name, which was hindering my searches. I had also asked Gemini and it hallu
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    by RupertSalt 8mo ago

    "Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins." Every time I see someone campaigning to exercise their civil liberties via hardware or software, I wonder if their devices are connected to any network.
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    by RupertSalt 8mo ago

    Back around 1993-94 was a genuine gold rush in terms of domain names and network numbers. My supervisor one day rushed into the bullpen and proclaimed that he had registered SEX.ORG, and presumably the only reason was to squat it awhile and
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    by RupertSalt 8mo ago

    The value proposition for automation and industrialization is always along the lines that, as unskilled workers lose jobs and are displaced by machinery, more jobs will be created for skilled workers to design, supervise, and maintain that
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    by RupertSalt 8mo ago

    A phone conversation, like an in-person one, is verbal communication, and therefore plausibly deniable -- even when it can be recorded or transcribed. Corporations continue to treat verbal conversations as unique. Voice telephone, at least
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    by RupertSalt 8mo ago

    If you believe that student/unfinished code is frightening, imagine the corpus of sci-fi and fantasy that LLMs have trained on. How many sf/cyber writers have described a future of AIs and robots where we walked hand-in-hand, in b