Stierlitz

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by Stierlitz 6y ago
@lasagnaphil .. Some very interesting points there. I wonder the reason for down-voting the text into a faded shade of grey?
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
And water is wet :]
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
@krapp said: > Why it's almost as if Star Trek is fiction and the "canon" of a franchise spanning over fifty years of television, film and books has always been fluid and arbitrary. Despite it being fiction, you cannot arb
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
In the latest Star Trek, the starship Discovery runs on spores harvested from shrooms grown onboard. Despite being set in the Captain Pike era, no one ever noticed this up to then :]
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
ThePreacherMan 6 hours ago [dead] [–] Defund. Defund. Defund. mtgx 9 hours ago [dead] [–] Just when marijuana is about to be legalized at the federal level. This can't be a coincidence. They will no longer be able to arrest people for
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
Yet anóther win for the prétend war on drúgs!
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
> the biggest problem with Healthcare.gov was not timeline or budget. The biggest problem was that the site did not work .. If my memory serves me, a bunch of editable PDFs and drop-down selection boxes that gave no clue as to the correc
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
I sometimes suspect the whole raison d'être of dot.NET, docker, kubernetes etc, is to render programming into such an esoteric art, that the hoi polloi can be excluded. -- DI == Dependency Injection
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
lambda, maybe, monad, overloading, scope .. concepts that don't exist in mathematics. Imagine if the keywords in a standard English sentence changed meaning depending on the overload operators. A virtual new language in each context. P
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
The Simpsons jumped-the-shark in that episode where they made Nelson Muntz go nice.
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
“I can’t tell you how many new product initiative meetings I’ve been in where no one remembers the meeting about the exact same thing from two quarters ago. It’s like Groundhog’s Day, but you’re having the same meetings over and over.” Haaa
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
“But around the same time, Bill Gates and Paul Allen came up with an idea even stranger and more fantastical: selling computer operating systems” This article must be coming from some parallel universe. As I recall how Micro-Soft got a cont
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
Nothing that's not already out in the media. Colin Wallace (and others) wrote about this, so they framed him for manslaughter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wallace#Imprisonment
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
Is there a link to some text that I could read. Listening to the spoken word, I tend to nod off after five minutes. Don't think I can manage 42 minutes :]
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oaccou...
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
> In general outline, and to some extent in atmosphere, it rather resembles G. K. Chesterton’s “The Man Who Was Thursday.”: “In his efforts to thwart the council, Syme eventually discovers that five of the other six members are also unde
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
“What was the problem? The moon had risen, and was reflecting radar signals back to earth.” First I've heard of radar reflections off the moon causing a false positive. I do recall reading about where the sun glinting off the ocean was
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
@coldpie: ‘If you're putting the words "secure" and "computer" in the same sentence, you've already lost. There is no such thing as computer security.’ We should borrow an idea from nature and not create a mono
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
“the intruders stole and published online tens of thousands of sensitive documents — including schematics of client bank vaults and surveillance systems.” Explain like I'm five what such information is even doing on a “computer” connec
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
If you run your infrastructure on a “computer” directly connected to the Internet such that it puts hospitals and power grids in danger, then maybe you're in the wrong profession.
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
Seriously HR admins, if you care anything about your reputation, you should cease re-posting this kind of neocon disinformation.
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
re: @sudosysgen: "The proposed mechanism of microwave or sonic waves is completely implausible, to the point of absurdity .." Very reasonable and well thought piece. It is highly irresponsible for of NPR talking up the next cold-w
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
“Microsoft Edge”, don't they mean a re-skinned Google Chromium.
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
> Is DNA Hardware or Software? Yes, it's both.
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
@green_rooster: “Not far off from that, it seems:” Ни черта не умеют!
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The silence of the press on the Julian Assange hearings is a disgrace(independent.co.uk)
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
@cameldrv: “Then the foreign powers should declare war and they'll be subject to the Geneva convention” Question: Which military power has threatened to bomb the International Criminal Court in the Hague, if its military are brought be
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
@dx87: “It could also just be done as a thinly veiled threat to discourage people from working there” Yea, those damn Ruskies are so stupid they left their name and home address in the compiled files.
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
Do you really have to give space to this Neocon cyber BS on a respectable tech forum. Cyber BS by people who seem to be desperate to re-start the cold-war. Fortunatly, the Russians won't come out to play. Neither will the Chinese, Ira

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