Xorakios

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by Xorakios 1y ago
Because they co-created the idea? Trademarks and patents are enforced by governments. Unique identifiers for books was a marketing idea. You, me, anyone could create a new system and somebody probably will :)
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by Xorakios 1y ago
I invented hook-loop when I was 8 years old only be told it was called crochet!
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Updated Space Docking Systems
1 points by Xorakios 1y ago|0 comments
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by Xorakios 1y ago
omg. fell down laughing. perfect comment
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by Xorakios 1y ago
alas, in southern California 1 year for permitting would be a miracle. my family has been in construction for 3 generations, and 2 years is now considered normal. plus we have to seal up everything for energy efficiency, then have to remove
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Aldrin Cycler Burials
1 points by Xorakios 1y ago|0 comments
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by Xorakios 1y ago
Since SCMP was confiscated by the CCP it is constantly writing stories that undermine Korea, Japan and Australia, primarily for US and European audiences. There are individual humans, and certainly mainly companies and countries, that could
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by Xorakios 1y ago
But how you glean info without volunteers consenting to take a risk in hope of improving their lot?
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by Xorakios 1y ago
Well good golly miss molly, that's a word I had never heard of. Thanks!
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by Xorakios 1y ago
I completely disagree. Just signed up for Perplexity Pro and don't trust anything it says, but lots and lots of ideas I didn't think of. Sorta like RT and Sydney Morning News. Gives me leads, not necessarily truth (and good golly
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by Xorakios 1y ago
FWIW, after my programming skills became hopelessly outdated, with an economics degree and too old to start over, I generally promoted my skillset as a translator between business and tech teams. A lot of what I received as input was more l
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by Xorakios 1y ago
Hexagons for the win!
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by Xorakios 1y ago
had to giggle because Microsoft hadn't yet been founded when I was in high school!
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by Xorakios 1y ago
I couldn't get an email or post to work correctly to the author, so hoping they find this. Thank you to the shout out to my father, Preston Fleet, for his work on developing Omnimax and everything is the article is factually correct. H
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by Xorakios 1y ago
I very much agree. Retired now but I used to have a separate phone for each major client for HIPAA compliance but it's good advice everywhere (and $50 year-old android phones and $15/month Tracfone accounts aren't just for cr
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by Xorakios 1y ago
I remember high school when I was taught that if you want your meaning to be clear, speak clearly...
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by Xorakios 1y ago
Thank you and I have been the poor sap in the past, and never, ever again
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by Xorakios 1y ago
Do people still use mobile devices? I thought that was like original star trek?
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by Xorakios 1y ago
awesome and thanks :)
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by Xorakios 1y ago
Awesome idea!
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by Xorakios 1y ago
The Sahara has generally been contracting for the last few decades as the "greener" Sahel band expands north due to higher average rainfall (individual years vary, and the effect is stronger in the west than the east). A Google se
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by Xorakios 2y ago
I was taught in high school (an unfortunately long time ago :) that Merlin was a title, not a name, primarily of Scottish origin to refer to the chief Druid priest... updated: according to irishmythswebsite Emrys was the name of the particu
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by Xorakios 2y ago
M1 Mac mini here and instant loading in Brave.
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by Xorakios 2y ago
Guantanamo as a prison camp is, IMO, shameful. The naval base itself is rarely discussed but a critical port for deep water US Naval operations in the Caribbean.
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by Xorakios 3y ago
The end of the future began with socialism. The only advance from the eastern alliance was proving that. (STNG)
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Do people still drink coffee? I thought that was a Boomer thing that lasted a few more years in Seattle but pretty much over and done. I thought people realized that harvesting coffee was mainly through forced child labor
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Most online innovations were because of porn
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by Xorakios 3y ago
It is preferred practice, not a weird thing, to have a dedicated domain and a different address per site for anyone involved in online security research.
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COBOL Forever?(pcmag.com)
4 points by Xorakios 3y ago|5 comments
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Probably two thirds of banking and insurance companies still use COBOL on the backend at some point because it's too hard to get regulators to approve replacements.

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