drdeadringer

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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> I like my regular old organic paper just fine, thanks. I'm picturing the scene in 'Saving Private Ryan' where the translator is trying to shoehorn his typewriter into his travel supplies and Tom Hanks slowly raises a pen
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> or at least 3D spaces In the early 2000s I remember UBUBU which basically was a customizable 3D solar system cover for your desktop + internet links. I found it pretty cool, the possibility of rose-coloured glasses aside.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> They've gone from Google -> Softbank -> Hyundai in a few years. I was a contractor at Google when the Google//Boston Dynamics was happening, I now work//live in Silicon Valley, I grew up in MA, so I'
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I understand your point. I am wondering how humans may or may not understand this point regarding their self-described "life's purpose". Legit wondering upon myself.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I see and understand your point. For conversation, I offer this image as to why reinventing the wheel may be necessary: https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--X_6jM...
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
This reads like something from Robert A. Heinlein's Lazarus Long character. "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> Am I the only one that doesn't like WordPress anymore? I stopped using WordPress over a decade ago. I use other website//blog platforms now. I may go back if there is nothing better available, but I have a control-streak
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> Almost every time I search for some technical information, all I find are blogs with incorrect information Years ago I purchased a laptop with two SSD hard drives RAID'd together at the factory. Of course, it came with Windows; I
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Figurative. As in "fine, let's just check this out because you keep coming back and why not?" which turned into "well heck, it is this condition -- page Dr Smith, we need paediatrics in surgery".
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> the pyloric sphincteric Fun fact: I had pyloric stenosis as an infant. IIRC, this condition tends to hit first born males of which I am one. Dearest mother kept bringing me into the hospital. "He keeps throwing up no matter what.&
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> Am I the only one who doesn’t want a future without passwords? As much of a Science Fiction fan I am with "iris logins" and similar, I am also a retro-futurist who appreciates things like punch-number security for secured doo
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> so you're stuck with technicians that only have repair manuals, along with spare parts of everything Tell me more about how people hate writing documentation, and then tell me how they can't shut the fuck up about not having
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I worked on a (US) Naval shipyard for a spell. The number of payday loan shops in the immediate surrounding area was astounding. I kept hearing word of "Don't Do Payday" financial help training for the Naval crew, who apparen
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> Cape Cod MA I used to vacation there. As one of those clueless people who can't buy marijuana in a legal state, I am equally clueless on the signs of terrible addiction if I drove through Cape Cod, MA today. I'm not sure what
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
While I see your point, I find commuting umpteen hours for a 5 minute conversation that could have been over the phone, over email, or over zoom-skype-jitsi rather soul-sucking. And Spock did have emotions.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Honest question: How has that worked out for [at least certain types of] religion?
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I'm re-watching this right now. It is a great show.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I’m willing to be called Scrooge, Luddite, &c here, and here I go: > 2. No Dedicated Cameras and Camcorders I’m almost 40. I (finally) own a smart-phone. I also own a good digital camera. I tested smartphone cameras for “a leading te
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Remember the TV ads regarding telephone calls and collect calls? "You have a collect call from ... 'we-had-a-baby-it's-a-boy' ... do you accept the charges?" "No." [Hangs up] "Who was it?" "
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by drdeadringer 6y ago
I remember an episode of the Olde Time Radio show "The Shadow" where Lamont and Margo attend a trial as audience members. This is in the 1930s // 1940s for context. The prosecution projected a film with audio [cutting ed
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by drdeadringer 6y ago
And the "in prison".
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by drdeadringer 6y ago
> Outrage existed long before internet I recall the film 'Network' with its "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore" thread. Among other messages.
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by drdeadringer 6y ago
BCOD: Blue Coffee Of Death. I can only imagine the repercussions of this.
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by drdeadringer 6y ago
I recall reading the science fiction book "Quantum Night" by Robert J. Sawyer which touches on philosophical zombies. Not a spoiler: in the book a mechanism of the plot is that folks can be conscious with emotions, or a sociopath,
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by drdeadringer 6y ago
Tangentially reminds me of thoughts and theories behind the TV show "The Prisoner" regarding society.
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by drdeadringer 6y ago
To me the shape resembles a part used on railroad tracks, specifically the improved flair.
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by drdeadringer 6y ago
Last time I was in DC, they had recently installed one of the space shuttles into the Dulles-area Smithsonian hanger. I was in "DC Central" and made a point to bus out to the off-site hanger for the space shuttle (and everything e
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by drdeadringer 6y ago
I am reminded of the types of OSs in Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness Upon The Sky" universe.
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by drdeadringer 6y ago
As an owner of the Jacquard Commuter jacket, here is what I can say from some personal, expensive experience: Many comments here are correct. You're touching your wrist or sleeve to activate an assigned ding on your smartphone; some fl
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by drdeadringer 6y ago
> ML is, to most non-technical people, intensely boring. How do you dramatize it? To me it's akin to several scenes in the film "War Games" where you basically have to make a rogue AI in a computer sexy on film. "Show

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