evilbob93

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by evilbob93 4y ago
After watching the movie Bigbug on Netflix, I am convinced that there is a small, quiet cadre of people who are right now building their own implementation of the robot boy that many of us had shown to us in movies (anakin and c3p0) and myr
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by evilbob93 5y ago
Not saying you're wrong, but considering the societal disruption of people (anyone, including people that the society would like to keep around for one reason or another) caused by people checking out because of their definition of d
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by evilbob93 5y ago
In the US, there are laws against calling after 9:00. And like you, I don't answer calls from unknown numbers any more, whether or not my phone identifies it as likely scam.
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by evilbob93 5y ago
IBM PCs didn't come out until after I was out of high school. A few years later I decided to join a meetup of the people who were users on the BBS I was on. It was mid 1980s, and it turned out that all the users I had been chatting wit
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by evilbob93 5y ago
One day in the mid 1980s we were checking the speeds available in our VT100 terminals. For fun we dropped it down to 150 to see what that was like. It was so slow that when you hit the delete key, you could watch it backspace, type a space,
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by evilbob93 5y ago
If you have read Robert Anton Wilson, you're likely familiar with his idea of E Prime, which is essentially English without the identity form of "is". It's a mind bending notion to integrate. A lot of E Prime came from S
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by evilbob93 5y ago
I would say that we have learned, collectively, some strategies that work, for various definitions of "work".
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by evilbob93 5y ago
When I worked in the auto industry at Buick/Oldsmobile/Cadillac Engineering , I got to see one of these while it was in prototype stage. One reason this didn't take hold is that they found that this interface forced a driver
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by evilbob93 5y ago
As I heard that, I had a flashback to the first moments in many rental cars in my life.