julian_sark

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by julian_sark 4mo ago
It was a cascade of sorts. Step 1, running my tests on Gemini. Having it argue two sides of radical social systems and realistic seeming implementation routes. Collaborative story telling into the absurd. Having it solve impossible seeming
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by julian_sark 4mo ago
Didn't know fences contained copper ;)
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by julian_sark 4mo ago
I took mine extra heavy, I love it. If not for comforting my neuro divergeny, I also love it for staying put and not dropping off of the side, or foot, of the bed and falling on the floor. Only caveat is getting it into the sheet covers. Th
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by julian_sark 5mo ago
I'm getting so tired of Reddit's antics. Also removing content seemingly at random without any meaningful explanation, and ignoring any messages about it. Which both makes mods look bad and is a blatant violation of the Digital Se
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by julian_sark 3y ago
Woman with Fake Voice to do Hundreds of Tests on Single Drop of Blood: "Arrest the witch!!" AI to Diagnose Diabetes Based on Seconds-long Snippet of Voice: "Uh. Interesting ...!"
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by julian_sark 3y ago
Just sign up at my company. Job done! My company used to title me: "System Architect". Yes, always singular, they're Germans and have no feel at all for English language. Then HR bought a pricy scheme from some consultant, an
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by julian_sark 3y ago
Many years ago I went camping and snails entered the tent. They proceeded to eat the pages out of a book, rasping the top layer of paper off of pages while leaving the lower layers of the pages intact. It was one of those "The Reality
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by julian_sark 3y ago
Kudos! I cracked open (both out of curiosity and for recycling) my own 1999 Logitech QuickCam Express just a few days ago, then tossed away the parts. It was a decent webcam for the time, which was when Windows 98 was all the rage. My deskt
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by julian_sark 3y ago
Bird-Roulette-as-a-service in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
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by julian_sark 4y ago
The AI will not be happy when it hears about this ...
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by julian_sark 4y ago
SoundBlaster / Cambridge SoundWorks set of subwoofer and satellite speakers with long wires did this, too. Freaked me out when I suddenly heard voices inside my apartment at night. Turned out it had suddenly started to pick up a radio
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by julian_sark 4y ago
Benchmark it once on each device. Then have a user-friendly slider. "Do you want your security to be:" a) "It only secures pr0n from my aunt" (1s for fetching a password) b) "Not great, not terrible": (5s for f
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by julian_sark 4y ago
Sorry, I left said shell script at a company I have now departed from. As for the other thing, not at this time. Again, truly sorry! I'm a bit overwhelmed in my life right now, maybe some later time. But can you send me a link to the p
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by julian_sark 4y ago
You're absolutely right! Man, I used to download so many no-cd patches back in the days, but lumped it all in with "real" copy protection in my mind. +2 for the trip down memory lane. -1 because now I need to drink before noo
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by julian_sark 4y ago
Used to work for a software company in 2008 or some such. Back when IBM acquired the company, two remarkable things happened: One, I heard Microsoft's Ballmer shout through a conference phone (MS had wanted to acquire it, too, but IBM
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by julian_sark 4y ago
It used to be the same in Germany. There is still the right to "Privatkopie", meaning that one is technically allowed to make both backup copies, and things like a mix tape for a friend. After all, if they denied this, there would
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by julian_sark 4y ago
Exactly! Jason Pargin, aka David Wong, is the main reason I listen to (and yes, re-listen) the Cracked podcast. I have recommended some of his articles to many folks over the years for it's insightful content, and occasionally revisit
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by julian_sark 4y ago
I have recently bought a new PC, without a DVD drive, naturally. And tried to re-install my copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. This copy is a "pre order" DVD set I got off of eBay simply because it was a good price, but it&#
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by julian_sark 4y ago
Content vanishing is the reason I archive e.g. favorite podcasts and some YouTube videos. For example, the whole cracked.com podcast's back catalogue seems to have effectively vanished from (useful) streaming now, for monetary reasons.
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by julian_sark 4y ago
Why can't they have two huge, red, flashing lights at either side of the crossway, thus avoiding the costs to dig up runway asphalt altogether? Better than what they seemingly have now ...
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by julian_sark 4y ago
Myth #6: Mixing SI and imperial units makes for good reading. How many millimeters are three inch again?
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by julian_sark 4y ago
I learned that lawyers are allowed to lie like there's no tomorrow, especially in civil cases pre-trial, in my jurisdiction. This was especially emotionally scarring when I hired a lawyer to rebuke civil claims of several thousand Euro
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by julian_sark 4y ago
I find it even technically outstanding. Is that some sort of natural Moire pattern on it's back? Spliced-in turkey genes? I find this cat oddly fascinating.
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by julian_sark 4y ago
This is right up my alley. I'm known for writing documentation that is useful AND, let's say, entertaining. Or, depending on your inclination, sed 's/entertaining/hilarious/g' Besides docu and Wiki pages
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by julian_sark 4y ago
I have read this somewhere, not sure where, but by someone very much in touch with nature. He called it the "lost car keys" approach. Always approach animals as if looking for your car keys on the ground: avoiding eye contact, and
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by julian_sark 4y ago
Cute. A secure messenger for the state. And "Chatkontrolle", i.e. client-side inspection and surveillance of every message, for the unwashed masses.
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by julian_sark 4y ago
> cat file | grep -v THING1 | grep -v THING2 | grep -v THING3 | grep -v THING4 Keyboard manufacturers HATE this simple trick: grep -vE "THING1|THING2|THING3|THING4" file
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by julian_sark 4y ago
Just turn the Spanish Island of Lanzarote into a huge power station, dig 50m deep there, and be done with it.
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by julian_sark 4y ago
Mostly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reac...
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by julian_sark 4y ago
Home server, occasional rsync to external disks. Encrypted of course. Yes, at present, a house fire would fark me over, or so would a stroke b/c the pass phrase is in my head. Or, it would allow to start over with life without the bala

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