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by msla 11mo ago
PDP-10, rather.
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by msla 11mo ago
Doesn't have the Northern Transcon, either, which is an important rail link right along the Canadian border: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Transcon The Northern Transcon is the northernmost route in the w
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by msla 11mo ago
North Korea has map centered on North Korea. Discussion is about how Westerners are self-centered. OK.
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by msla 11mo ago
> Public streams with no retention is how TXDOT handled this. We know there's no retention because they say there is no retention and we believe them. Why is this so hard to accept? Do you think people can lie?
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by msla 11mo ago
Being extremely enthusiastic or extremely angry about OOP is so 1990s. Tell us, is Java the New COBOL? Is Visual C++ COM/OLE inherently bloated Microsoft Bob Windows Longhorn software?
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by msla 11mo ago
Don't you mean 0Python?
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> What's wrong with TCP, HTML and DNS? The Company doesn't own them. The Company doesn't control them. People can use them for things contrary to The Company's interests. The Company must protect itself, its brand, an
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by msla 11mo ago
If I vendor a dependency that currently works for what my program does, I only have to care about it again if a security hole is discovered in it or if my program changes and the dependency is insufficient in some way. I don't have to
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by msla 11mo ago
It supports Trump by failing to report on his problems (such as ties to Epstein) while constantly attacking his enemies.
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by msla 11mo ago
> The cheapie appliances are the ones that will be subsidized by the insane data collection policies, just like TVs are now. How does that work if I buy the appliance outright? I mean on their end: I buy it, I don't let it talk to t
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by msla 11mo ago
My punt: Compilers and transpilers are both translators, and the only meaningful difference is whether the output is meant to be easily edited by a human, which is a spectrum more than a hard dividing line. The p2c Pascal to C translator [1
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by msla 11mo ago
> my consumer rights How pitiful are you to think "consumer rights" not only exist, but are worth "exercising"? What, do you have the right to spend money on marked-up garbage? The right to be sold to bigger "con
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Crossword puzzles were the big fad puzzle in the 1920s.
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Why do you lie?
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Politically unmoderated? Try to be leftist and see how long your posts last. It's pro-Nazi because the moderators can't stand anything else.
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Isn't Europe where headshots are a mandatory part of résumés? I'm sure that Officially Doesn't contribute to discrimination.
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by msla 11mo ago
Interesting how modern designers think readable fonts (with serifs, so people can reliably distinguish between Al and AI, for example) are "uncanny" because they don't follow the latest trends in ultra-minimalist "design
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by msla 11mo ago
> It's all very clear when you mentally replace "LLM" with "text completion driven by compressed training data". This isn't what LLMs are, of course, but what some political groups insist they are so they ca
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by msla 11mo ago
Since GUIs are not scriptable, unlike command-line TUIs, a GUI can never be as fast or as customizable as a TUI, which makes them inherently less usable. It doesn't help that the Mac was partially inspired by the work of Jef Raskin, wh
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> In general, clubs don't want to let in folks who don't match the culture... Which Officially Doesn't correlate with skin tone, nope nope nope...
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People pretend the GDPR applies to everyone, so why not the DMCA?
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> It's all very clear when you mentally replace "LLM" with "text completion driven by compressed training data". So you replace a more useful term with a less useful one? Is that due to political reasons?
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> 01852, 173 years ago Certainly not.
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https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history/ > Rumors had persisted for years that the ARPANET had been built to protect national security in the face of a nuclear attack. It was a myth that had gone unchallenged l
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by msla 1y ago
And Semmelweis is a perfect case against being an asshole who's right: He was more right than wrong (he didn't fully understand why what he was doing helped, but it did) but he was such a horrible personality and such an am
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by msla 1y ago
And so we got The Usual Conversation: "I want my communications to be as secure as practical." "Ah, but they're not totally secure! Which means they're totally insecure! Which means you might as well write your bank
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The same way European people put up with the insane NHS and its refusal to care for the people who support it financially and supposedly support it politically. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/13/uk/engla
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The King of Thailand is an asshole. There. Now I can't go to Thailand. Why do people act like breaking British law is a bigger deal than breaking Thai law? At least nobody's acting like it's obvious British law applies everyw
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So Lagrange has to bend to the bizarre laws? w3m? lynx? You prove you have no idea how many browsers exist.
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The only difference I see between Trump and Reagan or Thatcher, for example, is how blatant Trump is about killing the people he sees as undesirable. Just get ICE to grab them instead of slowly turning off welfare and deregulating everythin

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