rzzzwilson

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by rzzzwilson 7mo ago
I want a fast page load and no wasted space on the display. I'm not interested in "modern" if I lose any of that.
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by rzzzwilson 7mo ago
Does this pose a risk seeing how physical and comms access to the tablet is rather limited for now?
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by rzzzwilson 7mo ago
Echoes of Vietnam.
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by rzzzwilson 7mo ago
404 There isn't a GitHub Pages site here.
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by rzzzwilson 7mo ago
Github has had problems for 24 hours or so. Yesterday I was getting "secondary rate limit" errors. Just now I followed a link to a github repository which displayed correctly. Clicking on a source file to view the contents got
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by rzzzwilson 7mo ago
It's not quite that simple. A NZ citizen needs to be resident in Australia for a period of time before applying for Australian citizenship. But it is certainly a lot easier than many other countries. https://immi.homeaffai
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by rzzzwilson 8mo ago
Trust is highly subjective. A lot of people trust certain "flagship" sources like The Times (UK), NY Times, BBC, RussiaToday, Aljazeera, Reuters, etc, but they can have wildly different viewpoints on a particular point of news, y
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by rzzzwilson 8mo ago
To check on the basic facts you could have a look at the "related articles" in the YT video description. There you'll find an item from Bellingcat, a fairly well respected source. They state: This joint investigation by Be
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by rzzzwilson 8mo ago
It's a start, for sure, but not even Trump knows how it will end. He has opened Pandora's box[0]. I'm reminded of a quote from Churchill: Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who emba
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by rzzzwilson 8mo ago
Previous work in this area: https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.html
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by rzzzwilson 8mo ago
The "next interstellar rock" could take hundreds of years to appear. The cost of maintaining those probes could be very large, and interest in maintaining them would probably disappear quickly, humans being the short-term entitie
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by rzzzwilson 8mo ago
Yes, Linux Mint. After discovering SLS Linux way back in the dawn of Linux-time, trying Slackware, CentOS, Ubuntu and others, my daily-driver is now Linux Mint. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint
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by rzzzwilson 8mo ago
Actually, not always. I didn't want to retire, I liked working and I was good at it, but I had to retire for medical reasons. My environment was a bit different than most, though, working with scientists developing tools for analysis
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by rzzzwilson 8mo ago
The ability to fool people is quite a low bar. See the ELIZA effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
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by rzzzwilson 8mo ago
Looks like a souped-up DWIM. Maybe this will be better than the failure that DWIM was, perhaps. https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html
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by rzzzwilson 8mo ago
Ah, the never-ending quest for the minimal, content-free post.
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by rzzzwilson 8mo ago
Title prompts me to say: And now, a massage from the Swedish Prime minister. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P75lkpL7aGk
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by rzzzwilson 9mo ago
Well then, rerun the poll when we are anywhere even close to attaining that. It's still all hypothetical.
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by rzzzwilson 9mo ago
I've noticed the opposite. Over the last two weeks or so I'm seeing a higher false positive rate from the GMail filters. Email from a groups.io discussion that I've been subscribed to for years is suddenly getting tagged as
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by rzzzwilson 9mo ago
What do you mean by "AI"? The LLM stuff we have now or real AI, ie, HAL 9000?
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by rzzzwilson 9mo ago
Why not just expel them from NATO? A NATO-style alliance is obviously something Europe wants, see the rush to join after Russia turned more feral than usual, even by Sweden, neutral for centuries. If it isn't possible to expel a NATO
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by rzzzwilson 9mo ago
World class ego-stroking by Machado. Now we wait to see if it's a gift or bribe: will Trump offer something in return, either to Machado or Venezuela?
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by rzzzwilson 9mo ago
NATO without the USA would be a different thing, sure, but why does the USA behaving against the interests of NATO members have to end NATO?
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by rzzzwilson 9mo ago
Last time I checked 144 hours is 6 days.
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by rzzzwilson 9mo ago
I was hoping for no {}, just indentation, but ...
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by rzzzwilson 9mo ago
Where is the "python syntax"?
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by rzzzwilson 9mo ago
Between one breath and the next, there are no guarantees.
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by rzzzwilson 9mo ago
What do you hope to achieve by doing that? I am retired now but during my professional career as a software engineer I never used an IDE to write software, I used vi/vim and the command-line toolchains for the language(s) I was using,
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by rzzzwilson 10mo ago
I too used shell a lot back in the day. I once wrote a 5000+ line system to handle database administration and a bespoke email system with retries to handle flaky communications. But that was a long time ago and requirements that forced t
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by rzzzwilson 10mo ago
Totally agree with the dislike of the castering-wheel suitcases. For a start, they are fragile and it doesn't take much of a drop to ruin one or more wheels thereby turning it into a boat anchor. The ones with two fixed more-protecte

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