rzzzwilson

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by rzzzwilson 11mo ago
Yes, tha failure rate is high. Rewards, if you succeed, are also high. Your choice.
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by rzzzwilson 11mo ago
The obligatory: Ed is the standard text editor.
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by rzzzwilson 11mo ago
For those not paying attention, this reaffirms that USA/Trump is more than an appeaser but is an acolyte of Putin, and either doesn't care about or is actively working to destroy the rules-based order that has maintained rough pea
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by rzzzwilson 11mo ago
The USA looks like slipping back into the "good old days", and the rest of the world watches this madness with disbelief and sorrow. The "last best hope of earth" has gone, if it ever existed, destroyed by those with ve
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Not sure I would trust it. The Nepal data is incorrect. The published offset from UTC doesn't add up to the time shown, but it doesn't really matter because they got the UTC offset wrong as well. https://en.wikipedia.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Don't feed the troll.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Have to agree, Internet over Indoor Plumbing, since I spend the great majority of my time on the internet vs the toilet. That might be easier for me as I was toilet-trained in a household that used an outhouse containing the infamous &quot
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
As an electronics experimenter I would have to say the REAL eternal chip is the 555 introduced in 1972. It's become a bit of a meme: You could have used a 555 for that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_timer_IC
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
A missile that can only be used to deliver nuclear weapons. Even if it has a conventional warhead, striking a target will spread nuclear contamination, so it's a nuclear dirty bomb.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
The degradation in the user experience has been happening for quite a while. I have given up reporting any problems with the reader as they either can't fix the problem or just don't see a problem that they should fix. Part of t
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Watch the humint resources in South America and other places shrink. That means the government will be operating in an even less intelligence-informed environment than before. That won't worry this government, but it should.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Large-scale monuments should say something. This one says: We couldn't think of anything original.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Not now, but I used to work at a startup with a leader I respected a lot. But he was pushed out for unknown reasons and someone who I definitely did NOT respect replaced him. I left soon after.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Don't anthropomorphise your computer. It doesn't like it.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Agree. - retired programmer, student of Computer Science, 40 years experience
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Depends what you mean by "be at war". For example, the Russo-Ukraine war has been going since February 2014. Through both Trump presidencies.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
There's a quote from Bjarne Stroustrup showing it's not just Seniors having trouble: I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Can't read the low-contrast page. Even selecting text doesn't make the text readable.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
If there are two versions of fridges, one with and one without, the one with better be cheaper. Also expect an uptick in "How do I ..," questions related to removal or bypassing the ads.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
> the data shows us physical buttons are better If you actually think about how you adjust a control while driving you don't need data to show you anything. This rush to on-screen controls was another triumph of marketing over co
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
I'm a Gemini, and Geminis never believe in astrology. -- Raymond Smullyan
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Reddit also has shadow-banning, apparently to stop bots and spammers. There are two things wrong with that idea. First, the false-positive rate was too high - I created more than 10 personal accounts over almost a year, and they were ALL s
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Why is the USA so eager to help Russia? Almost makes you wonder what kompromat Putin holds.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
The "$" prompt is shorthand to indicate the command is run as a non-root user. If you see "# ls -lt" that indicates the command should be run as root. The problem lies with whoever set up the copy button to include the
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
I don't know The Magic Tree House, but I suspect Calvin and Hobbes is too grown-up for Tennessee.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Another day, another tariff, announced or withdrawn. What else did he get for Christmas?
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Looks like a good reason for the President to support Ukraine more, and it looks like he needs a reason.
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Is Iran close to building a nuke?(abc.net.au)
7 points by rzzzwilson 1y ago|28 comments
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Eerie near-echos of Iraq and the WMDs. Hope it turns out less disastrous this time.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Only one password? The experts (I'm not one of them) tell you to have a different password for each account, online and offline. The point is you don't want one leaked password to compromise any other account. I have something

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