simonblack

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by simonblack 2y ago
None so blind as those who will not see. "Stumbling into War". "Huh?? Wha' happen?"
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by simonblack 2y ago
I don't think training materials would be necessary. YMMV. Most people get and appreciate the threading model. Clients could be improved, I guess. Myself, I use a self-improved version of Tass that I originally got with a copy of Coher
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by simonblack 2y ago
"Methinks he doth protest too much."
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by simonblack 2y ago
I use Usenet. But I don't feel an extra server would add anything that current ones don't have. On the other hand, an extra server is a backup in case one of the current servers falls off the Net. Today we have http and ftp to obt
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by simonblack 2y ago
"Duel" = fight between two people. "Dual" = "two things', "Double", etc Sorry, but the use of 'duel' where it should be 'dual' just grates on me. I find it impossible to ignore.
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by simonblack 2y ago
We're already in WW3. But just as WW2 started in 1937 but didn't really kick off until 1941, the main bouts of this one, The West vs the BRICS, won't be for another few months yet. (Say end 2024, beginning of 2025)
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by simonblack 2y ago
Long-chain fatty acids, mainly.
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by simonblack 2y ago
In a country of 350 million, the only two selections are Trump and Biden? Surely there are hundreds of thousands more suitable candidates. We always get the leaders we deserve.
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by simonblack 2y ago
It kept you off the streets for a while, didn't it? Obviously a great success.
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by simonblack 2y ago
Unintended consequences of things like the DMCA Act. No wonder the country is going downhill at a great rate of knots.
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by simonblack 2y ago
I didn't see any Rothschilds there.
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by simonblack 2y ago
There's 'simple' and then there's 'spartan'. People don't want simple programs today. They want bells and whistle and stuff that doesn't make them think. They want to be, in effect, 'mindless mor
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by simonblack 2y ago
How come they're so scarce? Good thing there's no hot war going on between China and the West. Oh, wait, didn't some General say the two countries would be at war next year? (That's only a few months away, you know.)
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by simonblack 2y ago
That may be so, but how many other mothers-in-law are elite Linux kernel programmers?
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by simonblack 2y ago
I get wanting more data, but I don’t understand how it would be lost. If the craft burns up on re-entry due to many possible factors (Angle of descent, speed of descent, uncontrollable trajectory, etc, etc) any evidence of faulty componen
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by simonblack 2y ago
<grin> That's probably more accurately how I look at the singularity, actually. The singularity is ever receding.
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by simonblack 2y ago
Yes and no. Sometimes we think in words and sometimes we think in images. We can think about an object we have seen but don't know the name of.
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by simonblack 2y ago
Every day that passes brings the singularity one day closer. However ... there is no way that the singularity as promised will occur within our lifetimes. It won't hurt you to dream though. It might keep you off the streets.
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by simonblack 2y ago
ELI5 why they are using helium instead of something else that's cheap and inert and easier to handle like nitrogen.
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by simonblack 2y ago
No infrastructure. When there as many charging stations as there are fuel pumps, get back to me.
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by simonblack 2y ago
Some people have all the luck!
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by simonblack 2y ago
Program files from the 1980s. Operating system files from the 1970s. Their timestamps don't show those ages, unfortunately, as they have been transferred from machine to machine and medium to medium over the decades. Here's one of
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by simonblack 2y ago
As long as the the Republic of China does not declare Independence, China will wait. China's been around for several thousand years, another century or so wouldn't make any difference. If the Republic of China declares independenc
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by simonblack 2y ago
I predict that the Starliner in orbit will be abandoned to burn up on descent. And the guys will have to get a lift home on some other spacecraft.
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by simonblack 2y ago
How much of that increase is earmarked to be skimmed off by the Olympic International Committee, I wonder. The Olympics of today are a money-sucking operation that the Games-holding countries get suckered into. Those countries lose billions
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by simonblack 2y ago
There's no such thing as 'counterfeit parts'. There are 'parts sourced from cheaper suppliers'. I keep saying it it, but EVERY MANUFACTURER both local and foreign will source parts from wherever they are cheaper.
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by simonblack 2y ago
"China could take the Republic of China without even needing to invade" When you write the headline properly you can see how dumb a headline it is. Taiwan is the name of a geographical feature (an island), not the name of a countr
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by simonblack 2y ago
Do you get the feeling that something major and/or unfixable has happened? I predict that the Starliner will be cast off abandoned to burn up on descent. Meanwhile the astronauts will have to wait for a lift home on some other spacecra
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by simonblack 2y ago
Dogs could have told us this thousands of years ago.
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by simonblack 2y ago
Well the OP didn't need to say 'I'm not switching to Linux'. All he needed to say was 'I'm staying with Windows' and I would have said 'Congratulations. Enjoy!'.

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