stevetron

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1. 91.▲
   by stevetron 2y ago

   I'm probably not a favorite amog the moderators here. I don't mean to sound snarky, but if Twitters moves out of San Francisco, will the no-nudity ordinance in San Francisco get repealed? I had understood it was the influx of th
2. 92.▲
   by stevetron 2y ago

   Working late Thursday night in Florida, USA. I have someone in Australia wanting me to write a quick script in LSL for an object in Second Life. We were interrupted: Second Life kept running, but Discord went down, telling me to 'try
3. 93.▲
   by stevetron 2y ago

   AT&T bought into a significant amount of DirecTV - so much so that everything that had the DirecTV logo on it was changed to the AT&T logo, such as the invoicing. So the AT&T customer base has included, for several years, the D
4. 94.▲
   by stevetron 2y ago

   I would have liked to see a version number in the prompt, or maybe even have some toggle in my settings, so that I can be certain that I am using ChatGPT 3.5 and then, if I need an image or screen shot analized, I can switch to the limited
5. 95.▲
   by stevetron 2y ago

   Around the year 2000, I was studying computer science at a university. Most of their PC's ran on Windows 3.1. I was using it at home. But one day, Microsoft sent me an offer: I could purchase the student release of Windows 2000 wor
6. 96.▲
   by stevetron 2y ago

   Well, my undergrad in CS required I take 2 classes in Philosophy. I never have directly used the material studied in those classes.
7. 97.▲
   by stevetron 2y ago

   There's an old movie called "The day The Fish Came Out".
8. 98.▲
   by stevetron 2y ago

   So much discussion about children's books, yet they don't mention The Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, Rick Brandt, Ken Holt, Nancy Drew, Dig Allen, Tom Corbett, Dana Girls, Trixie Belden, Donna Parker, Brains Benton, Power Boys, Sandy Stee
9. 99.▲
   by stevetron 2y ago

   Isn't Elm the name of an email program that runs in a UNIX enviornment? Similar to Pine?
10. 100.▲
    by stevetron 3y ago

    I have found myself in my own private war against web sites over text viewability. Gievn that I am a longtime-coder, and longtime-electronics engineer, I had a life-altering experience a few years ago: as I was laying out a new circuit boa
11. 101.▲
    by stevetron 3y ago

    I once worked at a company that put telemetry equipment out in the field. At a planning meeting for one project, some of the project's locations were not very accessible, i.e. one was at the top of a cliff. Someone made the flip rema
12. 102.▲
    by stevetron 3y ago

    K-19 The Widow Maker comes to mind.
13. 103.▲
    by stevetron 3y ago

    I still have trouble with money and finance not being on the gold standard. And the stock market just seems like gambling to me, which I don't partake in (gambling or stock market). probably why I'll always be poor.
14. 104.▲
    by stevetron 3y ago

    I've used Avast. I tried AVX once before Avast aquired it, and found it rendered internet access unusable with no fixes found. I still use Avast, even though it is owned now by the evil Norton empire. Yes, I used to use Norton way b
15. 105.▲
    by stevetron 4y ago

    Can one of these pistol-grip devices be made with a 3-d printer?
16. 106.▲
    by stevetron 4y ago

    Can one of these pistol grip devices be made using a 3-d printer?
17. 107.▲
    by stevetron 4y ago

    "AT&T – once part of the mighty Bell System – is advising them by text message to use ..." Wrong. The current corporation that calls itself AT&T never had anything to do with the bell System. The AT&T that was a part
18. 108.▲
    by stevetron 4y ago

    I went to a community college first. I also worked in my dad's business, sometimes behind the cash register. I've had my own consulting business, I think I know a little bit about 'handling money', and I don't con
19. 109.▲
    by stevetron 4y ago

    These days, I find myself slightly-handicapped: I'm had emergency eye surgery to correct a detached retina condition. I'm told that I won't get back normal eyesight in that eye. I practically live-to-code. I used to do &#
20. 110.▲
    by stevetron 4y ago

    I won't do 'assignments'. I understand the reasoning, but I'm just plain burnt-out on test-taking of any-kind after I left grad school. I also don't want my 'test' answer to actually get used to solve a