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adjectives are cis male straight vanilla boring; into 16-bit stack machines
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Try some almonds!
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I'm wondering how the LLM will get from "app can't connect to its local SQL Server 2011 instance" to cargo-culting the DISM command-line that checks things out and re-installs updates that didn't finish
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trying to figure out how it is that this is any different than how one must deal with Windows when it's too screwed up to run Event Viewer usefully
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imagining them thinking they can do this over and over to get something that's TBTF
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be a shame if someone pranged their airliner on the traffic signal on their way to the high-rise
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The VC money lets you keep things going 'til you get there. The problem is that the VC wants money back, and so you need to make the sort of money that comes with an IPO or an acquirer. Twitter's IPO was good enough that they could keep going even being profitable one quarter of several.
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Somewhere in the middle their business plan included a public offering that got 'em enough cash to fritter away until someone sufficiently stupid made 'em a buyout offer they could make stick
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Some of us have already got good at evicting Firefox-included horseshit from the toolbar.
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Do they have Friends of the Library organizations where you are? Would such an organization have some use for someone who can lift boxes of books?
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Most of what this did was get me to think Kraftwerk's "The Telephone Call" would work even better blown out to about 30 minutes with samples from step and crossbar switches
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Here, have an hour-long version of Ladytron's "Destroy Everything You Touch" www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH84...
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srsly, I can't figure out how people put up with the damn thing even before 11 and Copilot, but then I couldn't figure out how people put up with VMS in the 80s or 90s either and my 1970s operating system kink is classic-3000 MPE
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Debian w/LXDE is something the olds seem to be able to find their way around without me standing there to tell them what to do, problem is some of 'em think it looks "old" and we need to look modern to attract volunteers, that's where WIndows gets in
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saw this while going through leftovers at the friends of the library last night and thought then "this is what the Drizzle is for"
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If you were a totally real human person with the indicated experience you would know it's the caffeine that leads to the vibes and the vibes are a warning
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I wonder what "salvageable" was expected to look like, wishing every third household into the cornfield?
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difficult times for the gray lady FTW
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Dammit any time I see "I reported a regression" I want to slip an old bug back in so they know what that means
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"Thursday 9 May"?
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I just looked and I see one can still get ferric chloride
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I'm old enough to have done that because that was what ya did for one-off personal projects, I don't miss it
These days I get the idea there are online services that you can send a file and money to and they send back professionally-produced boards
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There can be another layer in between etched PCB and silkscreen, that's the "solder mask", and yes learning how stuff is made is fun
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Do they have enough Polish people to tell 'em what it was like when JP2 won his ticket?
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"Children have been nabbed by the coyotes" and she thinks that's boring? Get some mountain lions in, they'll be well matched for teenagers.
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spicy pillow containment escape
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"Trump Take Xmas" means Halloween is gonna last 'til Easter
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Wondering if Stephenson (esp Snow Crash) is the gateway drug
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When it barely had to display images inline, let alone run JavaScript.
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I read this, got to the point where they were changing street names on either side of Ponce de Leon Ave, and wondered how they could come up with so many street names that didn't involve "Peachtree"
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s/./, and the Page Views and Ad Impressions Are What We're All About./
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"strategic uncertainty" is an interesting name for a foot-cannon aimed at one's own manufacturing economy
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Getting out of USD
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I mean, ya know all that stuff is in DMV databases and it can't be that hard to find the people to write the report code, some of 'em may even have been collecting SSI for a little while now
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The point at which "everyone involved" is seen to not merely be DOGE staff but also everyone whose name appeared on the registration doc for a Tesla vehicle will be something to behold
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You will excuse me not having ridden Caltrain since electrification, no excuse except not needing to... don't they have power outlets for the pax? If so, you might think they could find a place to plug in three or four fare checkers to charge up while one's in use.
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Wondering if this is the long and roundabout strategy for MICROS~1 to own Chrome.
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This what hopium looks like, the hope that the numbers can only go up from here
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Many files are databases. Most filesystems are. I can think of one filesystem for which its use as a database could be a bad idea.
Srsly doesn't anybody remember database software that wanted to access a raw disk device?
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Srsly, 35,000 Waymos, have Waymo got that many of them available for an event at Levi's Stadium? The exercise would yet be fun to watch just to see how the resource exhaustion plays out.
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you can tell it's a scraper, it's not an Eichler
brick fireplace, slate floor (no radiant heat to spring a leak under that), can you yet get home insurance with a shake roof?
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Yup. This is like when the police dept gets a ransomware problem, they engage a contractor who provides a non-delivery agreement which the chief signs so the dept "can't talk about it". When Bukele says "how can I?" he is providing a service which is paid for.
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I got curious about how one could do this and am still kinda giggling over this
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whatever your fave specialty grocery is, it works because there's a distribution network importing and in some cases packaging stuff for retail sale here, and I can't figure out how those guys can figure out how to make money in that business this year
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bsky.app/profile/smit... but still, #fuckelon
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perlbrew, but with stone knives and bearskins instead of beautiful horror
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Magic 8 Ball says "IT IS LIKELY"
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Back in the 1990s the story was that undoc'd workers simply gave someone else's valid SSN to their employers, and am guessing the someone else is going to have an exciting visit from ICE
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Yeah, that sounds familiar. Not common enough in USAnia to really show up on eBay sales there. It did kinda surprise me that this sort of thing was salable in the UK in the early-mid 1980s, but eh, the Archie Comics kinda thing still seems to work here now.
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No idea. This is from pics I took five years ago. Another thing (things, actually) seen at @fopal.bsky.org.