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ForOldHackon OpenAI’s latest research paper demonstrates that falsehoods are inevitable

Maybe, but I don't know. Although I would like to channel as many snarky remarks as I could, to be more constructive, I would use the IDK model, as I have with programming questions and use the psychotic one for questions like "are we in a simulation?" And "Yes, I would like fries with that and a large orange drink."

ForOldHackon Racintosh Plus – Rackmount Mac Plus

I wish I still had my Mac Plus. Upgraded from a 512Ke, 40Mb drive, and a Radius 020 accelerator with 68881. Still limited to 4Mb, And I ran 7.0.1 and 6.0.8. Any testing with The two screen panning programs? Stepping out II? I played Spaceward Ho! to death on it.

ForOldHackon Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah

Prison labor = Slavery.

ForOldHackon Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah

Bush threatened the Taliban, and they responded. How many is donald threatening?

The modern context is we have gone from a benevolent nation to a blidgerent nation. Not really progress. But the context is decisive.

ForOldHackon Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah

Insanity...

ForOldHackon Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah

It is so well preserved, because those who were liberated from it, were so horrified at what they witnesses, that they did not want anyone to forget. It was a herculean effort, many wanted to bury it,because of the pain, and many more wanted to bury it, like it never happened.

A personal salute to all those who fought to preserve it.

There is a great video on the Poles who worked to preserve it. A lot of it is ... Unspeakable.

ForOldHackon 996

You should see the code they crank out. All rated in characters per second/lines of code. And now with AI? Super crap. Ultra processed sterilized caca del Toro.

ForOldHackon 996

12 hours max then the crash of undecipjerable gibberish. See? Your brain requires rest. My 12 hours days had two naps. While the rest of the team did not, in only a month, everyone but me literally crashed and burned...the first clue was them not finishing sentences. Next was searching for words, and then the pause while they stare off into space. All the Facebook prison experiment.

ForOldHackon 996

Crunch time for companies? Making billions? Hire more staff. A lack of planning on your part, does not constute an emergency on my part. The jackpot payday helped, but not by much. I worked from 10 til 10 6 days a week, and the product still stunk in ice.

ForOldHackon A computer upgrade shut down BART

BART is dual track around the entire system, except for side yard entrances. I have seen stopped trains, and it was worked around. One I was on caught fire I. The middle of a station and it did not close the line. It slowed it down a lot but did not stop. There are so many systems in place, it's a quite complex system.

The real heros? The bus drivers. The baddies? The planners, the management. The evil? Pure unadulterated evil? The AC Transit app. I would give it a -11.

ForOldHackon A computer upgrade shut down BART

Except, as always bureaucratic pay raises.

ForOldHackon A computer upgrade shut down BART

They did. They started before yesterday's shutdown, and worked all night, they tried to bring up the system for startup, and it came up, then crashed.

It was state of the art on 1962 when it was designed, and remained state of the art until the 1980s, when the signal system started breaking down, and the the late 80s upgrade which had a train presence glitch, which caused almost all the system to get resignaled.

So by the 2000s again it's showing its age, and they got a 32 processor zSeries mainframe.

Brake problem last week, and the this on Friday? Now it's getting like New York, even more. Whatsmatteryou?

ForOldHackon A computer upgrade shut down BART

Wait... (Obligatory) Did they forget to mount a scratch monkey?

ForOldHackon I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

Exactly what Tesla first did. Well, they a first did not have an existing ICE vehicle and based the styling off a Lotus Elise sports car.

ForOldHackon I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

Oh thank God. The cheapest EV in China is little more than a flashlight with a wind up propeller, (joking/not joking) but not as safe. No one it their right mind could compare it to a leaf to a tesla.

ForOldHackon I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

Agree. Drag coefficient is significant as well as waxing. I think almost almost a clear third was due to waxing. And it really is not that hard to do once a week.

ForOldHackon I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

Good job. I have driven ( for at least 2 trips ) a TeslaS a TeslaX, a Leaf, and EV-1... The Leaf was the easiest to use the regenerative breaking, and the very most efficient at it. Using the 80Mile model, and hand waxing the outside ( a favorite of the 100Mpg Prius group ) I was able to go 69.5 Miles, with 22% remaining. 28% more efficient than rated. This was a mostly highway traveled trip, with a bunch of city errand running at the end.

Both I and the owner were very impressed. They ordered the 100mile battery pack, which was very expensive, but it has been great in the long run.

I think it was like 81% cheaper than a gasoline trip at the time not including long term wear and tear. ( Ware and Tare?$#).

I think the Nissan Leaf is the very best of the bunch.

ForOldHackon Liquid Cooling Exhibits

These are some very innovative ideas and they totally and completely side step the need of AI for fresh water, leakages and alternative coolants.

ForOldHackon Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

I had a shocking interaction with a scientist who insisted that theories are simply the best lies to explain the data. He has been nominated for two Nobel prizes. He will win neither.

ForOldHackon Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

Perfect! Wikipedia is an overflowing of dickheads. Perfect. It is the instutionalisation of dickheads. And @#$# the czar of the New York Subway system and the people who endlessly add retracted citations.

ForOldHackon Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

I disagree. She did not almost destroy the place, she successfully turned Wikipedia into an intellectual black hole encompassing the entire human history. There are only unprintable words to describe her vileness.

ForOldHackon Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

You have been trolled by Wikipedia troll bot(tm). - there are hundreds of thousands of them - the hypnotized never lie.

ForOldHackon Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

Act of love? It's simply he who yells the loudest gets to write history. The controversy around the George Galloway, and Wireds coverage of the glorification of NAZI platoons and war heros? There are some articles so bad-you cannot even bear to read. But at least there are a few nonsensical articles and BAJADON, bad jokes and other deleted nonsense. My favorite article is about black light power. Absolute and complete garbage. I think that is the true enshitification is they do not take out the trash.

I did find some of the vandals, and became good friends with a few. Some of what they write is side splitting humor, but also the alt-right has an amazing amount of power they are using to rewrite history.

I would never give them a thin dime.

ForOldHackon John Coltrane's Tone Circle

Absolutely, exquisitely, undeniable. I didn't get a lot of what it was until I was relistening to Al Davis in reverse chronological order. I also in a fit of recognition saw how Vernon Reed played homage to him. ( And that took a few decades )

ForOldHackon Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law

I am the grandson of two pastors, with extensive knowledge of biblical sources, and you sir are correct.

I do wonder if the dammed fig tree received salvation...

ForOldHackon Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law

I forgot the beaten path. I wondered where the porn was, like where is all the baseball( both insipidly boring), and then my boss did a web search for gramophone and there were only a few results, but banging rocks together? Millions. He looked for something related to goats and then I had to reload his machine from scratch. ( Dropper+payload) Like he blew a transmission.

ForOldHackon Removing Guix from Debian

Isn't that what AI/Vibe coding is for? ( I am kidding a lot)(Ducking thrown paper balls)

ForOldHackon Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023)

https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2024-08-29-running-this-blog-on-a...

Does a Pixel 5 have wake on Lan? Do any cellphones?

ForOldHackon FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

They do not know what R and D is, let alone what is does. One guy bankrupted a casino and saluted a North Korean General, and the other tried to impregnate a couch