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charlieo88··on Michael Keating has died
That was my first thought.
charlieo88··on Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting
assuming it flips, and you aren't locked into that age bracket for the duration of your OS
charlieo88··on CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally
Is this sarcasm?
charlieo88··on Laptops with Stickers
Back in the day, a coworker would replace the "Intel Inside" on his computer with a sticker using a similar style that read "Evil Inside".
charlieo88··on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash
dang, I was looking forward to reading about the same F150 CarPlay and MS Teams being available in f35.
charlieo88··on Burner Phone 101
"If you're going to keep your phone in a bag of potato chips, then keep your phone in a bag of potato chips" --Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) Carl the T800.
charlieo88··on Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018)
This.

Bonus, it helps make clear what is wrong with many flat-earthers assertions.

charlieo88··on Nukes, Nubs And Coners: The Social Hierarchy Aboard A Nuclear Submarine (2020)
I grew up watching Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea... those guys were always needing to break out the small arms. Apparently lots of rowdy sea critters looking to get in the boat.
charlieo88··on USPTO refuses Tesla Robotaxi trademark as "merely descriptive"
Should have gone with the "Johnny Cab".

How did a Schwarzenegger movie from 1990 do a better job of naming a robot taxi than Tesla?

charlieo88··on A Tour Inside the IBM Z17
How much does it cost? I'm just curious. No, I don't want to book a meeting to "discuss" it.
charlieo88··on Technical Mathematics (1954) [pdf]
From the PDF - "The scanned pages in this file were extracted from the text and only deal with math operations being solved using the slide rule."
charlieo88··on Republican Congressman Introduces Bill Seeking Abolishment of OSHA
Seems that five minutes ago, this was on the top of the front page. Now it's not in the top 90 entries. Maybe gone altogether.
charlieo88··on 79 Percent of CEOs Say Remote Work Will Be Dead in 3 Years or Less
That's why they published "79 Percent of CEOs", to provide cover. If we knew WHO they were specifically, well that might a great list of stocks to short.
charlieo88··on Octopuses seen hunting together with fish, punching those that don't cooperate
...and buried in this discussion of octopus management technique, we find the TRUE reason behind the wave of return to office requirements
charlieo88··on Human genome stored on 'everlasting' memory crystal
Worse than that, by count, only a minority of the cells using a person's DNA make up that person. The number of other cells are 10x, but being smaller, only make up 1% to 3% by mass. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-human-micr...
charlieo88··on Human brain organoid bioprocessors now available to rent for $500 per month
How do you think they should determine the threshold of consciousness?
charlieo88··on My new PSU burns out – I fix it, and torture it by cracking water
Right? The best you can do it test a sampling of fuse from a batch, to there failure point, which destroys the fuse.
charlieo88··on My new PSU burns out – I fix it, and torture it by cracking water
Terminally.
charlieo88··on North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
As someone with an apostrophe in my name, it has been my experience whenever I come across this sort of thing, you can be sure the project is crap.
charlieo88··on Australian Federal Police would repeat undercover operation on autistic teenager
That leads to an interesting question. Sure this kid is what, 13? What happens when he is a young adult, 20 years old? You can't make an IQ test for allowing access to the internet, a license as it were.
charlieo88··on Programming Language for Ternary Computing
Many years ago in a team meeting, I was explaining the need for an additional bit (yes, bit) to our mainframe programmer, because the value had three positions. I then explained, we'd use ternary math on it. HE WAS DEEPLY OFFENDED. Left the meeting telling us we weren't allowed to just invent new math.
charlieo88··on The Death Star and the Final Trench Run (2017)
Green light saber. Everybody is adding way to much weight on a special effects thing they did just to make things look cool. Enjoy the story, and let it go. Nobody ACTUALLY designed a Death Star that it actually matters where the trench was.
charlieo88··on Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
Lighting in black and white movies was much more important where you didn't have the additional dimension of color. My understanding was the Star Trek lighting team came with black and white experience.
charlieo88··on The curious incident of the dog and the palm tree (2015)
And how does the dog figure into the story? Doesn't appear to haven anything to do with the pollination... almost as if this was an early form of click bait to draw in the dog lovers to read the papyrus.
charlieo88··on Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words
It's a trap?

Double plus ungood.

charlieo88··on FCC imposes record penalty against transnational illegal robocalling operation
The fine isn't to remove the profit, it's to punish them for the 5 billion scam phone calls. They are being fined 5 cents per call.
charlieo88··on Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy
I wish I had the time or facility to take a snapshot of wikipedia now before the imminent deluge of Chat-GPT based updates that start materially modifying wikipedia is some weird and unpredictable manner.
charlieo88··on Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas – for free, forever
The studios don't want a unique virtual actor. They want the one someone else has proven as successful. They aren't driving down Sunset Blvd asking to scan in unknowns. They want the big name stars.
charlieo88··on America’s Throwaway Spies: How the CIA Failed Iranian Informants
Sun Tzu's Art of War divides spies into five categories: Local spies; inward spies; converted spies; doomed spies; surviving spies.

These people seem to be in the doomed spies category.

"Having doomed spies, doing certain things openly for purposes of deception, and allowing our spies to know of them and report them to the enemy."

charlieo88··on Pronunciation Guide for Unix
Always jangles the nerves hearing people saying

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