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> the harris end I guess that's the rear (or arse) end, if anyone else is puzzled and doesn't have a couple of spare minutes to chase it down ... >> top floors were the least desir…

Somehow this story isn't as fun today as it was when first printed ...

To be fair, he was pointing out that the invisible "credentials in cookies" issue was much harder to get fixed: The turnstiles were visible. They were expensive. They disrupted eve…

Thank you for the several decades of smiles over human foibles.

There was some math joke that zero, one and infinity were OK, but the rest of the natural numbers were weird and hard to justify ...

Company also promotes "Community air monitoring"

> The reasoning, I think, was that humans can drive using sight and a little bit of sound, so an AI should be able to do this too. If memory serves, a few years ago the official po…

>> we need more fiction examples of positive AI superintelligence Neal Asher did pretty well with his Polity universe. Besides AIs with some capacity for playful violence (Agent Co…

I got curious what Trey Harris (the original 500 mile story teller) was up to these days, but Google mostly finds me a football player born around that time (2002).

> Why would a network operator allow caller ID to be so easily spoofed? Our protocols are descended from the postal system - the sender is a bit of text written on the wrapper. Cer…

Spy Magazine in its time (mid 80s to mid 90s) had an amusing section titled "Logrolling in our time". Usually featuring mutually favorable blurbs by pairs of writers.

> There's a huge variety of tastes And a lot of those are not "tea" (with theine/caffeine), they're herb infusions such as mint, hibiscus, chamomile, etc. You can drink as much as …

(Not OP) I've used LibraryThing for book boxes. Using smallish boxes (30-40 paperbacks each) so that carrying them is not a backbreaker. Scan the ISBN barcodes with phone app, fix …

Only 1/4 [0] of the general public believes that, but marketers get hurt at any loss of customers ... [0] https://mises.org/mises-wire/87-statistics-are-made

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-crime

You need a PLL somewhere, because the audio signal is encoded in the frequency shift of the carrier (e.g. 98 MHz +/- 150 kHz). Or maybe you were getting a leak from the audio signa…

> Dylan Patel comes to essentially the same conclusions (and this is a better post I think): https://semianalysis.com/2024/12/09/intel-on-the-brink-of-de... Thanks, good reading. S…

In case anyone else is curious about the photo not shown in the article, the paperback edition mentioned is probably this: https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Dorothy-Parker/dp/0140150…

Try this: https://send.djazz.se/ Minimal work if you configure the site as the homepage in the Kobo web browser.

Way back someone observed that the problem was not computers thinking like people, but people thinking like computers. I believe we've been getting a bit of the latter.

> someone just reinvented tar Or "shell archives", .shar files - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar - they used to be kicked around in comp.sources.

> had tons of reviews with OK crystaldisk performance screenshots Select the 1-star reviews. Usually someone helpfully posts proof of the scam.

""" Peru & Bolivia went to war with Chile for that region, but they lost in the War of the Pacific. Why fight? Natural resources: guano and saltpeter. Back then, guano was the worl…