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The original software for the ISS (space station) was stored on a single floppy disk. Not sure about density but one of the engineers told me.

your comment made me smile like a grandpa :) Also lighten up! oh... damn black hole...

it's already a black hole for funding

Windows 98 did the same for me

In Canada the police are pretty lazy and it's mostly due to who they hire, and also a LOT of political garbage as it's a federal police force throughout the country in most cases -…

Force multiplier and power projector. Requires ammo (tokens) which can be expensive. Requires good aim to hit the target. Requires practice to get good aim. Dangerous in the hands …

Solution looking for a problem is why. No value is why. Breaks NAT privacy and the extensions do not do enough. Top down pushed solution NOBODY WANTS.

I have a claude max subscription and a gemini pro sub and I exclusively use them on the cli. When I run out of claude max each week I switch over to gemini and the results have bee…

I'll play the devils advocate a bit: IP is a form of thought control... Is that ethical? Who holds who accountable? Is the one doing the holding accountable? Like Stalin said -- it…

That instance is final... but yes you are not dead! As a craftsman who has failed and started over believe me I have lived it. Ethics course != ethical Corporate ethics ~= slavery …

I literally filled out TPS reports every week at this place down to the hour, breaking down internal project billing and customer billing. In order get the charge codes from the PM…

30 years ago my boss at a large defense/aviation contractor told me estimating software projects was a very valuable skill, but all estimates were always wrong because they are sim…

what a great comment :)

I worded it poorly. Unions should have more of a place... it is the right idea... but they were subverted in critical ways so they don't serve their members quite as they should. I…

I am still shocked not to see the opposite order -- but those days are long gone.

> Sure, and advertising has zero effect on you. Not possible! But you learn over time and if you have the right though process, less and less it affects you. Unions had a place, th…

By all means do include FOX in that list of shame -- my mistake! No better. you are correct. It's a game all empires/sides are playing. In russia we are the boogeyman -- everyone n…

> There are people whose job it is day in day out to influence Western opinion CNN/CIA/NBC/ABC/FBI? etc?

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Poison the corpus. 18 years ago I stood up at a super computing symposium as asked the presenter what would happen if I fed his impressive predictive models garbage data on the sly…

Bang on. > It's not about persuading you from "russian bot farms." Which I think is a ridiculous and unnecessarily reductive viewpoint. Not an accidental 'viewpoint'. A deliberate …

Most 'media' is produced content designed to manipulate -- nothing new. The article isn't really AI specific as others have said. Personally my fear based manipulation detection is…

How do people learn then? Personally I learn best by doing. If I study before I try something the results are poorer compared to the reverse. Make an attempt. Fail. Understand. The…

> These are people who should not be running systems. I lol'd at that :) I was just trying to be more inclusive! Results have been mixed. I do build images from scratch but I also …

Defending? I am simply pointing out the obvious flaws in your logic. If you think Raytheon is the apex evil corporation you are very mistaken. There is hardly any separation betwee…