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How to use Uninterruptible Power Supplies in take control.

The article Farmvillains in SF Weekly fifteen years ago said Zynga had a staff psychologist to guarantee that each iteration would be more addictive. https://www.sfweekly.com/archi…

The main rehearsal space in San Francisco closed more than two decades ago. I venture that live music has suffered because of it.

Moonbase Alpha was the location where the TV show “Space: 1999” was set. First episode saw the moon permanently leave Earth orbit.

AI hallucinating an art project is one thing…but medicine…?!? Heaven help us.

I totally agree, but I needed you to post the other half because of TL;DR…

Here’s the spot where we see who’s TL;DR… > Claude 4 will rat you out to the feds! >If you expose it to evidence of malfeasance in your company, and you tell it it should act ethic…

Beat me to it. Street Roots has had one for about a month on Burnside and Third.

Agreed, but most people are likely to look at the long title and say TL;DR…

I’m stunned by the following admission: “If fast-math was to give always the correct results, it wouldn’t be fast-math” If it’s not always correct, whoever chooses to use it choose…

Having your last name be Ravid really is the icing on your cake. Real is about the only other codec I see that could be a name, but nobody uses that anymore.

I’ve been watching as we expect computers to do more, the abilities of the general population are decreasing… Not a flame, an observation. If Google is googling for us, we don’t ev…

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The article also says that William Ziff Jr. sold the computer magazines when his son, Dirk, didn’t want to run them. He’s worth $7 billion, now.

Let’s face it. That many people in one place will generate unholy amounts of pollution. One wonders what conditions would be like without the regulations.

I’m with gthompson512 Sounds like a routine Bill Hicks might have come up with if he was still with us. He hated obfuscation.

Absolutely, but continuing the thought will result in a long list…

Billboard had to recalculate its charts because so many of us stopped paying for what is essentially extortion (Jammie Thomas, statutory damages of $1.92 million ($80,000 per song,…

https://www.theregister.com/2005/05/13/otto_rosen/ (Hillary Rosen) presented the notion of lawsuits against consumers that her successor Mitch Bainwol would turn into a course of a…

Weird Al wrote an open letter to this effect more than a decade ago, but he broke through again to be Spoticific… Fairly certain that letter is older than Spotify, but this is 2023…

“But time makes you bolder/Even children get older/And I'm getting older too.” -Stevie Nicks, “Landslide”

Boy, but it sure took the RIAA •years• to figure out that suing fans (aka “customers”) wasn’t the greatest idea…

Philipov missed the last line, “The last human died five years ago.” Correction: The Holocene Extinction has been happening for a couple of centuries and we can’t bear to look, eve…

I humbly apologize. I’m definitely not going to stop you from talking to your imaginary friends.