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In AA, they are coming out with a new addition of the Big book, using modern language, because apparently people are having a difficult time understanding language used in the 1940…

After my stroke 3 years ago, I find myself in a place meeting accessibility. So the icons are helpful. I cannot necessarily read the text.

In the novel The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, after the Pope remarks that the aliens involved are "other children of God", I had the thought that perhaps when humans create AI ro…

It started, funny enough, out of seeing the very first Doctor who episode from the 1960s, where the doctor and crew land on prehistoric Earth and primitive man is having trouble ma…

This reminds me of a small but fond memory of mine. One of my friends in high school, up from elementary, was slightly a troublemaker. But not terribly so. One day, we found oursel…

Perhaps some type of retro futuristic nostalgia millennial gag.

In partial jest, has BBB been known to accreditate themselves? (A blatantly obvious silicon valley TV show reference)

Speaking for myself, I know that I have never looked up a business for BBB accreditation. (I am 43 and a half). Yelp reviews, TripAdvisor, Google reviews, yes. And as honestly neve…

The first I heard of this book was when I read “WWW: Wake” by Robert J. Sawyer, which regards an emergent global AI out of the Internet. “WWW: Wake” also tries to demonstrate the e…

With today's technology, how might this translate into a functioning 1980s Dick Tracy Watch -- the upgraded version from the original "radio watch" which includes video communicati…

> audited I've not before seen this word used to substitute for being checked over for being robbed.

A large part of my tinkering hobbies include fixing, not just making -- often a mix of both. A lack of "right to repair" seems to kill some aspect of both if not one of these.

On top of that, if anybody knows of similar for folks who sleep on their side I would like suggestions//insight.

> Chromebook are basically fancy thin clients that make efficient use of web-based services This reminds me of Asimov's Multivac home terminals where every user, in the comfort of …

> To me, computers used to be fun when you commanded them what to do, they did it, then they prompted you for another command. This is a good portion of why I switched to Linux ful…

So is ASAP, and there are people who say it as a word ["A-Sap"] as well as people who verbally spell it out ["A-S-A-P"].

Do you have any realistic, actionable resources of how to do this effectively in real life?

I've been using a Sansa Clip for a number of years.

I've been waiting to see this type of thing since reading Larry Niven scifi stories involving his transport booth technology. A transporter booth on every street corner type of thi…

I watched this "live in theatre" when it came out and enjoyed it. It may be a buggered memory, but I don't recall seeing a movie about reverse engineering often.

TIL there are colleges who actually have a class dedicated to the topic of negotiation. Is this "new", say within the past 15-20 years?

In my olde neighborhood, a neighbor of mine [due to an allergic husband] was an "outdoor cat only" meow-by-mouth only place for several decades. I took care of the feeding whilst t…

I had an in-person interview where I should have said that, multiple times.

> I loved the concepts behind VRML, and still do. Unfortunately all of the implementations around it were terrible. Being ~18 years away and therefore memory is skewed, may I ask r…

In a summer tech program for pre-college high school tech-interested//inclined students, my group of three created four different VRML world-spaces. We each made our own, and I mad…