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Instant, wide-range (mesh) private comms are rather different than a couple of people out in a field at night talking.

That was Australia. In China, they welded the doors to their housing units shut.

An EV with a degraded battery and miles per charge is still very useful for retired people who are tired of traveling long distance and can plug in at home. There should be a good …

By Antonio Gulli, Google Forward by Marco Argenti, CIO, Goldman Sachs ...explore a diverse range of design patterns, from foundational concepts like structuring sequential operatio…

The author of Starlark, a language covered by one of these books on software, discovers that the book is full of hallucinations and incorrect information. He remarks that a beginne…

It looked like it was going to be a real downer to the end, but.... and then it was.

Perhaps flag the account and switch out the AI instance for Boring-BobGPT and further monitoring?

My town votes 50/50 Republican/Democrat, yet our newly rebuilt library is filled with lib/women oriented non-fiction and contemporary women’s pulp fiction. They no longer even have…

LOL, read the one star reviews [0]. The problem with the mechanical ones is they are shoddy these days and can't be depended on. It seems no one knows how to make a high quality me…

Yes. Think of it as a CAPTCHA. There’s a reason.

He did

And yet the ranks of proofreaders and editors never blinked.

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IMO, a most useful thing is Lynx in DIRED mode. A great read-only directory browser - just enter a local url when you start it. For example, or .

Constitution, yes - but following it, not so much. I would really like the Federal government to improve in that regard.

From TFA, ...the creator of the R programming language, Ross Ihaka, who provided benchmarks demonstrating that Lisp’s optional type declaration and machine-code compiler allow for …

Yeah, and who is doing the killing?

I have one I paid $150 for. But bubble sextants are usually only used on aircraft.