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Very easy to fool. For example, when it asked me "Which city is the capital of Australia?" providing the answer "the capital city of Australia" was judged to be correct. Same when …

You're correct. My other phones were from my wireless carrier, and didn't support unlocking the bootloader, so I had to keep upgrading (over a period of years.) I bought the Zenfon…

I just sent feedback to ASUS expressing my concern at the loss of bootloader unlocking. I have 2 perfectly good cell phones that are e-waste now, simply because the vendor stopped …

I guess we're here: https://xkcd.com/1425/

I've never been able to approach this book in text. I did listen to an abridged audiobook performance of Finnegan's Wake, and enjoyed it in the same way I suppose I would enjoy lis…

So sad. Such loss. Wow.

The author of that post has a YouTube channel called Dave's Garage[0], and has video series that cover development of Task Manager, Space Cadet Pinball, and others. [0] https://m.y…

The quote above is from the book 1984. I felt it fit.

>What I am trying to say is, it doesn't matter if the subject is actually conscious. All that matter is we (I), feel/think that it is conscious, or deserving of care and respect. T…

lol. https://genius.com/Tool-faaip-de-oiad-lyrics

Interesting that the core is oversized. 640Km should be enough for any body.

Oh! Thank you. That makes much more sense now.

I've written code like this in C to create library functions that will be linked in to other projects, but where there is no 'main' function in the C file. Do people use C++ the sa…

Tuesday is Soylent Green day.

I've been sticking to old.reddit.com as much as possible, but hate all the new nags to switch. Using the mobile site ( https://i.reddit.com/ ) is another somewhat acceptable workar…

Related: http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html

>Most students, 48 percent, claimed to be Native American on their application. I seriously have to wonder...is it possible that some of these applicants are confused about what th…

It looks like the program you are talking about, "Desktop Games," is still hosted on: http://www.gemtree.com/program.htm . No idea if it works on modern Windows or not.

More negative press for Boeing, which they probably don't need after all the 737 MAX issues. From the layman's perspective, I can't tell if Engineers have gotten lazy/complacent in…

Oshkosh? B'gosh!

"The revolution will be televised. It'll fade to black before out eyes. The black and white of static snow will blend into a single glow. And colors on the telescreen will flood ou…

I just ordered one of these recently! Last week, I finished reading "The Cuckoo's Egg,"[0] about a computer espionage case in the late 1980s (great book, by the way.) Afterwards, I…

I don't really care for politics, but if anyone is curious, Biden's 404 tries to sell you a face mask. https://joebiden.com/notapage

Well, the entire theory of this paper seems to revolve around the reference[0] that asks "Can Electrons Act as Antioxidants?" Since Oxidation[1] is the loss of an electron from an …