Hmm, I don't believe you. In order to prove you're alive please make an updated Youtube video with a tour of your crawlspace warehouse.
Need to see a recent newspaper as well.
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#113Dear Cliff,
I'm sorry to hear that you must have died right after we visited you in May of 2024 [1]. But I'm glad that you've figured things out and that you are now alive again! I imagine that's a much better state of affairs for you.
Here's to many more years of adventures and quilt making.
Cheers!
[1] https://daveschumaker.net/adventures-in-topology-the-cuckoos...
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#114Source: the deceased objected.
caught in java garbage collection (no slight intended :) )
Congratulations on your continued existence!
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah nice, happy you got there! Thanks for clarifying
sevenzero got excited about the possibility that wage slave days had ended for everyone and he had just missed the memo.
He didn't receive the memo because someone wrote DECEASED on his mail months ago.
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#116A doctor friend of mine once joked that it would be really cruel to issue a death certificate for someone who is alive. This seems to be a soft version of that. The only thing that would be crueler is to revoke someone's birth certificate. "Sir, you never existed in the first place."
Like Kansas tried to do for all their transgender residents. They didn’t switch ID. They just invalidated all documentation that didn’t match what the state legislators thought they should say. They were going to be forced to try securing new ID at their own expense, with their existing ID not being considered valid to identify them. https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2026... Thankfully the court…
Yet, oddly fitting for a deadname.
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#117Hi Cliff! Your book the Cuckoo's Egg got me both (more) into IT, as well as helped my English proficiency go from basic to proficient. Back when I was 12, I was checked out in school, and my English teacher noticed here in Belgium.
He knew I was a bit of a nerd and into computers, and he recommended me your book, and in fact personally went to an English book store to buy it for me. And the rest is history.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
.. while taking a drink from a Klein bottle and holding three fingers in front of your face at the same time.
... and exactly three fingers, and not six, for example.
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#119> Sometimes it turns on a 75-cent error in a billing report that any normal sysadmin, on any normal day, would simply have written off.
Wasn't this how the xz hack was discovered? A PostgreSQL benchmark was a running a bit slower than usual.
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#120A doctor friend of mine once joked that it would be really cruel to issue a death certificate for someone who is alive. This seems to be a soft version of that. The only thing that would be crueler is to revoke someone's birth certificate. "Sir, you never existed in the first place."
It's no joke for some. It was some time ago that I read about it, and I'm struggling to find a source now, but there are instances in India of people being declared dead to allow their next of kin to steal their land. In doing so, the 'dead' unsurprisingly lose access to various public resources, health care, etc. Edit: found a reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_D...