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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Celebrating the 100th birthday of General Chuck Yeager
Born on February 13th, 1923, General Chuck Yeager with the Bell X-1 team, made world history breaking the sound barrier on Oct. 14th, 1947.
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And we're off to a bad start. :(
WikiQuote says:
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce his name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value.
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@Zecc unfortunately, Wirth's Law may never die.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
@Zecc said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
Americans invariably mangle it
This American doesn't.
âinvariablyâ does not mean âalwaysâ.
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@Arantor Doesn't it? In-vari-able literally means "without possibility of variation".
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@Arantor said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
@Zecc said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
Americans invariably mangle it
This American doesn't. âinvariablyâ does not mean âalwaysâ.
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Pfft, Iâm surrounded by linguistic conservatives. The technical definition in the dictionary might be synonymic of âalwaysâ but the common usage implies a ânot quite absoluteâ angle rather than âalwaysâ.
Language evolves, the dictionaries are lagging behind!
(Or, at least, everyone around me uses it this way, incorrectly.)
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@Arantor Words have meanings! </
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@Arantor You'd have gotten away with it if it wasn't for that meddling
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@Arantor which brings us to Zawinskiâs law, who is still among the living:
Every thread expands until itcan send emailcontains an argument about descriptive vs prescriptive language rules..
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
He made mistakes so disastrous that the software engineering field was forced to look itself in the mirror and actually learn something. We can only hope that his teachings will not go unheeded.
**cough** **cough** RUST! **cough**
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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.
Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
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https://www.ntpsec.org/FAQ.html said:
Why do these web pages look so 1990s?
Because that simple look is good for people with visual impairments, and as a tribute to Dr. David Mills, the original architect of NTP who is himself visually impaired. Dr. Mills has very particular ideas about Web visuals, and this site is carefully styled to resemble his NTP documentation pages.
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@Zecc love me some clear, readable pages. I wish more of the web would do that.
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@Arantor clarity is perfect. Color scheme... not so much.
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@topspin I donât dislike it personally. Not my favourite colour scheme but nice enough.
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@topspin said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
@Arantor clarity is perfect. Color scheme... not so much.
There's no Hot Pink involved, so it is automatically not the worst colour scheme of the worst.
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Melanie, Singer Who Performed at Woodstock and Topped Charts With âBrand New Key,â Dies at 76
Melanie, the singer who performed at Woodstock and had pop hits with 'Brand New Key' and 'Lay Down,' has died at age 76.
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It wasn't Drogo who killed Apollo this time, or the Predator...
Carl Weathers, Rocky and Predator actor, dies aged 76
The actor was known for playing Apollo Creed in four Rocky films and was recently in The Mandalorian
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@Arantor it took me a while to realize that "Rocky and Predator" is not a real movie. I am sad now.
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@homoBalkanus said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
@Arantor it took me a while to realize that "Rocky and Predator" is not a real movie. I am sad now.
Rocky vs Predator, does Rocky win that one??
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Toby Keith, country singer-songwriter, dies at 62 after stomach cancer diagnosis
Country music singer-songwriter Toby Keith, whose pro-American anthems were both beloved and criticized, has died. He was 62. A statement posted on his website says Keith died peacefully Monday surrounded by his family.
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Bill Post, Father of the Pop-Tart, Dies at 96
âThere were so many naysayers,â Bill Post once told a reporter. But the toastable pastry immediately went gangbusters and remains a beloved snack to this day.
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@pcooper said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
remains a beloved snack to this day.
Sadly, I can no longer eat them.
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âStar Warsâ and âGremlinsâ voice actor Mark Dodson dies before convention appearance
Mark Dodson has passed away.
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Dragon Ball: Japan manga creator Akira Toriyama dies
Dragon Ball is one of the most influential and best-selling Japanese comics of all time.
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RIP Vernor Vinge, imaginer of cyberspace and The Singularity
CompSci and math professor by trade, he envisaged a galactic Usenet, and was utterly brilliant
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@DogsB said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
he envisaged a galactic Usenet
Did he solve the problem of delays caused by the speed of light? Insulting each other is much less fun when you have to wait days or weeks between each quip.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
@DogsB said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
he envisaged a galactic Usenet
Did he solve the problem of delays caused by the speed of light? Insulting each other is much less fun when you have to wait days or weeks between each quip.
As you got away from the center of galaxies, physics changed. For one, FTL travel / communications were possible. Also AI, which got really weird when you got out of the galaxy proper.
They named the zones (Zones of Thought), where the "Beyond" was the zone where the FTL stuff was possible. Above that was the "Transcend," where really powerful / weird stuff was. There was a civilization that offered college degrees in "Applied Theology," which was the study of the things that lived out there.
But the key to it all was hexapodia.
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@boomzilla said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
@Zerosquare said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
@DogsB said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
he envisaged a galactic Usenet
Did he solve the problem of delays caused by the speed of light? Insulting each other is much less fun when you have to wait days or weeks between each quip.
As you got away from the center of galaxies, physics changed. For one, FTL travel / communications were possible. Also AI, which got really weird when you got out of the galaxy proper.
They named the zones (Zones of Thought), where the "Beyond" was the zone where the FTL stuff was possible. Above that was the "Transcend," where really powerful / weird stuff was. There was a civilization that offered college degrees in "Applied Theology," which was the study of the things that lived out there.
Anyone wanting to know more should definitely read A Fire Upon the Deep. Especially so if they remember how USENET was.
But the key to it all was hexapodia.
Exactly.
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@dkf said in The Official 2024 Death Pool:
Anyone wanting to know more should definitely read A Fire Upon the Deep. Especially so if they remember how USENET was.
And Deepness in the Sky takes legacy systems to a whole new level when it introduces code archaeology.
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Primate research lost two important people in the last couple of days:
Frans de Waal
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/science/frans-de-waal-died.htmlA famous experiment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCgand Christophe Boesch
Christophe Boesch (1951â2024), primatologist and chimpanzee champion
Nature - Zoologist whose understanding of chimpanzee behaviours has helped to assure their survival.
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Prof Ross Anderson, RIP
This is not something I was expecting or ever imagining I would write; Iâve just heard. This is a tremendous loss for us all. Professor Ross Anderson, FRS, FREngOur dear friend and treasured âŚ
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Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94
Nobel-prize winning physicist who showed how particle helped bind universe together died at home in Edinburgh
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Niklaus Wirth - Wikipedia
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Carl Weathers, actor who starred in "Rocky" and "Predator," dies at age 76
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