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  Why do pedants pedant?
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  @DogsB said in Why do pedants pedant?: What the hell is going on here? Photoshop. @DogsB said in Why do pedants pedant?: Why am I angry? @DogsB said in Why do pedants pedant?: Why am I sure it has something to do with the weebs? It's always the weebs.
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  John McAfee
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  @DogsB said in John McAfee: @Arantor said in John McAfee: @DogsB His Twitter did say something like 'if I'm dead next month, you know it wasn't me' and surprise, he was dead. He also kindled in many, a love of whales... That goes some way to explain the orca attacks.
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  Should I bother that my employer don't consider moving away from an ancient compiler a priority?
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  Btw, you have Lounge access, haven't you? So you nay read that short anecdote which I posted there, and, well, was not wrong.... @BernieTheBernie said in How Soon Is Now:
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  More Star Trek
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  Sadly, the project seems dead and site sold out. Anyways, have a funny? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/951769818774794260/1166533728294682634/FB_IMG_1698104553082.jpg
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  ChatGPTrolling B2B prospectors/spammers
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  @apapadimoulis said in ChatGPTrolling B2B prospectors/spammers: @sockpuppet7 cost is no object! Mostly because I only get a few unsolicited B2B a week - they're less traditional "spam" (those get filtered) and more prospecting emails I would love to figure out how to do AI voices and all that! for voice you probably want to use elevenlabs, they have an API AI Voice Generator & Text to Speech Rated the best text to speech (TTS) software online. Create premium AI voices for free and generate text-to-speech voiceovers in minutes with our character AI voice generator. Use free text to speech AI to convert text to mp3 in 29 languages with 100+ voices.
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  Miscellaneous Tweets
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  https://twitter.com/historydefined/status/1719159370657722715 An engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958.
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  The Official @error_bot Crossword Thread
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  That's Tat!CluesAcrossDown1. Ending with way or sea (5: _ _ _ E _)1. Big, so to speak (5)6. Commercial fuel (COALGAS)2. Designer Simpson (5)13. Questions closely (6)3. Statue of a repairman? (15)19. Placed on a pedestal (6: _ _ _ R _ _)4. Actor Stoltz (ERIC)21. Nazareth native (ISRAELI)5. Elocutionist (7)22. Expire (6)6. Part of a footnote abbr. (3: CI _)23. MASH member (6: _ _ _ I _ _)7. Circular (OSHAPED)24. Songbird's lament? (14: _ HETRIL _ _ _ _ _ _ _)8. Reply to "Am too!" (ARENOT)26. Extract (6: _ _ _ C _ _)9. Not on time for (LATETO)27. Without ___ (daringly) (ANET)10. Goldfinger portrayer ___ Frobe (GERT)28. Rand Corporation employee (7)11. Subject of a 1996 Oscar-winning documentary (ALI)29. Trophy locale (3)12. Part of R.S.V.P. (SIL)30. Sot (7: _ _ _ _ POT)13. Bowl setting (8: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ N)33. Hun king, in myth (4: _ T _ _)14. Dodge (4)35. B.O. sign (3)15. Swenson of "Benson" (4)36. Match (3)16. Towers (5)38. Story of trouble in the Oriole clubhouse? (12: _ _ ETOR _ B _ _ D _)17. Like some landings (5)42. More inclined (5)18. Dictator's assistant (5)44. Pitch in (3: _ _ D)20. Affect (4)45. Prefix with -verse (UNI)25. Caron role (4)46. Emulate Webster (5: _ R _ _ _)31. Food group (8)49. New York neighborhood (4)32. Goldbrick (7)50. Slip (3)33. "Tomorrow" show (5: _ _ NI _)51. Not our (THEIR)34. Classic sports car, informally (TBIRD)53. Approaches (NEARS)37. Want ad abbr. (3)54. You, abroad (3)39. Had second thoughts (RUED)55. Having parasites in the hair? (10: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ D _ D)40. Dr. of rap (DRE)57. Kind of test (4)41. Some Monte Carlo Rally winners (5: _ _ A _ _)59. Farm creature (3)42. Goes after (7)60. Is faithful (7)43. Showy, scarlet flower (9)61. 1954 Maxwell Anderson play, with "The" (7)47. Story of adoptive jungle dwellers? (15: _ R _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A _ A _ _)64. Where on parle français, perhaps (3)48. Looking up to (9: _ S _ _ _ _ _ _ _)65. Looked (6)50. Duck down (5)66. ___ paper, used for postage stamps (6)51. Prepared to drive (4: T _ _ _)69. Turk. borders it (3)52. Suffers from (3: H _ _)70. Hangs back (7)55. Sticky stuff (4)72. Mad states (7)56. Otto I's realm: Abbr. (3)73. Big bird (3)58. Total (7)74. "The Open Window" writer (4)61. Loser at Fredericksburg (8)75. Like Jack Haley in "The Wizard of Oz"? (10)62. Sign of spring (5)78. Short snort (3)63. Conked out (4)79. "Phooey!" (5)66. Lap dog (4)82. Like pear tree leaves (5)67. Connecticut collegian (3)83. Pothook shape (3)68. Back blocker (7)84. Go without (4)71. Size (5)85. Auerbach of "The Jack Benny Show" (5)72. Aug. setting (3)86. Julio, for one (3)75. The Pyramids, e.g. (5: _ _ _ _ S)87. Record label abbr. (3)76. Actresses Judith and Dana (5: _ _ _ _ S)88. Shop talk (5)77. Discovery grp. (4)89. Risk a blowout? (12: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ T _ _ _ _)80. Rio relative (3)93. Clause connector (3)81. Dispatched (8: _ _ _ TT _ _ _)94. KLM competitor (3: _ _ S)84. Standings stat (3)97. MacLaine movie "Guarding ___" (TESS)87. Moves (oneself) (7)98. Summer discomfort (7: H _ _ _ _ _ _)88. Practiced for a rodeo (7: _ _ _ _ O _ _)100. L.A.P.D. call (APB)90. "Primal Fear" star (4: _ EY _)103. It has pull (GRAVITY)91. Show for which Liza Minnelli won a 1978 Tony (THEACT)106. ___ the Hyena ("Li'l Abner" character) (4: _ E _ _)92. Presidential nickname (6)107. Front line (6: _ _ _ _ AR)94. Eye sores (5: _ G _ _ _)109. Acknowledgment from Gen. Montgomery? (14: _ _ U _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A _ _ _)95. Emerged (5: _ R _ _ _)113. Pax ___ (ROMANA)96. Prepare, as mushrooms (SAUTE)114. What's left (6: _ _ T _ _ _)99. Letter opener (4: _ _ R _)115. Horton Foote's "Tender ___" (7: _ _ _ C _ _ _)101. Control ___ (PANEL)116. Wet floor (6: _ _ _ _ ED)102. Bunch name (BRADY)117. Farm device (6: _ _ E _ _ _)104. Jeremy's singing partner (4: V _ _ _)118. Largest in scope (7: _ _ _ T _ _ _)105. Site of some Millais works, with "the" (4: I _ _ _)119. Without any pizazz (5: _ _ _ LY)106. G.P.O. items (4)108. Barbra's 1968 co-star (4: _ M _ _)110. 100th anniversary of the Potemkin mutiny (3)111. Senate approval (3)112. Fast way to J.F.K. (3)
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  Wallpapers
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  There are much cuter foxes. E.g.
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  The curious case of the disappearing Polish S
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  @remi said in The curious case of the disappearing Polish S: @PleegWat said in The curious case of the disappearing Polish S: I've got a cat who may be able to help with those mice. Do you mean this one? Ahh, the free book scanner! Thanks to this device I can look up which storage box has my paperback copy of The Hobbit, find where it's placed in the pile of storage boxes, and go download a copy purchase a copy on Amazon for my Kindle so I can read it again.
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  Quest for funny sayings: rewrite it in F̌
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  @PleegWat said in Quest for funny sayings: rewrite it in F̌: @Bulb said in Quest for funny sayings: rewrite it in F̌: C# isn't even a word C hash. As in, making a hash of it. "No, you eat it" thread is
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  If raw water isn't for you, try some "real" water
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  @boomzilla I can vividly picture the inmate C-suite meeting: You know what this product needs? Fucking rocket fuel, that’s what!
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  Starlink is aliens!
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  @Bulb said in Starlink is aliens!: When seeing a moving light in the sky that slowly moves, flares up and fades away, lately chances are high that it's a Starlink satellite. No. Just another plane starting or landing at nearby Frankfurt airport...
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  Programming-related stories
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  @jinpa said in Programming-related stories: This topic is for fiction and non-fiction programming-related stories that aren't necessarily about WTF's. The Constancy of its Affections "I can't stand it!" he said. "She wants A. I give her A." Be happy. More often he wants A and she doesn't.
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  Dysfunctional Communication
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  ur linux not long enough :((
  lets go shopping linux make it cost money • • Applied Mediocrity  

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  @boomzilla said in ur linux not long enough :((: @loopback0 said in ur linux not long enough :((: @boomzilla said in ur linux not long enough :((: @topspin I mean...yeah, and we're paying them for it. Looks like it's got support until next June. Just funny compared to that quote. Yeah and OEL 7 has support for a further 2 years IIRC. Well, we only run OEL on boxes running Oracle. No idea what's on there, but we're currently working on updating the DB itself from 12 to 19. Same here. We're doing the RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 migrations now (my team completed all of ours last week) but OEL 7 to OEL 8 is a future problem because even on kernel 3.10 it's supported for a couple of years longer. @boomzilla said in ur linux not long enough :((: we're currently working on updating the DB itself from 12 to 19. We did that before 12 went EOL although for some reason that wasn't clear (as we have a ULA) we went 12 to 18 and then 18 to 19.
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  Whose leaked my mlp fixation now?
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  @DogsB dammit you 'd me posting this here rather than where I posted it in the other news thread. But yes, Microsoft is
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  Uber Sheets
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  Matt Basta No sacred masterpieces Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch" Interesting case study.
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  :beer: The Beer Status Thread
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  The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant
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  @HardwareGeek said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant: @DogsB said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant: To be fair, if I could ride a skateboard without breaking my arse I probably would try. At least you don't need to worry about breaking your head. In Ireland they worry about having sense knocked into them rather than out
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  Unable To Set Up Google Assistance on Windows PC
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  @Zecc when I searched on iPad, that was the link I got but I ended up having to do something else so when I posted I was on my other machine which clearly is biased differently.
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  The Discopocalypse
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  @sockpuppet7 A cyberterrorism trial taking less than a year?
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  Linux in the World
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  @topspin said in Linux in the World: but users are always "unhappy" AIUI you were talking about government workers. So I don't understands the quotes.
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  Apple is a real Piece of Shit ..
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  @Bulb said in Apple is a real Piece of Shit ..: @topspin said in Apple is a real Piece of Shit ..: @HardwareGeek said in Apple is a real Piece of Shit ..: @humpty said in Apple is a real Piece of Shit ..: They make China look bad. China does a very thorough job of that without any help from Apple. But that's a discussion. I don't think that's disputed by anyone. China has a lot of people, so I'm sure at least some of them would dispute it Not by those in the conc… wait, category.
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  Galaxql
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  @Zecc said in Galaxql: pressing "Run Query" after editing the query is mandatory. It does tell you that. IMO it should track if the editor has changed since the last time you asked it to rate you.
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  Making a moqery of good development
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  @Mason_Wheeler yesterday
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  Hydrogen Vehicles - Truly Beneficial?
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  @Carnage said in Hydrogen Vehicles - Truly Beneficial?: Just take advantage of then to take a shit at the same time! Jolly Pirate Donuts – 00:05— RandyTravisPoster
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  Linguistics and Anthropology
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  @Dragoon said in Linguistics and Anthropology: @jinpa said in Linguistics and Anthropology: But since they can't count, Pirahã are liable to be taken advantage of in business dealings with outsiders. That is actually a very difficult question to answer. The two cultures have different evaluations for the exchanged goods, so it is not easy to compare them and say that one side came out ahead in a scenario like this. If both sides give something away that they perceive of as low value and receive something that they perceive of as high value who cheated whom? If you ever get tired of the programming thing, there are some good opportunities in scamming old people.
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  Ask the entrepreneurs advice
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  I do not disagree with him at all. Every success and every failure starts at the top and trickles down. Good leaders hire good people that do good work and shitty leaders hire shitty people that do shitty work. Never be afraid to hire people that are better than you are. They won't make you look bad. On the contrary they will make you look like a rockstar. Only shitty leaders are afraid to hire people who are better than they are.
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  Exterminate
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  Programmer or Serial Killer?
  quiz web slice when i press upload short and sweet • • Tsaukpaetra  

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  @topspin said in Programmer or Serial Killer?: @HardwareGeek said in Programmer or Serial Killer?: @remi said in Programmer or Serial Killer?: I actually have no idea what COBOL looks like nor what makes it awful Read and dispairdespair Wrong language. Dispair is what car/cdr does.
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  Recruiting foreign specialists
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  There is a sector where recruiting foreign specialists works quite well: health care. Now Albania has decided that they won't continue to "finance german health care". Many young physicians leave their home country just after their examination to richer countries of europe. And in Albania, their university study is mainly state financed - TFA mentions that about 1/16th is paid by the student, the rest by the state. The president decided that students leaving within 5 years after their exam will have to pay fees to the state. Paywalled source in german: Fachkräftemangel: Warum albanische Ärzte nach Deutschland wollen Deutschland ist das Traumziel vieler Ärzte vom Westbalkan. Albanien schiebt dem Exodus nun einen Riegel vor. Denn er gefährdet das eigene Gesundheitssystem.
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  Standarditis
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  @Gurth said in Standarditis: When I read explanations with sample code, I read the text and mostly skip over the code to the next part of the text, like I would a photograph in the text. Funnily enough I mostly do the opposite: I often skip over the long-winded, vague textual descriptions and primarily focus on the code examples to see how this thing can actually be used. I also have a healthy distrust for any comments I might come across, for the reasons stated by @Bulb above.
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  What in the world is going on with Windows Update?
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  @Tsaukpaetra said in What in the world is going on with Windows Update?: @Tsaukpaetra said in What in the world is going on with Windows Update?: I haven't updated the latest cum updates yet, so who nose? made the work laptop do it
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  New forum idea
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  @Luhmann said in New forum idea: @sockpuppet7 you couldn't wait until the 2025? And make the mods have to come up with a new interstitial for doublefbmacs?
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  The Official lucky 10,000 (TIL) thread
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  TIL It's "He's the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B", not, "He's the boogie-woogie bugle boy thumping at me".
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  Re: Jets and Farms
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  @Gustav said in Re: Jets and Farms: Note that I'm talking only about contracts that are unfair to an extreme degree, not ones that are only slightly unfair. Also also, many countries have something like that as an actual law and it works just fine. AFAIK it's indeed the case in French law, in particular in contracts between asymmetrically informed parties (typically an individual vs. a very large corp). It gets fishy very quickly because it relies on very vague things such as "reasonable expectations" and the like, which is very similar to the old "I know it when I see it" definition of pornography. But OTOH, despite being fishy when talking in the absolute, it actually works reasonably well in practice, when it is framed by enough court cases that have gone through all the layers to turn it into legal precedent. It's a practical solution that works sufficiently not-badly, which the most that can be expected from most laws...
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  The Blinding Innovation Thread
  everything is terrib but we all knew that goto 10 • • Applied Mediocrity  

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  @Applied-Mediocrity said in The Blinding Innovation Thread: What will they think of next!? Article says: AIBs are also working on connector-less GPUs and other innovative ways for their future custom designs. Look ma! No dongle!
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  You as a superhero
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  Guardians of the Galaxy 3
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  Stable Horde to use stable diffusion for free without ads
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  @Arantor said in The Wibble: @HardwareGeek I’m not sure what’s more brillant, the article or the handshake image with rather a few too many fingers. @Arantor I particularly like the images. It's using a free service that's run by people who volunteer their GPUs. The stable horde, that you can play for free with an API or https://tinybots.net/artbot I'm running a google colab to make for it, but even if I do 1:1 there is a huge economy, in the sense that it's cheaper to generate a lot of stuff in the cloud at a time than as you pay for the time the machine boots and loads the model im memory and etc. There is a system of credits, called kudos, that you don't need, bit priorize your generations on the queue, and you can gain by setting up a worker. I think it's very cost effective for the reasons above. Started as a reply, but making it a new topic, I think more people could find it useful. More information at https://stablehorde.net/
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  https://wibble.fbmac.net/dot-dot-dot-conspiracy
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  Why is programming complicated?
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  @Luhmann Indeed. At the very least the environment we usually call ‘staging’, where the user acceptance tests are done, must get a copy of the production data for the acceptance test, because the users wouldn't be able to verify the things they asked to be fixed are really fixed without being able to look at exactly the same data that were broken in the previous release.
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  Immediate impact of a default?
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  @dkf said in Immediate impact of a default?: @MrL said in Immediate impact of a default?: MM is not a coherent universe Don't let consistency get in the way of a good film. Or a cheesy but fun film. No argument here.
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  Discs of Danger
  oh fuck i forgot oh wait to add tags • • kazitor  

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  @Dragoon said in In other news today...: @DogsB mucking about? The Sit Down Gun – 00:21— Paper Abyss Comics One thing leads to another… Bonus  : That post does not show up anywhere in the results for “mucking about,” only for the complete video URL (the video ID didn’t work either).
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  What is a smart watch?
  reality distortion google are you joking what the fuck is this words mean things • • Tsaukpaetra  

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  @topspin said in What is a smart watch?: @loopback0 well, I don't remember the details, but it didn't do other things while not getting a connection. You had to use the app for some stuff (e.g. getting it to sync GPS), and it refused to do that while the phone didn't have internet connection. If it wasn't an issue, I obviously wouldn't have noticed it at all. My wife has similar sync issues (I think GPS mostly?) with hers, and she got a brand new a couple of months ago so it's not just on old models. That is indeed very not-smart (and annoying).
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  Even Amazon can't make sense of microservices!
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  @Arantor said in Even Amazon can't make sense of microservices!: And Twitter moved off Rails to Scala
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  Solar Roadways?
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  @Polygeekery said in Solar Roadways?: It's possible that they have since realized that what they propose could never and should never happen. Unless someone offers them money... Then, of course, it's possible!
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  Betaverse
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  @boomzilla said in Betaverse: according to a study commissioned by Facebook owner Meta Platforms A completely fair and unbiased study
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  Counterpart to Wikipedia Based on AI
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  @Applied-Mediocrity don't be such a Grothendieck.