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<naming rant> What is wrong with the simpler 'vasquod'??</naming rant> :-)
Re:The impact of Apple Silicon Macs on Broadway on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:06AM (#25536236)
The M1 is also going to cure world hunger and solve global warming
I remember having AltaVista as my primary bookmark, until they accelerated the ads and monetization, and render it almost completely useless. It was so obvious they wanted to make quick, obscene money from of it. They cared very little about the negative impact that had on user experience. That's why AltaVista went like the dodo. Period.
Re:Diego Maradona has died on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @12:28PM (#25211722)
England is about to declare a national holiday

j/k of course

RIP Diego

Re:Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:19PM (#25204183)
this type of knowledge is quite expected from certain analysts in certain agencies [this comment will self-destruct in 5 minutes]
Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored on Monday November 16, 2020 @07:27PM (#25118954)
Honestly, the name is problematic. Why do some developers insist on bad names? Stop the bad names .. unpronounceable crap like xoyx-mp4, zycx10 should also be avoided .. what's wrong with vidl, or something simple like that? .. I'm half joking, but it's worth underscoring.
Re:Evidence-based software engineering: book released on Thursday November 12, 2020 @06:38PM (#25076846)
Evidence-base X is the best X humans can muster.. except for Love
Such a good point. I wonder how many folks don't actually realize there's a different ecosystem for Docker x86 and ARM images.
Stopped reading after "Liberals" in the subtitle. Writer assumes that liberals, the most internally diverse of the political classes, are a monolithic group :-( Many liberals have already pointed out the reasons why many working-class folks flocked to Trump. Had Dennis Sanders used "Establishment Democrats", I may have read further.
I'm surprised Texas doesn't have a replica that's twice as large.
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept on Friday October 30, 2020 @08:50AM (#24941670)
Agree, but maybe "the market" will NOT correct this error, maybe we need some key regulations, or maybe we need a little more infusion of money to public-funded journalism?

Call me a pessimist, but this core issue is a threat to democracy, and I'm not sure we can rely entirely on "the market" to auto-correct itself.

Re:Bongo Cat on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:34AM (#24868765)
I just spent 5 minutes on this .. and loved it
Re:NYC’s new digital subway map on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @02:48PM (#24850813)
couldn't agree with you more
To be replaced by Caps Lock cola
Hahahah ... thanks for posting this!
Heheh, true. And a reminder of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti
Clearly, English is an inferior language :-)
Re:The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:48AM (#24709410)
The part of the documentary where she relates the Hitler dream, weighing in on the impact of her work is a poignant moment. A very responsible scientist.
Re:The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @08:05AM (#24707353)
Congrats. This technology may be the start of something very big.
Re:The long lost manual for the Zuse Z4 has been found on Monday September 28, 2020 @08:12AM (#24615740)
Finally "found"?
Re:Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989) on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:24PM (#24136476)
This reminds me of that Woody Allen joke about someone translating all the T.S. Eliot’s poems into English after some vandals had broken into the school library and translated them into French.
Re:Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:11AM (#23819882)
So true. Thanks for echoing what many of us immediately thought about. Personally, this recent anti-expert fad is neatly capture by this 2016 cartoon => https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a20630
Every pronouncement that AGI will NEVER be achieved is equivalent as saying that AGI does not exist in the universe. So, I guess this biological AGI entity writing this note does not exist.
Re:Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (2017) on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @09:02AM (#23758745)
According to 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:27AM (#23700279)
Doing vi(m) is an honor badge showing you know a bit of Unix.
Re:Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn on Thursday June 11, 2020 @09:10AM (#23488415)
Has this been posted to LinkedIn yet?
Re:The Poetics of CLI Command Names on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @08:34AM (#23476367)
I for one love pieces like this :-)
"a call to printf in a while loop"
Re:There Is No Evidence Lockdowns Saved Lives on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:06AM (#23221804)
From the very same jackass that wrote: "Proof Global Warming Is Asinine" [1] .. Next conspiracy theory...

1. https://wmbriggs.com/post/26131/

Re:Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:37PM (#22860361)
X86 ... not x64

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