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Re:Hooray for the Sockets Interface
on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @10:55PM (#49092917)
Go bears!
Re:Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf]
on Friday December 05, 2025 @03:47PM (#46167066)
"what is happiness? It’s a moment before you need more happiness. You don't want most of it, you want all of it" - Churchill
Re:The head of South Korea's guard consulted ChatGPT before martial la...
on Friday March 21, 2025 @11:03AM (#43436540)
One of the most under-appreciated lines from a TV show was from Fleabag season 2
"Priests CAN have sex, you know. You won't just burst into flames. I've Googled it!"
Re:A Supermarket in California (1955)
on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @07:45PM (#42640318)
Go Bears
Booting Databricks VMs 7x Faster for Serverless Compute
UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored
Re:Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
on Saturday June 08, 2024 @02:27AM (#40615698)
The lectures are here https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.S081/2020/schedule.html
Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees
Re:Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
on Monday May 20, 2024 @10:01PM (#40423254)
Paul McCartney
Re:US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana
on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @02:39PM (#40214556)
It is a good thing for democratically accountable governments to do good things that the people want!
Re:The Presidential Nuclear "Football" from Eisenhower to George W. Bush
on Saturday April 27, 2024 @04:52AM (#40178455)
Flag on the play.
Pass interference. Defense, number 74.
Ball will be placed at the spot of the foul.
Automatic first down.
Re:Harvard Faces New Threat of State Tax on $51B Endowment
on Thursday February 01, 2024 @10:36PM (#39224702)
if all those academics were as smart as we think they are, they'd start to question why they would ever live in Boston
Line-Item Vetos in Wisconsin
Re:FTC bans TurboTax from advertising 'free' services, calls deceptive...
on Monday January 22, 2024 @09:19PM (#39098721)
Increasing the IRS budget is an unequivocal good!
Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation
on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @03:25PM (#38786277)
A good start!
Re:111,111.1 meters is reliably 1 degree of latitude
on Sunday August 27, 2023 @11:10PM (#37289269)
An inch is an inch.
Re:An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without the Agoniz...
on Sunday August 13, 2023 @03:52PM (#37113706)
Warmly remember taking his computational geometry in undergrad. It was the most engaging and mathematically creative class I took in college.
Seiichi Morimura, who exposed Japanese atrocities in WWII, dies at 90
Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Patrick in lecture
Re:If done right, X would become half of the global financial system
on Monday July 24, 2023 @02:44AM (#36843870)
dang, too bad it's gonna be done wrong
Re:Airbnbust? Short-term rental prices plummet in Palm Springs
on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @08:15PM (#36780684)
Palm Springs is awesome in the winter. It's a mecca of modern architecture!
Re:Super Mario 64 – Watch for Rolling Rocks – 0.5x a Presses [video]
on Friday July 14, 2023 @03:19PM (#36728659)
TJ "henry" yoshi
Re:WI Governor Drops Characters in Budget Bill to Change “2024-2025” t...
on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:48AM (#36628112)
It's not about winning, it's about fun!
Re:GNU+Linux laptops with Libreboot preinstalled, based on coreboot
on Saturday April 08, 2023 @05:44PM (#35497934)
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU+Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU+Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU+Linux.
Re:Scientists make 'disturbing' find on remote island: plastic rocks
on Thursday March 23, 2023 @12:21PM (#35277149)
I'm just playing games. I know it's plastic rock
Re:Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today
on Monday March 13, 2023 @04:22AM (#35132670)
Bernie Madoff's dead, though.
Re:Scale AI Layoff
on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:36PM (#34319719)
Unfortunate typo.
Re:How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?
on Saturday December 24, 2022 @12:12AM (#34114200)
yes!!! though you're more likely to catch them at Philz, or the Verve on University ave
Re:Caroline Ellison, CEO of Alameda Research, pleads guilty to seven o...
on Friday December 23, 2022 @06:02PM (#34111610)
Go cardinal!