Posts by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
(DIR) Post #AUnmYAcGkQnYN8nqfg by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2023-04-19T06:50:10Z
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@lauren why does everybody assume AI is going to be *smart* ?
(DIR) Post #AVgvF0V0D1GdL8QUue by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2023-05-15T21:17:04Z
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@grammargirl I am reminded of my mother in college ~1942 at the point of having to choose a major, having originally decided on French and being told, now that France had been conquered by the Nazis, that the French language was basically doomed.... and thus she was persuaded to switch to Spanish.(suffice it to say these things don't always go the way one would expect...)
(DIR) Post #AW8NBwgrpkAotJfS08 by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2023-05-28T23:47:14Z
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@clauclauclaudia @markmetz @krupo The hotel in question was literally built in the MIDDLE of an interchange between the NJ Turnpike (which is probably the biggest highway in NJ, which is saying something) and NJ route 3 which was one of the feeder freeways for the Lincoln Tunnel (which itself is one of only 3 ways to drive into Manhattan from NJ). The roads were in existence (and carrying heavy traffic) for DECADES before the Meadowlands complex or the hotel was built.So this is just straight-up Developer Stupidity. NJ mostly isn't this bad.
(DIR) Post #AWX4FMs3RCEzfPjDIe by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2023-06-10T00:23:16Z
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@reflex "will try to do this because they don’t want their information to be public"What's funny about this is it's actually easy to look up everyone who has registered at a police precinct (i.e., once you have all of the police precinct addresses, it's a relatively simple database query to find all of the corresponding names). So essentially by doing this, they have called attention to themselves -- whereas if they had simply registered at their home addresses they wouldn't be so easily findable.But yay, yummy Class C felony.
(DIR) Post #AXX4A5reWxdOHDVE6S by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2023-07-09T22:54:07Z
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@stux (meanwhile, those of us with Actual Cats are like, "Wait, how is that thing staying on its head for so long without getting ripped to shreds?")
(DIR) Post #AY00hb4WjzfSnISVSS by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2023-07-23T09:37:10Z
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@ColinTheMathmo "Perl is the programming language analog to vise-grip pliers: Nearly always the *wrong* tool for the job, but wow is it useful..."
(DIR) Post #AY00hcIOBwLmaZx5hg by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2023-07-23T14:25:39Z
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@ColinTheMathmo Also? Spend a few months in the bowels of Autoconf + M4 and I guarantee you'll stop complaining about Perl...
(DIR) Post #AY46ZFzakArAQI4Evw by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2023-07-25T21:26:33Z
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@lowqualityfacts Actually, I think this has been tried already. Or at least, it's my theory for where the Book of Job came from.(i.e., somebody, back in the BC(E) period when they were still accepting new books for the Hebrew canon, decided,"Hey, I think I can get them to accept this book that points out how stupid all of the rest of it is and makes the whole mess self-destruct."Did. Not. Work.
(DIR) Post #AcLrtPuTo577TKftVA by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2023-12-01T02:35:20Z
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@lowqualityfacts that's actually almost sensible.(People keep saying it would be so cool to have an identical twin, but I tend to think it would suck...unless the telepathy thing works, in which case it would *really* suck)
(DIR) Post #AoSm1GKbwWYULqfjUm by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2024-11-27T01:25:04Z
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@gjm @ColinTheMathmo "Here the only δqᷜ's involved are the independent ones."Herbert Goldstein, _Classical Mechanics_Except that 'k' was supposed to be a subscript. Unicode is annoyingly incomplete sometimes.#Page42
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(DIR) Post #At4CiJIOefyndwSAJU by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2025-04-14T01:43:10Z
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(magic green doorway)I guess they really didn't get to use ILM for this one.#Monsterdon
(DIR) Post #At4id37yXN8oaH78bI by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2025-04-14T06:04:35Z
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there is nothing quite like a good #Monsterdon session to completely ream out your Notifications buffer.
(DIR) Post #At4id60znmLBXUs6dc by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2025-04-14T06:41:30Z
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@screwtape @moira this sums it up as well as anything:https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@hollie@social.coop/114333578090746899
(DIR) Post #AzYA0Shcs09Pjwhqme by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2025-10-24T23:29:13Z
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@solarbird I'm told (*) that the ballroom is a distraction and that the actual point of this exercise is to expand/modernize the East wing underground bunker, which is, presumably, a whole lot of underground construction which also tends to cost assloads of $$, though whether this accounts for the $300M I don't know.(*) some skepticism warranted since this explanation involves way more strategic thinking on TFG's part than he's demonstrated being capable of in the past, though this could be *other* people doing the strategic thinking (as in, "we're going to need something a lot more impregnable than we currently have for when the shit truly hits the fan...")
(DIR) Post #AzoRO5PK2Jl3JzVa76 by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2025-11-01T20:10:54Z
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@Lydie possibly stupid question:This business about installing without TPM is mainly about "Here's how to get your old hardware that lacks TPM to work"?... as opposed to "TPM is Evil (*) and one should disable it if one can"?Meaning if one *does* have newer hardware, is it worth disabling TPM or is that unnecessary-FUD? or futile?(*) given that "trusted" in these contexts is often more about *them* being able to trust that, say, DRM crap is going to continue to work, but I'm not clear on whether TPM is an instance of this)