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Did you not know about the magical incantations that would silence them? The AT codes for the modem were a lifesaver if you were trying to get on the internet without anyone knowing.

And once AI can no longer sustain itself once people become reliant on it, you get the modern version of “The Machine Stops” by E. M. Forster from 1909: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/the machine stops.pdf

I managed to grab a 9070 XT earlier this year for $630 bundled with a 750W power supply. I guess the bundle was to deter scalpers from buying it.

AMD GPUs are going to run better on Linux than NVidia because the drivers are in the kernel. You have to install the NVidia proprietary drivers separately if they’re even available because they don’t support that many models. Linus himself gave NVidia the finger for being so hard to work with.

Their math is off by an order of magnitude. The US has about 4.25% of the Earth’s population, not 0.4%.

Assert.IsTrue(true);

There! That’s a passing test but doesn’t test anything. That’s why you write your own tests instead of having a machine do it for you.

Not always true. I got a notice from my ISP for downloading Airplane! which was released in 1980.

There was plenty of it going on around here. Even after Napster was taken down, there was Kazaa, Limewire, and your choice of Gnutella client. It was mostly us downloading stuff to listen to on the bus because high speed internet was rare unless you were in a city.

By “remotely”, I think they mean outside the range of a key fob.

Then you have to hope the library still has a card catalog to fall back on.

Good luck. We’re all counting on you.

I had a can of it and made some Reuben sandwiches.

It’s from a prediction market site (which is just gambling in a trenchcoat and Groucho Marx glasses) where you buy shares in the prediction of an outcome. That’s the price for a share in “Yes”.

This isn’t new either. A song was written about it 25 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4L20t8Dvlg

For Virginia (Number)-(3 digit number)L are local government vehicles and (number)-(3 digit number)S are state government vehicles. State police and those belonging to members of the General Assembly just have incrementing numbers.

They use the coffee bean supplier that Tim Horton’s used to until Timmy Ho’s cheaped out.

The terrain makes it hard for China to try an invasion as well and if they do try, Taiwan is going to disable their crown jewels instead of letting China have them.

The UK has the Data Processing Act of 2018 and this would violate that law as well. It’s probably stricter because it includes the GDPR by reference.

What’s the difference between God and a doctor? God doesn’t think he’s a doctor.

The only time a doctor has recorded me, they asked for consent first and then the recording went into a HIPAA compliant EMR system. This doctor has done neither.

Even if we had the judge from the Oracle vs Google case regarding APIs, that would be a step up. He knew programming from doing some in BASIC.