It would certainly accelerate the development of language. How many new words will be invented, or existing words subverted, to serve clandestine communications and slip past the filters? Steganography, anyone?
Can I See Great Etchings Near Dubai Ending Roughly? <- That’s a bit weak, but you get the idea.
Fairytale of New York
So, how many children does he have vs. how many times he had to try?
Sex once = pregnant is a gift given to very few. Most people have to try a few times, so it raises the question of “just how gay?”
Is there a ratio of gayness?
2 attempts = 1 pregnancy means “slightly gay”
4 attempts = 1 pregnancy means “somewhat gay”
8 attempts = 1 pregnancy means “in the closet”
16 attempts = 1 pregnancy means “gay”
32 attempts = 1 pregnancy means “flaming”
Can we have a decision on this from the gay high council?
And here I was, thinking it was sheer coincidence and good luck. I guess that’s why I’m not “an expert”.
Had to scroll THIS far to see FFMPEG? Shame, shame.
You, too?
What does potassium iodide decay into? It’s not an organic compound.
And when did Meta start caring about anything but harvesting and selling data? I mean, minors can’t consent to T&C (it’s a contract) so minors should be using it at all.
Infosys is a mistake. It’s a poor choice for anyone.
She’s conveniently forgotten her oath of office.
The G-G dissolves parliament every time the Prime Minister (PM) advises them to do so. I think you don’t grok the situation here, constitutionally speaking.
“Wouldn’t make your initial targets an example of your poor judgement?”
Systemctl status > somefile.txt and examine that file, or systemctl status | more
Also, on Windows: services.msc and sort by ‘startup type’ also check the registry HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and the various other versions of that, HKCU, and WOW6432Node, etc
Don’t forget discussing existentialism with the bomb.
The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel…
We’ll see. I’ve set the Group policy to limit feature updates to Win 10 22H2. I will be unhappy if they over-ride or reset a GPO.
It was sloped at every drive-in I went to - so you’d see over the canteen/projection room.
Half the fun was queueing for burgers, chips (fries), and/or pizza, and coke between the two features. The other half was sneaking beer in. Then the other half was… what was I talking about?
The car radio thing only came in here (Oz) in their twilight years just as VCRs and VHS rental became a thing, but it was fabulous to hear a movie IN STEREO! with decent Bass.
Most of the ones that I used to frequent are now shopping centre carparks.
Larry Niven’s “Known Space” has quite a few machines, but they’re generally not the point of the story. There’s a lot more about how human and non-human species relate and interact, and how the machines affect their behaviour and choices.
The whole approach of Puppeteers (technically brilliant cowards) and Kzinti (foolishly rash but honourable risk-takers), taken against human approaches is well-written.
Of course, once you comprehend its size, the Ringworld itself overwhelms a lot of the rest of the stories 😲.
Niven’s attitude to women and sex haven’t aged well…
But the stories are pretty good. He knows how to set multiple threads on their way and bind them up together at the end, or at least leave a decent cliff-hanger for a sequel.
I worked in local government that used Unix workstations for GIS (Graphic Information Systems) - mapping of the local government’s property boundaries and many other layers. The DB was held on a DEC Alpha, and it was all very pricey, albeit very good at its job. ESRI ARCGIS, etc
When the time came to replace, they moved it all to Windows. The workstations were beefed-up PCs running NT4.0 and the DB was on a server with NT 4.0 server. DEC was gone by then, absorbed into Compaq, Alphas were discontinued, and no-one wanted to migrate to SUN or HP.