Good! I’m a US citizen who was raised in US military bases in foreign countries. Allies of the USA need to spend a lot more on their military.

USA people don’t realize that military spending doubly impacts society. Not only did your tax money go to getting a new bomber airplane that a civilian has no use for but the energy and effort that might have been used to create improved railway infrastructure (for example) never happened. After enough generations in relative isolation from other global societies, the populace doesn’t even realize what they are missing out on.

I landed in the middle. SCCS was too old, CVS was too new.

https://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/

But, back then, I had also been forced to use CMVC.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Configuration_Management_Version_Control

Depends on the region. In economically vibrant areas I have seen lots of weird local shops take over the old malls. In slow economy areas, yeah, except for like early voting stations and other rare things it’s all vacant spaces.

Exactly. State level politicians have more control over your life than federal. And they are more accessible.

Hell, if you wake up early enough, you can drive to your state reps office and shit in her purse if you want and only be 30 minutes late to work.

Hey, since this is the Sarah Silverman Show appreciation comment chain…

Can anyone tell me where to get a Tab Cola track suit? I want one for real so much.

Goblins were Chaotic. Lawful was civilized. Your adventurer was probably Lawful.

To see where this comes from you’d have to read Moorcock’s Elric saga.

My dad was born in 1932. If some fat bearded hippie had started talking “rape and whores” around women, my dad would have punched him in the face. If no woman was around, he would have just told the pudgy incel to piss off. That’s the kind of sexism that existed back then among most decent folks.

Oh, man. Vendors of OCR software can make big money now by rebranding as “AI-powered”.

I’m not debating. It is not a matter of opinion. I’m doing you the courtesy of informing you how the entire rest of the world uses the term.

If action A looks for thing X, and it finds thing X, then the test is positive. If action A fails to find thing X, then the test is negative.

If action A claims to find thing X, but later confirmation determines that thing X is not really there, then this situation is called “false positive”.

If action A claims fails to find thing X, but later confirmation determines that thing X is actually there, then this situation is called “false negative”.

That thing X may subjectively be considered an unwanted outcome has **nothing ** to do with the terms used.

Just so you know, if your doctor calls and tells you that your HIV test is positive, you probably shouldn’t run out and celebrate.

Same, but a year ago.

Also, Temu has tried to take all the shopping search results from Bing/DDG. So those results are trash now.

I’m not the person you are replying to but I do have one answer.

The Library of Congress should be tasked with maintaining a searchable index of Internet and World Wide Web sites. No ranking. Your skill at finding sites would be related to your skill with writing search queries

If you recall Altavista from the late 90s, I am thinking of something like that

After all these years I still don’t know how to look at what I’ve coded and tell you a big O math formula for its efficiency.

I don’t even know the words. Like is quadratic worse than polynomial? Or are those two words not legit?

However, I have seen janky performance, used performance tools to examine the problem and then improved things.

I would like to be able to glance at some code and truthfully and accurately and correctly say, “Oh that’s in factorial time,” but it’s just never come up in the blue-collar coding I do, and I can’t afford to spend time on stuff that isn’t necessary.

From the article:

Engineer Robert Zeidman entered the “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge and proved that Lindell did not possess data showing that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump

I claim that I have a five dollar bill in my pocket. I challenge you to prove me wrong.

We turn my pocket inside out. No five dollar bill is there. I lose the challenge.

On average, insufficient education and critical thinking skills because of a quasi-oligarchy that favors lots of desperate people to keep unskilled labor costs down. These oligarchs are also in league with sociopath religious leaders who know that religious recruitment is higher when life is miserable. Because 80% of our leadership are effectively solipsists, little is done to improve anything long term because it doesn’t benefit them immediately or personally.

Based on the probabilities we can derive from examining history, the situation will have to deteriorate for a few more generations before a widespread radical event changes key aspects of civilization. We should all try to change things now in less destructive and less risky ways, but I fear it won’t work.

Thank you so much for this information.

If you still have commenting motivation, what are the top 5 differences between x86 and ARM?

Up until your post I had thought it exactly was the size of the instruction set with x86 having lots of very specific multi-step-in-a-single instruction as well as crufty instruction for backwards compatibility (like MPSADBW).

Thank you! I look for more examples like this ever since someone turned down agave nectar because it wasn’t natural. I was trying to explain how agave nectar was what I always expect honey to be like (pours easy, lighter flavor).

First, honey isn’t natural either. It’s made by an alien hive mind. A human collecting a plants nectar is way more natural. But any way, here is my contribution:

Perhaps you’d like shots of this 100% all-natural rattlesnake venom? Not man-made at all.

JFC, I’m old, and this new use of the word throws me for a loop because everyone writes like I’m supposed to already know what it means .

This will always be my RCS: https://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/

The White Death

The Lactonic Plague