* Posts by psychopomp

16 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Dec 2022

A look under the hood of the 3D-printed, Raspberry Pi powered 'suicide pod'

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Re: Re-usable...

Only if "You is blakkk?"

Techie took five minutes to fix problem Adobe and Microsoft couldn't solve in two weeks

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Re: PITT

Upvoted, but IIRC Dante thought only seven circles of Hell were enough...

Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds

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Re: As a good American...

98% of dating sites already do that...

The Land Before Linux: Let's talk about the Unix desktops

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Re: Proprietary

"who has the right to decide what other people can, and cannot, do with it" Was that a gunshot I heard? I'll call you an ambulance... your foot appears to be...elsewhere!

You have hit precisely on the crux of OSS and Linux in particular; Ain't nobody telling anyone what they can, or cannot, do with their code!

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Re: Meet the New War....same as the Old War

Sorry... Is this the People's Popular Front of Judea? Or the Popular People's Front of....AAArqh!

Superuser mostly helped IT, until a BSOD saw him invent a farcical fix

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Re: Management material

'....people who have never done the work to tell you how you're doing it wrong and they know better.'

TBH isn't that just 'management'?

NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish

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Re: Have they tried

'Turned it off, now it's woke'?

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Re: Excelent design - aliens must be proud

IIRC (and I do - checked!) Torvalds published the first Linux kernel in 1991? And the voyager missions launched in, oh, 1977? Please explain (with diagrams to aid the hard of understanding...) how they could be programmed using an OS which would not exist for fifteen years? FYI, I use Slackware and derivatives but - please tell me - what's the point of your post?

CompSci academic thought tech support was useless – until he needed it

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Re: Professional incompetence. Or was that incompetents?

Sorry, but shouldn't that be 'level of competence'? Because incompetence creates chaos, and a chaotic system will not reach a 'level' ?

Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux

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Oh no! Have we got a Double Checker here, or just a dyslexic Cadbury's addict?

What's up with IT, Doc? Rabbit hole reveals cause of outage

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Re: Ouch

You get SHARKS in your garden?

University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?

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Re: ChatGPT - Hmm -- and spell checkers

Maybe he meant he had earned enough to pay someone to satisfy his bondage fetish for two days!

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Re: ChatGPT - Hmm

Not 'the bane of logic' as you say, but merely the awareness that different measures exist. The issue is that neither are stated against an external constant unit (parator?), and are, therefore, not comparable.

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Re: ChatGPT - Hmm

I think your point in encapsulated in your first point about 'plagiarism'; If a student submits an essay under their name when it was written by another (entity), then THAT is the definition of plagiarism.

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Re: Critical thinking

I am; I say that most of the neurons in humans exist outside of the brain, in the skeletal system, gut or interfacing with the endocrine system. This means that your shiny AI utopia will look a lot like Ed Gein's playhouse if you confuse 'human' with 'cognitive', the second of which is only a facet of the human experience.

After lunar orbit trip NASA's Orion capsule is on its way back home

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Re: Working flawlessly - and stultifyingly boring

I mean, really. who has never experienced that? Sorry... forgot where I was...