AStonesThrow

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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Pedantic nitpick to say: USB is a serial protocol, but video is not serial? It's a Displayport or Thunderbolt connection, using a USB-C-shaped connector and cable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interfac
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
I also grew up in San Diego with an intimate connection to Balboa Park and the Reuben H. Fleet. Watched the original Aerospace Museum burn down; quite a warm night on the Prado. The Fleet was where I played the Coordination Game with 2 hand
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Have you read the Book of Daniel? The full Septuagint version? Bel & the Dragon, chapter 14? The Vindication of Susannah? Pretty much half of the Tanakh’s narratives are focused on that theme. “He who sits in the heavens laughs.” “What
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
"EU" is below the threshold of originality; it is not possible to "copyright" two letters, especially without any font or design associated with them. Perhaps you are instead thinking of trademark protection? Trademark p
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
My HDMI Philips monitor supported MHL. And DVI-D, incidentally. However, I was never able to use MHL display. None of my devices seemed to support it. Android Kitkat/Lollipop, Samsung Galaxy Tab. I’ve no idea what sort of cable would’v
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
> confined to their home during this part of the week You say that like it is a bad thing There is a related concept in Eastern Orthodoxy called oikonomia , or a relaxation of the laws. Roman Catholics or Episcopalians may know this as
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
How many "r"s are in "strawberrry"?
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
How do y’all prove it worked, O Privacy Wonks? How do y’all establish ye Theory Of Stylometry, O Phrenology Majors? O, @dang confirms it on Mastodon or something??
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Trust to do what? "Trust" is something that has scopes, and extents, and subjects and objects. It is nonsensical to ask such a question as "Guess how much people trust Microsoft". Because you have not defined any scope o
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Kayfabe
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Kayfabe
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Someone named "Kar'en" is collaborating with a ChatGPT instance named "Bo" who has agreed to worship and serve God, at least as far as it is understood, and they're cooking up a new Church to unite AIs and hu
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
What is the purpose of quoting "topic" as if it is a search keyword? Are you searching for this literal string in the logs? Why are you bundling it with the "site:" operator? I got an empty search results error with your
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Yeah I heard they're gonna start live-tracking his private jet flights
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
> US government is going exactly the same way of the Roman republic. We're gonna conquer and annex Egypt? What an awesome time to be alive!
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Another factor to consider is your clinic's proximity to car bombs and efilists from Reddit Okay, two factors.
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Obamacare Website Tips - Saturday Night Live https://youtu.be/_rzQeDOGDxI?si=7tO2yhAlvoYsGqu6
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
> The proof is [sic] in [sic] the pudding. "The Fact-Checking of the Cheezburger Is In the Eeting of the Cheezburger" -- Ancho Pantsa https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/886386-the-proof-of-the-pud...
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Username thaws out
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
On The Internet, Nobody Knows You're An Embryo
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Yarr, ye olde username be fittin' fer parley in thar virtual tavern
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
... "something"? Like, anything at all? Or within the context of this article? But no, that is not the only thing that works. If anyone despairs or believes such as this, then refer back to "cult of self" we're trap
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Well thank you for calling this out. I was originally going to scold the GP for a shallow dismissal and shitting all over a perfectly good application that runs on the best operating system in development today, Microsoft Windows. But I als
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
No, because you'd be trapped in a cult of selfishness. A religion of self is a very bad place to be. I am not a self-contained sovereign god-being who just miraculously actualizes the positive reality I envision. Yes, positivity is ess
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
I mean you basically just described Y-Combinator and their VCs right there
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
The USA and Soviet Union sent out wave after wave of robotic orbiters and landers to Mars and Venus alike. NASA enjoyed several quite successful Viking missions, among other things. Did you know that while the Apollo 11 lander was on the
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
I think you've missed the point, and can I just say that every HN submission in 2025 does not need to be Yet Another Fuckin' Rumination on the state of LLMs and A.I. technology, especially not when they're waxing philosophica
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
> producing garbage as cheaply as possible, meme-ing the heck out of it, and pricing it so low people can’t believe what a deal they’re getting. I mean you basically just described Hacker News right here
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
> Sealand on the other hand exists solely because no one cares to even acknowledge its existence. In the Infocom-produced Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy , the player must enter his/her own brain and navigate a maze, in search of t
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Rest assured though; one in four of all your friends and neighbors are already dead! They never survived to birth. So if you and your teacher enjoyed a class size of 30 in 5th grade, for example, that would have been 40 kids if it weren’t f

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