ThrownOffGame

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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
After decades of gleefully using signal handlers to handle all sorts of contingencies, systems programmers were solemnly informed that signal handler functions were very dangerous indeed, because a bunch of other stuff was on the stack and
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
I could probably wax poetic about how it is perceived as a time of innocence but high culture, before "technology and science" ruined stuff, a time that is immortalized in literature such as Robin Hood, King Arthur, and imitated t
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
BREAKING: BOOKIES BANNING BEST BETTORS? BETTERIDGE BOMBSHELL!
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
Bad news, folks: the erudite hackers have added an apostrophe to Harrod's logo
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
And in among the silence, we receive affirmation.
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
Except it isn’t money at all; only suckers call it ‘money’. It’s considered a security; a representation of value for sure. Move it around all you want until you’re blue in the face. But money still has to come out of an exchange and throug
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
Herein we find a fundamental flaw in the way society today treats gluten-based grains, bread, pasta, rice, etc. Pasta that is not married to its sauce has not done its job. The point of putting a bunch of wheat-based filler into a food is t
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
Here, let's ask Gemini: https://g.co/gemini/share/13b5989fca49 So it turns out that some infractions in some jurisdictions are "owner liability" and so all the authority needs to do is cite the regi
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
That will not be a viable response for very long. Will it affect the entire fleet in one market or the entire fleet worldwide? How long will it affect the fleet? When robotaxis are an integral part of a local economy, then the incentives di
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
What about pronunciation? Many of the assertions I've heard about adults in a foreign language is about our ability to recognize, differentiate, and reproduce the different phonemes, many which do not exist in our language. These phone
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
That is certainly an attack vector of concern! I've had friends where the attacker just exfiltrated a single check from their own checkbook and cashed it as legitimate somewhere else! It seems that a third-party check printing service
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
It is really nothing new to offer up credentials to some third party who promises to act benignly on your behalf. When my niece was about 10, so let's call it 2005, she wanted to access some Barbie service. And I think it was the legit
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
Slack was created by Silicon Valley insiders and enjoyed a smooth rise to fame and prominence, so it has led me to ask for years, is it a project of the Church of Subgenius? Of course, prominent Subgenius adherents may not tend to acknowled
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
I suppose if they are comfortable with confusing foreigners with this lingo. In all my years on the Internet and written forums, as well as watching British TV for 50 years, there has been no notable usage of “Blighty” that caught my attent
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
That depends on what other drivers, I guess The Waymos I ride have developed a habit of swinging right into bus turnouts. A bus turnout looks like a dedicated right-turn lane, except it ends and you must merge before turning right! So these
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
Sure, I could order plain "insecure" checks, but those aren't the one I'm depositing by image. My checks are written to others and I've got no idea how they deposit them. I've received checks with watermarks, t
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
Look, they told us from the start that there would always be a “responsible operator” with a license and insurance and this individual person would be liable for tickets and implicated in accidents, whatever happened on the road. Waymo has
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
So what happened? Did you fork ’em over?
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
Alexa Is Listening https://m.xkcd.com/1807/
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
My final stretch of employment lasted from May 2020-March 2024. My company went through mergers and acquisitions and 4 rounds of layoffs, and I managed to tenaciously hang in there (I was even "terminated" 4 times but they just ke
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
The crazy thing about the "paperless office" of the 21st century is that authentication of documents has gone out the window, completely back to the stone age of forgeries. Didn't we recently see where a landlord attempted to
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
Do Englishmen frequently refer to “Blighty” in ordinary conversation? I refer to my homeland as “The States” out of courtesy to those from Canada, UK, Australia, but I had to rack my brains, and Wikipedia, about “Blighty” because it seems a
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
Clandestine weddings have presented a huge problem for Church and State authorities at various points in space and time. A clandestine wedding would often leave significant doubt about the facts of the ritual, the participants, and their ac
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
You may need to define your terms more precisely. By “Blighty” are you referring to Great Britain, or a town in NSW, population 326? That seems to be a vast difference! And I am at a loss to imagine security guards checking invitations at a
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
https://m.xkcd.com/1523/
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by ThrownOffGame 1y ago
Weddings held in churches have been public with nobody turned away at the door. Perhaps you are thinking of receptions, where invitations are checked, and accountants are eyeing the attendees accordingly. An impending wedding is usually one