azimir

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I've been accused of being a bot in online games due to my robust vocabulary, resistance to abbreviation and slang, as well as pedantic punctuation use. It has been happening for decades.

Note: rarely have I been accused of a being a bot for my skill at gameplay. We all have our strengths and weaknesses.

Now, if you wish to truly delve the depths of linguistic proclivities, one should peruse the works of Terry Pratchett, especially the Discworld novels. Any and all of his works are wonderful prose and deep storytelling.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes. A 12 year old is better at handling Alt-Right misinformation than the main steam media journalists.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

The Bundes Committee on Humor is not set to meet for another biennium cycle. Until then, no proposals for next joke shall be heard.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

At one point my 1GB disk was the "big one" in the dorm. It was the windows share of some random media. I had room for the whole 40MB videos "Jesus vs Frosty" (The Spirit of Christmas) and "Jesus vs Santa Claus". It was before South Park became an actual show, but people watched those 100's of times off my hard drive.

When I bought a 3GB from Fry's it was an open question how we'd fill it. Of course, that was just as the mp3 codec started to gain traction... Problem solved.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

All $5 mil? Yup.

He's a grifting liar and traitor to the Republic. The $5mil is just the start. The Smartmatic defamation suit is just getting started and he's out of money for lawyers.

He probably sold his moustache to pay for bus fare because that's eventually where everyone who support the felonious king of con ends up.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (12 children)

Run, Greg, Run!

I don't know what she brings to the party, but this is likely one of many red flags she's been waving. Just because you go through with the wedding doesn't mean the flags vanish.

Edit: just noticed the date on the sign. RIP, Greg. Good luck to you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

"Weird conman doesn't pay his bills" news at 11.

At what point are cities, municipalities, contractors, and everyone else learn what lawyers already know: get cash up front from the ex president because he won't pay afterwards.

Oh, and always have two people on your team there for every conversation because he'll like about everything said afterwards and you'll need the two people testifying during the deposition and resulting court case.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 weeks ago

Surprise! A right wing candidate is in support of a very right wing candidate: news at 11.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'll make a note to check Chronicle out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I have it on the shelf, but haven't gotten to it. I'll put it in the reading queue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

There was also a competition (long ago) to see who could build a computer that would successfully boot Windows 95. The goal was to boot the slowest possible time (no arbitrary delays allowed).

The winner wrote a shim that emulated a floating point unit of the i486 so it would boot on a i386 (no floating point). The result was... booting after many weeks. They won big time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I did some similar stuff on a Raspberry Pi. I had to NFS mount my desktop and make a swapdisk on the NFS mount to have enough RAM to build. It wasn't fast, but it did eventually work.

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