TimeSquirrel

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Next up in the dystopian cyberpunk pipeline: in-brain data encryption technology with a programmed tamper killswitch. Like that shit in the movie "Elysium".

Aren't you guys loving this ride so far?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

I don't know if this is conservatism anymore. My Grandfather was conservative, and he was an engineer. He would have loathed the amount of misinformation and straight up lies being flung around these days. As much as his views were disagreeable, he never tried to manipulate or lie to anybody and always wanted to get to the truth of things. This is something else.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

1980s: Hey guise, computers are now cheap and small enough that you can run an entire system and all your programs on your own machine at home instead of having to dial in to the mainframe!

2010s: No, we're putting it all back on the servers, you get a thin client.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It was fine when it was contained to an actual web site instead of infecting desktop software too. To me, using JS for that purpose feels like using PHP to write a 3D video game.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Jesus, an entire town falling for unscientific bullshit.

It's also not like they're going to point the antennas straight down at the school. They have directionality. I bet not one RF engineer was consulted.

I'd like to walk these people through the school with an inductive amplifier probe and let them hear the 60hz hum and its harmonics permeating every hallway and classroom.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Segmentation and stack errors are most certainly bad memory, I'm 99% sure of it, reboot and run mem test from GRUB if you have the option. The "stack" is the non-dynamically allocated space your program is assigned to run in. Stack errors mean some pointers somewhere are likely getting corrupted and it's trying to access addresses beyond what it's allowed to access.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Why do you keep pointing out these Marxist countries and ignoring the perfectly functioning western liberal democracies with policies like these? There's literally one on our northern border.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

mathematical part of my brain

There's no such thing. It's just a gooey mass of billions of randomly firing neurons that can coalesce into patterns of signals and "brute force" answers to math problems. We are not logic machines with well defined mechanisms of functionality like a computer. We just fake it very well. That's why we can make mistakes. A well built computer does not make mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Old testament, or ANSI C?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

What's your distro?

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