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I rented a car last July, and I specifically picked out a small one because I wouldn't need to carry any cargo or passengers around. As soon as I drove off the lot, 3 warning indicator lamps lit up, including "Tire…
"installing software" sometimes still consists of curl | bash So if you want to have a conversation about trusting curl and bash and random gists... Like I said, I installed software in many ways back in the day. I…
Look we are talking about computers here. Computers don't understand or exercise actual trust as you describe it. Actual trust doesn't make computers work at all, because it doesn't exist in their world. So you need a…
While it is true that Silicon Graphics eventually acquired Cray Computer, they did it after the novel, and the film's release, but I would suppose that even before the 1996 acquisition that SGI and Cray machines were…
Once, back around 2011 or 2012, I was using Google Translate for a speech I was to deliver in church. It was shorter than one page printed out. I only needed the Spanish translation. Now I am proficient in spoken and…
I mean actually the FSV that you refer to is a clone of the SGI IRIX utility, fsn, that was actually depicted on a live computer in the film. SGI was well-known to the film industry, because their IRIX systems were…
SMS is very widespread in the United States. All the B2C services I work with are sending SMS to my phone. Not RCS, not iMessage: they are sending SMS messages. All the MFA providers, such as Twilio and Okta, are…
It was hilarious when I checked the movie listings for this week and found Greenland 2 in its opening run. So I went to YouTube and rented Greenland (2010). It was a hoot! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_(film)…
It is not really though. "Sideloading" refers to data transfer between two local, peer devices. Really, that is it. It is not "something scary" or something forbidden. It is not even really installing. It's data…
I do not own a vehicle, and most of my life I've depended on public transit. Lately, I take Waymos or I ride scooters, or use public transit as usual. Sometimes, for special errands, I rent a car. For example, I…
"Installing" has the connotation of doing it directly from the Play Store. This is also known as "Downloading" (because the data is on a server, in the cloud, and you're fetching it "downstream" to a local device.)…
Once, long ago, I was a fledgling C programmer working on the TinyMUCK game server. My mentor had released the 2.0 version with MUF, and I had implemented the port to SunOS (where a dereferenced NULL pointer does not…
Multimedia "texts" are actually MMS. In fact, if you send more than 160 characters, those are also MMS because it's an extension of the SMS standard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service It is not…
The smart projects that are going for L10N will collect all the UI strings into a file or set of files, separate from the code, and indexed so that the app can just switch language and then begin using a new set of…
What's so divisive about athletic Aryan blondes? I mean, just because some Olympic tart lobs a hammer at your face, you're suddenly the admin of this website? Blonde women, running into TV commercials, tossing…
That’s what life insurance is for! Come on, plenty of fathers and husbands have worked in coal mines, oil rigs; gone to war; served on ICE raids against armed insurgents. It is often hazardous to be a breadwinner. It…
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I rented a car last July, and I specifically picked out a small one because I wouldn't need to carry any cargo or passengers around. As soon as I drove off the lot, 3 warning indicator lamps lit up, including "Tire…
"installing software" sometimes still consists of curl | bash So if you want to have a conversation about trusting curl and bash and random gists... Like I said, I installed software in many ways back in the day. I…
Look we are talking about computers here. Computers don't understand or exercise actual trust as you describe it. Actual trust doesn't make computers work at all, because it doesn't exist in their world. So you need a…
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While it is true that Silicon Graphics eventually acquired Cray Computer, they did it after the novel, and the film's release, but I would suppose that even before the 1996 acquisition that SGI and Cray machines were…
Once, back around 2011 or 2012, I was using Google Translate for a speech I was to deliver in church. It was shorter than one page printed out. I only needed the Spanish translation. Now I am proficient in spoken and…
I mean actually the FSV that you refer to is a clone of the SGI IRIX utility, fsn, that was actually depicted on a live computer in the film. SGI was well-known to the film industry, because their IRIX systems were…
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SMS is very widespread in the United States. All the B2C services I work with are sending SMS to my phone. Not RCS, not iMessage: they are sending SMS messages. All the MFA providers, such as Twilio and Okta, are…
It was hilarious when I checked the movie listings for this week and found Greenland 2 in its opening run. So I went to YouTube and rented Greenland (2010). It was a hoot! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_(film)…
It is not really though. "Sideloading" refers to data transfer between two local, peer devices. Really, that is it. It is not "something scary" or something forbidden. It is not even really installing. It's data…
I do not own a vehicle, and most of my life I've depended on public transit. Lately, I take Waymos or I ride scooters, or use public transit as usual. Sometimes, for special errands, I rent a car. For example, I…
"Installing" has the connotation of doing it directly from the Play Store. This is also known as "Downloading" (because the data is on a server, in the cloud, and you're fetching it "downstream" to a local device.)…
Once, long ago, I was a fledgling C programmer working on the TinyMUCK game server. My mentor had released the 2.0 version with MUF, and I had implemented the port to SunOS (where a dereferenced NULL pointer does not…
Multimedia "texts" are actually MMS. In fact, if you send more than 160 characters, those are also MMS because it's an extension of the SMS standard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service It is not…
The smart projects that are going for L10N will collect all the UI strings into a file or set of files, separate from the code, and indexed so that the app can just switch language and then begin using a new set of…
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What's so divisive about athletic Aryan blondes? I mean, just because some Olympic tart lobs a hammer at your face, you're suddenly the admin of this website? Blonde women, running into TV commercials, tossing…
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That’s what life insurance is for! Come on, plenty of fathers and husbands have worked in coal mines, oil rigs; gone to war; served on ICE raids against armed insurgents. It is often hazardous to be a breadwinner. It…
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