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Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023

  • MAGA Melts Down Over ‘Complete Disappointment’ Epstein Docs Release

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  • It wasn't sanitized at all - the link is literally a rickroll.

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    If I don't see it, it's not real

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  • I have to tell a true story about this. A bunch of years ago I got to work and had a voicemail from an employee. She said, "I'm not coming in this morning. My carbon monoxide alarm kept going off all night, and I hardly got any sleep. I'm just so tired." The way she talked, she sounded really out of it. I was worried that she had a carbon monoxide leak which was making her not think straight, and that it could be fatal.

    This was back before it was common for managers to have an employee's personal number. I called HR to see if I could get it, but they didn't want to give it to me. I spent quite a while trying to convince them to give it to me, or to call her themselves. I was making some progress when she called back. Said the landlord couldn't get it to stop going off either. I asked if it could be because it was a real leak and she said she didn't think so. I told her to at least open a window. Never really heard more about it. It was honestly pretty frightening.

  • What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday

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  • I remember our first personal computer had 40 columns on the screen, but we ended up getting an 80 column graphics card for it.

    I taught myself basic, but the first language I took in college was fortran, and it was on cards. A bit of an aberration: they had moved on to somewhat more modern equipment, but the lab was being upgraded, so they reverted you the card system for a semester temporarily. It was out of date, but not wildly so at the time.

  • What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday

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  • Well, it might or not be a line of code - depends a lot on the language. It's 80 bytes, and a byte is one character. You could have continuation cards if your line was more than 80. That wasn't ever needed for assembly language, rarely for Fortran, but very common for COBOL.

  • Mitch McConnell, 83, won't seek reelection in 2026

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  • Once upon a time this news would have made me happy. McConnell is responsible for so many terrible things, but honestly he pales in comparison with Trump and the MAGA folks. He's like Dr. Evil, who was the big baddie in his day, but is nothing compared to today's evils.

  • How do you guys find new books?

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  • Thanks, though I'm just not going to give Reddit any more of my clicks. I left there at the first big exiguous and I'm not going back.

    There aren't a lot of posts on the SF community here, but when I've posted something interesting it's gotten a lot of activity, so I know there are people reading it. Here's one from the end of the year.

  • What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday

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  • Seems about right. One card had 80 columns, a byte for each one, so 5,000,000 bytes divided by 80 would be 62,500 cards.

  • How do you guys find new books?

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  • I'm a big science fiction reader. Mostly I:

    • Look up lists of winners and nominees for the big awards (Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C Clarke)
    • Read reviews for successive books in a series when I liked the earlier ones
    • Find articles on the top SF books of all time or by year, written by respectable sources
    • Get recommendations from friends who also read SF
    • Occasionally post threads in the SF community here on things I've read and see what comes up in the comments

  • Dem derails Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'DOGE' hearing with photo of 'President Elon Musk'

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  • Need to keep this up. Not that, in itself, it accomplished anything, but staying silent legitimizes this bullshit.

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    Musk Is a White Supremacist. Now What?

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  • The "tepid" reaction is because there's zero surprise here. A giant swath of the maga base is made up of white supremacists, and I don't think there's even debate about that. Lots of people voted for Trump specifically because he said he'd do mass deportations, get rid of LGBTQ protections, etc. We've literally been screaming that people were voting for a bunch of Nazis. So now, on inauguration day, someone gets up and does a Nazi salute - what do you want us to say?

    And as for "now what," the best we can do is fight where we can and make sure the mid terms are different, though after this last election my hopes are low. People knew what they were voting for, and he didn't win by cheating. It's gross, but that's where we are.

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    Once you become a double adult at 36, do you have to be twice more responsible?

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  • As a more than triple adult, I can say it for sure isn't linear.

  • What obsolete knowledge do you know by heart, and would like to share?

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  • The phrase "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" comes from this. If someone gives you a horse, you shouldn't look into its mouth to see how old it is because, hey, free horse.

  • Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: 'When you lock things up…you don't sell as many of them’

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  • Yeah, some things I don't buy online because I want to hold it in my hand before I decide. Makes it tough when they're locked up or bolted down.

  • Cutting the product

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  • The box is a name brand cereal. The bag is a copycat store brand cereal that's cheaper.

  • Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: 'When you lock things up…you don't sell as many of them’

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  • That's funny, and good on you for not being intimidated into being rushed or leaving. If they want to lock the stuff up, they should deal with the impact.

  • Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: 'When you lock things up…you don't sell as many of them’

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  • Just recently, my wife wanted an eyebrow pencil, so we popped into a drugstore. All the makeup stuff was behind locked cabinets. We just turned around and went to a different store.

    It seems like a particularly bad idea for anything that people might want to look at different versions of. If I wanted AA batteries that were locked, I might be okay saying, "Hey, can you grab me the batteries?" But for something that I want to look through the options, I'm not going to do that with the employee standing there tapping their foot.

  • If you need me I'll be at Ass World

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  • I like the idea of tits without the commitment of owning, I'll go there.

  • xkcd #3033: Origami Black Hole

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  • Interesting, thanks

  • xkcd #3033: Origami Black Hole

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  • Evaporate?