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meltedcheese

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Melted Cheese Hath No Master

The Edge: There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

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PearlsFromMyrna, to random

With my advancing age, I like to keep my mind active by plotting revenge

meltedcheese,
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@PearlsFromMyrna As we grow older, the plotting becomes easier than the doing.

GottaLaff, to legal
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!!!

FOUR COUNTS:
Via Brad Heath:

Trump has been indicted on four counts in federal court in Washington.

Conspiracy to Defraud the U.S.
Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding
Obstruction and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding.
Conspiracy Against Rights

meltedcheese,
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@GottaLaff @msbellows Scotch

blacklight, to voyager

The engineers who designed the probes half a century ago even thought of the possibility that a wrong sequence of commands may point the antenna dish away from earth (like someone did a couple of days ago).

And they implemented a self-adjusting mechanism that a few times a year scans the positions of a few known stars to infer the position of the earth, and point back the antenna in the right direction.

50 years later, these wonderful machines are still working, tens of billions of km away from earth, with only 69 KB of RAM, and even a wrong sequence of commands won't put them out of use, while nowadays 4 GB of RAM aren't even enough to start VsCode or IntelliJ.

The more I understand how they were designed, the more I feel like an early Medieval engineer looking at the Pantheon or other marvels or Roman architecture. Some amazing skills, knowledge and attention to details have been lost from that generation to ours.

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@blacklight @dan613 @alan @cstross Most processors are ill-suited to the highly dynamic list-oriented data structures that are prevalent in semantic/conceptual AI programs (as opposed to the matrix operations common to associative AI, e.g., LLMs). Until we have reliable processor-in-memory (PIM), developers will still need to optimize memory management.

meltedcheese, to climate
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The Heritage Foundation, funded by the Koch brothers, wants to kill you. Or they simply do not care. They have put together a plan for the next Republican President to dismantle every environmental and program, policy and agency in the US Gov.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/27/project-2025-dismantle-us-climate-policy-next-republican-president?CMP=share_btn_link

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to aliens
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If the US government really had alien bodies, then the US president would know about it.

If the US president knew about it, then Trump would know about it.

If Trump knew about it, he would have told everyone, bragged about it, kept boxes of documents about it at Mar-A-Lago, etc. There would be a ketchup stained original photograph of an alien autopsy on the floor of his bathroom.

Since we haven't heard him brag about having seen a photo of an alien, we know that he hasn't seen one.

meltedcheese,
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@mekkaokereke I’m not sure your premise is correct, that “if the US government really had alien bodies, then the US president would know about it.” I believe that the President could know about it, but only if they asked or had a need to know. Knowable? Yes. Known? Hard to say. I agree that Trump does not know for the reasons you cite. He does not know a great many things. 👽

idoubtit, to random
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    meltedcheese,
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    @idoubtit I really wish I could change the wake word. And the voice. In one need only say, “Computer.” I have found to be helpful while driving, e.g., messages, map searches, music. I also have it integrated with my home automation. When my hands are full of gardening tools, I just say, “Hey Siri, open garage door”.

    jake4480, to random
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    I love when companies insist on doing things like calling their website being completely inoperable for several days "latency issues" 🤣

    meltedcheese,
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    @jake4480 I have latency issues some days, and plenty of dropped packets as well. My spouse is annoyed.

    Skepticat, to random
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    Stumbled upon this article showcasing 34 foods to be found at the Minnesota State Fair this year.

    After reading, I've decided most items are either regional or this is a gastric laboratory site for U of M med students.

    Anyone want a pickle lemonade? 👀

    https://m.startribune.com/new-foods-minnesota-state-fair-2023/600288078/

    meltedcheese,
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    @Skepticat Did ChatGPT come up with these recipes?

    BrianJopek, to random
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    Some of the women in “today’s GOP” declaring war on the “Barbie” movie. I do believe irony is dead.

    meltedcheese,
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    @BrianJopek @paezha Double points for “Eigen-Barbie aesthetic.”

    “Barbie” is a diminutive of “Barbara.” We surmise the existence of an “Ur-Barb” at the root (jk) of this blonde phenomenon. The search is on!

    rbreich, to random
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    Today is the very last of my weekly “Wealth and Poverty” classes — not just the last class of this course, but my last class teaching any course now that I'm retired.

    Even if you haven’t had a chance to keep up with all the others, please join this one. https://bit.ly/3D4HMWY

    meltedcheese,
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    @rbreich Congratulations on your retirement!

    jonhicks, to random
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    Had a sci-fi dream last night - where the paths of another you in a parallel universe and you in your universe get close enough you’re pulled into their universe, and they into yours. No chance of going back.

    Is that a film? It was a bit Quantum Leap for sure.

    meltedcheese,
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    @jonhicks No dream. It happens all the time. That’s why you recognize it. The challenge is to pick your universe.

    foone, to random
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    You know, the older I get, the more I think about Charles Stross's Laundry Series and how in it, computer science and applied demonology are the same subject, and older experts in this joint field tend to develop spongey brains from accidentally summoning tiny demons in their head.

    I'm just saying "your brain doesn't work because your knowledge of programming has caused interdimensional energy beings to manifest in your grey matter" keeps making more and more sense as time goes on.

    meltedcheese,
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    @foone @cstross Charles, I’m inclined to agree. What do you think?

    https://digipres.club/@foone/110577484841751713

    stux, to random
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    What do you mean secret nuclear files in my bathroom?

    Oh.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65852074

    meltedcheese,
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    @stux A little light reading material

    damonism, to random
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    Finally finished Star Trek: Picard last night. As a Next Gen fan when it was in its prime it was good fan service (much more fancy servicey than the previous seasons), but I wonder if it was anything other than good fan service.

    meltedcheese,
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    @damonism That’s a good way to put it. Fan Service. The last episode of was one big reunion party.

    …but I still have questions. So they are drinking in the bar on the holodeck. Do the holodeck safety protocols allow them to metabolize alcohol? Are they instantly sober when they step out of the holodeck?

    atomicpoet, to fediverse

    The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has just developed a tool, called Babel X, which links social media posts to citizens' Social Security number and location data.

    It's not just abuse by surveillance capitalists we must concern ourselves with. It's also governments.

    This is all the more reason that people must not only examine how they use social media, but consider owning their social media presence as well.

    Never has the idea of a been so important.

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bge3/dhs-uses-ai-tool-babel-x-babel-street-social-media-citizens-refugees

    @socialmedianews

    meltedcheese,
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    @socialmedianews @atomicpoet Please, it is time to get beyond the “I’m shocked!” stage of reaction to data aggregation about YOU. There is no way back. You should act as if you are under continuous surveillance, because you are. Here is the kicker: nobody cares about you, personally, unless you become a “person of interest” (bad idea, generally). So don’t worry too much about State surveillance. Corporations want to know you REALLY well, because, shareholder value.

    meltedcheese,
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    @OutOnTheMoors @atomicpoet @Space6host @socialmedianews Well done!

    dancinyogi, to random
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    If you're rolling your eyes at the number of political posts in your feed, keep in mind that we're at the tipping point of authoritarianism here in the US (and other countries). For example, a political party is deciding whether women live or die in childbirth. The stakes are high, and we'll post about it.

    I try to balance my posts with politics and lighter stuff. When it's a politics-heavy day, that balance may tilt toward the political end. But I"m not going to ignore reality altogether.

    meltedcheese,
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    @dancinyogi I like the mix so far. We can always talk about fishing but these other topics are more important.

    AbandonedAmerica, (edited ) to random
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    @AbandonedAmerica @squeevening Walking away without fear was the right action. You definitely don’t want to trigger a prey response. However, standing your ground facing it for a minute “just looking” could have been interpreted by the bear as a challenge in certain circumstances. If that were the case you would have no time to get a “vibe.” I’ve been around bears multiple times, both black bears and grizzlies. The latter will eat you if it wants to.

    meltedcheese,
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    @AbandonedAmerica @squeevening Here is how you tell the difference between a black bear and a grizzly: climb a tree. A black bear will climb up after you. A grizzly will shake the tree to make you fall out.

    meltedcheese,
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    @AbandonedAmerica How to tell what kind of bear (see link). This looks like useful info. Best to memorize it and not refer to it in real time 😵

    https://www.bearsmart.com/about-bears/know-the-difference/

    Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    @Teri_Kanefield @gdinwiddie Perhaps it means setting the bar high enough for Meadows, Giuliani, and the Capo di tutti capo himself, defendant Trump.

    gregeganSF, to random
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    Embarrassingly, I only just realised that “allspice” is not an oft-used mix of spices, but a single plant. “The name allspice was coined as early as 1621 by the English, who valued it as a spice that combined the flavours of cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allspice

    meltedcheese,
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    @gregeganSF Greg, I am glad your misconception about allspice never came up in any of your books because it would have been shattering. I give a lot of leeway for speculative technology, but for a well known spices? Um….

    It is weirdly psycho coincidental (like so much is) that I happened to be thinking about allspice today. I found a recipe that calls for allspice liquor. I am now officially on safari for this ingredient.

    ubiquity75, to random

    30 years on the internet has me reflecting on the fact that people really are still out here typing it as “wallah.”

    meltedcheese,
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    @ubiquity75 As in “desert wallah” meaning the well-off 19th C Brit who journeyed to Morocco, is photographed in “native garb” for the sole purpose of having something to brag about in the salons upon his return? I obtained this photo (and the two edged weapons) from this man’s descendants for my collection. They referred to him as a desert wallah (one who goes to the desert to cosplay a Bedouin; apparently this was not unusual). Tourists 🤷🏼‍♂️

    ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random

    EDIT: This was a joke. The joke is that I don't look like that. Not remotely.

    But I realize now that my avatar is a crow not my headshot so a lot of you don't know that and some day I'll be at a conference and someone will say wait WTF I thought you were a smoking hot young Brat Pitt lookalike and I'll be all uh what are you talking about and it'll be super awkward.

    ORIGINAL POST: For the record, I was having a bad hair day.

    https://twitter.com/telliowkuwp/status/1653365126408421379

    meltedcheese,
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    @ct_bergstrom Corvids have a lot to like. They are very smart and can be a loyal friend — or your worst enemy.

    patricklee, to random

    @edendestroyer @robertnorlyn @heurism I’m ok with companies and governments limiting and monitoring their own equipment, I’m not ok with them doing this to my crap.

    meltedcheese,
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    @ThinkingSapien @patricklee @DigitalStefan <<small kick>>

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