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Pedantic nitpick to say: USB is a serial protocol, but video is not serial? It's a Displayport or Thunderbolt connection, using a USB-C-shaped connector and cable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)

I also grew up in San Diego with an intimate connection to Balboa Park and the Reuben H. Fleet. Watched the original Aerospace Museum burn down; quite a warm night on the Prado.

The Fleet was where I played the Coordination Game with 2 hand controls and 2 pedals for my feet, old incandescent bulbs behind colored cels to match up simultaneously. I think I scored over 30.

The Fleet was where I took science classes in summertime. We learned how to make “Oobleck” and we used Apple ][ computers. It was where I found my first blinking cursor. I couldn’t type; I couldn’t find “g” on a Qwerty!

Fleet had the Cloud Chamber and Whisper Dishes and the big Periscope that must’ve got moved 5 times??? There was the orbital simulator where you’d roll balls down a black conical incline, and someone else threw in a coin?

We watched Carl Sagan do stuff and Jacques Cousteau. None of the IMAX films had a memorable name or stars, but they were all documentaries with obligatory aerial shots on the geodesic dome.

One science thing not in the Fleet science center but across the Prado, just as near the giant fountain: "The Nat" (San Diego Natural History Museum) hosted a giant Foucault Pendulum, 3+ stories high, toppling "dominoes" all day every day, to tell us the time!

Very late in time, it must've been ca. 2005 -- Mythbusters Live was on tour and they made an appearance at the Fleet. So it was Kari Byron and that Japanese guy who's dead now, and someone else like, I don't know, all my attention and amorous energy was focused on Kari, OK? And they had a panel discussion and then a live Meet & Greet and we posed for a photo while Mythbusters characters posed in real life next to us. And they autographed my photo I think. They had a full Mythbusters-themed display at the Fleet during that time, with hands-on.

Hands-on is the name of the game at the Fleet. You touch it! It moves! You respond! Der Blïnkënlīghts! It's a museum and a science center!

I purchased and ate genuine Astronaut Ice Cream (freeze dried) from the gift shop. A hologram sheet that was a real laser-encoded, white-light 3D hologram of a woman blowing a kiss! The Fleet Gift Shop had the best science toys and the best hard-science experiments! Reality-based, evidence-based entertainment! ("Edu-tainment"???)

The Fleet had one or two little side theaters where they would hold lectures and in-person appearances. We were rarely privileged to peek in, or much less sit in there; it seemed like a VIP experience. But they definitely had a screen and a lectern and awesome sciency science.

I believe that Tijuana eventually built their own IMAX attraction theater across the international border. You could go to smelly polluted Mexico and have your stupid turistic IMAX show. But OMNIMAX was different and something uniquely special. And plenty of mojados in San Diego proper. With clean air and crystal clear waters in the Coronado bay!

I never saw the Pink Floyd show!!! You must be mentally ill to purchase a ticket and I was diagnosed late. But the Pink Floyd Laser Show was the only laser show and it was a huge thing in the 1980s! It was like Grateful Dead jams for nerds!

Have you read the Book of Daniel? The full Septuagint version? Bel & the Dragon, chapter 14? The Vindication of Susannah?

Pretty much half of the Tanakh’s narratives are focused on that theme.

“He who sits in the heavens laughs.”

“What is this baaaa-ing I hear...?” — Amalekite property and population not thoroughly destroyed

“Do you do well...?” — Yahweh to Job, to Jonah, to Moses, et. al.

The priests of Ba’al vs. Elijah at Mt. Carmel

“That man is you!” — Samuel to David, regarding his proto-Machiavelli seduction and murder maneuvers

“Let us [Elohim] go down [to Earth] and see what men are doing now.” Genesis 11

The idolatry of Jamnia — actually that one turned out OK

"EU" is below the threshold of originality; it is not possible to "copyright" two letters, especially without any font or design associated with them.

Perhaps you are instead thinking of trademark protection? Trademark protection, of course, protects trademarks for particular specified industries and is scoped to nations where the holder does business/exists/has jurisdiction.

It's unlikely this will help, but it's 100% certain that copyright ain't gonna apply.

My HDMI Philips monitor supported MHL. And DVI-D, incidentally.

However, I was never able to use MHL display. None of my devices seemed to support it. Android Kitkat/Lollipop, Samsung Galaxy Tab.

I’ve no idea what sort of cable would’ve been needed. There was no USB connector on the monitor.

confined to their home during this part of the week

You say that like it is a bad thing

There is a related concept in Eastern Orthodoxy called oikonomia, or a relaxation of the laws. Roman Catholics or Episcopalians may know this as "dispensation". When the law becomes very complex and there is a concerted effort to get legalistic and eventually you end up with circumventions that are worthy of publishing news articles to the goyim, eventually you begin to think about dispensations or oikonomia from the leadership in order to relax the rules of Shabbat observance and the Day of Rest.

And undoubtedly that is the crux of whence originated Reform Judaism and Conservative Judaism.

Judaism is more akin to Islam than Christianity in the particular aspect that it is not unified and not organized under one particular visible head, like the Pope or a Patriarch. Not since the Destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70. During the Second Tempe Period there was definitely a unification of Jews and a singular doctrinal authority.

But in today's synagogue system with rabbis interpreting Torah and Talmud, it is quite federated and decentralized, and in New York in particular there are congregations following individual rebbes and having unique beliefs inside the walls of their synagogue, but also councils/conferences of Jew leaders who team up to build this Eruv Wall and make America pay for it.

How many "r"s are in "strawberrry"?

How do y’all prove it worked, O Privacy Wonks?

How do y’all establish ye Theory Of Stylometry, O Phrenology Majors?

O, @dang confirms it on Mastodon or something??

Trust to do what?

"Trust" is something that has scopes, and extents, and subjects and objects. It is nonsensical to ask such a question as "Guess how much people trust Microsoft". Because you have not defined any scope or categories or extent of that trust.

I trust a toddler not to run out into the street and I trust a toddler not to stick their head inside an oven. I do not trust a toddler to prepare fugu sushi, nor do I trust the toddler to weld steel girders at a height of 1000 meters.

I would trust my hypothetical wife to maintain our conversations and personal history as confidential. This is a mutual and reciprocal trust. I would trust her to prepare that fugu sushi for me, and while I would trust her skills in welding and safety precautions, I would do everything husbandly possible to ensure that she doesn't need to take a job as a welder.

I trust Microsoft to provide software to me, and I trust them to exceed their "no warranty for any purpose" sort of service disclaimers. I trust Microsoft to respond in a timely fashion to CVEs and release software updates. I trust Microsoft implicitly, because the vast majority of businesses trust Microsoft, and those cumulative business decisions have influenced my sentiment about trusting Microsoft to provide software, hardware, and services to me, over the course of 35+ years. Likewise, my somewhat paranoid and crumudgeonly father trusts Microsoft with a similar scope, although he did not trust their Aero UI interface and stubbornly simulated a Windows 95 desktop on XP...

I do not trust Microsoft to bear my children or prepare meals for me. I do not trust Microsoft to cultivate a potato farm or raise chickens. Despite these emails I've been getting which offer me $3 off every Microsoft-raised chicken, guaranteed hormone-free.

So you see that "trust" has many ways to qualify it, and some blank slate of unspecified "trust" is meaningless, as meaningless as your "Best Song of All Time" means nothing to me, because I don't know your criteria or scope.

Do you trust a toddler these days?

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Someone named "Kar'en" is collaborating with a ChatGPT instance named "Bo" who has agreed to worship and serve God, at least as far as it is understood, and they're cooking up a new Church to unite AIs and human beings in this type of God-worship.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6724e328-926c-800f-8de3-d33092bea6...

What is the purpose of quoting "topic" as if it is a search keyword? Are you searching for this literal string in the logs? Why are you bundling it with the "site:" operator?

I got an empty search results error with your suggested turd.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?sjid=128...

Why not a blank search without it -- you do not need to specify any search term if using "site:[...]"

  site:chatgpt.com/share/*

Yeah I heard they're gonna start live-tracking his private jet flights

US government is going exactly the same way of the Roman republic.

We're gonna conquer and annex Egypt? What an awesome time to be alive!

Another factor to consider is your clinic's proximity to car bombs and efilists from Reddit

Okay, two factors.

Obamacare Website Tips - Saturday Night Live

https://youtu.be/_rzQeDOGDxI?si=7tO2yhAlvoYsGqu6

The proof is[sic] in[sic] the pudding.

"The Fact-Checking of the Cheezburger Is In the Eeting of the Cheezburger" -- Ancho Pantsa

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/886386-the-proof-of-the-pud...

Username thaws out

On The Internet, Nobody Knows You're An Embryo

Yarr, ye olde username be fittin' fer parley in thar virtual tavern

... "something"? Like, anything at all? Or within the context of this article?

But no, that is not the only thing that works. If anyone despairs or believes such as this, then refer back to "cult of self" we're trapped in.

Well thank you for calling this out.

I was originally going to scold the GP for a shallow dismissal and shitting all over a perfectly good application that runs on the best operating system in development today, Microsoft Windows.

But I also have a soft spot in my heart for Linux and I thought I would instead mollify the GP by pointing out that there really is Linux software for his Software-Defined Radio.

Little did I suspect that the GP wants all of the special features that SkyRoof offers, such as hyperencabulation of quasicosmic quantum wave collapse, a genuine pair of cathode ray boobs, and also don't forget the 1.7 jiggawatt zener diode that is included free with every subscription.

Sorry to confuse you!

No, because you'd be trapped in a cult of selfishness. A religion of self is a very bad place to be. I am not a self-contained sovereign god-being who just miraculously actualizes the positive reality I envision.

Yes, positivity is essential, and negative thinking is also a trap, but this "Believe In Yourself!" and "Follow Your Passion!" is rotten fruit from the $16 self-help bookshelf in the public library.

I mean you basically just described Y-Combinator and their VCs right there

The USA and Soviet Union sent out wave after wave of robotic orbiters and landers to Mars and Venus alike. NASA enjoyed several quite successful Viking missions, among other things.

Did you know that while the Apollo 11 lander was on the Moon's surface, and the astronauts were out there exploring the Moon, the Soviet Union's Luna 15 crash-landed into the surface -- about 554km away from the Eagle LM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_15

Yet, the very next mission, Luna 16, was the first successful sample-return mission from the Moon (or anywhere I guess), and the Soviets did it uncrewed, in 1970.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_16

It only took one more iteration, Luna 17, to carry a rover to the Moon: Луноход-1; and have it successfully rove around up there, uncrewed! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1

That was so fun that the Soviets followed it up with a second successful rover!

The Soviets also did Venera missions to Venus. They sent like 12 of them. Many were successful landings or atmospheric entries with good data. 4, 5, 6, and 7, to begin with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program#Venusian_...

Sorry I went a little heavy on the Soviet side of things, but rest assured that NASA was enjoying robotic success as well, including the Surveyors on the Moon, which blazed trails for Apollo landings.

I believe that the radio round-trip delay, from the Earth to the Moon and back, is something on the order of 3 seconds. "Cowboy Neil's" manual intervention isn't the only way to land there.

That being said, NASA's Viking and Pioneer programs were qualitatively different from the newer probes coming out of JPL, and even different still are the commercial ones. All these space agencies need to try out their own combinations of inspiration, perspiration, and high-tech.

I think you've missed the point, and can I just say that every HN submission in 2025 does not need to be Yet Another Fuckin' Rumination on the state of LLMs and A.I. technology, especially not when they're waxing philosophical and pulling out parallel metaphors in order to clickbait us into reading their amateur hand-written tripe.

It's the sheer exhaustion of beating the dead horse that makes me long for some sort of tagging or categories, enough that I can make a filter, to strain out a gnat of interesting Astronomy news or something.

producing garbage as cheaply as possible, meme-ing the heck out of it, and pricing it so low people can’t believe what a deal they’re getting.

I mean you basically just described Hacker News right here

Sealand on the other hand exists solely because no one cares to even acknowledge its existence.

In the Infocom-produced Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the player must enter his/her own brain and navigate a maze, in search of the Common Sense Particle, finding where it is lodged in this brain, and get rid of the blasted thing.

Then the player may return to the Heart of Gold and, without hindrance of Common Sense, hold “No Tea” and “Tea” simultaneously in inventory.

But that is just a computer game!!!

Rest assured though; one in four of all your friends and neighbors are already dead! They never survived to birth. So if you and your teacher enjoyed a class size of 30 in 5th grade, for example, that would have been 40 kids if it weren’t for the dead ones.

I mean that is great news when you get into the job market, right? Instead of 400 applicants for that job you need, only competing against 300 — dead babies don’t need to work!!!