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They haven't said anything. But I realized that quite a few submissions in a short amount of time were posted. AI bot scraping sounds like a good explanation.
Funny, we take it for granted that sites will stay up - I'm old enough to remember pre commercial web when there was a courtesy rule about overloading. Especially with universities where we'd wait until after hours to connect.
So many posts today referring to articles on the site brought it down. I suppose we should keep this in mind when posting. I assume it wasn't intentional. :-)
The US chooses not to end homelessness. We have the highest GDP in the world. We could end it if we wanted to.
I was in Japan recently. A choice was made there as well.
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The article talks about the specification and it's more... specific than that: > “In 1973, the government mandated through a cabinet order that traffic lights use the bluest shade of green possible—still technically green, but noticeably blue enough to justifiably continue using the ao nomenclature,” Allan Richarz writes for Atlas Obscura
I was thinking of the patriarchy and oppression.
It's a place where there's no good guys to root for. I fear for its citizens, and especially for women.
Reading through comments on living paycheck to paycheck was brutal as it sounds like many people here have no clue what really living paycheck to paycheck is like.
No, it doesn't mean you can still go out to eat and have a club membership. If you save nothing after you use up your entire paycheck going out to eat and paying for a gym membership , that means you aren't handling money well.
Sorry folks, but many of us here sound entitled. Having been poor and scrambled my way up, it was depressing reading.
It definitely does not mean lotto tickets and restaurants. People living paycheck to paycheck do not go to restaurants. If you are going to restaurants it means you have funds AFTER bare expenses. Paycheck to paycheck means just enough to survive.
You were absolutely experiencing privilege. I know you recognize it now, but hearing this is scary. This is why folks often vote Republican - they have no idea what life is like for very hard working actual poor people who would need services after breaking an ankle.
Your comment really brought it home for me.
Does anyone else cringe at the grifter vibes?
So much for people who voted for Trump because he would let RFK clean up the environment. Such naivete.
Grifters who get to have their names on a lot of papers in order to fool an Oprah audience.
Editable Tibetan Language Dictionary which will retrieve definition on search and on copy . created 2011
I'm disappointed. I was actually expecting lovely ascii art pictures of mermaids.
Sorry for your loss. Not that saying it makes it better, but I am.
Financially, you can retire. one less thing to add to the destruction.
Lynx browser. Text only. Them as images were added, you'd see the word image in brackets.
I think I created the first digital shop and download site. Ez-legal software ( be your own lawyer, do your own divorce!) did not want to spend money mailing out disks.
I looked around and could not find any other site that had pulled this off. I used Cybercash for the credit card piece and modified the Hazel Shopping Cart (CGI)to use FTP rather than snail mail.
People would purchase and we would send a temporary FTP link to their email. Problems arose when customers newly on the web from AOL would give us just their screen names. Same with Lotus users.
Ugh, of course we had to create tests for proper email text entry. Sounds so obvious now.
We had to be careful about advertising in newsgroups or we'd receive retaliation from the users of the then non commercial internet.
It was much easier to manipulate search engines to get to the top of the list - infoseek, ask Jeeves, etc. - infoseek was the easiest. Meta words and invisible text that copied whatever other company was currently on top onto our page. Back and forth we and our competitors went. Quicken was a big competitor at the time.
Yahoo actually had a person answering the phone whenever we called about their lists.
I nor the company did not think to patent the process.
It was a great ride.
I remember an awards occasion where the employees who received the recognition for actually heroically fixing a mess could not make it to the stage because they had been laid off.
Awkward silence ensued. ...
I'm waiting for folks to implement a Reverse Google Search.
We need a Reverse Google search that will weed out the garbage.
Would like to see responses from the Alzheimer's years. He got pretty bad towards the end. Biden sounds like a 20 year old in comparison. Trump is still off in cofeve land.
Kudos to you. But I don't think it was open mindedness. I think he wanted you on his show so he could use you as a foil.
Took a lot of bravery for you to do that.
Top for me as well. It may have to do with what Google has learned from observing your search history?
But there was more to it than simply printing. There was the marketing to get it into bookstores, the hobnobbing, the ads, the shipping and returns. I suppose they could form a co-op and hire the talent.
"When bookstores, libraries, and schools order books for their brick-and-mortar locations, they use online catalogs populated by distributors. Even further, most distributors (including SPD, before it vanished) employ sales teams that work to get copies in Barnes & Noble, independent bookstores, and other retail outlets like gift shops."
I remember when they taught mcLuhan in highschool - 1970s - in order to make us more aware of media manipulation.
I wonder if they still do. Ironically, this was in Florida - probably be considered too woke by Desantis.
Kudos for creating the game. Reading upside down is difficult. In Scrabble you could turn the board around to face you when it was your turn.
Why did my opponent place qxa to begin with?
I tried to get through the tutorial , but could not. Maybe simplify the rules or simplify the game before I'd play, but others may enjoy.
I do play wordle and other NYTimes word games , and scrabble, so I'm not averse to those types of games.
Maybe I should have had a cup of coffee first. I will try again later.
But still hats off for creating it. Congratulations.
It is bizarre.
Bless this guy's parents.
Microsoft and IBM Lines of code clash
In the PBS TV series based on Bob Cringely's Accidental Empires, there is a sequence where Steve Ballmer describes the experience of co-developing OS/2 with IBM, how the whole thing became a fantastic clash of corporate culture, with Microsoft having the small-company attitude of getting things done, and IBM being focused on internal measures primarily KLoCs, that is thousands of lines of code as a measure of programmer productivity. "All they cared about," raves Ballmer, "was KLoCs and KLoCs and KLoCs." IBM, apparently, did not care whether the code was any good as long as there was a lot of it.