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  • What's a sentence nobody has said in 20 years?

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  • I was asked this at a café less than ten minutes ago now.

    I guess this would be country/state dependent.

  • What's a sentence nobody has said in 20 years?

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  • Have you heard of the Information superhighway?

    "Will that be smoking or non smoking?" Asked as a restaurant

    "I think you flooded it" in relation to a car not starting. (well unless you work on very old cars)

    "I got it off Napster"

    "want to listen to my mix tape?"

    "I can burn you a CD of that"

  • Do people who live in cold climates dream of a green Christmas?

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  • It won't be green because of the cold.. If it doesn't doesn't snow it is a brown / yellow Christmas.

    Also you can't use your cross country skis, sleds, snowmobiles etc if there isn't any snow. No one wants to go out in the cold MUD.

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    Can anyone tell me if this is a 3G or a 3GS?

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  • I cant make out the model number in your photo..

    https://everymac.com/systems/apple/iphone/iphone-faq/differences-between-iphone-3g-iphone-3gs.html

    Although external identification requires sharp eyes to spot it down at the bottom of the back of the phone, the iPhone 3G is model number A1241 and the iPhone 3GS is A1303. The China-only iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS models that do not have Wi-Fi are model number A1324 and A1325, respectively.

    FYI I owned both, the 3GS was just leaps faster than the 3.. At this point however I would be surprised if there would run without a full battery swap due to age.

  • If Big Tech social platforms are junk food and the Fediverse is a healthy home-cooked meal, then what is Bluesky?

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  • The fediverse is more like a string of hit and miss mom and pop shops no one has heard of. Some are great, others are real dives.

  • How valid is the claim that people coming or going to blue sky/mastodon/X/Truth Social will cause echo chambers to increase? is it bad?

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  • Seems like there aren't many centrist communities where you can have nuanced discussions.

  • How valid is the claim that people coming or going to blue sky/mastodon/X/Truth Social will cause echo chambers to increase? is it bad?

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  • Nearly all social media is full of eco echo chambers.. I still post and follow stuff on several of the platforms. There is very little nuanced conversation.. Seems like it is more and more just an up vote or downvote storm, or people claiming one thing or another without any supporting evidence.

  • People who claim that other languages beyond C, C++ are BS. What is their deal?

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  • Yep, it can also be the answer to getting insane performance gains for extremely specific functions / calculations.

    The reality of life is the higher level languages let you get more done with fewer errors but with less potential performance.. You can only optimize python so much. Some newer languages like Rust try to balance the two but often make things more complex.

  • People who claim that other languages beyond C, C++ are BS. What is their deal?

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  • Many programmers that work in Low level languages like Assembly or C regard high level languages as easy or slow and thus tended to dis them.

    John Carmack (Doom, Quake engine, considered an amazing programmer) Best Programming Language has a wider appreciation of IDEs and Languages.

  • Why TED talks suck now

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  • The barrier for entry for TEDx is very very low, worked with someone in management who had done one they where not with the company long.

  • X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts

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  • X can't reuse the inforwars account due to the trademark, but they are also not required to transfer ownership or continue providing access to that account.

  • X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts

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  • Who owns your outlook.com account? Who owns your gmail.com account? I will give you a guess it is the company that owns the domain to the right of the @.

  • What are some consumer electronics you probably shouldn't tinker with?

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  • No I expect everyone not to be lazy fucks and do some basic research on one liner facts

    The original question I see as a useful conversation where a simple search would probably not give as valuable resultes.

    Where simple facts like “how long does a crt tube old a charge” is a Google thing.

  • What are some consumer electronics you probably shouldn't tinker with?

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  • why don't you google that?

  • What are some consumer electronics you probably shouldn't tinker with?

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    • Laser / LED printers can blind you and may have larger capacitors.
    • Old CRT style TVs / Monitors can get you if not discharged correctly.
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  • I don’t know why so many companies decide to use Windows these days when there’s Unix/Linux

    None of our end users know how to use Unix/Linux.. MacOS or Chrome books would be more likely looking at the youngest in the work force.

    Everything else you listed basically comes down to end user / power user preferences. 99% of our end users barely remember what to click on if it is not on their desktop.

    Like, I don’t know why any serious company would use Windows with this in mind

    Being able to mass configure, secure and monitor all devices with many different vendor tools remotely is nice. Have you ever tried to manage a fleet of Linux laptops in the field?

  • How long will it be until we realize AI is detrimental to society?

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  • now we have AI on the horizon promising to make things more efficient

    sounds good

    but we really know what it is actually going to be used for

    Contradicts the first statement and the next statement

    They want automate out everything. People packaging up goods for shipping, white collar jobs like analytics, business intelligence, customer service, chat support. Any sort of job that takes a low or moderate amount of effort or intellectual ability is threatened by AI.

    OK you do know what they want to use it for.

    But once AI takes all these jobs away and shrinks the amount of labor required, what are all these people going to do for work? It’s not like you can train someone who’s a business intelligence engineer easily to go do something else like HVAC, or be a nurse.

    Highly untrainable people have always existed and are always the first to get replaced.

    But it should be pretty obvious that you can’t run an entire society with no jobs.

    Well not one based on capitalism.

    The more we automate, the less people can do, so they don’t have jobs and no income, not able to survive…

    Well the ones that can't do research and can't look up history maybe. AI is the new Robots, is the new assembly line is the new....

    You are just using the age old technology fear narrative.

    When Robots Take All of Our Jobs, Remember the Luddites (2017)

  • How can you raise yourself to be on the same page as society when you were neglected and locked away for 20 years?

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  • Start studying, it is never too late to UNLEARN or LEARN. Step one is realizing YOU are now in control to improve things.

  • What's the dumbest way you've seen someone get fired?

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  • If the call center handled sensitive info like banking info or credit cards etc the entire room would likely have compliance rules and zero tolerance.