News: Technical
Stories about things of a technical/geekish nature
Posted At: 9/17/2025 6:42:10 AM
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Introduction: A Crossroads for Connection<br/>Social networking platforms have revolutionized the way we communicate, share ideas, and build relationships. They’ve become digital town squares, where voices from every corner of the globe converge. Yet, as we stand on the precipice of a new technological…
Posted At: 2/2/2025 10:51:28 PM
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Donald Trump’s return to the White House has reignited debates about the balance of power in the tech industry. With legislations like the CLOUD Act and ongoing discussions around data sovereignty, open source faces significant challenges. These dynamics highlight the difficulty of navigating a…
Posted At: 1/9/2025 5:33:32 PM
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Q: How do I protect myself from Roko's Basilisk?<br/>A: The "Roko's Basilisk" thought experiment is a hypothetical scenario that explores the potential consequences of an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) that is motivated to incentivize the advancement of its own capabilities. It is not a…
Posted At: 6/4/2024 11:07:05 PM
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This is pretty cool. Can see if I can get my old technical memories of TRS-80 Model III to come back. All the stuff I learned in Mr Zeliff's programming class, which was just fantastic. Doubly fantastic considering it was in a small farm town in South Central Nebraska!<br/>Here's the link to download…
Posted At: 8/9/2022 9:54:28 AM
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IMO these things are best understood through the lens of Haskell's `Maybe` type.<br/>Very simply, a `Maybe Int` for example can be either `Just 5` or `Nothing`. At its most basic form, it can be used with pattern matching. For example here's a haskell function that adds 2 to a Maybe if it's there:<br/>add2…
Posted At: 12/30/2021 3:19:26 PM
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As a long-time user of Dell products, and still a big fan, I should NOT have to use a secondary side keyboard just in order to be able to write code on a Dell laptop. As a software developer I heavily use both the F-Keys and the Home/End keys. On my old Dell Latitude D830, all those have their own…
Posted At: 12/13/2021 1:40:39 PM
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Got to work today, went to log into Kronos to clock in, and nothing... Turns out Kronos' Private Cloud has been hit with a ransomware attack. They say it could take days or weeks until they are back up. Perhaps this was not something to move to (someone else's computer) the "cloud". Pop some…
Posted At: 1/21/2020 3:56:53 PM
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Reminds me of that ancient story where Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella traveled to the peak of Kangchenjunga, the highest mountain in India, with 270 trained mules carrying suppliees for a support team of thousands of trained computer software technicians.<br/>The mountain is one of the deadliest peaks in…
Posted At: 3/15/2011 1:49:58 PM
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The latest browsers (Chrome 10.x, FireFox 4.x, Opera 11.x, and Internet Explorer 9) are out now, and they include a cool new graphics technology called the Canvas Object, or just the 'canvas'. This adds a standardized way to do 3D graphics in your browser window using just HTML (Although you have…
Posted At: 12/9/2010 12:57:59 PM
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A great example of a web site's privacy policy if the site's owners were forced to tell the truth:<br/>[No this is not MessageBase's privacy policy - MessageBase's privacy policy is quite simple: Any personal data you provide to MessageBase is only to be used between you and MessageBase - it will not…