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Comment He once got me a promotion, maybe. (Score 1) 96

by porkchop_d_clown on Thursday January 04, 2024 @12:33PM (#64131337) Attached to: Niklaus Wirth, Inventor of Pascal, Dies At 89

I once collected a lot of cred and, possibly, a later promotion for implementing one of his algorithms to improve an application's performance in the early 90s. I will never forget the value of partially ordered heaps!

Comment Re:For a good cause... ? (Score 1) 85

by porkchop_d_clown on Sunday December 24, 2023 @12:17PM (#64103151) Attached to: Beeper's iMessage Connection Software Open Sourced. What Happens Next?

It's not about the color of the bubble, it's about all the extra features that iMessage supports but SMS doesn't.

Comment Re: What is this brouhaha about? (Score 1) 85

by porkchop_d_clown on Sunday December 24, 2023 @12:16PM (#64103149) Attached to: Beeper's iMessage Connection Software Open Sourced. What Happens Next?

> So, someone used an "exploit" to make a closed protocol interoperable, the interoperability was shut down. What "protocol interoperability" are you talking about? Beeper doesn't make Android SMS apps work with iMessage, Beeper is a proprietary application that they want to charge money for - an application that used a security hole to access Apple's iMessage servers without a valid account.

Comment Re:What is this brouhaha about? (Score 1) 85

by porkchop_d_clown on Sunday December 24, 2023 @12:12PM (#64103137) Attached to: Beeper's iMessage Connection Software Open Sourced. What Happens Next?

> Beeper adds a compatibility layer so that iMessage works on Android or whatever. Apple don't like that. No, there is no "compatibility layer". Beeper found a way to hack Apple's messaging servers so that Android phones could pretend to be iPhones.

Journal Journal: Taking a Slashbattical 3

Journal by smittyoneeach on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:26PM

Gentlemen,

It's been real. I've found vast amusement verbally sparring, and refined my understanding thereby, so: thank you.

But both work and school are ramping up, and cutting some of the social media faffing about is needful.

Blessings to all of you in the New Year. I hope that there is an event in about a year that is recognizably an election, and that sanity prevails. I've no confidence in man, but infinite faith in the Lord.

Comment Re:Well, you've at least copied the links (Score 1) 9

by smittyoneeach on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:21PM (#64091761) Attached to: Data? Where he's going, he doesn't need DATA!

So, as long as there is no prior data, and we live in the present tense, then we can deny, say, that the ship is sinking? There may be a reason that you are in academia...

Comment Re:It's not that simple of a question (Score 1) 414

by smittyoneeach on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:20PM (#64091757) Attached to: Reactions Continue to Viral Video that Led to Calls for College Presidents to Resign

The conservative goal is the absence of a King of the Hill, not to _be_ King of the Hill.

Comment Re:I'm only highlighting conspiracies you endorse (Score 1) 31

by smittyoneeach on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:18PM (#64091751) Attached to: d_r's really not trying hard enough

You keep talking about that Way as though you know Him, too.

Comment Re:What taxpayer subsidies? (Score 1) 55

by smittyoneeach on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:17PM (#64091747) Attached to: VDH: "Our Three Blind Mice"

At a high level of abstraction, Your Team is, in fact, a bad economic/acid trip.

Comment Re:I'm only highlighting conspiracies you endorse (Score 1) 31

by smittyoneeach on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:16PM (#64091743) Attached to: d_r's really not trying hard enough

So then why did so many plead guilty to that charge?

We'll have to ask them. I suspect denial of decent council.

And why couldn't Your Dear Leader have bothered to lift a finger to help these people?

Out of office by the time the Maoist junta got going?

Comment Re:No on believes you (Score 1) 24

by smittyoneeach on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:15PM (#64091739) Attached to: Smitty's new / old conspiracy of the week!

Oh, look: more evidence: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2023/12/14/amid-recruiting-woes-active-duty-end-strength-to-drop-again-in-2024/
Keep nattering on about your quibble, though.

Comment Re:It's all Communism (Score 1) 19

by smittyoneeach on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:13PM (#64091729) Attached to: We're not recycling that old conspiracy again, are we?

I'm ex-Navy. "Blockade" means interdiction of cargo vessels. Gaza is not a maritime context. Nor is there any real "siege", either. Your Team is here to blow up civilization, including the language. Down with your New Anti-Zionist Intifada (NAZI) attitude.

Comment Re:It's all Communism (Score 1) 19

by smittyoneeach on Monday December 18, 2023 @05:09PM (#64089859) Attached to: We're not recycling that old conspiracy again, are we?

"Blockade" is trivially disproven, or: how did Hamas obtain tunneling equipment/material if there was nothing coming in? No, vast aid came in, and was substantially diverted to nefarious purposes. Your Team hasn't a leg to stand on in its support for the New Anti-Zionist Intifada (NAZI) parties.

Comment Re:Well, you've at least copied the links (Score 1) 9

by smittyoneeach on Monday December 18, 2023 @05:06PM (#64089851) Attached to: Data? Where he's going, he doesn't need DATA!

Here is more evidence for you to deny: https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/12/18/armys-recruiting-woes-are-aggravated-by-a-tiktok-mutiny-of-gen-z-soldiers-n2167675

Comment Re:That's an oversimplification of the question (Score 1) 55

by smittyoneeach on Monday December 18, 2023 @05:05PM (#64089847) Attached to: VDH: "Our Three Blind Mice"

And the "crowd" is made up of so many individuals interacting with their environment, no? You're not seriously arguing a Solipsism, are you?

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