It is 12000 days into September, 1993: Usenet is long since an artifact in the memory of greybeards; the internet belongs to the monkey cage. Yet on Slashdot, we still get physics puns. Here, the golden age lives on.

the father accustoms himself to become like his child and fears his sons, while the son likens himself to his father, and feels neither shame nor fear in front of his parents, so he may be free ; the metic [563a] becomes the equal of a citizen and the citizen of a metic, and similarly with the foreigner.
It indeed so happens, he said.
To these, said I, such trifles do add up: the teacher, in such a case, fears his pupils and fawns upon them, while pupils have in low esteem their teachers as well as their overseers; and, overall, the young copy the elders and contend hotly with them in words and in deeds, while the elders, lowering themselves to the level of the young, sate themselves with pleasantries [563b] and wit, mimicking the young in order not to look unpleasant and despotic.

- Plato's "The Republic" (ca 375 BCE)

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The start of all things bad on the internet.

And now, in living text, it's where I put it.

I knew I shouldn't have responded to a thread that only had 0 comments.

Next time I'll wait a bit, I guess.

And I find it even more amazing that my post showed up under this comment instead of the penultimate one

Thank you.

Inquiring minds want to know.

Playboy.com?

What will I get? What might AI impress me with?

Asking for a friend.

Really.

I grew up on dairy farms. Hef and I have rarely had a meeting of minds. But it sure seems to me to be a interesting experiment. :-;

What's with the university qualifier?

I was taught to make fulminate of mercury in 8th grade PhySci class.

One of the standard things useful to know living on a farm. I suspect many of the things like that are looked down upon now.

Ever made your own gunpowder? Learned that from the boy scout that lived across the field behind the house. He got his merit badge, I had a shitload of fun.

Anarchist cookbook was okay, built in IQ detector and all, but it was just a primary level instruction manual.

With final exams.

That many failed.

Retired two years ago.

I'm at 200+ fine fat trout for the year so far. (about par, actually). Only keep 12 inches or larger.

My roommate got a smoker last month. Very tasty trout indeed.

I'm not as well off as I would be if I had waited until 70 (65 now), but I have a lot of fun.

And I still do my own coding. For no other reason than it's got to be MY code if it's my project. I do it for fun now.

AI is a pain at all levels for me. I don't want answers that aren't as good as SO, and no explanation. Give me SO any day. I read 900 plus words a minute, I'm capable of doing my own summaries.

(Has anyone else had CF problems because they can read too fast to be human?)

So, in closing, I too am waiting to see the benefits of AI in my life

And for some reason, Discord went to Klipy...?

Obviously you've never watched a cat at play, and maybe eating.

Probably a Linux nerd (on /.? The hell you say) that carried the xST vs xDT timezone markers before the brain caught up that "Standard" and "Saving" are both "S"

> next will be Jedi training school full of pointless teen angst.

Wasn't that "The Acolyte"?

> Heh, I've never heard that term before.

It's an acronym for "jack of all trades."

What, you mean you're not convinced to grab the no-name alpha-release "privacy browser" that cripples yourself if you don't let them MITM you?

It wasn't that hard - Netscape came on floppies, too.