I believe the plan was to give that sobriquet to Lake Michigan, in honour of its decidedly flaccid silhouette.

I had a problem where AI scrapers were absolutely DETERMINED to fish out every possible query string from a search results page. Almost all of the query strings they tried were invalid due to shitty and dysfunctional string substitution. "&page=100" wouldn't be followed by "&page=101", it would be followed by "&pag&pag=1010" or something even more insanely half-baked, until the query strings were like 100+ characters long. It was the technological equivalent of watching HIV mutate in real time.

But the insane thing was that, aside from page number, they were always requesting info about the same other criteria: filtered by the same user, the same page type, and with no text string. So I just took those particular values and started banning logged-out users who requested that combination of criteria.

I figured I'd need to change my tactics in a couple of days once the botnet got bored of that particular page and moved on to requesting bogus entries for another user.

MariaDB> select count(*) from ip_bans;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 671671 |
+----------+

It hasn't.

There's a loophole in the 22nd amendment you forgot about that Trump is aware of, the vice-presidential switcheroo:

https://www.politico.com/news/...

TheMiddleRoad was making a joke about the "cadence" cadence.

The automative vs. augmentive distinction that AI companies and the ownership class want you to believe in is nonsense meant to keep the working class calm as their job opportunities dwindle away. The only difference between them is a quantity threshold. Augmentive means multiplying the number of jobs available by a number greater than zero but less than one (as fewer people can do the same work), automative means multiplying the number of jobs available by zero. Both mean jobs are lost, the only difference is how many remain.

This could be my next phone but has two big problems I see immediately. No earpiece so you can't, you know, hold it up to your ear and make calls like on a normal phone, you either need to have a bluetooth earpiece at all times or use speakerphone. The other thing I don't like is the Blackberry-like form factor. Nothing beats or comes close to the landscape slider layout. That said if it's open-source hardware I could at least potentially mod up a landscape slider version with an earpiece.

For me the visualization of direct collapse black hole formation is that there's still a huge mass of gas falling in, at the boundary of the new black hole nearly dense enough to direct collapse itself. The blowback would compress the inflow over the density edge and you get a whole cloud of black holes.

It's pretty cool that they're seeing where the supermassive black holes come from. The models of what's happening in there must be amazing.

Or at least legally bind it to get a 4-day workweek temporarily.

There will be even more market for obscene luxuries for the rich, that's their plan to keep the economy from imploding. Everyone else gets Universal (Very) Basic Income if they're lucky, or terrafoam or mass graves if they're not.

Wikipedia was "banned" in schools because it's not a primary source. Just like how all other encyclopedias were banned from being listed as sources for papers. You're supposed to use the encyclopedia as a link to the primary source. Encyclopedias were just pre-Internet search engines for books, usually listing a little summary. Wikipedia being on the internet makes it convenient, but no different than book encyclopedias with regard to how papers should list their sources.

No, I think it's closer to teaching people how to drive on city streets and highways, possibly even on the "wrong"-side, when all they think they need is to drive on a race oval. Sure, oval track learning will get them the concepts of acceleration, braking, and turning with the wheel, but they won't learn actual vital skills they should have for maneuvering the car from the garage to the track.

Flatpak, Snap and containers in general need lots of drive space. Good thing storage is cheap these days OH WAIT

Because they're the most powerful and easy to use, and likely only, data manipulation tool a person with no hint of computing-specific education is likely to run across.

Boss' Boss: "Why are we paying him to remote in when we can hire an international team to remote in for 24/7 redundant button clicking at half the price of one person?"

International team: "North Korea is willing to pay us to do the job we were hired to do. Sounds tempting..."