timelorde - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Maryland you say? (Score 1) 34

by timelorde on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @03:35PM (#65773378) Attached to: Amazon Builds First Solo Subsea Cable Linking Maryland To Ireland

so is the Chesapeake Bay, for that matter.

Comment Re:cut it off at the navy (Score 1) 71

by timelorde on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @05:29PM (#65571122) Attached to: Coding Error Blamed After Parts of Constitution Disappear From US Website

Someone flew this right over Annapolis this week

https://www.capitalgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CAP-W-MESSWITHTEXAS.jpg?w=1569

Comment Re:No AI? Don't promise me a good time (Score 1) 55

by timelorde on Monday August 04, 2025 @02:14PM (#65565934) Attached to: Google Tells iPhone Buyers To 'Just Change Your Phone' After Apple's AI Delays

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.

Comment Re:Could you please not? (Score 1) 37

by timelorde on Thursday May 22, 2025 @06:26PM (#65397357) Attached to: Microsoft Tests AI Text Generation in Notepad

I thought they were discontinuing WordPad.

Comment Re:Probably should test the AI in Dev first (Score 4, Funny) 24

by timelorde on Friday May 02, 2025 @02:07PM (#65347995) Attached to: Pinterest Users Left Confused By Mass Account Suspensions

How old fashioned of you.

Comment Re:See If You Can Find... (Score 1) 70

by timelorde on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @03:00PM (#65290541) Attached to: States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Industry Is Fighting Back

And Pepsi always tasted much better from a glass bottle, especially the twirly-top kind https://www.ebay.com/itm/225466201451/.

Comment Re:Maximise useful sunlight hours (Score 1) 201

by timelorde on Sunday March 09, 2025 @06:58AM (#65221017) Attached to: Is America Closer to Ending Daylight Saving Time?

As I say every year, twice a year - change it by half an hour, one time, and be done with it.

Comment Re:... in the US (Score 1) 225

by timelorde on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @03:40PM (#65070929) Attached to: Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech Pitch

Take away FB and X and your country (and ours) devolves to pen-and-paper of the 1930's.

Please, please take them away.

Seems to me that humanity got along just fine with Usenet (and Geocities?)

Comment Re:Similar story six months ago (Score 3, Funny) 90

by timelorde on Thursday October 31, 2024 @06:57PM (#64910427) Attached to: Ghost Jobs Are Wreaking Havoc On Tech Workers

At least this time it's on Halloween.

Comment Re:Manual override is missing from all datacenters (Score 1) 37

by timelorde on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:19PM (#64791289) Attached to: AI Pioneers Call for Protections Against 'Catastrophic Risks'

Until they start embedding nuclear reactors inside the datacenter.

Comment Re:interesting history, pile of junk (Score 1) 38

by timelorde on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @07:49PM (#64578413) Attached to: Seattle's Living Computers Museum Logs Off For Good

It's estimated to fetch $30,000 to $50,000

Guess I'll need to start buying an extra lotttery ticket or two.
Missed out on my chance to use a PDP-10, back in the day. Virginia Tech bought a Multics system instead.

Comment Let's compromise (Score 2) 186

by timelorde on Sunday March 10, 2024 @06:29AM (#64303907) Attached to: California State Legislator Proposes Ending Daylight Saving Time

Don't the best compromises make everyone unhappy?

Just move the clocks half an hour, once, and stop there.

Solved it!

Comment Re:ToDo list app (Score 4, Funny) 163

by timelorde on Friday February 23, 2024 @04:49PM (#64263804) Attached to: Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control

You forgot to include the AI

Comment Re:What a can of worms they have opened... (Score 1) 309

by timelorde on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @09:23PM (#64258642) Attached to: University of Alabama Pauses IVF Services After Court Embryo Ruling

Why wait? Just leave now. Or is that prohibited, too?

Comment Re:you could argue... (Score 1) 155

by timelorde on Sunday January 28, 2024 @04:31PM (#64195368) Attached to: Remembering Unix Desktops - and What We Can Learn From Them

and yet my most productive s/w development ever was NeXTstep - not just that it was Unix-y, but it had Interface Builder and Objective-C and Display Postscript.

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