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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would love to know how much of a roll that meme played in her choice of degree. Like, in the parallel universe where everything is identical up to this fire, but this picture wasn't taken (ie, the camera didn't work or something), did she still choose that degree?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, OP provided a source link.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I close my eyes, take slow deep breaths, and with each breath slowly count up and down from 0 with the high number increasing by one on each cycle. Eg. 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 3 2 1 0... It requires just enough concentration to keep my brain from drifting off to other thoughts (usually), but is boring enough that I rarely get to 9 without falling asleep. If find my mind does wander, I just try again.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago

SCIENTISTS CAN'T EXPLAIN BrundleFly2077's hyperbolic discourse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Brand New Key by The Dollyrots

and the original version by Melanie

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I don't understand.

“I have no idea who locked it in 2015,” she said.

So someone can just make your iphone inaccessible for a decade and you can't override it or log in, even if you have the passcode?

On the Apple Support community, one user reported their iPhone had been locked for 50 years. Similarly, a post on 9to5Mac’s forum mentioned an iPhone disabled for “23614974 minutes”—about 45 years.

I'm sorry, what? I guess I'll just add this to my list of reasons I'm glad I use Android. JFC.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

True. I was more responding to the article that makes no reference to Ada Lovelace. She's deserves to be mentioned when that topic comes up.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sorry, I'm firmly in Ada Lovelace's camp for credit for first use of the term. https://medium.com/the-mumblings-of-a-security-professional/a-bug-in-the-machine-286800f71cbc

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

True story, about 20-25 years ago, a radio station in my home town was playing ads for some new local business doing web design.

After hearing the ad on my drive to work for the umpteen billionth time I finally got curious and went to check out their own website (I they're charging people to build websites, they're own website must be a pretty awesome demonstration of their skills, right?)

The website looked like absolute garbage and, upon viewing the source, the meta tags clearly betrayed the fact that it was created in Word.

I can only imagine how much money they were paying to run those ads. I even considered the possibility I was being pranked somehow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

No, it just prevents banks, etc from checking your credit score/rating, which prevents anyone from opening a new account under your name. When YOU want to open an account, you temporarily unfreeze it for a couple days so that the institution you're opening an account at can check, and then refreeze it.

The credit agencies will continue monitoring how much credit you have and how well you pay your bills and adjust your score accordingly. Freezing has no effect on that.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The best time to have frozen your credit reports at all three agencies was many many years ago. The second best time is right now. Not tomorrow. Now.

 

A team of Harvard scientists working on a project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a significant breakthrough in the field of quantum computing.

Researchers working with the Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (ONISQ) program say they have created the world’s first quantum circuit using logical quantum bits (qubits). The innovation marks a significant stride towards fault-tolerant quantum computing, promising to revolutionize the design of quantum computer processors.

 

You're an operating system.

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