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J05ephu5M13ron Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code

It's like déjà vu all over again, Yogi.

Aug 2023: “UK air traffic woes caused by 'invalid flight plan data'”

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J05ephu5M13ron A Case Against the Placebo Effect

Well then you could have said that at the beginning. Now we can take your opinions and maybe agree with them.

J05ephu5M13ron A Case Against the Placebo Effect

Couldn't you have replied to this post instead of modding it into invisibility?

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sieabahlpark 2 minutes ago [dead] | parent | next [–]

Don't you know, the appeal to authority is the new "I'm smart enough to be credentialed, don't question me".

College really has made a whole group of people think they're elite when all they did was acquire debt and some watered down education.

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J05ephu5M13ron Geology is racist, claims university professor

Queen Mary lecturer Kathryn Yusoff .. said the hard science subject of geology was “riven by systemic racism” and colonialism.

‘She also suggested palaeontology, the study of prehistoric life through fossils, was partly to blame for racism, labelling it “pale-ontology”.’

‘In her book, Geologic Life, the professor argued the extraction of gold, iron, and other metals was racist. She wrote that geology began as a “colonial practice” that created hierarchies, promoted materialism, destroyed environments and led to climate change.’

“geology continues to function within a white supremacist praxis”.

J05ephu5M13ron Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016)

> He actually did know how to code. He and Woz created the classic video game Breakout while working at Atari. (I have no doubt Woz did most of the heavy lifting.

And Jobs kept most of the money ($4,750), gave Woz $350 and went off to India to achieve enlightenment.

J05ephu5M13ron Trust no one: why we can't trust most stats about the cybersecurity industry

> .. if siemens .. Is it malware incident? Some cryptolocker? Or is it exfiltration of IP?

The CIO clicked on a p0rn site?

J05ephu5M13ron Trust no one: why we can't trust most stats about the cybersecurity industry

“There is a problem in cybersecurity: solid industry analysis is hard to come by.”

There's no problem in “cybersecurity”. The problem resides in the computers connected at either end, As in they can't differentiate between OPEN and RUN and can be hacked by opening an email attachment or clicking on a malicious URL.

J05ephu5M13ron Testing the Z80 Chip with a 1970s Beauty

Re the Z80 chip: I recall seeing a picture of a feller laying out the tracks with a roll of sticky tape on a drafting board.