I think the passing of time, as in waiting, is an experience of the mind. Without a waiting mind, the length of time is just another number out there, like the distance between the edges of the universe. If after the dark finale of this universe there exists another event that spawns a conscious mind, there is no actual waiting happening between this universe bright, starry second and the next one.

Wow awesome cover!

Maybe it’s some higher dimensional grad student simulating something to get some plots to add to a poster his postdoc wants him to present at a small time conference somewhere. Our consciousness is just a side effect because he insisted in doing the coding in Haskell.

This is a very good idea actually.

Surely you meant Better BibTeX.

Um… Ok you might have saved me from a few faux passes.

So technically all non-Germans are Unkrauts! I‘m incorporating this word.

I am toying with the idea of getting this…

That Turbo-Charged connection was pulling more than 200 KB/s

I feel age has little to do with it. I‘ve seen these traits in people from all ages.

I hope it works out for you in the end. Good luck!

I work in a small lab. Our systems are controlled using two computers that run 24/7. The main real-time control stack is open source and open hardware. I happens in a Linux box that runs NixOS. I would trust my life to that machine and fly it to the end of the universe and back again. It just never fails. We can even run updates while everything keeps running undisturbed. Some devices need drivers that only work with Windows. The second computer runs those under Windows 11. In contrast we have to babysit that machine constantly, USB connections are unreliable, things fail randomly. When we have to update, the world comes to a halt. It‘s an amazing difference.

I admire its purity. A survivor…unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.

Pay with a check.

Ahh…. I was there my friend. Similar setup, 486 DX4 100, USRobotics modem. I had the IRQ conflict. Me and my friend figured out how to change the channels by reading the mainboard‘s manual. I had to change some jumpers around. It was my first modem and I had never connected to the internet before.

I believe he’s talking about Germany not allowing critique on war crimes and mass murder if perpetrated by Israel.

https://youtu.be/K4JhruinbWc

I think it would!

Yep used it for a while. Pretty solid, free and uncomplicated. Just send a link with a random word appended and you are meeting.

I am of the opinion that orgasming is one‘s responsibility. One orgasms with their partners. I see sex as a kind of shared masturbation.