• OT: (Was: How to switch to long mode in x86 CPUs?)

    From Salvador Mirzo@21:1/5 to Ar Rakin on Fri Feb 28 19:56:56 2025
    Ar Rakin <[email protected]> writes:

    [...]

    You might consider posting on Stack Overflow.

    That's no fun :/

    Might also enjoy it while you can. With the advent of text generators,
    the future of this website might be quite uncertain.

    I discovered Usenet a week ago, started using it, and I'm loving it. You
    can say that I am one of those people who love retro-computing. Usenet
    is much more fun to use than web forums or things like that.

    Quite right. So much for fun being here.

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  • From Salvador Mirzo@21:1/5 to Salvador Mirzo on Fri Feb 28 19:57:51 2025
    Sorry---I messed up the subject. Fixed it.

    Salvador Mirzo <[email protected]> writes:

    Ar Rakin <[email protected]> writes:

    [...]

    You might consider posting on Stack Overflow.

    That's no fun :/

    Might also enjoy it while you can. With the advent of text generators,
    the future of this website might be quite uncertain.

    I discovered Usenet a week ago, started using it, and I'm loving it. You
    can say that I am one of those people who love retro-computing. Usenet
    is much more fun to use than web forums or things like that.

    Quite right. So much for fun being here.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Richard Harnden@21:1/5 to Salvador Mirzo on Fri Feb 28 23:38:28 2025
    On 28/02/2025 22:57, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
    Sorry---I messed up the subject. Fixed it.

    Salvador Mirzo <[email protected]> writes:

    Ar Rakin <[email protected]> writes:

    [...]

    You might consider posting on Stack Overflow.

    That's no fun :/

    Might also enjoy it while you can. With the advent of text generators,
    the future of this website might be quite uncertain.

    Usenet it not a website.

    Probably the only thing LLMs don't scrape.


    I discovered Usenet a week ago, started using it, and I'm loving it. You >>> can say that I am one of those people who love retro-computing. Usenet
    is much more fun to use than web forums or things like that.

    Quite right. So much for fun being here.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Ar Rakin@21:1/5 to Salvador Mirzo on Sat Mar 1 15:08:05 2025
    On 28 Feb 2025 19:57, Salvador Mirzo <[email protected]> wrote:

    Sorry---I messed up the subject. Fixed it.

    Salvador Mirzo <[email protected]> writes:

    Ar Rakin <[email protected]> writes:

    [...]

    You might consider posting on Stack Overflow.

    That's no fun :/

    Might also enjoy it while you can. With the advent of text generators,
    the future of this website might be quite uncertain.

    I discovered Usenet a week ago, started using it, and I'm loving it. You >>> can say that I am one of those people who love retro-computing. Usenet
    is much more fun to use than web forums or things like that.

    Quite right. So much for fun being here.

    Happens! It's okay.

    --
    Ar Rakin

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  • From Ar Rakin@21:1/5 to Salvador Mirzo on Sat Mar 1 15:07:25 2025
    On 28 Feb 2025 19:56, Salvador Mirzo <[email protected]> wrote:

    Ar Rakin <[email protected]> writes:

    [...]

    You might consider posting on Stack Overflow.

    That's no fun :/

    Might also enjoy it while you can. With the advent of text generators,
    the future of this website might be quite uncertain.

    I discovered Usenet a week ago, started using it, and I'm loving it. You
    can say that I am one of those people who love retro-computing. Usenet
    is much more fun to use than web forums or things like that.

    Quite right. So much for fun being here.

    Yes!

    --
    Ar Rakin

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  • From Ar Rakin@21:1/5 to Richard Harnden on Sat Mar 1 15:09:48 2025
    On 28 Feb 2025 23:38, Richard Harnden <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Usenet it not a website.

    Probably the only thing LLMs don't scrape.

    I'd want it to be like this forever. Don't let the AI companies know
    about Usenet!

    --
    Ar Rakin

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Salvador Mirzo@21:1/5 to Richard Harnden on Sat Mar 1 23:34:24 2025
    Richard Harnden <[email protected]d> writes:

    On 28/02/2025 22:57, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
    Sorry---I messed up the subject. Fixed it.
    Salvador Mirzo <[email protected]> writes:

    Ar Rakin <[email protected]> writes:

    [...]

    You might consider posting on Stack Overflow.

    That's no fun :/

    Might also enjoy it while you can. With the advent of text generators,
    the future of this website might be quite uncertain.

    Usenet it not a website.

    LOL---I meant Stack Overflow. I would think they're very much down by
    now in page views because I'd think it's used most by beginner
    programmers who would typically try text generators before they go to
    Stack Overflow and will usually be satisfied. So I think Stack
    Overflow's future is quite uncertain.

    And, by the way, I didn't think it would happen so fast, but since it
    started out, I thought---it can't go too far because they don't quite
    let programmers talk to one another, like we do here. A
    question-and-answer website is poor. It's useful, but it's poor.

    Discoveries come about not by asking and answering, but by writing, so
    we need to write to learn and understand. Of course, the writing should
    be of high-quality, which is achievable if the community enforces it.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Ar Rakin@21:1/5 to Salvador Mirzo on Sun Mar 2 16:48:43 2025
    On 3/2/25 8:34 AM, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
    Richard Harnden <[email protected]d> writes:

    On 28/02/2025 22:57, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
    Sorry---I messed up the subject. Fixed it.
    Salvador Mirzo <[email protected]> writes:

    Ar Rakin <[email protected]> writes:

    [...]

    You might consider posting on Stack Overflow.

    That's no fun :/

    Might also enjoy it while you can. With the advent of text generators, >>>> the future of this website might be quite uncertain.

    Usenet it not a website.

    LOL---I meant Stack Overflow. I would think they're very much down by
    now in page views because I'd think it's used most by beginner
    programmers who would typically try text generators before they go to
    Stack Overflow and will usually be satisfied. So I think Stack
    Overflow's future is quite uncertain.

    And, by the way, I didn't think it would happen so fast, but since it
    started out, I thought---it can't go too far because they don't quite
    let programmers talk to one another, like we do here. A
    question-and-answer website is poor. It's useful, but it's poor.

    Discoveries come about not by asking and answering, but by writing, so
    we need to write to learn and understand. Of course, the writing should
    be of high-quality, which is achievable if the community enforces it.

    The StackOverflow community is extremely toxic to newbies - instead of
    asking and answering questions like a healthy and friendly community.
    Refer to this YouTube video for more details on this: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7v0yvdkIHg>.

    I stopped using StackOverflow years ago.

    --
    Rakin

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  • From yeti@21:1/5 to Ar Rakin on Sun Mar 2 17:27:25 2025
    Ar Rakin <[email protected]> wrote:

    I stopped using StackOverflow years ago.

    Same.

    I kept the impression counting up-votes and weaponizing down-votes was
    the main game that was played there.

    --
    ... and do not forget to unsubscribe.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Ar Rakin on Wed Mar 5 19:30:03 2025
    Ar Rakin <[email protected]> wrote at 09:09 this Saturday (GMT):
    On 28 Feb 2025 23:38, Richard Harnden <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Usenet it not a website.

    Probably the only thing LLMs don't scrape.

    I'd want it to be like this forever. Don't let the AI companies know
    about Usenet!

    --
    Ar Rakin


    I mean, Google cut us off so..
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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  • From Salvador Mirzo@21:1/5 to Ar Rakin on Sat Mar 8 20:06:49 2025
    Ar Rakin <[email protected]> writes:

    On 3/2/25 8:34 AM, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

    [...]

    The StackOverflow community is extremely toxic to newbies - instead of
    asking and answering questions like a healthy and friendly
    community. Refer to this YouTube video for more details on this: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7v0yvdkIHg>.

    I stopped using StackOverflow years ago.

    I never began.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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