Kosh's Shadow 10/9/2026 5:37:57 AM

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The Nobel Piss Prize Committee has dug itself a bigger hole.

If you thought it was bad to give Obama the prize for doing nothing: Or Arafat for signing a peace treaty he never kept, and remained a terrorist.

South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay, who accused Israel of genocide in Gaza, wins Nobel Prize

I'd love to hear Trump say "If that is your standards, I don't WANT your prize."

vxbush 10/9/2026 6:43:14 AM

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I'm laughing at this article about mathematicians complaining about AI solving hard problems that have been open for a while in the field. They cried crocodile tears the first time a computer solved a problem, and they are still crying. 

If they had lived back before symbolic notation was developed, I'm sure they would have cried that using such notation was "not true mathematics". 

vxbush 10/9/2026 6:44:05 AM

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vxbush 10/9/2026 6:49:04 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 10/9/2026 6:50:30 AM

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In #4 vxbush said: And I didn't intend to go down the mathematics road today, but the stories were there: R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing

I posted that yesterday with a personal note in the Frontier.

Kosh's Shadow 10/9/2026 6:52:26 AM

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In #22 Occasional Reader said: “ its suposedly indigenous name "Turtle Island"” I would love to ask these people, in which indigenous language supposedly was this the case? All of them?  And which pre-Columbian “indigenous” tribes were aware of the extent of the North American continent; and if they were… how? 

They'd just pull their heads into their shells and insist everyone knows "It's turtles all the way down"

vxbush 10/9/2026 7:26:08 AM

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In #5 Kosh's Shadow said: I posted that yesterday with a personal note in the Frontier.

That's right! I'm sorry, I am super tired today, and my brain is definitely not plugged in. 

JCM 10/9/2026 7:26:13 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 2:

I was fighting with a poorly formatted form yesterday, then a website with disasters design. 

Given the condition of modern software, bloated, buggy, etc... I decided I was willing to give AI a chance at software. It can't be any worse.

vxbush 10/9/2026 7:40:27 AM

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In #8 JCM said: I was fighting with a poorly formatted form yesterday, then a website with disasters design.  Given the condition of modern software, bloated, buggy, etc... I decided I was willing to give AI a chance at software. It can't be any worse.

I'm sure I've mentioned this (at least, as sure as I can be, given today's unplugged brain), but not having to remember where curly brackets go and square brackets? Not having to remember specific functions that sound very similar but do different things? Worth it in my mind to let AI deal with that and I'll deal with the big picture. 

buzzsawmonkey 10/9/2026 9:17:11 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 3:

Well, that's one in the eye of the "9/11 Truthers"; apparently, the "fire" of Socialist rhetoric has melted Steele.

buzzsawmonkey 10/9/2026 9:19:25 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 4:

"Margaret Hamilton?"  

"I'll write code, my pretty---and for Apollo 11, too!"

---with apologies to the film "The Wizard of Oz"

Kosh's Shadow 10/9/2026 9:54:07 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 11:

Well, she was not a witch. See note in Frontier.

buzzsawmonkey 10/9/2026 10:09:56 AM

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In #12 Kosh's Shadow said: Well, she was not a witch. See note in Frontier.

I didn't mean to suggest she was; it's just that the actress of same name is better known, and the line I quoted/riffed off was probably her most widely-known line.

Kosh's Shadow 10/9/2026 10:39:13 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 13:

I do have to admit I never checked to see if she weighs the same as a duck