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Congress already declared he didn’t have the right to do that without their approval.

Interesting…

I heard somewhere that zombies eat brains…

So, is Artificial Intelligence actually the zombies, coming after the children’s minds? 🤔

And Turnip doesn’t have the authority to go to war with Iran, but he did anyways, so your point is?

That’s not fired, that’s reappointed to a new position.

When the second word of the title is wrong, well get it right, people are misinterpreting this right now.

You’re not too far off base actually, remember when convenience stores used to sell spice?..

They’ll sell whatever they legally can, and even then some things are still in that grey area…

Try actually reading the article, she’s far from gone, she’s just been reappointed to a new position.

So, it’s been decades since I was a teenager, and AI chatbots weren’t even a thing. Hell, I didn’t even have the internet as a teenager, so maybe I’m totally out of the loop, but someone riddle me this?..

They’re age checking and gatekeeping social media, but not age checking and gatekeeping AI chatbots?

Do I have this about right, or am I missing something here?

Whatever the future of petrol, you gotta consider they sell way more than fuel. They’re called convenience stores for a reason, which I semi-jokingly refer to as addiction stations. They can and do sell basically anything they legally can that people are addicted to, beer, cigarettes, soft drinks, energy drinks, candy, hot food, etc…

So, whatever the long term future of petroleum, the stores themselves for the most part aren’t going anywhere, they’ll keep selling every sort of quick grab fast selling goto items that keep the customers coming back.

It literally made my day to realize anyone out there is still interested in such things these days.

People like you keep my hope in humanity alive.

https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/

https://jargon-file.org/

You’ve actually read this far?

Thank you for appreciating my words and the time it took to type them.

Sam’s Photofacts: https://repairfaq.org/

Edit: I am not Sam, this is just a treasure trove of information on how to troubleshoot and repair discreet electronics.

Sam Goldwasser is to me almost as important as Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman…

I long ago lost that monitor and related hardware over the sands of time, moving one place to another multiple times.

The benefit though was that I effectively quadrupled the number of pixels on screen from the common 1024x768 resolution of the time.

1024x2=2048, 768x2=1536

I was basically pioneering early extra high definition video output before it was even a thing.

The images themselves wouldn’t look any different, except smaller as each pixel was only 1/4 of original size, giving me a much larger visible pixel area for image editing.

It wouldn’t have helped gameplay much though, as I had to sacrifice framerate to accomplish that.

Edit: You definitely can’t do shit like that on modern LCDs, that category of overclocking is exclusive to old CRTs.

TL;DR - Much higher pixel resolution, at the cost of framerate.

It was officially rated for a max of 1280x1024, 50Hz progressive. The more common resolution of choice back then was 1024x768, 60Hz.

Well I wanted a much higher resolution than that, so by absolutely maxing out the horizontal output transistor frequency to 64KHz and doing some quick number crunching, I was able to make a custom display mode of 2048x1536, 25Hz interlaced.

Although the vertical refresh rate got both cut in half and also switched to interlaced, it still absolutely qualifies as overclocking, because the horizontal output transistor (HOT) is basically the most stressed out non high voltage component in any CRT monitor.

Running the HOT at the bleeding edge of the manufacturer’s frequency rating of 64KHz could and would indeed burn it out prematurely if run too long like that, especially without additional cooling, so I didn’t run it too damn long like that, but I just wanted to see if it was even possible.

The monitor itself was from 1994, so it was effectively all analog, no digital onscreen menus, no signal checking and no error message on the screen to say boohoo video mode not supported, the monitor just tuned itself to the signal and frequencies I calculated and arranged for it.

It did however have quite a few analog image transform buttons on its front panel though, for things like trapezoid and shear distortion, raster rotation, corner bowing, etc, lots of things most monitors from 1994 didn’t have, which meant the CRT yoke had probably twice as many deflection coils as a regular consumer CRT.

Not bad for a monitor from 1994 that probably never saw anything over 1024x768 in practical use before I ever acquired it. I got literally 4 times the pixels of the typical desktop resolution of the time.

Was it worth it? For daily use, no. For learning experience, absolutely!

8 months, no money, duh.

I did it myself. I’ve been lighthearted about my comments, but if you really wanna know all the details, well it fucking hurt like hell!

But it drained the abscess and gave me time to visit a dentist.

Cost? ~$500, Bank? ~$0, Time, ~8months

It is an interesting discussion that me and my lady friend had years ago, and you bring up many valid points. I haven’t spoken with her in a few years, we’ve lost contact, but she was open enough with me about her experiences that I’ll try to ask her more details as such when/if I ever encounter her again.

What, that humans are not mice? I don’t think I need evidence for that.

I can communicate with humans directly though, and have had an in-depth discussion with my long time friend J about this very subject.

She had went through both, and confirms that non-anesthesia self tooth drilling hurts more than childbirth.

Now as far as the mouse study, they studied their paws, not the more sensitive areas such as teeth and genitals…

Anyways, for every dozen of cures for mice they find, I still haven’t heard any of them approved and applied to humans.

So, once again, humans are not mice.