Can't prove it, but suspect that backing up StackOverflow is a timely idea now: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/393806/practical-effects-of-the-october-2023-layoff

There are _zero_ reasons to use footnotes in digital document.

In 1905, Henri Leon Lebesgue (1875 - 1941)
published a paper Sur les fonctions representables analytiquement which became
one of the cornerstones in measure theory. One of the theorems in the paper is
(in modern language)
Let B be a Borel subset of the plane, then its projection onto the
first axis is a Borel subset of the line.
This theorem is false! In 1916, the young ingenious Russian mathematician
M. M. Souslin came to his teacher Nikolai Nikolaievich Lusin (1883 - 1950)
and claimed that there was a mistake in Lebesgue's paper. Lusin did not believe
him at first, but he quickly became convinced, and in 1917 Souslin published a
counterexample to Lebesgue's theorem. Actually, Souslin constructed a concrete
sequence U1 , U2 , . .• of open subsets of the plane such that the projection of their
intersection onto the first axis is not a Borel set. Souslin died a few years later
in the war between "the reds" and "the whites" during the Russian revolution. He
only left three pages of mathematics, but the three pages became the start of a
new mathematical field (the theory of analytic sets), which today has found many
important applications in various mathematical fields. The morale of this story is:
Never trust your textbooks too much!. (following Billingsley)

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The future is arriving at a frightening pace. Today I failed at registering on Github, because theird CAPTCHA is just insanely difficult. I can pass neither the pictures, nor the audio one. 🤷

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https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/precision-mobile-workstations/precision-7740-battery-drain-wd19dc-240w-adapter/647f8f12f4ccf8a8de0104cf

"Thank you for the time. As per the troubleshooting steps tried, we can confirm that the system is working as designed."

`Autonomy, that's the bugaboo, where your AI's are concerned.
And I can't see how you'd distinguish, say, between a move the parent company makes, and some move the AI makes on its own, so that's maybe where the confusion comes in.'
`See, those things, they can work real hard, buy themselves time to
write cookbooks or whatever, but the minute, I mean the nanosecond, that one starts figuring out ways to make itself smarter, Turing'll wipe it. Nobody trusts those fuckers, you know that. Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead.'

Tried the new m.2 nvme pci express SSD. (Hikvision) So far a failure. Crashes randomly (device disappears), thus crashing the system.

Белогвардеец убил Думера. Нарочно не придумаешь.

Bloody telegram has banned my IP. I'm not amused.

Unbanned.