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    [Brazelton] Gordon Moore

    Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94 Obituary on Intel's Site Reuters Story Yes this is who Moore's Law is named after. Say what you will about Intel, and the history of computing (and how f'n lucky they were that IBM chose x86 for their PC), but that company's impact (and given he was...
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    Tech News and Miscellany

    KeepassXC for me. For around 10 years actually. Originally just Keepass normal, but it's "not really" open source. As others have said, you control where the encrypted archive lives. Or doesn't. But just "remembering" is not a real solution. And having everything subject to your email...
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    [MMO] Final Fantasy XIV (we get to be cats!)

    You can literally play it as a single-player game for the first 50 levels at least (not sure how far duty support goes yet, that's another question). And then for the last 20, same deal (very nearly, trials you need to go in Duty Finder for). Yes others will be running around, but no need to...
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    [MMO] Final Fantasy XIV (we get to be cats!)

    Work up to it. Start with Leap of Faith in the Saucer (and get it to the point where it only has a bad fall once in a while, but is fun), then get up to the top of one of the pillars in Rhalgr's Reach, and then go for the tower. It's surprisingly BAD initially, and then once you "get" a few...
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    [MMO] Final Fantasy XIV (we get to be cats!)

    When you get a screenshot like this one (this location) let me know. ;)
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    Did you know BBS's were still a thing?

    I played a few of these to the extreme back in the day. Shout-outs to Tradewars 2002, and Galactic Empire. TW became bad when it went from "helpers" (automate repetitive tasks) to "this game is basically a bot war now".
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    [Announcement] Halforums Party Game Night! (First Friday of every month) (Formally Jackbox)

    I'll be there. And I have Jackbox 3-8 (inclusive!)
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    I have a favour to ask

    Everybody's was great, but (with permission) I'm calling out @Celt Z 's card as a stand-out, as she made original art for it. I think that in particular @GasBandit and @Terrik should see this: And for anybody here who doesn't get it, well you just need to come to Jackbox night more often...
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    [Announcement] Happy Birthday HCGLNS!

    Happy Birthday @HCGLNS . A bit late, but I was away!
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    [Brazelton] William Hurt

    Agreed about Dark City. Also really good in the Dune miniseries that came out in the early 2000s as Leto.
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    I have a favour to ask

    I've now private messaged everybody from whom I've gotten a card. So thanks all. I really appreciated the effort you all went through to give me a better day. Sorry for only doing this a month later, but checking the mail today, we got another one!
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    I have a favour to ask

    This shows how much I have not been on the forums for a while, but I want to say it was really touching all the cards I've gotten, and @Dirona is sure that not all of them have arrived yet either. Thanks all. It means a lot.
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    [Announcement] Halforums Party Game Night! (First Friday of every month) (Formally Jackbox)

    She told me about this. I'll look in at the least. And I have all of them up to and including 8, so you won't be held hostage by Gas. That said, a few robots rapping may occur.
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    Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again

    It was good enough I had to share: https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-12-17 Nobody at one of our client organizations should ever see this. They'd see too much of themselves in it.
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    Tech News and Miscellany

    First, on the Audacity stuff: At least the first fork. Long term, I agree that it will likely turn into a mirror of the OpenOffice/LibreOffice situation. At least I hope so. Second, I think that this is one of the better articles about Machine Learning and "helping" coders that I've seen: A...
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