|
|
From cache:
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky[a] (December 7, 1928 – June 17, 2024) was an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[b] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
|
|
|
|
|
Seems yet another retraction.
Given all that (the 404s, the edited wiki) I'm thinking there were initial reports he died, but he resurfaced at a hospital in Brazil.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
|
|
|
|
|
Yep, also in the wiki history very much edits/reverts ...
At the time I edited: The italien version still shows the date: Noam Chomsky - Wikipedia[^]
modified yesterday.
|
|
|
|
|
he's probably not far from it.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
|
|
|
|
|
|
Thanks. Yeah it was bizarre. I normally don't get taken in by hoax death reports, though I don't think this was that, as I normally do some due diligence using google if it looks like it even might be false.
I thought so here when I first heard about it, so I started looking through google and I was getting hits from reputable news outlets, but when I clicked on a couple I got 404s for those links.
I would expect a retraction so I wasn't entirely sure what happened. The whole thing was bizarre.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
|
|
|
|
|
A few years ago, a now inactive member of CP "killed" a (still very much alive) famous English cricketer on Wikipedia.
That, and a few other escapades, did not help to advance his desire for elected office, shall we say.
But I do miss his wit occasionally.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
|
|
|
|
|
He was, indeed, a shining wit.
|
|
|
|
|
Half of one, anyway.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
|
|
|
|
|
|
I see what you did there.
|
|
|
|
|
|
No, it's not a joke, but I'm going to let the Lounge come up with posts at joke level...
Question 1: wife or hubby has to go off to work. At what point do you hit the shower?
Question 2: in your family cell phone plan - can you track the location of SWMBO so you can clean up before it happens?
Question 3... oh crap, she's on her way to the car....
I'm expecting your best efforts  I expect this to show up in the next letter... let's go.
I might spin this into a survey.. or something, and send someone their selected beverage or item of choice. Raman is cheap to ship.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
|
|
|
|
|
- If you are working from home, do you need to shower? Water conservation!
- Yes, but I do not need to track SWMBO. She will have Siri send me a text “Home in 5 minutes, be ready to help me unload the groceries, goat feed, etc”
- See answer to 2
|
|
|
|
|
englebart wrote: Yes, but I do not need to track SWMBO.
You spell it wrong. It's SMWOB.
|
|
|
|
|
charlieg wrote: No, it's not a joke, but I'm going to let the Lounge come up with posts at joke level...
You want people like me to make up a joke? I'm dumb as rocks.
charlieg wrote: wife or hubby has to go off to work. At what point do you hit the shower?
After about 3 weeks or so.
charlieg wrote: Question 2: in your family cell phone plan - can you track the location of SWMBO so you can clean up before it happens?
I don't know who or what this SWMBO is. You want me to track this SMWOB thing/person so that I can clean up before it happens? Something only needs to be cleaned up if it's dirty. Logic tells me that this SMWO8 thing is going to cause something to get dirty, and I need to clean it up... Well, I'll see what I can do.
charlieg wrote: Question 3... oh crap, she's on her way to the car....
This doesn't sound good. OK, when this unknown female arrives at the unspecified car's location, that's bad. Got it.
charlieg wrote: I might spin this into a survey.. or something, and send someone their selected beverage or item of choice. Raman is cheap to ship. 
This unspecified thing needs to be spun, then you want to put it into a survey? ...or something... OK, I can work with that. Someone will select a beverage, or an item of choice and it somehow gets sent to someone. Who's this Ramen guy? I could be wrong, but I think it might be illegal to ship people. Leave Ramen alone and focus on tracking MWSBO before the unspecified female gets to that car. It's going to cause a mess and I'm going to clean it up. OK, I'll get right on it. 
|
|
|
|
|
I've spoken with several random strangers. Based on the information I gathered, I have reason to believe that BMWOS may have selected Ramen's beverage and given it a spin. A female subject may be on her way to a car somewhere. It's possible this female is traveling on foot. We're searching for both the unknown female subject and a car that's likely somewhere. It's got 4 wheels from what I gather. Be on the lookout.
|
|
|
|
|
charlieg wrote: Question 1: wife or hubby has to go off to work. At what point do you hit the shower?
I haven't had either in 36 years; I'll shower when I feel like it, if at all.
charlieg wrote: Question 2: in your family cell phone plan - can you track the location of SWMBO so you can clean up before it happens?
I don't recall ever having a SWMBO, whatever that might be. If I ever did, the penicillin cleared it up.
charlieg wrote: Question 3... oh crap, she's on her way to the car....
If I offer her candy, will she get in?
Will Rogers never met me.
|
|
|
|
|
Not married. Survey N/A. Working from home since 2007 (eat your heart out, Covid).
I was about 7 years old when I told an aunt of mine I'd never get married. She thought that was so cute. I remember getting annoyed she didn't make me seriously.
She passed away last year. Had I had a chance to go see her before it happened, I would've reminded her I not only have not changed my mind, but I'm now convinced more than ever, at the age of 51, it was the right choice.
|
|
|
|
|
Q1: We both work from home. I shower first while she feeds the livestock. (two cats and a dog)
Q2: It's pointless to track the whereabouts of She Who Might Be Obeyed. She'll detect any messes I've made no matter how well I've cleaned up.
Q3: I hope she brings home lunch.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
|
|
|
|
|
Well, go and f*** yourself.
And to his mate who thought this must be default and non-changeable via an option, you can go to.
I know, it is not the first time I rant about this, but oh God does this cost me time.
|
|
|
|
|
Can you not OpenOffice or something?
I want to cackle like a madman watching the pendulum swing back towards "uhhh, this stuff sucks and native apps will always be better".
|
|
|
|
|
I am very open to alternatives, but in this very case it is at my workplace AND I reckon I enjoy the MSOffice suite.
Sharepoint is a big POS however.
|
|
|
|
|
Their thinking seems to be led by 'be better than Google at the online office suite'. Just look at the current 'New Outlook', it is an online interface in a native app  . I guess they think that is where the majority will end up, online, with less and less users of the native apps 
BTW, if you can't open an office doc in the native app from within SharePoint then I think that that's an admin setting, not an MS imposed limitation. From the ellipsis (...) menu, the Open item should give you three options, Open in browser, Open in app, Open in immersive reader.
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
