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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
The past few planetarium shows in my neck-of-the-woods have featured narration by the likes of David Tennant and Diego Luna. As I understand it, these shows are sort of syndicated and shared among many locations. Some of them were several y
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
More fatal than just taking the SSRIs? Do they also increase the homicidal ideations?
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
This is such a terrible fiasco. You know, I chose to criticize the one video that Jeff singled out as offending. And Jeff has a lot of great content on his channel. Jeff has good and fun DIY projects. Jeff has also said that he is supportin
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/big-list-rtl-sdr-supported-software/ Ctrl-F "linux" = 157 occurrences. This is the amateur radio community we're talking about here! "Writing your own device drivers" is
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#Circumvention_of_DVD_c... Software tagged as "no longer available" is due to New York federal court by AACS group legal action in later March, 2014.[12] Remaining existi
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
The GP wasn't referring to DRM or DMCA type "copyright protection" as the phrase is typically used. Nobody in this thread has mentioned any of that. The GP is referring to legal protections, and guess what? Linux is legally
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
“Ah! I see you’ve got the machine that goes PING !” https://youtu.be/VQPIdZvoV4g?si=19OCFyMXkpS96RWe
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Sorry, but I use a search engine where I can specify "site:x.com" for example, or better yet, "site:m.xkcd.com", and it shows me exclusively results on that site’s domain, rather than clumsily trying to pretend with a co
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Stanford was edgy enough to reefer to “toking” in the moniker, but exercises restraint by depicting the titular thunder lizard smoking a putatively conventional tobacco cigarette. I am hoping to use this “Tokasaurus” nickname with affection
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
> Getting rid of unused products costs money Storing unsold product also costs money. A brick-and-mortar storefront is extremely conscious of what's allowed on their shelves, because if the product isn't moving, it's not o
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
> charity thrift store chain Many people see a thrift store on the corner, or a collection bin, and they automatically assume that the thrift business is a non-profit, a charity that is run by a church or a social services agency. But
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
The last time I attended a Berne Convention, every panel was just overrun with Trekkies, especially Klingons, in the hotel lounges too. And the autograph lines were interminably long, and the vendors were trying to sell us their Public Doma
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Hey, I cannot even begin to describe the thrill I got when I first found my way to the AF.MIL anon-ftp server! It was probably sparsely populated with public domain software and a couple boring games, but it felt like I'd just walked i
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu It was actually the A.I. Lab at M.I.T. and they already had their own dedicated subdomain for it. This had to have been around 1990-91. And IIRC, the actual admins made a valiant effort to keep all the shell users
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Many spices, as well as actual oil extracted from actual snakes by actual healers, and mushrooms as well, gained reputations in antiquity as medicinal and/or beneficial to health in some way. And this often fueled increased trade and i
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
But this is truly the correct usage, despite your original research; you (and the nobodies on Talk page) should have referred to the reliable secondary sources instead. Chemists are better at Latin than you gave them credit for. https:&#x2
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Because, 18 months from now, you or your executrix wakes up with a hangover, and your Internet connection is down, and you or your executrix begin troubleshooting, and poking through the DNS configuration, your executrix scratches her head
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Ohh, your Example Documentation was sooo close to being RFC-compliant! Except for those unnecessary abbreviations of CIDR notation, and... You can use 203.0.113.0/24 in your examples because it is specifically reserved for this purpose
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
> allows a school to play a movie No, it doesn’t. Play 10% of a movie for the purpose of critiquing it, perhaps. https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/ Fair Use is not an a priori e
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
But why for (I = I; I <= XIV; I++) { printf("Pope Leo %d is best Pope Leo!\n", I); } Interestingly, the authors use circumlocutions to avoid naming the Arabic numerals for what they are, while the ones used in thei
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
[ad filtering] Accesses are resolved with the IP address 0.0.0.0 I remember the days I was running a Pi-hole at home, and after having no web server running on my desktop machine, I started an Apache web server, and there was a surprise i
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
The US military is not limited to using stock COTS hardware. They have imitated the form factor and general feel of those controls, but custom built and ruggedized. https://www.wired.com/story/fmcu-us-military-controlle
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Wow! A daytime star tracker! What wavelengths does it use?
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Do you mean for the IPv4 addresses? Because have you ever seen the ip6.arpa ranges? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup#IPv6_revers... The funny thing is that they’re reusing the IPv4 octets, that look lik
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Falsifying a theory is a nice thing and assures us that empirical science is working as intended, yes? Or sometimes laypeople were overeager to label as “theory” some things which enjoyed status as mere hypothesis, or conjecture, or proposa
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Why don’t you donate them to a thrift store or educational charity? Are there no non-profits who refurbish and reuse electronics in your community?
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
The Wikipedia account of Morrow-Tait's “circumnavigation” is passing strange, particularly the way it was interrupted for 5 months but “resumed” with a completely different aircraft and navigator? I think some janky editor messed with
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
One night I was fresh off the plane in Barcelona and my friend had taken me to a restaurant for supper. Knowing plenty of Spanish and Romance languages, I could mostly figure out how to read menus and signs. I went to find the Men's Ro
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
The Brady Bunch , Season 1 Episode 9: "Sorry, Right Number" Airdate: November 21, 1969 A huge phone bill prompts Mike to have a pay telephone installed to teach the kids a lesson in financial responsibility. His plan nearly back
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
It will be really exciting if we confirm one, then. The spiral structure here is a hypothesis within a hypothesis. Whatever objects comprise the Oort Cloud, they haven't been directly observed. Scientists have inferred its existence fr

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