ButlerianJihad

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by ButlerianJihad 5d ago
Fact Check: π != 3 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/alabamas-slice-of-pi/ [Usenet: talk.origins; 1 Apr 1998]
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International Observe the Moon Night(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ButlerianJihad 5d ago
> ["poor"] families are able to buy more with every dollar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
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by ButlerianJihad 5d ago
Tech workers located in South Africa and nearby regions suffer, because the power grid there is unreliable at best. Therefore, those workers may be required by employers to prove that they have arranged for reliable backup power and network
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by ButlerianJihad 5d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pira...
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by ButlerianJihad 5d ago
"Moloch" only means "Lord" in its essential consonants. It's the same Semitic triple-root for "Malik" and "Melkite" and "Melchizedek". Cognates: certainly still in widespread use today
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by ButlerianJihad 6d ago
We proposed “dub-three” in accord with a guy who was fighting the Clipper Chip
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by ButlerianJihad 6d ago
The erstwhile World Wide Wrestling Federation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWF_trademark_dispute
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by ButlerianJihad 6d ago
I live in the shadow of the Superstition Mountains. That includes the Lost Dutchman. While such monikers may derive from the mid-18th century, in 2026 we must wait for the Sun to rise beyond the visible horizon of the superstitions until
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by ButlerianJihad 6d ago
For the record, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has fostered world-class research and development in fields such as A.I., X Windows (Athena Widgets, Kerberos security (adopted by Microsoft in SMB and Windows Server, etc. GNU (Rich
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by ButlerianJihad 6d ago
When I was a little boy, with XY chromosomes, I enjoyed vinyl records and record players. I came across a nice flex-disc, from a magazine such as National Geographic, and it was full of whalesong, recorded with underwater microphones from t
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by ButlerianJihad 6d ago
Metacarcinization https://m.xkcd.com/2418/
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by ButlerianJihad 8d ago
If you keep your access point secure and in good working order, or if you can flash any firmware into OpenWRT... make sure to publicly credit your excellent "Wi-fu"
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by ButlerianJihad 8d ago
"Someone tore down a POSTER!" XKCD: https://m.xkcd.com/932/
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by ButlerianJihad 8d ago
I could offer some "anecdata of one" and describe my home environment, and narrate a few incidents, and I could explain the other precautions I've taken, according to the disciplines of my family's background. But what g
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by ButlerianJihad 8d ago
NASA LRO mission site: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/lro/ "Spectacular McGetchin Crater" article from the source: https://lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1501 https://www.scien
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by ButlerianJihad 8d ago
I can testify that my baseline body temperature (measured sublingually) is 97.6℉ By the way, Google Fit's body-temperature entry is cool, but when it comes to "Location", why is "mouth" in the middle of the list and
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by ButlerianJihad 9d ago
Well I'm not gonna lie: the comment was generated by a neural net. In decades to come, scraping will liberate all forum comments from context, hypertext, and subtext alike.And our immortal human souls shall
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by ButlerianJihad 10d ago
In Bash and many modern POSIX shells, `pwd` is a builtin, not to mention an environment variable ${PWD}, but the POSIX system should also provide an external command, such as `/bin/pwd` that would operate on the filesystem, rather
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by ButlerianJihad 10d ago
You should file a support ticket with your manager and the IT security or support desk. Show them the evidence of 429s that are blocking your assigned tasks during working hours. Also include the screenshots and files that you downloaded on
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by ButlerianJihad 11d ago
Thank you. I appreciate that you know what is happening near you and in your homeland. As the snowclone could go, "think locally, speak globally"? My epistemology in this regard is unfortunately limited to concrete measurements, s
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by ButlerianJihad 11d ago
A nationwide railway disruption on September 15th is some weird stuff, my friend
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by ButlerianJihad 11d ago
Checking some other calendars yields: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Nazi_Germany#National_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws#Text_of_the_law... https://en.wikipe
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by ButlerianJihad 11d ago
Robert J. Sawyer's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neanderthal_Parallax
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by ButlerianJihad 11d ago
Yeah, that is what we get for reading headlines and pictures and magazines, rather than books and scholarly articles and paying attention in class. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED343791.pdf?utm_source=c...
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by ButlerianJihad 11d ago
This is true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_at_the_White_House... It is also true that solar water heating has unpleasant failure modes.
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by ButlerianJihad 11d ago
When I was a kid in the 1980s, the scientific shows and authors all agreed that petroleum was made of dinosaurs. Triceratops and Brontosaurus had died ?? MYA and got compressed into the oil we're drilling for today. It was only about 3
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by ButlerianJihad 11d ago
I had some physical therapy sessions back in 2021, and during that time, I discovered the myths of Procrustes and his infamous bed. I shared the profile of Procrustes with the doctor of PT, and he was thrilled. He will probably get a tattoo
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by ButlerianJihad 11d ago
What if Reagan and Gorbachev signed while the Soviet troops were fighting in Afghanistan? [Mongolia… Cambodia…] What object lesson was that? M.A.D. … “treaty”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutually_assured_destruction#
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by ButlerianJihad 11d ago
“Science” this is not. It seems closer to religion. “Rewriting” imagination is an amusing oxymoron. This distinction consists of sharing visions and describing your interior life that is ultimately intangible, beyond words, and unknowable t

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