IvyMike

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by IvyMike 7y ago
I have a system of home-grown topics, but the real innovation is also having a system of monthly "2020 Jan" folders for catch all. This means on the off chance that I get some time to go thru the backlog, I can tackle a single mon
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> If anything, we've only learned to squander all available memory. If I've learned anything in my computer career, it is that this is an evergreen comment. I remember reading Q-Link posts from Commodore 64 users with this com
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> they are the biggest lobbying group out there Are you sure they need your support then? (...and that you're not just funding Wayne LaPierre's personal slush fund?) Why not SAF, for example?
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One minute: what a dechoker is and how to use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkqgexP_NNE One hour (because as easy as it looks you're gonna have to do it at least 4 times): deboning a chicken: https://w
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A while back, I watched and enjoyed a documentary about the Corona program mentioned in the article. I believe this is it: https://www.c-span.org/video/?321255-1/discussion-cias-coron...
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https://docs.python.org/3.9/whatsnew/3.9.html
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> Texans have noticed that people arrive from California, and then start voting to turn Texas into California. There seems to be no awareness of the connection between policy and the cost of living. Is that actually true? They are a sel
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The business card in the photos leads to Michael Stearns Design + Photography https://www.hybrid3.com/DESIGN/26/caption
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To paraphrase Neal Stephenson, "The earth blew up without warning and for no apparent reason."
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He was engaged in socially unacceptable behavior and yet was still socially accepted. I'm not sure how much more normalized it could get.
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I don't see evidence of that--Epstein seemed to be fairly well accepted and even chummy with the Media Lab management. Nobody consciously says "Hey this is a thing we do now--hang out with child traffickers as if it's normal
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In the other thread, people were saying "I'd take Epstein's dirty money and do good with it." But the problem is that doing so normalizes the behavior. Everybody who has doubts about working with the creep looks around
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Gamma ray bursts travel at the speed of light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst#WR_104:_A_near...
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Strange times for Berry Club. https://www.mrlovenstein.com/comic/643
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This sounds flippant, but in all seriousness: Has that been working out?
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The Aedes mosquitoes that are invading Los Angeles will apparently breed in an upturned bottle cap or "in the depression of a wrinkled old bag of chips that gets hit by a sprinkler.". Good luck finding all pools of water that big
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To further your point: Matt Blaze said this recently: "Encryption backdoor demands seem to get vaguer with each iteration. The 1993 Clipper Chip, as bad as it was, was at least a specific proposal with technical properties that could b
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Another thing: for every digital subscription service, I always wonder if someone has tried a "the more subscribers, the cheaper the subscription" model. For example, I imagine a "If we get 1 million digital subscribers, we&
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I wonder if there's a missing subscription model that allows for casual, not devoted, subscribers. I'm never going to sit down and read the LA Times website like it was a newspaper. That ship has sailed. I will, however, occasio
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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wond
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Agreed. In fact, the use of "literally" as an intensifier isn't all that new: Twain, Fitzgerald, Austen, and others used it that way too. https://slate.com/human-interest/2005/11/the-trouble-w
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I have a signed Burrito Tunnel poster on my wall from kickerstarting idleword's trip to Antarctica. It's awesome. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-wor...
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Revise that: my actual number one hope is the "Jeff Mangum built some kind of time machine and saved Anne Frank" theory is right, but that's admittedly harder to believe.
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Of all the conspiracy theories out there, the one I want to be true the most is Bigfoot. My hopes pretty much hang on this: https://youtu.be/Fr2RIJ1gCac
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An excuse to post my favorite RoShamBo scene ever: https://vimeo.com/210145683 , from the show Patriot. (There's a lot of context that's missing but it's hopeless for me to try to explain it. I highly recom
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Did you read 'copse' as 'corpse', or is this really a common joke?
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It is worth reading the history and intention of this phrase for context. https://qz.com/1144783/the-rise-of-the-alt-rights-catchphras...
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England had a mad cow scare that kicked off a wider adoption of non-beef alternatives.
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This is a little long but covers both the utopian and dystopian versions of the idea. https://marshallbrain.com/manna.htm
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Why do you say that? Every source I can find disagrees. https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/candida-auris/c-auris-drug-resist... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_(microorganism) https://

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