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India's major airlines on 'verge of closing down' as high fuel costs sting(scmp.com)
10 points by TMWNN 6mo ago|0 comments
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by TMWNN 6mo ago
What I have done to maintain the integrity of my Time Machine backups (to UnRAID, via SMB): For the "sparsebundles break" issue: * Back up to multiple targets. I use both mbentley's Time Machine Docker image (only one backup
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by TMWNN 6mo ago
Conversely, the last time I checked a couple of weeks ago, it was impossible to find any USB4 external SSDs on Amazon; only USB 3.2.
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by TMWNN 6mo ago
Yes. Thanks to the Earth's gravity well, it is significantly less energy-intensive to deliver 100kg of mass from the moon to low Earth orbit, than to launch the same amount from Earth. This is the reason for SpaceX's recent pivo
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by TMWNN 6mo ago
> It _is_ performative (not sure it's nonsense) because it doesn't actually do or intend to do anything. It's cheap. Yes, that's my point. Once some risk—however small—came to be of land acknowledgements within New Br
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by TMWNN 6mo ago
>I bought it with high hopes, but my Zip disks turned out to be so convenient and spacious that the VHS-backup need never arose. It's good to hear, in retrospect, that you were able to use a storage medium that did not even exist wh
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by TMWNN 6mo ago
Related 2023 discussion (22 comments): < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38523736 >
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by TMWNN 6mo ago
The same performative nonsense occurs in Canada. Land acknowledgements are the ultimate in virtue signaling; once they actually mean something, they suddenly end. Two overlapping tribal claims in New Brunswick cover 100% of the province. Th
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by TMWNN 6mo ago
How reliable did you find VBS?
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by TMWNN 6mo ago
It's amazing, the things that can be done without what we would consider modern technology. The 8-bit Guy recently released a video asking "What if everything still ran out vacuum tubes?" < https://www.youtube.co
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by TMWNN 6mo ago
Actual original post: < https://reddit.com/r/datahoarder/comments/1sljeh6/my_isp_is_... >
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by TMWNN 6mo ago
Then your point doesn't make sense. As I said, musicians who die early (again, excepting rappers) usually die from self-inflicted causes, not violence from others. What is the connection between this and violent attacks on AI and/
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by TMWNN 6mo ago
>How about all the rock stars killed over the years With the exception of rappers, most musicians who die early die from overdoses, suicides, and such (the "27 club" < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Clu
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Aids Info Disk: a playthrough of the first-ever ransomware(marnetto.net)
3 points by TMWNN 6mo ago|0 comments
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by TMWNN 7mo ago
Commodore so slowly and ineffectually improving on the OCS didn't help, but the original sin of the Amiga was committed in the beginning, with planar graphics (i.e., slow and hard to work with, even setting aside HAM) and TV-oriented r
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by TMWNN 7mo ago
The first 80286-based system (IBM PC AT), 80386 (Compaq Deskpro 386), and 80486 all had people writing about their suitability as servers, with the consensus's implication being that normal people didn't need them. The Pentium is
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Checking in on 'Marathon' a Month After Launch(forbes.com)
2 points by TMWNN 7mo ago|0 comments
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Anthropic Model Scare Sparks Urgent Bessent, Powell Warning to Bank CEOs(bloomberg.com)
1 points by TMWNN 7mo ago|0 comments
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by TMWNN 7mo ago
>So Homer Simpson was right in the end. Indeed. Proof that beer builds gut strength: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrrEzyKXUnk >
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CVE-1999-1218 – Amiga Unix allows access to files using finger(exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com)
4 points by TMWNN 7mo ago|0 comments
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by TMWNN 7mo ago
I gave Copilot the other day my Elisp code, and it asked if I wanted improvements. Upon my approval, it immediately produced a revision that added two new, useful features and worked out of the box. Very impressive.
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by TMWNN 7mo ago
Even if they are included, they wouldn't join up. More British Muslims joined ISIS than the British military. < https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/magazine/her-majestys-jih... >
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by TMWNN 7mo ago
>why only locals, but no migrants? Even if they are included, they wouldn't join up. More British Muslims joined ISIS than the British military. < https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/magazine/her
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by TMWNN 7mo ago
The US draft included non-citizen legal residents, such as Howard Stringer. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stringer >
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MIT study challenges AI job apocalypse narrative(axios.com)
7 points by TMWNN 7mo ago|2 comments
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by TMWNN 7mo ago
This is where I got the URL from.
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Q148637: Windows 95/98 Overwrites Boot-Sector Field on Floppy Disks (2001)(jeffpar.github.io)
10 points by TMWNN 7mo ago|3 comments
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by TMWNN 7mo ago
Edited by me from "Air India flight from Chicago to New Delhi returns hours into journey after rags, clothes and plastic bags clog toilets"
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Air India flight from US to New Delhi turns back after clogged toilets (2025)(cnn.com)
4 points by TMWNN 7mo ago|1 comments
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Russia goes after VPNs as 'great crackdown' gathers pace(yahoo.com)
6 points by TMWNN 7mo ago|0 comments

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