clutchingstraws

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by clutchingstraws 7y ago
It's a convenient result in the short term for those of us on the left who think that Alex Jones' views are utterly repugnant, but ultimately these sorts of deplatforming actions are counterproductive. Alex Jones' fans will n
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by clutchingstraws 7y ago
"I saw a guy building a website today. No React. No Vue. No Ember. He just sat there. Writing HTML. Like a Psychopath." (credit to https://twitter.com/kiddbubu/status/1187120868259979269 )
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by clutchingstraws 7y ago
>When it first appeared it seemed fairly neutral, but that neutrality appears to have vanished somewhere along the line. Wikileaks has always been as neutral as reasonably possible, given that it consists of human journalists and their h
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by clutchingstraws 7y ago
I didn't know that. Thanks for the detail. Better to lose a booster than both lose a booster and cripple a droneship. On that topic, I've always been impressed at how tough those droneships are. They've taken a lot of punishm
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by clutchingstraws 7y ago
This is accurate. More good examples of this passive-safety landing procedure in action were in the Heavy demo flight and the CRS-16 mission. The Heavy demo center core failed to relight two of the three engines needed for landing, and plun
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by clutchingstraws 7y ago
My terrible experiences with the remote-control app ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.panasonic.... ) for my otherwise-fine mirrorless cameras now makes total sense. Even though the app has receive
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by clutchingstraws 7y ago
Oh man, don't I know it. I work for a small business whose long-neglected Wordpress site (nothing e-commerce-ey, almost no plugins, just a glorified billboard/contact-info type site for a non-tech company that no-one had updated i