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Mastodon threads don't have titles, so I gave this one something appropriate. I am not the author. Siderea argues for a space for commercial accounts in the Fediverse in between "NO" and spam as usual. I think it's a goo
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Roles for Commerce in Mastodon(universeodon.com)
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Either you want to just get it done or you enjoy the process of tinkering on the infrastructure. If you want it done: pay somebody a small amount to do the things. Sometimes it's even free. If you like tinkering: pick a static site gen
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No, it's a product of the economics of the system. In 2022, 449 "major" movies were released. Total gross: $7.4 billion. The top ten movies took 3.8 billion of that. Numbers 11 through 20 took another 1.2 billion. You will pr
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This is, of course, sarcasm: SAG/AFTRA AEA (Actors' Equity) MLBPA NFLPA NBPA NHLPA
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as she gently strokes the air up and down.
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Yes, and the SEC mandates that.
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" So would you like to ride in a train manufactured or driven by people that every step of the way had a "not our problem" attitude?" The reality is that we do ride in those trains. It is not up to random employees to de
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Speaker surrounds are replaced when necessary. For several decades foam was used, and it tended to break down. The butyl rubber usually used now lasts thirty to fifty years when not exposed directly to sunlight.
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You can't say "Paypal has been more stable than banks" until you read the regulator's report. Have you?
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This appears to be describing an electrostatic speaker. They're on the market, and have been for decades, using mylar or a similar material.
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"I saw 40 patient's in clinic today in 8 hours without lunch or any kind of downtime" You want to give better care to patients, which means more time per visit and at least three breaks per day (morning, lunch and afternoon).
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Bring back Usenet, but with a s̶t̶u̶p̶i̶d̶ modern web2.5 interface and a Markdown article format
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I keep meaning to try building DNews, which is a single backend with NNTP, web and mail interfaces. Matrix/IRC/Zulip/Slack are not fundamentally incompatible with Usenet so much as philosophically incompatible. It's the
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Live: rec.arts.sf.written -- discussion of written science fiction and fantasy Nearly dead, but if you post cogently, someone will respond: rec.audio.high-end -- discussion of high-quality (not necessarily high cost) audio reproduction
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Perhaps we should say that Monty Python draws on Shakespearean comedy, given the relative times and the fact that we know that most, if not all of the Pythons studied Shxpr.
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I see that NEMIX will sell me 4x64GB DIMMs of ECC DDR4 for $357. A TB at that price is $1428, so now I need a system that takes at least 16 slots. A used DL360g9 with 2x 10core CPUs is $220, so I can put together a decent high-RAM server fo
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Secretaries spent a lot of time typing, and therefore were considered to be typists. In the 1990s using a keyboard went from a subservient role (typist) to a prestigious role (computers are expensive!) and then achieved ubiquity. If you loo
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Add 1.5 Megabytes of RAM to your Mac for only $799! I do not currently personally own any machines with 1TB of RAM; indeed, I think that the total quantity of RAM on working machines in my house is about half that. So perhaps I'll be b
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The same way a Xerox machine does, but with different wording and randomly synthesized sources.
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It might be time for a Research Web of Trust.
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Not the internal reaction, but what you do externally -- what you say, what you write -- that's generally in your control. AIUI, CBT's primary method is to convince you to pause between feeling and acting, so that you can ask your
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How many Springfields in the US? (65ish) How many San Joses in the world? (1700ish) Pennsylvania has two Baldwins, two Whitehalls and two Elizabeths.
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Referenced: cost of firing a laser is $1 of gasoline run through a generator. That's roughly a liter. Let's say raw energy content is 32MJ/L, and we have gasoline=>electricity losses of 50% and laser efficiency of 30%, so
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It's only a disaster when there's a non-simple failure on one part or the other. That's the set of contingencies that contracts are supposed to address.
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Tell your parents to sell their house, but the contract includes lifetime tenancy and guaranteed maintenance and renovations. Surely that's not bribery. It's not bribery if you just happen to visit a new friend's mansion in H
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The chiles only get grown there. Alfalfa is alfafa, nobody cares about the terroir.
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Yes, and it's pretty easy if you're using Debian and you don't connect it to a VOIP phone service.
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To be fair, nobody started to understand chaotic systems until the 1960s. That's roughly 5,000 years of people saying that in any system, moving the inputs a tiny bit should always produce a similarly small change in the output.
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This is Debian. Starting with 1.3, it has been possible and generally recommended to upgrade in place. 1. Read the install notes. Read the upgrade notes. 2. Note the things that the upgrade notes say will change and need human input. 3. Bac

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