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by fhdkweig 7mo ago
Can you give me more information on that? DDG on Bill Gates and COVID just keeps finding stuff about Epstien (for some bizarre reason).
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by fhdkweig 7mo ago
> These people have such resources and the limit of their vision is: bang young girls, accumulate bling, push divisive hateful politics, start wars. I really don't like how Bill Gates and Microsoft made their money, but at least he
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by fhdkweig 7mo ago
Could you define the acronym "e/acc"? DDG seems to think it means: "What Does E/Acc Stand For, And What Does It Mean? E/acc stands for the phrase effective accelerationism, and it basically indicates one'
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by fhdkweig 7mo ago
I think there was intended sarcasm/joke.
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
The problem is that the soldier parents want their kids to live with them on the base. The alternative is they have their kids live in an orphanage somewhere else until they decide to retire, or soldiers just aren't allowed to have ki
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
And it hasn't occurred to them that they can just take them to a store and get them exchanged for the correct size and not tell anyone?
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
Are you talking about the Trump-branded shoes on amazon or the $145 Florsheim Shoes? https://www.amazon.com/donald-trump-shoes/s?k=donald+trump+s... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics&#x2
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
There are schools located on US military bases, not just near. That doesn't make them viable targets. You better believe that if an attacker hit a school on a US base, the soldiers wouldn't forgive that so easily.
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
I just use the same BIC mechanical pencils with #2 lead that I picked up in college. No reason to get complicated.
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
I vote for graphite on paper. Ink will run if the paper gets wet. Of all the damage that has occurred to my papers, water is the most common. I keep a copy of important phone numbers written inside my wallet in case I ever lose my phone.
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
I haven't used badblocks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badblocks in about 10 years, but I was annoyed that this exact feature wasn't available for testing accidental swapping of block locations. badblocks onl
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
If privacy is your primary problem with cloud storage, I would suggest veracrypt containers. And if you aren't storing too much data, I would also suggest DVD/BluRay optical media with DVDisaster and PAR2 archives. I keep a DVD
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
I've seen "dd if=/dev/removable of=/dev/removable" suggested. I don't know if it actually works or if the OS optimizes it to a no-op.
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
I DDGed for mar a lago look and first hit was a Wikipedia page. I was not expecting that lengthy of a page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_trends_among_American_c...
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
Redundancy is closer to "layoff" than "fired". One is for a clear cause, the other is just "we don't feel like paying you money because a second employee can do that job in addition to his own".
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
The image search is terrible on DDG. If I search for multiple keywords, the search only cares if an image matches just one word. Google ranks the results so that images that match all the keywords are presented at the top.
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
I would add sugar. Egg nog is listed on the triangle as away from flour, but it is extremely high in carbs. When I was a kid, I loved egg nog and a couple of years ago I decided to purchase some. I liked it so much I drank the whole half
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
I can't remember what the topic was, but I remember hearing a story about a company that was soliciting ideas from the public for maybe a joke book or maybe tv show plots. They got into a lot of legal hot water once they found out tha
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
When my state was debating creating a state-run lottery to fund education projects, my preacher gave a sermon on the evils of gambling. Religions can't realistically stay out of politics because every law can be reinterpreted as a mor
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
My limited understanding of RAM prices are that they are very cyclical. Very expensive followed by very cheap. You just have to be willing to wait.
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
I make the same argument when I buy a computer. If I just wait a little longer, there will be a faster cheaper version of what I can buy today. When buying anything that depreciates, the best strategy is to wait (possibly forever) and onl
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
Can never forget the Enola "Gay" https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/10/dei-enola-gay-wwii/
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
Beware flaking toner. I don't know if it flakes due to age or only immediately after printing. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=laser+printer+flaking
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
I could believe that one man's death could start a conventional war. A conventional war is winnable. But 100 years later, a nuclear war is suicide at best. Trump would almost certainly not intervene with nukes to protect non-US soil
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
The Ukraine conscription age is 25. If they were desperate for soldiers it would be lowered. It was 18 for the United States in the Vietnam war. Definitely wouldn't be grabbing people off the streets.
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
The United States military was apparently interested in the idea in a 2022 article, although I can't find any recent information on it. https://qz.com/610131/the-us-military-will-pay-for-soldiers-... https:/
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
In a two party system, no one wants to get rid of the loopholes. Those currently in power don't think their opponents will have the opportunity to use it, and those not in power want to use it later when they finally get to be in powe
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
There is an interesting effect where deserts help rain forests and oceans grow new life. Winds carry desert sands and dust that are rich in iron and phosphorus into the oceans and act as fertilizer. Even lifeless deserts are important to
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
Posted half an hour after my comment. That is oddly specific timing.
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by fhdkweig 8mo ago
If I am understanding it right, the maintainer wants human-readable, human-maintainable code even if it is slower than the AI output. As someone who has to maintain someone else's "clever" code, I have to agree with him.

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