fsckboy

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by fsckboy 10mo ago
Out of 10 siblings in my grandfather's family, only 5 lived. the eldest, my grandfather, was sent to America on his own at age 14 to work and send money home. college? who's got time to finish high school?
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> It nails so many things it lampoons so many things... except Rust. nobody dares joke about Rust, that wouldn't be safe. in fact, it's impossible to make a joke in the rust language.
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> Vinyl resurging, I can understand. But cassette tapes...their only redeeming quality was the mix tape their ONLY redeeming quality? mix or not mix, did you ever try to record a vinyl?
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
wow, back in the day, well after the cassette walkman, the FM walkman was actually a BIG DEAL! they didn't even make a 2-in-1, not even an AM/FM! i loved <3 mine https://www.radiomuseum.org/images/radio&#x2
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> compact since "compact cassette" is the actual trademark®, I can't help but think you might've been unduly influenced here. https://duckduckgo.com/i/4b7c08d5084dbabb.png https://en.
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
this video is new and an easy watch, based on this paper which has been on here before https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18475 and here's the Tom7 video he recommends if you want to go deeper https://www.youtu
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Noperthedron is not Rupert (can't fit through itself) [video](youtube.com)
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> a lot of people think about bioluminescence in these tropical regions, but we have it right up here in this very diverse and rich environment non tropical, colder in winter than Seattle, warmer in summer, the waters of New England hav
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
i just posted a sister comment to yours about the Mt St Helens explosion, with a picture from 1980, and then i noticed that they are calling (it's a non technical article) what rained down in the photograph onto the camera and photogra
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
there is a poignant set of images taken by a photographer Robert Landsburg who chose to post himself too close to the blow up of the top of Mount Saint Helens in 1980. the last picture from his salvaged camera is similar to what we see for
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
windows subsystem for linux, it's builtin to windows (after download from microsoft) and no USB needed
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> you should not bring your personal phone if you don't want them going through all the contents isn't the right move here: wipe your phone, travel to destination, then restore from cloud backup? in the middle, you can let the
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
but to develop better intuition, think of the sun's gravity as a field in space and nothing is being dragged anywhere, it's just that wherever you are feels appropriate to where you are and where you are going is the path of least
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
thank you, venturecruelty, for your take on who might be out to get me. do you think choosing a username says nothing about what comes to your mind?
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> Why is it so hard to believe that disabled people can be accepted into "elite" universities? ?? many people would think there is something wrong with the definition of disabled if 38% of the population is disabled: more like
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> It’s a well understood issue in gifted kids psychology if it's a well-understood issue in a scientific field, it's basically well-understood through the work of neurodivergent scientists.
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> i have never seen a counterfeit lego set with an actual lego logo how would you know? you may never have seen a crappy you-could-tell-it-was-counterfeit with the lego logo, but a high quality copy? that can't be beyond reach of i
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
from the about page: Standard Ebooks is organized as a “low-profit L.L.C.,” or “L3C,” a kind of legal entity that blends the charitable focus of a traditional not-for-profit with the ease of organization and maintenance of a regular L.L.C.
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
if you buy a house, you are entitled to rent it out and collect that rent. if you then live in that house, you lose that rental income. That is what you are consuming. the rest of the investment remains intact. as I like to phrase it, when
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
no, it restricts copying, making copies
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
Hitler did have a nephew by blood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston and I guess a few others, but dwindling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_family https://nypost
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
I don't think that they are allowed to prepare copyrighted items for release in advance of them being in the public domain.
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
that the Hitler estate can't sue you for copyright infringement if you publish it yourself and distribute copies.
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
what would be wrong with with not doing what you were asked not to do by whoever is paying you? if I'm forced to agree with you that some bending of the rules will be allowed, why don't we bend them in the other direction, toward
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
anybody know if this motherboard will fit the x220 or x230, or just the x200/201? i've cornered the market on x220 and x230, i must have two dozen
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
complete population surveillance is the system we evolved to thrive in: there is no privacy in hunter gatherer societies. and in medieval city societies the average person had no privacy. it was only nobles who had privacy, and they were ge
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> (e.g. baseline-heidegger)/the humanities/psychoanalysis etc.) and pre-heidegger, pre-psychoanalysis, what then, how did somebody, e.g. heidegger, think of those thoughts without the vocabulary to do so? ahhh, apparently, the
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> This is genius! if you don't have dice, use a coin, heads beats whatever you choose, tails loses to it. then, quicker if you don't choose, heads you lose, tails you win. with the coin you don't get ties, but ties you ju
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> The accounting rules say you only have to put an entity on your balance sheet if you “control” it and take on most of the risk/benefit. Meta is a publicly traded company. If they have an agreement wherein they may have to pay sub
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
but this article is about unpowered ssds, those that are not in service but being kept for the data that is on them, as a type of back up copy. they could represent an entire raid set.

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