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by gerikson 4y ago
Christmas trees are a late 19th Century German tradition.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Just get ChatGPT to write the controversial content!
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by gerikson 4y ago
I don't agree, I've run a blog since 2004 and generating content is where I lack motivation, the content delivery is rock solid.
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by gerikson 4y ago
46 days ago, 415 points 893 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33231563
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by gerikson 4y ago
Haven't noticed a speed increase, did not feel it was a problem before. Now however twitter.com keeps forgetting I want "latest tweets" and resets it to "top tweets" every time I visit. I also only get about 2 hours
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by gerikson 4y ago
I highly doubt it.
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by gerikson 4y ago
I hope the sculptors got paid in FIAT.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Inflation has reduced the golden calf to an aluminum goat. The principle still applies though.
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by gerikson 4y ago
I agree. I wonder where I can read more about stadium naming rights.
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by gerikson 4y ago
That is an argument, but it has to be weighed against the cost of re-acquiring the planes that will either be lost or on permanent loan to Ukraine after the war is over. A defeated Russia can still strike back with isolated terror attacks a
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by gerikson 4y ago
It's not as if Sweden has a bunch of unused fighters just sitting around to be donated. The ones we have are needed for our own defense.
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by gerikson 4y ago
I see leap seconds as regulatory capture by astronomers :D Basically it's convenient for them to have civil time (UTC) never more than 0.5s from UT1.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Googling "Grandview Systems" now leads to a system for handling Masonic lodges.
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by gerikson 4y ago
So... England will not be part of the FUK (former UK)?
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by gerikson 4y ago
Or he could just be telling his whale friends to get out while they still can...
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by gerikson 4y ago
.ie? Already used by Ireland.
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by gerikson 4y ago
The comments about tolerance for underexposure only apply to print film, not positive film. But no self-respecting transparency shooter would bother with such a camera...
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by gerikson 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronna_McDaniel She has 2 children according to that article.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Nauru domains (.nu) were popular in Sweden for a similar reason, it means "now".
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by gerikson 4y ago
Maybe instead of blaming journalists for not exposing FTC we should wonder why multiple hedge funds invested millions into the venture without seeming to have caught on either.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Classic WW2 fighter pilot tactic.
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by gerikson 4y ago
I think many are getting a fedi account "just in case".
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by gerikson 4y ago
BurntSushi wasn't banned, they left the site voluntarily after reading a possibly inflammatory canned passage in a moderation message. Edit to add the discussion about their decision is the most-commented submission on the site so fa
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by gerikson 4y ago
The article describes a team helping a country defend itself against cyberattacks. How is that "pressing the button on a war"?
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by gerikson 4y ago
I thought it might be a lovingly handcrafted artisinal static site at least, but it's very very 90s web design.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Markdown is the worst way to write HTML except for all the rest.
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by gerikson 4y ago
TIL! Wow, that's definitely something else.
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by gerikson 4y ago
From my reading, "One Time" for the whole country has deep ideological roots in the CCP ideology.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Doesn't Portugal use Western European Time, which is the inclusive term for GMT? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_Time Geographically, France and Spain ought to be on UTC+0 too...
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by gerikson 4y ago
Can confirm, in my last job we supported customers in Morocco and our software dealt directly with timezones, so it was a ... challenge. I can't remember the details, but in some countries the only legally acceptable date for the start

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