helterskelter

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   by helterskelter 4mo ago

   This reminds me of WorldCom. One employee said they knew something was up when the company was posting huge profits but the CEO was sending out emails with progressively more extreme electricity saving measures.
2. 62.▲
   by helterskelter 4mo ago

   It's beautiful, but I wouldn't want to be down there in a major quake.
3. 63.▲
   by helterskelter 4mo ago

   Honestly I've been thinking about putting some standing stones in my yard to act as solar clock and calendar, maybe doing a lunar calendar as well... I don't that's against code (yet).
4. 64.▲
   by helterskelter 4mo ago

   Edit window is 10m now.
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   by helterskelter 4mo ago

   Sorry, author's name was Van Brummelen, not Van Bremmelen.
6. 66.▲
   by helterskelter 4mo ago

   I've been relearning trigonometry lately by myself for navigation and astronomy; not for work, just curiosity I guess. One book I've really enjoyed is Heavenly Mathematics by Van Bremmelen. It's a spherical trig textbook, b
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   (Lord) Timothy Dexter(en.wikipedia.org)

   2 points by helterskelter 4mo ago|1 comments
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   by helterskelter 4mo ago

   I think I wasn't as clear as I could have been in that last part. The irony I was referring to is that this guy is doing more than most people to support freedom online, and that very freedom he supports is being used by people who dis
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   by helterskelter 4mo ago

   This is about what customers are comfortable supporting. This guy doesn't just have what many consider to be unpalatable political beliefs, he's one of the biggest funders of what many consider to be an unpalatable political party
10. 70.▲
    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    At this rate somebody's going to get killed over three megabytes of hot RAM any day now.
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    Yeah but if you say "sustained" at the end of your own objection you might really confuse whoever is reading the transcript and get a free appeal.
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    Depends on what X is worth to them and how badly Y may want that data center. X may have better infrastructure, but Y is offering to build theirs out and waive taxes for ten years, so X has less room to negotiate.
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    I don't disagree with you. I'm just pointing out that you can make all sorts of demands but you aren't in a very good position to negotiate, and you'll probably still have to pay higher rates even if you stonewall them.
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    Problem is that there's always some poorer community, or one with more corrupt government officials, willing to allow a buildout for next to nothing. And when they plug into the grid the next county or state over you're electric r
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    This reminds me of my very first internet purchase. Back in the late 90's, when Ocarina of Time first came out, there was a website that a friend of mine found (back when you really felt like you found something on the internet) that
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    So much of everybody's infra depends on FOSS. I think every industry giant would dogpile whichever politician tried to go after FOSS as a whole.
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    Okay so this was actually about a year or two ago, but I remember the infotainment system glitched out a lot for no discernible reason, which prevented me from accessing a lot of the controls, and I had some difficulty with the hardware con
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    Also, Aristarchus.
19. 79.▲
    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    I'm hoping for a complete(ish) Heraclitus. Also Eratosthenes, whose methods have been described but we don't have the original work where we calculated the circumference of the Earth. Also Hipparchus and Thales.
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    Thanks!
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    Jeep Wagoneer, I just remember the Stellantis logo on the infotainment boot screen. I thought it was a Stellantis Wagoneer because the Jeep logo was almost completely absent, at least in memory.
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    Given the current rate of progress, how long do you think it will take to decipher the entire collection?
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    Will = William Ipso facto: Bill = Billiam Mutatis Mutandis: Jim = Jimothy
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    On the topic of Stellantis, I rented one recently (through no fault of my own) and when I returned it the guy asked me how it was. I told him I wouldn't drive one of those things again if they paid me, and the guy said "yeah we ge
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    ENGINEER: (n) Someone who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those with questionable knowledge. - an offscreen on my new calculator
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    How are you going to do that when the audience is braindead and can't focus their attention for more than a paragraph or watch a video longer than 30s? There's just not much room for reinvention unless everything becomes a Tiktok
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    Yeah I've got a Brother laser printer, never had an issue. Maybe it's just the inkjets?
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    Real Men Run as Root(garyshood.com)

    5 points by helterskelter 4mo ago|2 comments
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    Real men run as root: https://www.garyshood.com/root/
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    by helterskelter 4mo ago

    Can't say I've had an issue with my Brother. Works great with Linux and ink is available at the office supply store.