hirundo

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by hirundo 4y ago
Jupiter is a failed star in the same sense that it is a failed black hole. It failed to accumulate the necessary mass. On the same basis I am also a failed black hole. That's a decent enough epitaph. Hirundo, good chap, but never achie
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by hirundo 4y ago
This is what the world looked like when it felt safe/exciting/mysterious, maybe I'll feel that way now if I make it look like that again. For me that world is in the seventies, not the nineties. I want a psychedelic not a web
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by hirundo 4y ago
> No effects were found of testosterone administration for strongly affiliated Democrats or strong or weak Republicans. There are a variety of testosterone blockers. It would strengthen their case if they had the opposite political effec
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by hirundo 4y ago
Logan's Run sets the limit at 30, and is less particular about informed consent to the procedure. Maybe this film is the prequel, before regulatory capture, scope creep and empire building.
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by hirundo 4y ago
The guy in 451 is noted cat fancier Ray Bradbury. I couldn't find the cat's name.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Given the inflation rate, this boomer is having hard time seeing the point too. So I'm spending more on capital infrastructure (tools for my shop) that I know will be even more expensive soon. It's hardly a sin of a particular gen
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by hirundo 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling
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by hirundo 4y ago
I recognize Tenderlove in a photo, so whatever they're doing is probably more than Adequate. If Aaron is involved I'm bullish. It's great to see Shopify giving back to Ruby in a serious way. Imagine Ruby's future if most
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by hirundo 4y ago
Related helpful kitchen tip: To stop pepperoni from curling on a pizza, take away their little brooms.
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by hirundo 4y ago
> Hidden Valley Ranch dressing, still the reigning ranch champ, but hopefully from a compostable squeeze bottle by then So this is a dystopian future? Our descendants will look like the people in WALL-E? I think an optimistic prediction
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by hirundo 4y ago
Shared ban lists. It's almost that simple. Users can subscribe to their own list of moderators, and build their own bubbles. Karl can have his Marxist bubble while Ayn has her libertarian bubble and Rush has his conservative bubble. So
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by hirundo 4y ago
I'm a remote worker. After an early morning standup I go outside and do yardwork in a big yard for a half hour to an hour, whenever I can. This is a pleasure that I've come to defend fiercely. When I sit back down at the keyboard
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by hirundo 4y ago
A pie surrounded by crust is a ravioli.
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by hirundo 4y ago
This could use a proof-of-work algorithm, like a minimum score on a multiple choice test to put the book on your shelf.
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by hirundo 4y ago
If there are chipmunks or squirrels the job is done on arrival. Those little guys are outrageously industrious at burying excess seeds and nuts, everywhere they can. I'll betcha order Rodentia is responsible for planting many times mor
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by hirundo 4y ago
That was the argument of Federalist No. 84: "It has been several times truly remarked, that bills of rights are in their origin, stipulations between kings and their subjects, abridgments of prerogative in favor of privilege, reservati
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by hirundo 4y ago
We are in the middle of a fundamental upheaval of the spatial framing of political practice. Almost anyone can walk into a (virtual byob) bar from almost anywhere in the world. Scale that up and it makes for a very different bar scene. Spac
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by hirundo 4y ago
I spend about 3/4 of a full time job building, maintaining and improving a corporate GraphQL API, and have for the last few years. What you are describing is not my experience. In fact it is far easier than it was in the old days when
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by hirundo 4y ago
"It is actions taken by the federal government—including the Biden administration, the Trump administration, Congress and the Federal Reserve—that have landed us in our present inflationary mess." In other words, it is the fault o
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by hirundo 4y ago
The seventh word wasn't a noun, so they still needed one. I wonder how they picked gibbon.
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by hirundo 4y ago
"Pursued by the Employee’s sinister agile gibbons, Princess Lela races home aboard her starting pistol," I would pay to see that.
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by hirundo 4y ago
And such a clerk could be particularly welcomed by an ideologically aligned firm, but less so if they have been disbarred as a result, which seems to be a real possibility. It could be a great boost to a media or political career, but not s
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by hirundo 4y ago
I'm in the process of shifting from a small regional ISP to a large international ISP ... for 10x the performance at a lower price. This is an argument for not doing that, since the larger organization would be more visible and vulnera
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by hirundo 4y ago
These are natural examples of ecosystems evolving toward a pareto distribution after a punctuated equalibrium. Think of it as another example of the great winnowing of variations that followed the Cambrian explosion. The cultural explosions
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by hirundo 4y ago
> by interfering with mitochondrial function Which mitigates the damage caused by the toxic components in his evening meal. If the meal is unalterable that's a good move. But most people can do a lot more good by removing the ingred
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by hirundo 4y ago
Who would be harmed? If there isn't anyone, it's not wrong.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I was a card-carrying ACLU member in the '80s, when that meant defending the speech rights of Nazis. I haven't evolved on that topic. So I can easily understand wanting to defend free speech in a culture that is "moderating&q
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by hirundo 4y ago
"The professor notes that breed accounts for just 9% of variation in behavior in individual dogs while, for certain behavioral traits, age is a better predictor." "9% of variation" contradicts "unrelated" in th
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by hirundo 4y ago
I have a domain that's worth maybe a couple of hundred dollars. When I get an occasional request for a quote on it I usually say $350k. I'd probably actually accept that, but it would be a shock if someone agreed to it, and I sure
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by hirundo 4y ago
A moth ate some words – it seemed to me strangely weird – when I heard this wonder: that it had devoured – the song of a man. A thief in the thickness of night – gloriously mouthed the source of knowledge – but the thief was no

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