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"Tech" has been commandeered by some mighty greedy, selfish and antisocial people. I can't say that I developed anything to liberate people. To be blunt, almost all the ideas I have come up with over the years have had the pu
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Wilhoit's law. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” https://pylimitics.net
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I'm at a turning point in life, planning a move, so I yanked four small Clairefontaine notebooks off the shelf and assigned them these functions. 1. MUST DO, downsize, repair, includes running numbers on what I can afford. 2. TO DO TOD
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We had DWB (Documenters Work Bench) troff at one job. It was astounding. We were collecting test data, so I would run the data (with some sed and other filtering) into grap and pic, and incorporate the results into the weekly report. Natura
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In the beginning, there were no "blocks" to build with, so we coded everything in its entirety. Then came a higher order language, and a third and then fourth generation language. But at each step, some very basic concepts were ne
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Beyond all of this, "firings" are meaningless. Abusive cops are just hired elsewhere.
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Note to techies. PI means Private Investigator, not a small computer.
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HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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The Twitter time machine says: These are text from past tweets. No graphics here. • Donald J. Trump # @realDonaldT... 25/09/2013 Remember what I previously said--Obama will someday attack Iran in order to show how tough he is. • D
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Up the Telegraph. https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16040489/Spy-cameras-... > Royal Navy surveillance drones used by Britain's elite special forces were fitted with cameras containing Chinese-made co
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Does someone have a paywall bypass? I am out of patience. Even archive.today is putting up endless CAPTCHAs. I let my captcha sovlver extensions burn up time and CPU, to no avail. TIA
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> People quickly assume that if jobs disappear, purpose disappears too. As if jobs were the only legitimate way to contribute to society or create meaning. In this article, I argued that we may need to expand our definition of work beyon
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How about Archive Buttons? [0] I don't know what's going on behind those 5 buttons, but this was the first, and who knows? [0] https://www.archivebuttons.com/articles?article=https://www....
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Wagner's Ring Cycle Paywalled, so I'm wasting zero time going there. For full length performances, annotated by Sean Bianco, and archived at capradio.org: https://www.capradio.org/search?q=at%20the%20opera%20wagner
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It's common to lump agency actions under "Trump administration" or "Biden administration" I personally would not use "Trump admin" and would name only the agency. If it's common, as I noted, it's
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San Francisco Bay also has an island for Trump. Federal property. Needs tons of work. Arab capital could get the job done.
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> NFH said it “strongly disagrees” with the HHS’s finding and will appeal the decertification decision. HHS is part of the administration.
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https://bypasspaywallreader.com/search.html?url=https%3A%2F%... Really nothing new. • He is never wrong or at fault. It's always someone else's fault. • Every Accusation is a Confession. • A fall-guy is set up for
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That's not "his" style. There's nothing subtle about him, and since January 2025, everything seems to be a distraction from certain files being released, to the point of a completely senseless and now never-ending war.
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The five universal laws of human stupidity In 1976, a professor of economic history published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest existential threat [0] He also published a book. "he B
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The one thing oligarchs dread most is when the Democrats veer from centrism. Because that's when they win.
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> Trump lashes out at industry profits. Because he thinks he's not getting "his fair share". Don't overthink it. This is a grift-ocracy unparalleled in world history.
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I wore glasses almost all my life, enduring "four eyes" taunts, losing them, breaking them, and losing them again, many times over. I tried contact lenses, but they were a struggle. It's almost cataract surgery time, and I&#x
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> In traditional niche dev circles, respect is earned slowly through years of activity in their respective fora, sharing elegant code, displays of genuine curiosity, and through sharing deep domain knowledge along the way. At the end of
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No problem, and thanks. I understand the size of the problem, and why the above link is "most upvoted" By archiving all, I can easily filter titles as text, if I really wanted to do so, but it's not all that important for me.
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I don't normally read the front page, more /newest Any chance of implementing that? Your site works with my Firefox auto-pager, which is really nice for archiving posts for later search.
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Not having gone there, I can recommend some classical pieces for serenity, for an ethereal experience, and so on. Many Mozart and other arias just transform the moment. Some favs: Casta Diva, Bellini. Ruh Sanft, Mozart. Dove Sono, Mozart. S
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Previously, related. AI Listings Have Made Apartment Hunting More Debasing (defector.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156617
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Use the source, Luke [0] (or equivalent. I am not paywall jumping unless necessary today.) YouTube crackles down on ASMR content (Boing Boing) Boing Boing is published under a Creative Commons license except where otherwise noted. For us wh
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Syndicated at MSN. No paywall. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ai-images-are-ever...

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