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by louky 3y ago
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle wrote some great global disaster novels as well. Footfall and Lucifer's Hammer .
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by louky 3y ago
Available on archive.org. https://archive.org/details/mutant59plastice00pedl Has some hilarious and also frightening writing. It's pulp fiction so don't expect greatness but worth a read for sure.
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by louky 3y ago
I ordered a magtape of MINIX from the back of the AST book, but never got it running even after going through getting a tape reader. Was highly dissapointing as I saved up my allownace as a 15 year old to buy the tape.
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by louky 3y ago
Sorry that Heinlein one is paywalled I'll look further. I've read all his stuff, even the horrible mess of the last books and posthumous thing. He was completely into turning into a woman even early on much less the book where he
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by louky 3y ago
Wasn't that a bet with Heinlein? His entry was "Stranger in a Strange Land" which having a human raised by Martians as the main person was a bit better Oh and the fosterites were poking fun at Scientology, Mormons, and proto
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by louky 3y ago
I ship whatever I may need that's going to be needed. Got the habit from shipping equipment to onsite work sites. I figured hey, I'm shipping this expensive equipment to install and I'm going to be there a week+, might as wel
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by louky 3y ago
Wasn't one of the design parameters for the 2CV being able to cross a field while not breaking eggs in a basket in the seat? Yep! https://silodrome.com/citroen-2cv-history/ and here's a clip from new-new Top
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by louky 3y ago
My Guitar->microphone->audio recording app model of music production doesn't even require knowing what a "DAW" is, yet works fine for me and others.
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by louky 3y ago
And don't forget the battery-of-the-month club!
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by louky 3y ago
determining if "dark spots" are actually a hearth is a known process, nobody ran the chemical composition before publishing? dark spots indeed.
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by louky 3y ago
AC units also typically really hate being flipped on and off by having the power cycled like that. >Eventually switching the meter on and off while under a heavy load
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by louky 3y ago
Thanks for that, I've haven't looked beyond Libre in years. Trying it out on Debian11 now.
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by louky 4y ago
I installed a Mormon-owned alarm years ago (Pinnacle) and the division of sales/installers was stark. I didn't last long because is was so scummy. I was hired off craigslist and didn't even realize they were all Mormon at fir
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by louky 4y ago
Simplysafe. At least their you can't disable their current generation of alarms with a $3 transmitter. Criminally negligent but oh well.
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by louky 4y ago
Best case there is to never buy again, name and shame the specific model places like this discussion, and use the warranty! PITA I know.
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by louky 4y ago
Messages back to the early 1990s. More net history going away forever.
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by louky 4y ago
Something like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
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by louky 4y ago
Same, and it's got hourly, pretty much anything I can imagine needing.
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by louky 4y ago
At the time it seemed to me that each page was, as you say, a thesis someone could tackle. It never seemed to be an instruction manual or was presented as some kind of total blueprint of thinking Cough Wolfram
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by louky 4y ago
Yeah, I saw a reference to HCF cold, and was like wait - that can't be a reference to the assembly mnemonic! But it was, and a good show. Brought back memories from the 1980s-90s for sure.
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by louky 4y ago
I think a reboot of Bayer Heroin (tm) would be better received - from my understanding Fentanyl and similar drugs don't have the euphoria or length of effect of OG Diacetylmorphine.
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by louky 4y ago
Well he never even attended clown college https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringling_Bros._and_Barnum_%26_...
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by louky 4y ago
The only information there resembling 'formal permission' is this quote - >On June 10, 2012, Lakota elders ritually blessed two new South Dakota Army National Guard UH-72A Lakotas at a traditional ceremony on the Standing Rock
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by louky 4y ago
Like the AIM - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Movement
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by louky 4y ago
OK. Cheers for that information. Tor it is then, and I'll self-host the DB.
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by louky 4y ago
Oh wow. that's awful. Anyone have the actual IPs? that's what matters if the servers and IP addresses aren't seized.
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by louky 4y ago
Exactly, and I've been running lubuntu recently had the defaults are insane with skinny/nonexistent scrollbars. On an OS level There's nothing!
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by louky 4y ago
And wow, Between Olympia and Capitol Hill/Broadway in Seattle in those days it was Sex and Candy indeed.
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by louky 4y ago
1963? I remember burning school buses and people shot dead when they were finally forcing integration when I was a kid - mid/late 1970s https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/07/archives/guard-called-out..
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by louky 4y ago
You meant V1 rockets? The V2 missiles were a bit more complex.

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