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by macintux 1y ago
All the mob had to do was steal the ballots, and we would have had a constitutional crisis. And during a constitutional crisis, the people with their hands already on the levers of power have a huge advantage,
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by macintux 1y ago
Based on what I’ve seen from states that are attempting to implement new rules, Kei trucks and cars aren’t grandfathered in, sadly. Even buying one locally that is already registered doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be able to continue registe
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by macintux 2y ago
> The article mentions VINs which have several single-vehicle accidents, for example, but someone who has one single-vehicle accident is probably more likely to have another. I haven't followed this story to know whether she's
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by macintux 2y ago
Really? Immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country” is straight from Hitler’s playbook, and it definitely wasn’t a Clinton who said that.
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by macintux 2y ago
I dug into my iPad and found a feature flag to enable it, hiding in settings/Safari/Advanced. So definitely not enabled by default yet.
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by macintux 2y ago
It's clear that Trumps sees everything as zero sum. If he can't see that he's personally and directly benefiting, clearly it's a waste of money.
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by macintux 2y ago
And here I complain about people erroneously specifying EST all summer along. They’re only off by 1 hour.
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by macintux 2y ago
I averaged 5 years off, but my average would have been much better without one photo that I botched by 16 years because I'm unfamiliar with early 19th century swimsuit styles. There were 2 major world events represented, that helps. Cl
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by macintux 2y ago
A new Radio Shack dealer just opened in a rural area, with an emphasis on radio (it's near an off-roading park), and your comment reminded me what terrible timing this is for them. Such a cruel twist. https://tekshack.com
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by macintux 2y ago
You’re mad about writing styles. The other person is mad about a dictator-wannabe tearing down our system of government. How are those “similar”?
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by macintux 2y ago
For anyone like me who’s unfamiliar with the acronym. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disorders_of_sex_development
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by macintux 2y ago
It certainly was frustrating that the status host was also in the zoom.us domain.
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by macintux 2y ago
Obligatory Indiana Bell building rotation link. https://www.archdaily.com/973183/the-building-that-moved-how...
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by macintux 2y ago
The moderators keep an eye out for interesting content that is ignored on submission, and put the posts back into a queue to be published again.
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by macintux 2y ago
I'm annoyed with that kind of response because I want to know what was broken, so I can keep an eye out for it in the future or be careful not to trigger the behavior.
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by macintux 2y ago
Almost entirely unrelated, but the life story on Thomas Hines is fascinating, so I'll mention it anyway. Hines led a raid into Indiana before Morgan's more famous incursion during the Civil War; I was in the area when I found out
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by macintux 2y ago
Manufacturing is extremely capital-intensive with a lead time of years. That's a huge gamble to make when policy will probably change by the time you're done and leave you manufacturing at a big loss.
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by macintux 2y ago
I am annoyed that correct use of punctuation is now considered a red flag.
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by macintux 2y ago
And fame.
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by macintux 2y ago
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/migrants-in-u-s-legally-an... - https://www.newsweek.com/immigration-legal-migrant-detained-... - https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/
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by macintux 2y ago
Worth noting as a disclaimer for people reading this: this is only true so long as external interfaces are not used. As soon as the BEAM calls out to other binaries, you lose that guarantee.
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by macintux 2y ago
Not the original commenter, but from hearing Joe Armstrong speak on multiple occasions my recollection is that Erlang was blacklisted for some length of time (which allowed it to become an open source language), but eventually the company r
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by macintux 2y ago
We needed to scan. If 30-year-old memories can be trusted, it was on port 666.
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by macintux 2y ago
Sometime circa 1998 there was a group looking for new technical hires for startups they invested in. They posted somewhere, perhaps /., that they were accepting résumés via SMTP on a non-standard port, as a filter mechanism. I never he
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by macintux 2y ago
For me, it was the middle third I skipped. Seemed to drag forever.
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by macintux 2y ago
One example from the White House, but it’s immediately after discussing Rayburn. https://www.lbjlibrary.org/life-and-legacy/the-lbj-the-natio...
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by macintux 2y ago
Interesting, thanks. I see it attributed to both, but the numbers favor Rayburn. Possibly LBJ quoted him on it at some point.
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by macintux 2y ago
Any jackass can kick a barn down but it takes a carpenter to build one. -LBJ (I’ve seen a few variations on the wording.)
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by macintux 2y ago
Aha, I misattributed the noun to which “these” applied. Thanks.
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by macintux 2y ago
I learned how to program in MUDs, made friends (including my first girlfriend, online dating was very different 35 years ago), and (mostly) had a great time. The death threats weren’t much fun, especially since he lived 2 hours from me. I

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