ndsipa_pomu

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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
4 Earth Quadrants simultaneously rotate inside 4 Time Cube Quarters to create 4 - 24 hour days within one Earth rotation.
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
> another brexit exit (a singular, definable political question that can cleanly classified in a binary label) Yes, the referendum was a binary choice, but I think it was flawed in that Brexit covered many different, incompatible options
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
I love the Adept trackball - it's got one of the best bearing setups and rolls really smoothly. However, the problem is that all their products are wired and that's awkward for using with a laptop unless you want to constantly mov
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
Farage basically managed to dodge the investigation into his non-declaration of £5m for about five weeks (due to him not being an MP). Now that he's an MP again, the investigation has re-opened. What's likely to happen is that he&
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
Water companies used to be publicly owned until Thatcher privatised them. Unfortunately, as they are a natural monopoly (you cannot choose which company to supply your water services apart from moving to a different part of the country), th
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
That's no moon
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
Most of the calls for censorship of right wing voices has specifically been about them inciting violence and riots (e.g. against asylum seekers).
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Europe is the fastest warming continent. What is to blame?(theguardian.com)
13 points by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago|2 comments
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
If you are about to be watched by an abusive person, it may be better to immediately switch the browser to an innocent page rather than possibly closing it down which may look more suspicious.
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
I've tried that previously (or sudo dcfldd to give better feedback), but it doesn't always seem to work for ISOs. Ironically, I've had issues writing Linux ISOs onto a USB stick under Linux, so nowadays I just use Rufus which
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
They could have been of use to replace bike cameras for cycling (so that you have evidence of close passes etc), but the battery life and resolution isn't great, so bike cameras are currently a lot better for that.
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
I find that Rufus ( https://rufus.ie/en/ ) is excellent for writing USB disks. I believe it's Windows/DOS only, but even as a Linux user for several decades, I boot into Windows just to run it if I need to burn
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
I was going to go with 3, but there's precedent for 3.2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
I don't agree that it's minimal effort for kids to get hold of cigarettes and alcohol, though it's probably not too difficult for older teens to do so.
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
I await the executive order declaring that pi is now exactly 3.2 Maybe that should be called bigly pi. This reminds me of Lsyenkoism.
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White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism(arstechnica.com)
10 points by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago|9 comments
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
They're usually covered by age limit laws and also not "free" as they cost money to purchase. In what sense are they available freely to kids?
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
I remember her due to her accent (I'm english too). Next you'll be telling me that nobody remembers Frank Oz in it. Or Mr. T.
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
I didn't know that and Donnie Darko is one of my favourite films. From Wikipedia: "The Killing Moon" by Echo & the Bunnymen was replaced with "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS, which Kelly had not had the rights to
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
To my mind, tracking a vehicle/person's movements sounds pretty much like a search. What concerns me is that they didn't have any reason to conduct that search in the first place. It surprises me that the cops don't need
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by ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
I'll add Donnie Darko and The Blues Brothers (that may be cheating, though).
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Italy to place all 27 of its major cities on highest heat alert(theguardian.com)
9 points by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago|0 comments
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
To me, it appears that Flock cameras are a mass surveillance tool and that fits in fairly well with the US becoming more fascist (e.g. ICE agents murdering civilians). It also seems very on-brand for police departments to lie and obfuscate.
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
Also of note is that the "99 flake" ice cream features in the manifesto of Count Binface - he wants to reduce their price to 99p.
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
"Ankh-Morpork no longer had a fire brigade. The citizens had a rather disturbingly direct way of thinking at times, and it did not take long for people to see the rather obvious flaw in paying a group of people by the number of fires t
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Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction markets"(arstechnica.com)
8 points by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago|1 comments
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
> a full-scale invasion of a fully committed US military should absolutely be able to conquer and hold Iran I doubt that - Iran is very large and would require something like conscription in the US to get anywhere near the required amoun
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
> As for controlling Hormuz, the US military absolutely could control Hormuz I don't see how they could manage that without a full-scale invasion and control of Iran. It's far too easy for Iran to launch drones/torpedoes f
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
You're right, I thought I was replying to a different comment somehow.
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
I wouldn't classify bagged salad as an ultra processed food as it's usually just cut and cleaned leaves from the various ingredients. It's not like they pour all the leaves into a machine and get soylent green out of the othe

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