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by riffic 2y ago
Nuclear submarines are Class C networks (/24, citing Bill Cheswick's last talk at the socal linux expo[0]) in case anyone was curious. I assume aircraft carriers have a bigger footprint. [0] https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by riffic 2y ago
one of these running system 7 would be a delight, seeing that's probably where the classic Mac OS hit its peak.
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by riffic 2y ago
ah thanks, I was definitely thinking in terms of A but my subconscious may have also been running with B.
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by riffic 2y ago
allegation or open secret
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by riffic 2y ago
it's a duck-rabbit and I'm not seeing the other way to read this, mind helping me out?
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by riffic 2y ago
can we not give the builders of the Torment Nexus any further ideas?
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by riffic 2y ago
darwin himself said the difference of mind between humans and higher animals is one of degree, not kind.
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by riffic 2y ago
this isn't a cool take (specifically words like "kinda obvious" and generally the sentiment which obligates the reader to have awareness of the subject) and we shouldn't assume readers here know everything or a single th
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by riffic 2y ago
notably pigeons are feral and I absolutely was thinking the same thing here going off the headline. I guess we don't need to rewrite the stones song though.
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by riffic 2y ago
it's a note taking app. a very rad one at that. context is not part of the orange site culture unfortunately.
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by riffic 2y ago
for context which is often lacking in posts like this, this is what a Super Heavy is (I had to look it up lol because it's not really obvious from the title alone): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Super_Heav
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by riffic 2y ago
maybe it's for the best? fail fast and move on with what you've learned. 268% higher failure rates over waterfall is a feature not a bug.
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by riffic 2y ago
[RFC 8375]
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by riffic 2y ago
first thing coming to mind for me is elf power's step through the portal which is a jam https://orangetwinrecords.bandcamp.com/track/step-through-th...
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by riffic 2y ago
capitalism basically.
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by riffic 2y ago
the powers that will nail your ass with parallel construction; forensics is simply there to make a case with the air of legitimacy.
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by riffic 2y ago
the quote implies a certainty.
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by riffic 2y ago
customer? who's paying for it?
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by riffic 2y ago
periodic yes, predictable, maybe? Like I can say with absolute certainty that there will be yet another period of growth and yet another recession. All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again.
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by riffic 2y ago
the phenomenon is literally named "a business cycle" and here's its ensuing wikipedia article but of course some rando on orange site knows all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cycle you could be r
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by riffic 2y ago
I posit that treating economic cycles as something that needs to be cured is itself a harmful idea. the stressors actually strengthen which is why I brought up Taleb.
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by riffic 2y ago
business cycles are natural and periodic like a pendulum swing.
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by riffic 2y ago
cycles are natural. instead of fighting it and treating the system as a fragile too big to fail egg, maybe we embrace the pendulum and think more about antifragility? Taleb's antifragility concept, if it's an obscure matter.
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by riffic 2y ago
go check out the beach or pool sometime.
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by riffic 2y ago
what exactly is a "weed" this seems like such a nefarious and ill-defined concept.
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by riffic 2y ago
it actually closed in 1969 (or 1957).
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by riffic 2y ago
all I can say is IPv6 (and to qualify, IPv6 is great everyone should be using it).
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by riffic 2y ago
email is a good example of something that won't so easily be "2nd-gen'd" because everything it's built on is here to stay thanks to Lindy Law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by riffic 2y ago
the telcos used to pressurize cables in order to keep water out of it http://www.airtalk.com/newsletter5.html
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by riffic 2y ago
didn't it leak some time ago? did AOL ever spin nullsoft back out?

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