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by shagie 5mo ago
Partly because they couldn't because they didn't organize in a way that let them because... well... one could speculate. > Alphabet Workers Union (AWU), also informally referred to as the Google Union, is an American trade un
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Their rendition of Diggy Diggy Hole made it to dwarvish rock anthem... but they've got a lot of other material that is dwarf themed. They do speak to more of the gamer culture... for example Rock and Stone https://youtu.be
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by shagie 5mo ago
One of the "I'm trying to find it" ... Fantasy metal. I was wondering where I'd find Blind Guardian ( https://youtu.be/n63UbX5kzAc https://youtu.be/uOMfsywQgY0?si=7N9hcXJcqbZtJ1jC&t=
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by shagie 5mo ago
https://electoral-vote.com is still up, running, and showing data. It has always been free and ad free. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral-vote.com > Electoral-vote.com is a website created by compu
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by shagie 5mo ago
Even though it's showing its age (and support is being phased out in recent builds), I still liked IntelliJ with the Touch Bar laptop. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/touch-bar-support.html Having the Tou
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Drop the "every" part and you can see the word that needs to be agreed with. "One is supposed to do such and such." "Everyone is supposed to do such and such." "They are supposed to do such a
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https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/eb/qa/Everybody-Has-or... > The words everybody and everyone are pronouns that describe a group of people, but grammatically they are singular. The last part of ea
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Latin has 1 to 10 as quite reasonable. 11 is "undecim" (one ten), and 12 is "duodecim" (two ten)... 16 is "sedecim" (six ten), 17 is "septendecim" (seven ten)... 18 is duodeviginti (two from twenty)
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by shagie 5mo ago
Tom Petty - The Last DJ https://youtu.be/6Knw_GxXPHg And there goes the last DJ Who plays what he wants to play And says what he wants to say Hey hey hey And there goes your freedom of choice There
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https://web.archive.org/web/20160220093339/https://openai.co... > OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most l
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33450094 2022 from dang: > There's no stats page but last I checked it was around 5M monthly unique users (depending on how you count them), perhaps 10M page views a day (includi
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by shagie 5mo ago
Back in the day... reputable.com was the site for SGI reselling. https://web.archive.org/web/20010404030102/http://www.reputa... Some of its last prices... https://web.archive.org/web&#x2
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by shagie 5mo ago
> Does aperiodicity have any cool properties that help in specific domains? The proof of the aperiodic nature of the Wang tile set was showing that a Turing machine could be created out of Wang Tiles that tile the plane (periodic) if and
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by shagie 5mo ago
French has some weirdness to its counting. 11 - 16 is specific words, 17 - 19 is "ten {number}" (dix-sept, dix-huit, dix-neuf). There's also some fun when you get to 70... which is soixante-dix (sixty ten)... and 80 which is
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If you can find climate data... for example, in Wisconsin 2012 our snowfall looked like https://www.aos.wisc.edu/oldsco/clim-history/stations/msn/ms... and the overall water year precipitation chart was
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https://kswheat.com/david-leonard-put-wheat-under-pivot-win-... > Leonard’s operation near Goodland is a diversified operation with a mix of dryland and irrigated acres in addition to a small cow-calf operation. Encourag
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The middle east tends to import hay and food for their livestock from other countries rather than growing it locally. https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/commodities/forage-and-hay https://wits.worldbank.org&
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by shagie 5mo ago
> Plenty of countries completely rely on desalination already Let's take Kansas... the largest producer of wheat in the US. https://www.statista.com/statistics/190376/top-us-states-in-... Kansas wheat crop
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by shagie 5mo ago
I learned vi key bindings in rogue, hack, and moria (before numpads were common for that binding to be default) before I learned them in vi.
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I don't entirely place the blame on boomers for the raise of 1950s nostalgia and the corresponding misalignment of economic goals. Someone (not a baby boomer) working in a traditional blue collar job today looks back at the portrayal o
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It's an appeal to restore the country to some form of nostalgic view of it. https://www.npr.org/2016/06/07/481137357/the-fractured-repub... The fact that Americans are politically divided is s
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The terms of what that $100 went to were updated last month... https://smartphones.gadgethacks.com/news/trump-mobile-t1-sma... The terms, updated April 6, state that the deposit is not a binding sales contract. I
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by shagie 6mo ago
https://youtu.be/M0S3a32RzEo with David Tennant as Crowley. It's a well done scene that is properly faithful to the original.
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by shagie 6mo ago
A shout out for BBEdit which is a 34 year old Mac native text editor that maintains a freemium license (and the free version is still quite featureful). It doesn’t suck.® I've maintained my copy of it from back in the MacOS 7.x days.
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by shagie 6mo ago
Specifically in the area of copyright, there's a significant distinction between UK and US law. The UK works under the "sweat of the brow" doctrine for copyright. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_t
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I've got an anecdote that says that they don't . If I'm looking at a certain color of green illumination and then cover one eye then the other, my perception of that color shifts slightly. It's still green, but with on
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A degree is passing the test. Not all degree programs get into more advanced topics nor do they necessarily require that someone is able to work through how to solve a problem that they haven't seen before. -- A lot of students (and d
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by shagie 6mo ago
Back many years ago, yes... and I recently stumbled across it again in a Henry Segerman video about expanding racks in three dimensions https://youtu.be/NEJZlGuWGV8
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by shagie 6mo ago
I'd love to play with fischertechnik again... https://www.fischertechnik.de/en/industry-and-universities -- Factorio on a shelf would be neat (but "request quote" tends to suggest its out of my price ran
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by shagie 6mo ago
Check out a chemistry book from the library? Buy a copy of the 30th printing of the Anarchist Cookbook from Amazon (and should Amazon apologize for selling it)? At what point is one building a surveillance state that reports on every singl

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