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by sillyquiet 4y ago
e.g., Philosopher's stone -> sorcerer's stone. Science-fiction and fantasy UK book covers were better too, which is another example of the same weird parochialism of the U.S. publishing industry as it was. My probably unpopular
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
*late Bronze age daggers from this excavation were used as kitchen knives. The Bronze age was very long and the implements produced during it were used for all kinds of things, including warfare.
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
yeah the why-not-both gif could possibly apply here. A thing can be an everyday tool AND a status symbol. But in this case, WHEN in the bronze age has a lot of bearing. Early on, yeah copper-alloy objects were relatively rare and expensive,
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
This is interesting not only for folks interested in Roman coins, but also anybody interested in non-Roman history as well, as many cultures mimicked the Roman coinage, except with their own chieftains or kings on the head. https:/&#x
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
It has the rail line that was my childhood companion - it ran maybe 3 miles from my home https://www.abandonedrails.com/nacogdoches-to-loeb It engendered lots of 'ghost train' campfire stories. And they installed
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
Yep, I do. If not ergonomically perfect for sandwiches, they are great for toasting for soup or oatmeal or ramen noodles. They also make an excellent meal when broiled with some chives and melty cheese on top. Heels are under-rated. My wife
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Right? These are just re-treads of the 'rich, powerful, and influential face fewer consequences for misdeeds' that has been a factor of human life since probably forever. Other economic systems have so far not proven themselves im
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
What a horrific ageist and bigoted comment. This literally could mean the difference between living independently or not for a lot of people. Not to mention everybody working today with a 401k as their retirement plan will lose value no m
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Tangentially (?) I would not underestimate the impact the manuals of various early computers had on young programmers. I wore my Vic 20 manual out copying out programs from it while learning not only BASIC but some pretty fundamental stuf
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
This is why D&D was kind of underground where I lived in the rural south as a kid in the 80s and early 90s, and that's on top of of the very severe social stigma associated with it and other 'nerd' activities. At leas
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
I mean, moral panics are thing across the whole political continuum. Conspiracy theories aren't always based in moral panic, and moral panics aren't always about a conspiracy.
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
This sometimes is very advantageous for celebrities. Bruce Willis got paid an insane amount of money for his deepfaked face to appear in a Russian commercial. He literally got paid a couple million dollars to do NOTHING except agree to his
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Ahhh these fears are really overblown. This is just an iteration of the same overreaction that has been occurring since the days of splicing audio tape together. If anything, I would argue malicious editing of REAL footage, which already oc
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
oh true! I guess there really is nothing new under the sun anymore.
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
time to start up a SaaS service status SaaS to serve SaaS status
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Right, I think for the most part the 'harshness' of life in the Royal navy during the age of sail is overblown, as all the things that are brutal or harsh to us (the discipline, the poor food, etc) was not much different than life
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
From my readings, this was cultural to the Royal Navy of the time, probably since the looooong blockades and cruises of the earlier wars with the French. Ships would spend weeks or months sailing back and forth off of Brest or Toulon with l
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
My personal opinion is blaming a spike on a things that have not changed recently (car sizes, pedestrian friendliness of cities, human nature) is not logical: The most likely candidates (again, in my opinion) are: changes to driver psych
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Maybe. Again, there have been ginormous trucks and SUVs around the rounds since the 90s, why would we see a sudden spike and not a gradual increase since then?
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Since pedestrian deaths are 'surging', its gotta be down to something that's changed, not a factor that's been constant all along, right?
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
I'd say this is actually pretty partisan if you ignore the mostly imaginary lines between the parties and think in terms of establishment vs. non-establishment.
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Apple also was involved with the really shady no-compete-clause stuff for former employees, so this does not surprise me, but I don't know if I am ready to attribute this to malice yet - I can imagine there being some HR system that do
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Well, Bauhaus is definitely not to my taste, stylistically. To me (and please keep in mind this is of course entirely subjective) design that just screams 'we have too much money and time to think about this design' is a bit repug
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
I don't think this is the case at all, maaaaybe it's a tad cynical in tone, but I think overall it's a pragmatic and realistic view of software engineering, ESPECIALLY web development. I say that as someone who is been in the
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Staying in a single location became possible for humanity only with the advent of agriculture. Before domestication, they had to follow the game animals around on their migrations, travel to find the edible plants and fruits, etc. Even on
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Ohh good one. mmRadar projects I guess will fall into this category too.
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Regarding the interesting bit (to me) in there about the advantages of FPGAs over an SBC like the Pi (speed)- does anybody know of any blogs or projects where an FPGA's speed helped in a hobby project where software running on an SBC
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
in my opinion, this tendency to label anything less-than-ideal as 'garbage' is an outdated leftover of a time when assholish (and unrealistic) perfectionism was admired in software engineering, or at least looked up to as 'go
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
I don't think this is correct at all, and this perception is probably largely due to survivorship bias. I have several relatives who are home builders and have acted as my own general contractor in building a home, so this is an area o
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Yeah, this would have been 98 - 99, so probably was zdtv at that point.

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