slowhand09

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by slowhand09 3y ago
MMT basically says "its ok, we can just print more money". How did that work for Venuzuela? Lets see... 1.00 US Dollar = 3,615,588.83 Venezuelan Bolívares. The 6 inch thick stack of currency required to buy a roll of toilet pap
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How You Average Matters(fortunesandfrictions.com)
1 points by slowhand09 3y ago|0 comments
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by slowhand09 3y ago
I've always been impressed by this one by Amanda Cox. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010...
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by slowhand09 3y ago
I own about a quarter of these. I find it interesting how many are 30+ years old.
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by slowhand09 3y ago
There are an estimated 20,000 gun laws in the USA. Do you not consider that regulation? Why are noise mitigation devices regulated, often taking a full year to be approved? These are known as suppressors (silencers on TV and movies).
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by slowhand09 3y ago
"I am infinitely more concerned that I'll be shot." - for real? That is extremely illogical, given the facts. I realize this data is about deaths rather than shootings. But its still applicable. This is a little dated, 4-5 y
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by slowhand09 3y ago
I think you've never seen a tiger up close. The largest tiger on record reportedly weighed 423 kg (933 lb).(wikipedia).
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by slowhand09 3y ago
i prefer "Gizmodo sensationalizes Apple bug fix by naming FlipperZero"
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by slowhand09 3y ago
I'm hooked as well. I recognize many birds by sight, and quite a few by their calls and songs. Many tho, especially smaller wrens, chickadees, etc I cannot tell apart. And others like vultures I see often but have never heard. If th
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by slowhand09 3y ago
I use the app daily. I would like to know how it works. And I get the bad gateway msg as well.
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by slowhand09 3y ago
I live in the US, mid-atlantic region. This moment its 44°F and a wind chill of 25°F. My commute was 39miles each way. Quite often I experience jams and slowdowns such as 10mph on a 65mph highway, with headlights and heater on, or max AC
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by slowhand09 3y ago
No possibility of bias in an article from "electrek.co".
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Using Databases Inside GitHub Actions(thenewstack.io)
1 points by slowhand09 3y ago|0 comments
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Sandworm Hackers Caused Another Blackout in Ukraine–During a Missile Strike(wired.com)
4 points by slowhand09 3y ago|0 comments
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by slowhand09 3y ago
You should google "far side" fifi chicken
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by slowhand09 3y ago
AWS architecting class years ago. Awesome instructor said if you want to save money, start deactivating servers. The ones people use... the admins will contact you right away. The others... people started up and forgot about.
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by slowhand09 3y ago
"Back in the day" I identified a way to save prob a quarter million dollars a year on my project, funded with your tax dollars. Created a spreadsheet model for the cost, documented it all, and gave it to my boss. He said "I
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by slowhand09 3y ago
You should run for congress... wait, no borders means no countries so no congress. Just a bunch of really powerful people making rules over fiefdoms...
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by slowhand09 3y ago
Ha! I used to want an Inmos Transputer. Even tho I had zero experience in parallel process development. Saved myself some money by not being able to afford it. "I should buy a boat" meme appears.
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by slowhand09 3y ago
"crushed rock stored 0.15 tons of carbon dioxide per hectare (2.47 acres)". (.15 * 2000lb)/2.47 = 300lb/2.47 = ~121.5lbs/acre of carbon uptake. After applying 41tons/acre of olivine. How is this feasible? Yo
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by slowhand09 3y ago
Lucky to have never done this... yet. But I did disable a major (and I do mean MAJOR) system for 20 minutes by misconfiguring an IP tables entry in Prod.
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AWS introducing new Certidifed Data Engineer – Associate cert(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by slowhand09 3y ago|0 comments
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by slowhand09 3y ago
How about dotdotat@dot.dot.com?
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by slowhand09 3y ago
I followed the example from my MacBookPro (Big Sur 11.7.09) using terminal. It would not allow me to spec an interval under 0.1. $ ping -c 4 -i 0.1 218.101.61.162 PING 218.101.61.162 (218.101.61.162): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp
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by slowhand09 3y ago
They is responsible for this! And We is gonna make sure They pay for the time We lost working on It, to fix They's problem. We is out! No diggity.
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by slowhand09 3y ago
"The whole goal of a smart meter is to allow remote access so the government can turn off your power to" :X, where X="CONTROL YOU"; #FTFY
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by slowhand09 3y ago
https://archive.is/ybixP non-paywall link
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by slowhand09 3y ago
I think I may be a unicorn...
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by slowhand09 3y ago
I have an 11c. I bought it new in 1985. On its 4th set of batteries.
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by slowhand09 3y ago
Thats awesome. i still have my TI-Programmer (with LED display) that did binary, 2C, octal, and hex calcs. Bought it for my IBM OS/360 Assembler 1 & 2 semesters.

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