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by smitty1e 2y ago
No. "Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) was the official name used by the U.S. government for both the first stage (2001–2014) of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the larger-scale Global War on Terrorism." [0] "Walz deplo
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Walz bagged out. I realize that the Narrative Alchemists think they can transform any lead into gold, but this is some tough material[1]. It's also a fair point that 20-year old news is less than fresh, but the Narrative Alchemists cer
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by smitty1e 2y ago
We had a washer/dryer from a prominent German brand. Rock solid. For about a decade. Went back to the well, and well, it's unwell. The interface now insists on smart phone integration, and the front panel UX looks done by a new hi
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by smitty1e 2y ago
If there is any interest in ground truth concerning the situation: "Many of you are asking how Tim Walz was able to get away with lying about his service record for so long." https://x.com/GrageDustin/status&#
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by smitty1e 2y ago
To scale is to externalize, acquire population, and watch the 80/20 static-to-dynamic ratio slide leftward into inflexibility.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Perfectly coherent. The sane, patriotic, adult majority in the country have had about a bellyfull of the nonsense accusations thrown at us. Speak sober truth and wisdom, and we'll do fine.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I have served as an election officer in Fairfax County, Virginia since 2012. Every. Single. Legal. Voter. Will. Be. Given. A. Ballot. Your allegations may have merit elsewhere, but the "Virginia is for Lovers". Of elections. If on
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Needs a 2021 in the title. There seems a genuine loss of mojo amongst those purporting to support freedom of expression across the spectrum. One does not wish to feel as though there were some "Dark Age" pending, but here we are.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
This helps explain the origin of the phrase "pay the piper". If one has a skill, e.g. squeezing the four-reeded monster, the "good idea faeries" will be after one constantly. While out of practice, I do play, and speak f
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by smitty1e 2y ago
HN generally frowns upon jacking about, even when The Famous Article itself is humorous, as in this case.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Less humorously, if one were calculating a few files for compilation, or caching for a service, a SqliteFS using :memory: might be just the thing.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Think of regulation as a higher form of tech. Then ask yourself how exactly the architects were self-medicating.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> Switching to another provider would be non-trivial, and I don’t see the VM as a real benefit in this regard. The barrier to switching is still incredibly high. This point is made in the context of VM bits, but that switching cost could
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Fentanyl is closer to a chembio weapon than a recreational drug.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Needs "2021" in the headline
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What Is Primitive Obsession?(freecodecamp.org)
2 points by smitty1e 2y ago|0 comments
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Have these topics been promulgated as The Science?
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I think I'm making a case for skepticism here, in the light of all the unsettledness of the science, especially the recent, New Shiny topics.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
As with: - the climate - Covid ...there seems an increased need for skepticism about pretty much all claims.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Let the flowers of a thousand tools bloom.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Irrespective of the truth that TeX will never be bulletproof, it is beautifully open source. I'm grinding on the thesis in emacs, zotero, texlive, and qgis. Not a proprietary package in sight. And I will use proprietary software when s
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> The assumption seems to be that "scale" must be vertical. The various idle rich humming John Lennon's tune are completely oblivious to its message. We know that human brains are evolved to deal with "small" gro
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Yes. I argue "people don't scale". The only time you see large amounts of people accomplishing big projects is in a military context, with constrained individuality, explicit chains of command, and authoritarian, top-down lea
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Putting it dispassionately, the bulk of voters have been non-plussed since Mr. Obama's Jan2009 assertion that we were "...five days from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." And the media cheerleaders for
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When Smart Ships Divide by Zer0 – Stranding the USS Yorktown (2018)(medium.com)
39 points by smitty1e 2y ago|60 comments
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by smitty1e 2y ago
The trunk was distinctively elephantine.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Wasn't "nuke the messenger" the default?
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Decades ago, I was in Thailand at a safari park with a coconut cracked open from the refreshment stand, sipping the milk through a plastic straw. An elephant did something deeply human and thugged that coconut right out of my hand, and int
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> That’s why innovation needs communication I package this as: "Doing the do" is half the work; "advertising the do" is the other half. Few ideas are so intrinsically obvious as to sell themselves.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I've only ever seen the word 'pyx' used in the context of a container for the Eucharist.

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