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by troyvit 3y ago
> Before the pedants arrive, yes I am aware there are some night trains in Japan, but they constitute 0.0000001% of Japanese train services, and are mostly a fun-tourism thing. Sorry, it's actually 0.000001%. - A. Pedant
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by troyvit 3y ago
This article talks about the Eldfell eruption in 1973. It's one of the few cases where people were able to divert a lava flow. https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/news/volcano-watch-wh...
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by troyvit 3y ago
I agree with you to a point. In my small realm WordPress is the thing behind it, and simple search spam can just bring the app to its knees because of the horrible indexing WP has, even with plugins like Elastic. If you have control of the
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Burke even mentions that in the Ars interview: > Television is entirely different. I remember walking around the world with a film crew, sometimes 15 people, and pointing at a bush and saying, "What am I doing here?" That&#x27
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by troyvit 3y ago
> Now I'll admit these ideas are quite broad Ayup. Especially for small teams working with large piles of software (lookin' at you WordPress) that are insecure out of the box. The ideas are also constrained mainly to fixing SQL
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I've been on both sides of this. Generally I am "passionate" about my work. I spend half my waking time doing it so I better have fun. I've managed equally passionate teams. All I'd have to say most times is, "
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Seriously. 1-2% of Earth's surface is a _lot_ of surface.
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by troyvit 3y ago
The Wormwood Trilogy by Tade Thompson[1] blew my mind. Most of the story takes place in Nigeria. The author was born in the UK but grew up in Nigeria. Tamsyn Muir[2] is from New Zealand. Her Locked Tomb series is sci-fi/fantasy/ho
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by troyvit 3y ago
The truth is that food insecurity in the U.S. is experiencing a sharp spike: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo... I specifically focus on the U.S. because we're perceived to be one
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My anecdata is that I used a galp6 since 2013 as a daily driver for years. It stayed in service in one way or another for ten years. The battery became useless but everything else was rock solid.
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That's only one side of the "repairable" coin though. They offer a deep list of thorough manuals for those who want to DIY their repair.[1] I agree though that getting the parts for the repairs can be a hassle. [1] https:&#x
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> I am sorry and embarrassed for this incident and the pain that it caused our customers and our team. So do they.
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We're doing something like this, and it's driving me crazy, but anecdotally the soil beneath our biggest Canadian thistle infestation appears to be the softest, most active soil in our otherwise clay yard. It appears as if other s
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by troyvit 3y ago
But. If you are in North America, and the plant is native, go for it. Furthermore the pods that develop are far from poisonous for people and in fact taste really good. It's like okra that isn't slimy. https://foragerch
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by troyvit 3y ago
I think it's like calories. They also provide humanity a ton of good but being careless with them is a whole other story.
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by troyvit 3y ago
Same here. We use 1Password at work and the braindead UI choices continuously surprise me compared to Bitwarden's simplicity.
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by troyvit 3y ago
We have one of these too! We call it GOAT (Greatest of All Time) because it just keeps going and going well. There was mention higher up of Hondas having trim issues around this year and yeah, the paint is faded, etc. but it is just unstopp
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by troyvit 3y ago
If you want to listen to a fun podcast that gets into this: https://www.goloudnow.com/podcasts/no-such-thing-as-a-fish-1...
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by troyvit 3y ago
Oh man I spend a lot of time studying peoples' expressions as they hear stuff in virtual meetings. They let on a lot more than they think. I probably do too, but I leave my camera on anyway because I can also use what it shows to consc
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by troyvit 3y ago
They (search, social media, advertising companies) are gaining a monopoly on truth. With that they indirectly control the government, which is the one with the monopoly on violence.
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We need a rover.com for mushrooms.
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Totally true that their progress is demonstrable and profound. It's just that the GP did such a dismal job expressing it. That's where the "angry hype" and "blind argumentation" bit came from.
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by troyvit 3y ago
> So it's Pidgim for mobile phones basically? Except maybe that Text actually works? I just tried Pidgin after being away from it for about 10 years. Its discord integration was lacking. It eventually showed some discord channels an
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by troyvit 3y ago
Automattic likes Text because it's serverless. > "Just as an engineer, I can’t ethically support" the cloud-first model, Mullenweg says. Beeper includes a web service as part of the deal, so if you're good with that t
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by troyvit 3y ago
This is a really good point, especially for a country that is so young and that has grown so fast. Maybe the instability resulting from that growth is yet to come but it doesn't detract from what NASA and JPL have accomplished so far.
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by troyvit 3y ago
Nope I'm not implying that, but you certainly inferred it. Legality is one marker you can use when deciding ethics, especially in a democratic country. Also we're talking about the permissive side of the law (reselling used books)
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At least somebody bought that book first. And before you say something like, "Wull, somebody had to buy a DRM book and strip the DRM out," think about the economies of scale we're talking about. The last thing is, buying used
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Yeah those filthy rich authors with all their choices just going straight for the DRM so they can control what you read! Stick it to 'em, greedy bastards.
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You're one of the lucky 10,000![1] https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by troyvit 3y ago
I would also add dandelionradio.com. All their streaming shows are uploaded to mixcloud. I'm a little worried though because their DJs always point to their artists' bandcamp pages to help you find the music.

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