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by wl 5y ago
> [W]hat would inevitably happen is for network operators to demand that only certified devices, or maybe basebands, be allowed on their networks. This is already the case.
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by wl 5y ago
It's probably not what GP was thinking of because it's not relatively late and reasonably complete, but Sinuhe is probably the greatest surviving work of Middle Egyptian fiction.
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by wl 5y ago
I rather like how the story is bookended. After everything that happens, it ends with Gilgamesh reciting an excerpt from the beginning to Ur-Shanabi the boatman: Go up, Ur-Shanabi, pace out the walls of Uruk. Study the foundation terrace an
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by wl 5y ago
A Grammar of Akkadian by John Huehnergard seems to be the standard text. It's the one I used.
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by wl 5y ago
USB A. Ethernet. Dongles are here to stay.
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by wl 5y ago
I've seen a lot of phone runs done with cat5e. Phone line adapters might not even be necessary in many cases, only new wallplates!
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by wl 5y ago
It was hard for buyers to find on used book marketplaces because sellers would scan a $15 book, their system would pull metadata for a $300 book because of the ISBN collision, and then you don't know which items are actually for sale u
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by wl 5y ago
There's a certain rare, out-of-print book that took me a couple of years to track down. It shares an ISBN with another common, inexpensive, in-print book whose only similarity to the rare one is that it came from the same speciality pu
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by wl 5y ago
> And he could have put $30 in Dogecoin 6 years ago and had $60,000 by the time of seizure. Or $30 in a random token this year like NFT-art.finance and made the same. If that cash were the realized gain from such an investment, it'd
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by wl 5y ago
STV doesn't fix the problem that the people who seek election and are capable of winning often are the last people who should govern. It just gives more proportional representation.
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by wl 5y ago
A split model would be interesting, though. What if, for example, the US Senate continued to be elected or went back to being appointed by the states and the House were filled by sortition?
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by wl 5y ago
The problem is that unless you have experience digging such artifacts out of the ground and an extensive familiarity with the provenanced material others have dug out of the ground, such impressions aren't worth much. In the context of
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by wl 5y ago
It’s being cynical about the idea that PR departments tell the straightforward truth.
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by wl 5y ago
If we're talking about Sinuhe, that's on the wrong side of the Late Bronze Age systems collapse. Other than perhaps faint echos found in the Greek epics and the Hebrew scriptures, Mediterranean texts from the other side of the col
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by wl 5y ago
We also had to decipher Egyptian. I don't think having to do so speaks to the cultural irrelevance of a civilization.
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by wl 5y ago
Doesn't happen on my 2018 MBP with my QC35 IIs.
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by wl 5y ago
Royal names in cartouches provided a clue. The Rosetta Stone provided the spelling of the name Ptolemy in Greek, Hieratic, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Other cartouches with known values filled in a lot. One major problem is that Egyptian hier
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by wl 5y ago
I'm not measuring anything but current in amperes. There's plenty of things I can measure in cups besides water.
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by wl 5y ago
I've gotten activity challenge notifications about special events, despite me turning off all notifications for activity.
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by wl 5y ago
Understand that Masonic degrees usually can be divided into a ritual portion and a lecture portion elaborating on the ideas found in the ceremonial. Morals and Dogma contains extra written lectures for an obsolete series of degrees Pike rev
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by wl 5y ago
The frequent flyer programs have less lock-in than you might imagine. Many airlines have status match programs, where someone who has status in one airline's frequent flier program will be extended the equivalent status in another&#x27
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by wl 5y ago
Breadboards are great for prototyping until you get signals close to 10 MHz. Stray capacitance becomes an issue north of there.
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by wl 5y ago
Too bad so many of those marks are fake on Amazon.
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by wl 5y ago
I'm in my 30s I associate 24 fps with jerky pans and unwatchable action sequences. And if we're talking 2:3 pull down in something that was never intended for theaters, I think, what a pointlessly detrimental affectation.
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by wl 5y ago
Just keep in mind that those older Minolta lenses were designed for 35mm film. They'll be tend to be soft when coupled with a 36 megapixel full frame sensor, at least compared to modern lenses designed for high resolution sensors.
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by wl 5y ago
Iron gall ink is a poor choice for documents that should last a long time. It's an acidic ink, which damages paper. The iron rusts over time. The ink blooms. These things are manageable if the documents in question are stored in a cool
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by wl 5y ago
The more boring explanation: Egypt wants to control the exploitation of Pharaonic material culture under their control, which they consider their cultural patrimony. If they can't do the tests and get the glory, they don't want ot
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by wl 5y ago
When they implemented it, they opted everyone in and buried the notice in a wall of text. I only caught it when Little Snitch notified me that brew was reaching out to Google. The project still doesn't seem to understand how bad of a m
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by wl 5y ago
Gun control. Abortion. Climate change. Drugs. The death penalty. Racism isn't the only controversial political topic out there.
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by wl 5y ago
Zawi Hawass deserves a lot of criticism for being a fickle, controlling gatekeeper of archeological work in Egypt in his former role as Egyptian Minister of Antiquities. He often seems more interested in glorifying himself and promoting rev

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