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by wl 7y ago
Snopes chose to target, among other things, a Babylon Bee article talking about how CNN bought industrial laundry equipment to spin their news. The only people who could possibly be confused that this is real news are toddlers who have not
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by wl 7y ago
Snopes fact-checking the satire site Babylon Bee suggests to me that their days of being a valuable resource are over. Any reasonable people at Snopes apparently no longer have any influence.
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by wl 7y ago
The Epic Store won't allow me to create an account because I was a victim of reverse identity theft ( https://www.xkcd.com/1279/ ) years ago. I guess Epic doesn't want me buying this or any other game from the
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by wl 7y ago
It's all the social stuff that goes along with being a "man", "woman", or whatever other identity we adopt.
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by wl 7y ago
I'm arguably in IoT, though I really dislike the term. The argument for 5G in IoT is that there will be more total bandwidth available. If even if every toaster, toilet, fridge, and smoke detector used category M1 LTE, I'm skeptic
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by wl 7y ago
The ancient Egyptians had a sense of humor. The problem is that ancient Egyptian literature is usually only read by people who are learning the Egyptian language. Wenamun is a comedy of errors. Setne Khamwas contains slapstick. Hathor'
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by wl 7y ago
What's the issue with using BBEdit in free mode?
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by wl 7y ago
> Same with mechanical keyboards. The signal there is to people using shitty 20$ dell membrane boards, and who see those beautiful machined aluminum boards and custom caps and feel jealous. The signal is about demonstrating you have more
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by wl 7y ago
If I'm posting something on Craigslist, I'm usually more interested in getting rid of it than getting the best price.
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by wl 7y ago
I wouldn't want to catch a .32 ACP or even a .22 LR in the ass. That doesn't make either round "high powered" though. Calling an AR-15 a "high power rifle" is simply wrong. As far as rifles are concerned, 5.56x
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by wl 7y ago
The 1994 Federal Assault Weapons ban was the source of the irrational feature tests under discussion. These feature tests originated here because California's experience showed that name bans were easily subverted. The 1994 FAWB did no
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by wl 7y ago
> The original proposals had none of that silliness. They targeted tactical rifles: short to be light, portable, and effective indoors and at close quarters, with detachable magazines to maximize sustained ability to engage targets. This
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by wl 7y ago
If you consider an AR-15 rifle to be high powered, let me introduce you to the AR-10, FAL, and SCAR.
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by wl 7y ago
Specifically, one of the more likely theories is that a good number of these scrolls were deposited in the desert by various religious communities for safe keeping before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE.
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by wl 7y ago
I've had good luck with Etsy when buying things you can't find at Walmart. There's plenty of knitters and crocheters on Etsy who use the site to avoid accumulating finished objects. They're usually willing to do custom t
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by wl 7y ago
Most tickets are for rolling right on red.
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by wl 7y ago
My comment was based on what I've heard law enforcement say on the matter. If someone is in the position where they've been given a Miranda warning, they've been detained and they know they're in trouble. People tend to
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by wl 7y ago
In a different society, these people might be highwaymen. The government lets them do the same kinds of thing with official sanction and support.
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by wl 7y ago
Miranda warnings don't seem to help much in practice. Pretty much everyone who is given one waives their rights and speaks anyway.
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by wl 7y ago
The Minsky accusation and others like it are questionable. There's precisely one accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims Epstein was procuring underaged girls for other men in his orbit, like Marvin Minsky, Bill Clinton, Bill Ric
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by wl 7y ago
The thing to remember is that the Ptolemies ruled Egypt by conquest and pushed cultural syncretism. If you browse a museum with an extensive Egyptian collection, the Greco-Roman period items have a noticeably different style and really stic
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by wl 7y ago
Telit's LE910 series uses Intel parts. For my uses, they've been very nice.
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by wl 7y ago
Essentially anything else.
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by wl 7y ago
> Also, policemen are professionally trained to handle them I've gone shooting with plenty of cops. There's nothing special about police academy that qualifies you to handle a handgun. If anything, frequent recreational shooter
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by wl 7y ago
I recently made a 60"x48" print from a 4x5 negative scanned with a Epson V700 scanner. You're simply not going to get that kind of resolution with a DSLR. I don't doubt you get good results with your setup, but your stat
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by wl 7y ago
Our broadcast signals are well below the noise floor at those distances. Carl Sagan didn't think this through.
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by wl 7y ago
> They have to keep a record of everything that happened until all potential lawsuits time out. More importantly, these records often have clinical significance.
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by wl 7y ago
These machines cannot be airgapped. The anesthesia record from these machines populates into the patient's electronic medical record. A data diode would be appropriate, though.
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by wl 7y ago
Without the local webserver, they fall back to Safari's URL handler, which asks whether or not you wan't to start the application in question. They went through a lot of trouble to implement this ridiculous solution to avoid the k
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by wl 7y ago
That National Instruments DAQ on my bench isn't going obsolete any time soon. Going to more mundane things, neither are my keyboard and mouse.

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