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by xavierstein 1y ago
I think that Homestar Runner did a great short[1] about this for their 25th anniversary. [1] https://homestarrunner.com/toons/backtoawebsite
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Epic just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again(theverge.com)
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by xavierstein 2y ago
This is delightful. I would love to start working on a project like this. Side note, as someone who works adjacent to the RF and electronics industry, getting my Ham license was the best thing I could have done to help my CS brain understan
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Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote(twitter.com)
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“Tailscale Up” community conference(tailscale.com)
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by xavierstein 7y ago
Backblaze is one of the few services I recommend to everyone. The $5/month unlimited backup service with the 30 day versioning built on top of it is such peace of mind.
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by xavierstein 7y ago
That's good to know. I may also have to stop buying used from Amazon. It seems IOBA also allows for damage[1], but it must be noted, which seems to be the main issue. [1] http://www.ioba.org/pages/resources/co
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by xavierstein 7y ago
The one thing this article doesn't touch on, that I wish it had, is condition. I'm a large buyer of used books from places like AbeBooks and Amazon, and the conditions simply cannot be trusted, especially from the larger sellers l
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by xavierstein 8y ago
I guess I'm more looking for a response to "yes CFCs can destroy ozone even though they are heavier than air," and "here is a graph of the size of the ozone vs space shuttle reentries" that shows a non-correlation.
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by xavierstein 8y ago
My father-in-law firmly believes that the hole in the ozone was caused by space shuttle reentry, and that's why it's patching now, and also that CFCs couldn't possibly make the hole because they are heavier than air. Does any