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by everybodyknows 6d ago
And, what actions would constitute "switching over"?
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by everybodyknows 6d ago
A nautical mile is roughly one minute of latitude. Every blue-water sailor has heard "a minute's a mile" -- although that's hardly even half-correct.
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Russia opens first road bridge with North Korea(dw.com)
8 points by everybodyknows 9d ago|0 comments
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by everybodyknows 9d ago
2023 post, recounting an incident from 2003.
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Risks Digest – April 2026, the final issue(catless.ncl.ac.uk)
4 points by everybodyknows 9d ago|2 comments
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by everybodyknows 10d ago
There's a rather simple reason this is so: A thought is typically most powerfully expressed in a sentence that puts the most surprising or notable word last, immediately before the period. Ideally, without any qualifying adjective&#x2
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by everybodyknows 10d ago
Also this single bit of "anecdata": I was once told that in long storage attraction between the electron orbitals of head and platter could gradually drive out the air gap, leaving them bonded too tightly for the drive motor to ov
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by everybodyknows 10d ago
Title is misspelled -- "ue" for "eu". In a neologism, some nuisance.
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Artificial Intelligence as a Judge Advocate's Force Multiplier(lineofdeparture.army.mil)
1 points by everybodyknows 10d ago|0 comments
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UN votes to adopt new map that makes our world look different(cnn.com)
18 points by everybodyknows 12d ago|3 comments
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US Forest Service closing 23 research facilities as part of reorganization(apnews.com)
4 points by everybodyknows 13d ago|0 comments
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by everybodyknows 14d ago
To put in human terms, it's roughly three day's labor of every worker in the Netherlands.
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by everybodyknows 15d ago
It's actually forbidden, by advice of legal counsel, because in court the other side would present it as evidence of knowing culpability.
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by everybodyknows 15d ago
It's yet another borrowing of the prestige of technical terms -- propagated by LLMs, but in rampant misuse by poseurs even before AI: inflection point, exponential growth, order of magnitude, evolve, viable, ...
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by everybodyknows 16d ago
Do you have to maintain a strip on top, free of any new tree roots?
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by everybodyknows 16d ago
The theoretical owners of those profits now see the market's valuation of that privilege fallen by 24% today. Evidently big news is out. https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/EIX?qsearchterm=
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DoD confirms 'refrigeration disruption' at military commissaries(militarytimes.com)
7 points by everybodyknows 19d ago|1 comments
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by everybodyknows 20d ago
It's easy? How please do we get Zillow to do that? Zillow publishes, right now, interior shots of my house -- put up years ago for a sale listing. I have claimed the place as mine, but Zillow won't let me take them down. Zillo
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by everybodyknows 20d ago
> I closed all three PRs without comment. > Maybe this was unreasonable, but truthfully, I’m just not interested in encouraging people to take up our time with this kind of busywork. Not only reasonable, but necessary to recovery for
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by everybodyknows 20d ago
AI-generated bait for the head-freezing hustle.
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by everybodyknows 22d ago
An LLM is great at writing a first shot at key bindings to suit your taste, and recipes for Emacs' four syntactically different yet functionally overlapping configuration schemes. The maybe complementary, or at least deterministic sour
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by everybodyknows 24d ago
To become a writer, and publisher of work much like that of the blogger: https://nappertime.com/my-books-where-to-start-reading/ Follow it. No doubt sincerely meant.
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by everybodyknows 27d ago
> tiny JS libraries that will make <table>s sortable What are some good ones?
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by everybodyknows 29d ago
> What does it mean that I'm the importer? Hello! Another thing it means is that you are legally responsible for paying ... ta-dum ... TARIFFS!
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by everybodyknows 29d ago
One reason they force lots of scrolling is to put friction between you and the more-trustworthy Sort By Recent and Critical Only buttons.
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by everybodyknows 29d ago
> It is convenient, fast delivery, easy returns and all that. Not, however, reliable. Ordered espresso filters, got counterfeits; ordered new monitor, got used, with a scratch in the screen, followed by a runaround game while demanding
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by everybodyknows 1mo ago
Another that hits me is the over-the-top dramatization: > I’m not going to tell you to write 5,500 tests for your novel. For most books, most of this is wildly disproportionate — and that’s the point.
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by everybodyknows 1mo ago
I set out likewise to write a highly structured book with FOSS, therefore: git, some hierarchical plain text format, and a visually rich editor. Markdown could not seem to meet the third point. For instance, progress-related comments that
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by everybodyknows 1mo ago
Everyone -- including Fox -- seems to have missed the tax-avoidance game: Tips are deductible, wages are not. So one of the few employee and management mutual interests lies in short-circuiting a share of revenue directly from customer to e
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by everybodyknows 1mo ago
> Repkon said other countries were using the machines to produce the older model. But the Army and General Dynamics could not inspect those active production lines, Repkon told them, citing customer privacy. This is nuts. Why not put in

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