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by ilovecurl 8mo ago
I love curl.
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by ilovecurl 9mo ago
Because of the Iron Peak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_peak
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by ilovecurl 10mo ago
SemiAnalysis published an interesting piece about this recently: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-to-kill-2-monopoli...
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by ilovecurl 1y ago
During Dominion's case against Fox News around this same issue Fox News' own lawyers stated that they were not stating actual facts about the topics under discussion and instead were engaged in exaggeration and non-literal comme
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by ilovecurl 1y ago
jheri-curl -v for even more bounce and shine!
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by ilovecurl 1y ago
$5 million gets you permanent residency in the US.
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by ilovecurl 1y ago
I wonder if there was a connection to the ongoing wrongful death lawsuit after a doctor suffered a fatal allergic reaction at a Disney World restaurant? That's the one where Disney tried to get her widower's lawsuit tossed by poin
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by ilovecurl 2y ago
As an avid fan of Star Control, I can't help but love the Druuge model, "His reference for this mill’s shape comes from similarly shaped alien ships in a video game called Star Control."
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by ilovecurl 2y ago
Cory Doctorow wrote a piece about this: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-11-02...
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by ilovecurl 2y ago
Amen. It's also hard for me to take someone seriously if they say "Do this thing, er wait, don't."
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by ilovecurl 2y ago
Reminiscent of Terrence McKenna's Stoned Ape Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_ape_theory
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Reflections on Trusting Trust [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)
2 points by ilovecurl 2y ago|0 comments
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." -Henry Spencer
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
"An odd feature of the model is that, the older you get, the quicker your trips become, at least in expectation, and the more you should speed." I am reminded of the track from The Dead Kennedys, Buzzbomb from Pasadena.
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
A great book for those interested in this subject is Full-Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest by Sandi Doughton.
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
If you are ever in the Seattle area, you can tour one of the destroyers that was involved in that incident, the USS Turner Joy, which is docked right next to the ferry terminal in Bremerton.
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
There's a wikipedia page about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
Thank you for being a voice in the noble task of dispelling this myth. While it is true that water strongly absorbs microwave wavelength photons, other things do as well to more or less degree. It is all determined by the absorption cross
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
I love curl. It just works.
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
nitpick: TSMC's EUV process uses lasers to vaporize tin, not lead, into EUV emitting plasma.
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
Anyone remember Rackable Systems Inc.? Their selling point was all about reducing data center costs by doing all the DC conversion in these massive converters at the top of the cage. They supplied something like 48v down rails in the back o
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
"All curl man pages got their references updated and they are now verified and checked in tests to remain accurate and well formatted." This is one of the reasons I enjoy using curl so much: the documentation is really good.
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
In mathematics, there is a certain prestige in having a low Erdős number. Paul Erdős was famous for his (ab)use of amphetamines. The role which stimulants played in the sheer volume of papers he published over his life is up for debate.
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
Shaka. When the tables fell.
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
I immediately heard the bumper track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViN2bRGrBx8
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
Perl can also be hilariously unreadable: https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol4_3/tpj0403-0017.html
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
False. Most modern day users of IRC are aware of software like IRCCloud which allow seamless participation in IRC channels on mobile.
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
This "tech" does not create holograms. I'm tired of folks misusing the term.
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
"Frustrating" is putting it mildly.
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
"You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them f^*!ing each other over for a goddamn percentage."

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