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The Man in Charge of Immigration Data Just Resigned(theatlantic.com)
10 points by mesofile 1mo ago|0 comments
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by mesofile 5mo ago
Not sure if this is a spoiler, it’s been a while since I read those books, but if memory serves the only reason Zaphod survived the TPV was because he was temporarily the inhabitant of a pocket universe specifically designed to trick him, a
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by mesofile 5mo ago
Fugazi enjoyers should also know about their own very extensive archive of live shows https://dischord.com/fugazi_live_series
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AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved by Linux 7.0(phoronix.com)
7 points by mesofile 6mo ago|0 comments
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by mesofile 11mo ago
Besides the many other factors mentioned by commenters here, I'll add one other: drivers in the US rarely face consequences for killing pedestrians or, for that matter, other drivers, even when it's the result of willfully neglige
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by mesofile 1y ago
This is how I feel about my Honda, and to some extent, Kubernetes. In the former case I kept a 2006 model in good order for so long I skipped at least two (automobile) generation's worth of car-to-phone teething problems, and after yea
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by mesofile 1y ago
A number of articles and at least one well-known study have been published highlighting the fact that the ranks of the wealthiest landowning families in Britain are nearly unchanged since Norman times — e.g. https://www.medievali
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by mesofile 1y ago
back up for me (in the US) now https://status.1password.com/incidents/sfrpk9dskthr
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If we weren't idiots, Balance of Payments edition(drafts.interfluidity.com)
3 points by mesofile 1y ago|0 comments
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by mesofile 1y ago
One term that's specific to this concept of wielding a real but unused military capability is "fleet in being" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_in_being
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by mesofile 2y ago
Many years ago when advance-fee email scams [0] became common I was likewise amazed that anyone would fall for them. Then it was pointed out that the seemingly obvious warning signs were a feature and not a bug, they are there to filter out
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North Korea unveils nuclear-powered submarine(apnews.com)
4 points by mesofile 2y ago|0 comments
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by mesofile 2y ago
I agree the Ukrainian defense industrial base is working miracles given the situation, but my comment was specifically about major assets that not only they but the EU as a whole are not prepared to replace at this time or in the near term.
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by mesofile 2y ago
I like the sentiment, and I believe that the Ukrainians will fight on regardless, but I am extremely pessimistic about their prospects past the end of this year. US support has been critical from the very earliest stages of this war and ind
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A master cartoonist ages alongside his heroine(nytimes.com)
1 points by mesofile 2y ago|0 comments
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by mesofile 2y ago
“The time has come for you to seek the Path. Your soul has set you face to face before the clear light ... and now you are about to experience it in its Reality, wherein all things are like the void and cloudless sky, and the naked, spotles
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by mesofile 2y ago
the ‘sound of surprise’
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by mesofile 2y ago
> I believe someone has coined the term "techno feudalism" Bruce Schneier, for one, not sure if anyone else had applied the feudal analogy before him. His remarks stand up quite well, I think: https://www.schneier.co
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by mesofile 2y ago
Sorry, I follow cycling casually but I'm racking my brain trying to think of who 'EDB' refers to.
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Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy settle DC tax fraud suit for $40M(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by mesofile 2y ago|0 comments
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by mesofile 2y ago
I watched this again recently and was struck by how the last few lines of narration land very differently now.
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by mesofile 2y ago
> She argues that in the majority of unearthed royal palaces, the kitchens were very small This doesn’t seem to allow for the possibility that they would have brought in caterers with their own equipment, as many people throwing a large
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by mesofile 2y ago
"Starve before doing business with the damned Navy. They don't know what the hell they want and will drive you up a wall before they break either your heart or a more exposed part of your anatomy." — Kelly Johnson Shocking th
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by mesofile 3y ago
Thanks to everyone who replied.
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by mesofile 3y ago
Purely idle curiosity – I've heard a lot about the Kalman filter over the years, it's a popular subject here, but what are the other filters in the standard robotics toolkit?
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by mesofile 3y ago
Co-written by Springsteen and Patti Smith, not a Prince song.
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by mesofile 3y ago
Sounded interesting, but 1) the titles don't link to reviews as I expected, am I missing something? and 2) it appears to be an inactive project – I've only clicked through a sample of the full list but the majority of titles revie
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by mesofile 3y ago
> the news is great except when I know more about the topic than the journalist is presenting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amn...
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by mesofile 3y ago
Very good read, though I also wonder about the author’s out-of-hand dismissal of prescribed hydroxchloroquine. Readers may be interested in a bit of follow-up from the author's newsletter: > Speaking of getting better: the essay l
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The Pink-Haired Secret Weapon Behind Blue Eye Samurai(vanityfair.com)
2 points by mesofile 3y ago|0 comments

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