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by sackbut 2y ago
Taiwan can still blow up their TSMC plants and fire conventional missiles at the three gorges damn to inflict near nuclear results on China.
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by sackbut 2y ago
I’ve see pictures of the barriers before the accident and they were there, but they looked like they were tailored to 70s era ships not the container laden ships of today
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by sackbut 3y ago
If this means I have to abandon my clicky keyboard I give up.
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by sackbut 3y ago
People in 1000 BC is maybe not the best example here considering practically the entire population of Egypt was tasked with building or supporting the building of the pyramids among many other projects.
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by sackbut 3y ago
I can't believe I'm linking pensapedia on hacker news, but this wouldn't be the first time a drug ring in a beloved restaurant was exposed in the county which I grew up. Presenting Cancun Mexican Restaurant in Gulf Breeze, wi
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by sackbut 4y ago
I've never seen a Jenkins instance that did not need to be open to the public internet in order to support GitHub webhooks. Granted they were using IP based restrictions but it's still not behind a corporate network by any stretch
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by sackbut 4y ago
How does this square with "Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade" from his latest tirade/email
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by sackbut 4y ago
According to Twitter employees on platforms like Blind and news sources, Twitter (the website) is the only datapoint for communication with their new boss.
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by sackbut 4y ago
It being an asshole thing to do to people in positions of power has been the reason for parody for literally thousands of years.
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by sackbut 4y ago
Ceding territories in a forced negotiation to only set the stage for the next conflict is not peace, it's appeasement.
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by sackbut 4y ago
I keep hearing references to this study that precipitated the famous “no more WFH Fridays” decision but I can’t actually seem to find it. Do you have a link?
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by sackbut 4y ago
When I directed the local univeristy basketball team's pep band for a time we had a blind musician. All he needed was a recording of his part done on any instrument (which took me under 5 minutes to prepare per song) to participate ful
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by sackbut 4y ago
That's because everyone in those groups backing them up had to keep their eyes glued on them!
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by sackbut 4y ago
Interviewing the Guarneri quartet is about the most extreme example they could've found in this regard. They are one of the most longstanding and in lockstep chamber ensembles on the planet. Most chamber groups engage in enough eye con
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by sackbut 4y ago
I play classical and jazz (which extends to every other genre), and while I think eye contact is somewhat overrated, it is so vastly more important to establish communication "out of the page" in classical music due to the many ma
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by sackbut 4y ago
Can confirm.