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by xoxxala 4d ago
There's a pretty famous story about Weird Al's Amish Paradise and Coolio. Weird Al got permission from the recording company and producer, but not Coolio. Coolio was not amused, initially. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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Adversaries Using Claude AI to Target Americans and Develop Missiles(twz.com)
4 points by xoxxala 5d ago|0 comments
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Rapidus president considering building chip plant on moon by around 2040(japantoday.com)
2 points by xoxxala 6d ago|0 comments
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by xoxxala 25d ago
Technically, you only need to plonk somebody once. https://en.everybodywiki.com/Plonk_(Usenet)
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by xoxxala 27d ago
I used to work for Domino's Pizza in the mid to late 80s. Our piemakers were trained for speed and could usually slap dough, sauce, cheese and throw down toppings in around 30-40 seconds per pie. The ovens were super hot and cooked piz
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by xoxxala 1mo ago
Thanks for posting that. The picture of the garage door opening is a trip!
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by xoxxala 1mo ago
I've been to the Palace in Prescott, AZ. Neat place. I was told by locals that during the 1900 fire, the patrons picked up the actual bar and carried it out of the saloon to save it.
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by xoxxala 1mo ago
Linotype machines were revolutionary. The New York Times used them for 127 years until 1978 and this documentary shows them in action for the last time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTiCTFdTd60
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by xoxxala 1mo ago
No. We put a lot of references into Fallout, but that wasn’t one of them. (And we didn’t have any toads on the team, just a scorpion the artists used as a reference and no one was licking it.)
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by xoxxala 2mo ago
You might want to check out Slate: https://www.slate.auto/en No embeded modem.
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by xoxxala 2mo ago
The Kriegsmarine had more secure procedures for transmitting the setting key, added more rotors for more possible combinations, and eventually introduced a new Engima with four rotors instead of three. Their transmissions were more difficul
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by xoxxala 2mo ago
Interesting article, but those videos aren’t. Not even pre-MTV quality. While checking out the gallery, came across this image: https://www.tryai.dev/gallery/d3725e9b-1df9-4c10-8a23-2fc705... There’s something wrong wi
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by xoxxala 2mo ago
According to the store page, the cards were printed and bound in China. There are a lot of different card manufacturers there. For very small runs of 1-10 decks, I've used places like makeplayingcards.com. The cards are print-on-demand
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US Congress takes next step to make daylight saving time permanent(bbc.com)
3 points by xoxxala 2mo ago|1 comments
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by xoxxala 2mo ago
It took me twice as long to read Hard Boiled as it should since I spent so much time looking at Geof Darrow’s intricately detailed art. Great story, but the illustrations are on another level.
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by xoxxala 2mo ago
Like T2, Jurassic Park is a blend of CGI with practical effects and animatronics. JP only had 63 CGI scenes with many more practical effects. https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/20027-why-jurassic-park-s-s...
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by xoxxala 3mo ago
We live two hours from the closest Costco. We make a day of it once every 45-60 days plus shop at other stores we don’t have in our small town and see some family. We don’t have an Amazon account and maybe order something online once a mont
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by xoxxala 3mo ago
It would also be far cheaper to send that nuclear waste to Mars. It takes 55 times the energy to fly to the Sun than it does to go to Mars: https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/its-surprisingly-hard-to-g...
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A Man Was Gifted His Dream Car by the Notorious Hacker He Put in Prison(thedrive.com)
31 points by xoxxala 3mo ago|1 comments
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License Plate Cameras Will Soon Track Phones, Wearables, Infotainment and Pets(thedrive.com)
34 points by xoxxala 3mo ago|1 comments
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by xoxxala 3mo ago
The T-800s HUD scene in the first Terminator used 6502 assembly from Nibble magazine. https://www.theterminatorfans.com/the-terminator-vision-hud-...
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by xoxxala 3mo ago
Thanks to Wikipedia TIL Johnny Cash released a song about Sequoyah called "Talking Leaves". From the same album as the much more famous "Ballad of Ira Hayes". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Tea
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NASA names Artemis III crew in next step to Moon landing(bbc.com)
1 points by xoxxala 3mo ago|0 comments
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by xoxxala 4mo ago
My parents are retired fire-fighters. They had an American pygmy goat named Bleve. Those goats commonly have very rotund stomachs[1] that look like they are about to explode. [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ
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The first British person in space(bbc.com)
107 points by xoxxala 4mo ago|59 comments
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by xoxxala 4mo ago
When I say something inappropriate on the phone or over Discord, I always tell the NSA guy listening it was a joke.
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by xoxxala 4mo ago
That was an excellent read for explaining why space isn’t just hard, but expensive.
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by xoxxala 4mo ago
I've seen Magic the Gathering fakes that are higher quality than the real cards.
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by xoxxala 4mo ago
The Jaguar catalog was mostly meh, but there were a few gems that I really enjoyed (Aliens vs Predator, Doom, Wolf 3d, Iron Soldier, and Tempest 2000). AvP alone was worth the price of the system. I was a proud Turbo DUO owner. It had some
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by xoxxala 4mo ago
I design boardgames and it's easy to write a lot of rules. It's more difficult to write concise rules. Most of my time is spent editing rules to their absolute minimum. "I have made this letter longer than usual, only because

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