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Beethoven's 9th Symphony
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Mythical man month energy
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Beethoven's 9th Symphony
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Mythical man month energy
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Russia admits to running low
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"Your sons' war, fought with your grandfathers' rifles."
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Renters Are About to Get the Upper Hand | The Wall Street Journal
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Yeah, with vacancy rates being so low the rates flattening seems to be an indication that landlords have squeezed almost as much rent as tenants can bear.
If milk shot up to $15/g before flatlining I wouldn't think that the cost would soon decrease, but rather that nobody would buy $16 milk.
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Here's why more people won't switch to Lemmy.
The fediverse is not suited at the moment to fixed mindset types.
Personally, I find that refreshing. It reminds me of my earliest interactions with the Internet on BBS. The web for a long while has felt very consumerist; first curated spaces becoming walled gardens and then the subtle shift from web services as products to our attention & data as the Internet's main product. We lost the magical sense of exploration and experimentation that made the early Internet so special. The fediverse is the first instance (pun half-intended) I've come across that speaks to that spirit.
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WTF is Happening? An Overview – Watching the World Go Bye
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What really puzzles me are the folks who disingenuously argue the climate is changing, but that it's not caused by human action. Because they admit there's a problem, but crucially still want nothing done to address or remedy the problem.
Mind-boggling.
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What are some of your favorite Linux FOSS replacements for WIndows software?
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Calibre is IMO the premier book management program, FOSS or otherwise.
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I was promised a robot arm.
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You guys ever rig up a jig that looks kind of sketchy? Needed to make some pretty wide stopped dados while my router table is already set up for a different project and... this... was the result.
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That's a healthy distrust.
I recently watched the bearing of a flushtrim router bit disassemble while routing 2" acrylic and I puckered so hard I could taste what color underpants I was wearing.
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Locksport book
Looks promising, No Starch Press has published some great tomes over the years. I especially enjoyed the Steal This Computer Book series by Wallace Wang.
e:fouled the markdown
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Reddit CEO warns employees not to wear Reddit swag in public as users revolt
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Hah.
Swag in this case is corporate-branded clothes and gear, it derives from a colloquialism for all the pens and bags and such that get handed out at conferences.
It stands for "Shit We All Get" and its use predates swag as short for swagger by some decades.
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Declassified report reveals that the US government is buying troves of data about its citizens
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Yeah, it's the independent source exemption to the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine, basically. The original data collection wasn't illegal, as it was collected by a third party rather than the government, and so is admissable.
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Pilot capeless, Moleskine Neo Snartpen
I haven't delved too deeply into violet inks but quite enjoy Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses.
What are your favorites?
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Here's how it's going to go down.
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That is Herman & Chomsky's propaganda model in a nutshell.