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anonGone73on How can some infinities be bigger than others?

Infinite is un-enumerable, but you can carve it up in more or less ways.

anonGone73on Entrepreneurs who regret starting businesses

No ones anecdotes in this thread are random. The majority of failures are not reading this.

anonGone73on The 'Insanely Broad' Restrict Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok

It was on TikTok 6 Days ago...

anonGone73on Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in England tonight and tomorrow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm

The James Bay network went offline in less than 90 seconds, giving Quebec its second massive power outage in 11 months.[11] The power failure lasted nine hours and forced the company to implement various mitigation strategies, including raising the trip level, installing series compensation on ultra high voltage lines and upgrading various monitoring and operational procedures. Other utilities in North America and Northern Europe and elsewhere implemented programs to reduce the risks associated with geomagnetically induced currents (GICs)

anonGone73on Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in England tonight and tomorrow

I too whistled at the Aurora Borealis to encourage them. It was legend that if you were overzealous, then the lights could become agitated and come down and cut off your head.

I am from Interior Alaska. Later in life, I heard this same story from someone from Gambell, Alaska in the Bering Sea. That is when it dawned on me, that if you are outside whistling for too long, someone/something might come and cut off your head. Interior Alaskans and Coastal Alaskans used to kidnap each other with enough regularity to give precedence to such legends.

anonGone73on Godot 3.5

Is it Go Dot or Go Dough? Asking for a friend :)

anonGone73on History of lossless data compression algorithms (2014)

The Head and the Heart

anonGone73on A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit

The Fourth Way, Gurdjieff, and Ouspensky are worth looking into. The fallacies of man corrupt, especially when dogma serves one master.

anonGone73on Migrating from Netlify to Cloudflare Workers Sites for 2x Performance (2020)

Rust and WASM with some combination of Container Orchestration through block-chained nodes which only come online when you are not using your phone and willing to power the transactions.

Cloudflare Workers and KV @ the Edge can do a lot to manage the control plane.

anonGone73on No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble

Journalism is getting worse, because the market has changed/evaporated. It is another race to the bottom.

There are more journalists in prisons than ever before.

Attention is a currency and we are easily distracted.