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I love curl.

Because of the Iron Peak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_peak

SemiAnalysis published an interesting piece about this recently: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-to-kill-2-monopoli...

During Dominion's case against Fox News around this same issue Fox News' own lawyers stated that they were not stating actual facts about the topics under discussion and instead were engaged in exaggeration and non-literal commentary. It's not news, it's infotainment.

jheri-curl -v for even more bounce and shine!

$5 million gets you permanent residency in the US.

I wonder if there was a connection to the ongoing wrongful death lawsuit after a doctor suffered a fatal allergic reaction at a Disney World restaurant? That's the one where Disney tried to get her widower's lawsuit tossed by pointing to the fine print of a Disney+ trial he had signed up for years earlier.

As an avid fan of Star Control, I can't help but love the Druuge model, "His reference for this mill’s shape comes from similarly shaped alien ships in a video game called Star Control."

Cory Doctorow wrote a piece about this: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-11-02...

Amen. It's also hard for me to take someone seriously if they say "Do this thing, er wait, don't."

Reminiscent of Terrence McKenna's Stoned Ape Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_ape_theory

"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." -Henry Spencer

"An odd feature of the model is that, the older you get, the quicker your trips become, at least in expectation, and the more you should speed."

I am reminded of the track from The Dead Kennedys, Buzzbomb from Pasadena.

A great book for those interested in this subject is Full-Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest by Sandi Doughton.

If you are ever in the Seattle area, you can tour one of the destroyers that was involved in that incident, the USS Turner Joy, which is docked right next to the ferry terminal in Bremerton.

There's a wikipedia page about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...

Thank you for being a voice in the noble task of dispelling this myth. While it is true that water strongly absorbs microwave wavelength photons, other things do as well to more or less degree. It is all determined by the absorption cross section of the stuff you stick in the microwave.

I love curl. It just works.

nitpick: TSMC's EUV process uses lasers to vaporize tin, not lead, into EUV emitting plasma.

Anyone remember Rackable Systems Inc.? Their selling point was all about reducing data center costs by doing all the DC conversion in these massive converters at the top of the cage. They supplied something like 48v down rails in the back of the cage that their servers would then plug into via special connectors on the back of each server. They promised more efficient power conversion and better thermal management amongst other things.

I was never comfortable working with/around that stuff. I was always worried about a mishap that could bring me (or the cage itself) into contact with 48v of pure DC doom.

"All curl man pages got their references updated and they are now verified and checked in tests to remain accurate and well formatted." This is one of the reasons I enjoy using curl so much: the documentation is really good.

In mathematics, there is a certain prestige in having a low Erdős number. Paul Erdős was famous for his (ab)use of amphetamines. The role which stimulants played in the sheer volume of papers he published over his life is up for debate.

"You shouldn't have mentioned the stuff about Benzedrine. It's not that you got it wrong. It's just that I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics to think that they have to take drugs to succeed."

-Paul Erdős responding to the author of a 1987 Atlantic Monthly article profiling his work (as well as his use of benzedrine).

Shaka. When the tables fell.

I immediately heard the bumper track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViN2bRGrBx8

Perl can also be hilariously unreadable: https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol4_3/tpj0403-0017.html

False. Most modern day users of IRC are aware of software like IRCCloud which allow seamless participation in IRC channels on mobile.

This "tech" does not create holograms. I'm tired of folks misusing the term.

"Frustrating" is putting it mildly.

"You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them f^*!ing each other over for a goddamn percentage."

There is a list of Blackbirds on display over at https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/locations.php