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I ordered something from a Chinese company and they quoted me 5USD per unit and 35USD shipping. I accepted and the units were shipped and delivered and of excellent quality. Someti…

Pure FAFO. Love it. Hating Musk before it was cool has its upsides but I really can’t help thinking about how absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Are amino acids not present in rocky planet oceans?

All I can take away from this is that it really doesn't matter where it came from. The real problem is dealing with something like this was a failure on so many levels regardless o…

Never liked Musk

The Nikon Monarch 7 is good. For birds you want something with a lot of light and less magnification (easier to hold steady). I also like the Vortex Viper HD for lower budgets. 8x4…

Doctorow says "But there’s something we can do about this! The part of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act that authorizes agencies to assess fees runs out in Oct 2023, an…

https://12ft.io/ seems disabled. Anyone know what happened?

I think I would pay for all these services for content if I could be assured of watching the content how I want. I don't like the monthly fees, but Ill put up with it, I prefer the…

Are all these questions related to Javascript? In some instances number vs object I guess I could talk about it wrt to Java or C but in terms of what Javascript’s notion of anythin…

On all these sites, including this one, why is the engagement model to comment on things? At family gatherings, prior to COVID, I always noticed real life chit chat to be bizarrely…

Since 1/21 I have identified 153,423 attempts to gain access to some servers I run. All from unique ip addresses. It's one thing to identify bots, it's quite another what do about …

Since Java 7, try with resources handles this in a much cleaner way than the example. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions...

It sounds trivial but exercise and a moderate diet affects my well being more than anything else.

Is the question just whether invertebrates have consciousness? It may be a forcing function of our desire to impose consciousness on things but it really seems like my cat and my d…

What a perfect story. Very nicely done.

MacBook Air: right price, good selection of ports, thought the screen would be an issue after 15" MBP (late 2011) but it was good enough, keyboard.

Do have any data to back up that claim? I assume the "California stop" is not isolated to California.

I keep hearing this dismay at the cop not getting consequences. If we assume comparative negligence and the cop that actually pulled the trigger is say 90% responsible. Then are yo…

Java is just a C based language for all intents and purposes. The ecosystem is why Java is popular. For a very long time Sun maintained a stronghold on the way things were done and…

"Dissociation is a vague psychiatric symptom where you feel like you’re not real, or the world isn’t real, or you’re detached from the world, or something like that. It sounds weir…

At least for me personally this is a gross oversimplification. While we do like cooking, we don't like planning or shopping for ingredients. We also don't like buying a head of red…