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You learn much more by doing the actual grunt work. Some people enjoy learning for the sake of learning. We can learn assembly even though compilers exist. We can learn OpenGL even…

"Degrees are expensive, just make stuff." From the channel description. I love it!

Interesting but people die (or are severely injured) in all kinds of industrial accidents all the time. Unfortunately, with or without regulation it comes with the territory of a m…

I recently got an iMac from the same era up and running. First as a FOSS gaming machine for my kids, then as a gift for a friend who was lacking computing options. The secret (as y…

If a hockey stick costs 1000% to 1200% what it used to, then that's definitely going to affect pick-up games. Particularly with how often these things break (I don't know how junio…

Unfortunately, hockey in Canada is on the decline. I recently watched a good video covering the topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oca_4WD69SQ I can't imagine that the end of H…

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The fossil fuel industry quietly funneled money to these groups to discredit nuclear which competes with gas/coal for base load. Solar/wind only partially compete because at times …

Thus spake the fossil fuel lobby.

WRT government data centers, there is certainly precedent for independent researchers getting HPC time on systems owned by US national labs, research institutions, universities, an…

> "The new list will provide chaplains with clear, readily available information that will better enable them to anticipate the religious support needs [...]" Emphasis mine. In oth…

Heathen is yet another term to describe Germanic paganism which has a similar etymology as the Latin originated word "pagan"[1]. It describes the people "of the heath"[2] — the rur…

On the contrary I would expect that the most immediate effect is the impossibility of commissioning chaplains for any of the 180 faiths removed from the list. Good luck with that i…

Those places have never liked Trump, as immoral as he is perceived, but they consistently put their conservatism first when it comes time to vote. I don't see this situation changi…

> I’m super on board with providing a universal spiritual/mental health space regardless of your affiliation. This is what was happening in the Army's Chaplain Corps[1] prior to th…

It was likely the kind of poverty where they never had any money, always had debt, but never were in any danger of starvation due to their status. It was just enough to keep them f…

Absolutely, and this is also a big deal for longevity of your purchase. I have an iMac from 2012 and it's a beautiful piece of reliable hardware, with a beautiful screen. However, …

The "-" character appears pretty frequently in song/album titles, maybe even artist names. There could be some sense in not using it as a substitute for space in this context.

I would like to see some option to offset the scrobbling times for privacy. I've cooled on Last.fm in recent years because I've realized that it's a very good, public indicator of …

This is better so you think about the commands that you're pasting into your terminal before you do it, rather than just one blob of who-knows-what. However, what I don't understan…

It's no worse than things like blog and vlog. Words that took me at least a decade to come to terms with.

'garden' came into English via Old French but it's ultimately Frankish (another Germanic language) so 'yard' and 'garden' are cognates. Interestingly they have a close sense. https…

Interesting. Guitarist (as a hobby) here. I find familiar, favorite music good for concentration, with or without lyrics. But new music is what gets me. I give it too much attentio…

Imagine doing an easy tour in your air conditioned Kuwaiti logistics office and then getting blown to bits by a ballistic missile because no one bothered to tell you about the war …

That MSG works for a Captain or a Lieutenant. If said MSG is good, there might be a future of advising a commanding officer on uniforms and length of grass at increasingly higher e…