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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 we…

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…

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 Con…

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…

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 …

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…

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 cag…

"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 cur…

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 volum…

Shaka. When the tables fell.