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Ah - the "pull the ladder up after you" strategy.

In theory - maybe - melting of glaciers and polar icecaps could be a factor - but not everywhere: - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-climate-chang... - https://www.we…

It is such a classic, it got a sequel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PdffUfoF0

By that logic - every living being on the planet is - or can be prey for something else - and I am not disagreeing with that. But that 5,000 foot view of mine is more related to th…

Depends on the environment - in that book for example, Arctic wolves were not the cause of large (in physical size - the caribou) prey animal population decline, even though the "f…

I only check 4/day now. For awhile when RSS/Atom was big, I had hundreds - but was inundated with "too much info" and so wouldn't check anything for weeks at a time and then it was…

Sigh. While every wolf may be a predator - that does not necessarily mean they are they are dangerous to all potential types of prey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Cry_Wolf

[Am in agreement with being conflicted about this advice] In a normal functioning society with law enforcement that is actually accountable to it's citizens, yes - polite pushback …

... and this kind of site gives you the ability to do some more research ... Myself, I am of the "buy the cheapest tool" first and see if I use it... If I use it and it works, grea…

Heh - that's where I was going with the "tribulations" aspect of my comment - which is why I like to read honest blogs - those dreams of "someday I might do 'X'", only to find some…

Heh - do you have a "blog" (ala jwz's DNA Lounge)? (This is the kind of retiring from IT tale that I love to read and follow the trials and tribulations of over the years - good lu…

True - but it did have the benefit of giving the majority of people who passed through it the same benefit of a baseline understanding of "things" - those with aptitude and talent …

The invasion issue is also further remediated by using a "workstation style" laptop which only gets 60-75m of battery life (plus also weighs far too much to be used on your actual …

You know you are getting old (insert AI generated meme) when your default of "20 years ago" was the 80's... Nope...

Yeah, normal people look at me funny when I am "out and about" and they want me to do something on a random website and my reply is: "naw, I will look at that when I am back at a r…

In a country far from home, on my own I was out late on a Saturday night in the bar district. Decided on a whim to buy a pack of cigarettes and have a smoke - a few minutes later a…

That's actually what I did - upgraded from a 5-bay Synology to an 8-bay in December (before HD prices skyrocketed even further than they had since my last NAS build), still have a …

As a book want-to-be-hoarder without enough room to actually do so, these stories always make me sad - I spent alot of time in quiet, cool empty libraries picking up random books a…

Oh that's easy... "money". When it was just about the "love of technology" and the building of the skills involved, things were different...

... try being a Canadian with a bit of a hearing deficiency that is always saying our "verbal tic" of: "sorry" just prior to asking people to repeat themselves...

Came for this - happy to see it here...

I would be 3d-printing some janky feet in TPU before submitting myself to that process. Even if they "wear-out/fall-off", I can print some more.

... well, that would guarantee I never take a gig in one of those data centers...

Well - the fact that they don't pay attention (or lack critical thinking skills and a baseline reasonable education) is a large part of the problem. But - with a person like POTUS …

If you vote/support someone who runs on a racist platform - you are getting that as part of the "package deal": https://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/11/10/the-cinemax-theory-of...