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a material that stretches 1% to failure (like steel/aluminum) can ballpark bend to a radius 100 times the thickness. so a 1 meter cable could bend 100m radius before cracking. assu…

i tried the newfangled commands and they are objectively worse. maybe should fork a git lite that has only the commands you listed.

i am still waiting for a demon to tell me something non-obvious that a supernatural being should obviously know. Failing that, all tales of demons or genies or aliens can be discou…

waiting for ai to write me prescriptions.

the whole mythology is nobody knows what will be a big company in general. The known big company spaces are heavily oversubscribed so nothing can be predicted. The unknown big comp…

i would love a drop in self hosted replacement for datadog that looks good.

you can get cheap welders and use flux core so you don't even need gas shielding. something like this works well. https://a.co/d/8XMYx7j for thin steel or aluminum you really do ne…

yeah except the capitalists killed it. napster, bitorrent etc... being tried now with mastodon et al...

have it owned by users and benefactors.

Don't airlines do this all the time to prevent new entrants? How is this not provable?

aren't androids linux? thats the biggest by far end user platform. of course google doesnt want to acknowledge it too much. https://source.android.com/

using Brave on an iphone for Youtube is a godsend. Almost as good as desktop experience. Youtube app, Safari and Chrome suck enough to be unusable

"if you are not failing you are not trying hard enough."

what do you do now for the vast majority of crimes that go unpunished? https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/01/most-violen... majority of crimes are not even reported to p…

yep prison is an abomination. Needs to be defunded and outlawed.

Mail sent to you is your property. Intercepting it in transit is highway robbery.

the outside dog doesn't fight back. and neither do the dogs still inside. They all deserve it. Companies respond to consequences.

there's a reason humans build cities. The wild is out to kill you. Pretty but deadly.

in the academy today original thought that strays too far is actively discouraged. Undergrad is pretty much all analysis and derivation. But then college was never meant to create …

brasil #49

i was in the "third" world last week and i had half gig symmetric fiber internet. Today i am in colorado with cable modem that can barely hit 60mbps on a good day and 4mpbs up.

peak toyota/lexus was around 2006. After that all downhill.

Social discouragement is often more effective than legal. The 'n' word is mostly stopped by social means.