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"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent." — Qui-Gon Jinn, The Phantom Menace.

Yes, so much this. This seems to be the same type of hype as blockchain was a couple years ago when everyone said that will solve all our problems.

It took discipline for me to get into a workout routine, 4 days a week. Now if I don't do it I get stressed out. But if I had not pushed through the first two months of exercising …

Backblaze.

Art is not harder than coding. What is hard is for an artist to make a living because the market for artwork is very, very low.

My Dad was a morse intercept operator for the US Army, mid 60s, stationed in Northern Japan. He has stories of them naming all the Soviet morse operators by the way the tapped.

Many streaming services have ads in their lowest tier now. Paramount is the first I can think of.

All ATC should be brusque and quick, especially in high traffic environments. The US Army's ATC units had the motto of "Safe, Orderly, & Expeditious."

He was born autistic.

Honestly, the tech stack for a blog does not matter. Or should I say, the only way it matters if it allows you to publish content easily, which is pretty much any CMS.

Starlink satellites are in LEO, not geostationary.

Or be dick parents to your children so that you have no relationship with them later on.

Car batteries are good for 4-5 years.

Pretty interesting article, especially for a 15 year old. I ran across his site while perusing /r/selfhosted and saw his custom dashboard he made. https://github.com/DavidIlie/pers…

The US military did not leave any helicopters when it pulled out. The Afghan Army and US State department left helicopters.

Are not the moons of Mars about the same diameter as Houston, Texas?

PM had no idea who the users were or what criminal charges they were facing. They had to comply with the Swiss law and provide the IP address.

They are better soldiers because of preparation, aka training. But it still takes someone with certain mental capabilities to do it well, aka the super soldier.

Big difference between Berlin and Nicosia/Lefkoşa. I lived for 2 years (2010-2012) in the North as a westerner and while the division certainly affects the Island, it is nothing li…

Bezos was never a scientist, engineer or dreamer. He is an entrepreneur, business savvy guy. Its about the dollar for him (which I'm not saying is a bad thing), versus for Elon it …

Icebreakers are included in this as well. Wow. https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/non-power-nucl...

We have been running small nuclear reactors for decades now on USN carriers and submarines with an incredible safety record.