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Half mouse, half biscuit. Nottinghacker. Silly old grumpus. @mousefad

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I sub to Quinn's youtube channel on the subject of metal machining, and recommend it if you're into that kind of thing. https://www.youtube.com/c/Blondihacks

Quinn is both a skilled maker and a wonderful teacher (not to mention having a superb wry sense of humour). The channel is one of the most informative places on "maker youtube". Quinn's amazing!

In which case, publishing them would be a public good - doctors who put profit over positive outcomes for their patients should be named and shamed and patients would be better off knowing to avoid them.

This is in fact a solid argument for why transparency of this kind is a Good Thing.

Centuries ago people could not imagine humans measurably changing the ph of the oceans, fishery collapse, global deforestation, anthropogenic climate change and an elevation in the extinction rate to rival the great mass extinction events of millions of years ago.

While I admire your resistance to knee-jerk doomsaying, suggesting we're just going to technology our way out of this mess without having to make tough choices about population is blinkered and myopic.

Soylent Campaign 13 years ago

"I ran 3.14 miles non-stop. This is an irrational improvement."

[checks date]. Late for April Fools.

I believe some pron sites use it. The benefit increases with pages which have a lot of assets, which applies particularly well to typical pron sites with their multitude of images per page.