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www.youtube.com 3y ago

1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world

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9to5mac.com 3y ago

Twitter might be about to ruin how users interact with hashtags

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www.tumfatig.net 3y ago

TuM'Fatig – Ads blocking with OpenBSD unbound(8)

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www.scotusblog.com 3y ago

Court agrees to hear 9 cases including challenge to immunity under Section 230

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www.scotusblog.com 3y ago

In a dispute over uncashed MoneyGram checks, Delaware faces the ire of 30 states

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www.bbc.com 3y ago

Electric car charging costs nearing petrol prices for some – RAC

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undeadly.org 3y ago

Game of Trees 0.76 Released

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nofilmschool.com 3y ago

We Finally Know Why You Can't Watch 'Dogma' Anywhere

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undeadly.org 3y ago

OpenBGPD 7.6 Released

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www.cpushack.com 3y ago

The History of the SUPER HEDT x86 PC

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www.cnn.com 3y ago

Amtrak cancels all long-distance trains as freight rail strike looms

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awfulannouncing.com 3y ago

Texas A&M copyright claims took down clips bashing Midnight Yell App St. mockery

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undeadly.org 3y ago

Game of Trees 0.75 Released

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reason.com 3y ago

Line Numbering in Trial-Court Pleadings and Motions

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www.dw.com 3y ago

Germany′s energy saving rules come into force

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www.cartoonbrew.com 3y ago

Ralph Eggleston, a Cornerstone of Pixar's Visual Style, Dies at 56

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undeadly.org 3y ago

Several /sbin daemons are now dynamically-linked

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www.reuters.com 3y ago

China's CATL to develop new battery materials to improve energy density

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Why the US Army electrifies this water?

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www.bis.doc.gov 3y ago

Commerce Implements Controls on Advanced Semiconductor and Gas Turbine Engine

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www.desertsun.com 3y ago

Is sending Mississippi water to West feasible?

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nofilmschool.com 3y ago

Will We Get a Full-Frame Foveon X3 Sensor from Sigma After All?

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nofilmschool.com 3y ago

If You're from Poor or MC Families, Hollywood Is Nearly Impossible to Navigate

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undeadly.org 3y ago

Sftp-server(8) gains support for home-directory request

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www.infoq.com 3y ago

PrefixRL: Nvidia's Deep-Reinforcement-Learning Approach to Design Circuits

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www.timesnownews.com 3y ago

How does China's natural sand export ban to Taiwan impact the world?

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Worst We've Tested: Broken Intel Arc GPU Drivers

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com 3y ago

Necrobotics: Biotic Materials as Ready‐to‐Use Actuators

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

The World’s First Undersea Roundabout

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www.businessinsider.com 3y ago

Ukraine Seeking War-Crimes Charges for JPM, Citi Leaders: Govt Advisor

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They don’t actually really like being called Native American though. That’s kind of a white thing.

Well, that's a big lie. I grew up on a reservation, an Indian Service Area, and still work on a reservation. Native American, Indian, American Indian are all used.

indigenous is the not a term originating with any tribe.

Are you intentionally ignoring the large Native American population in some of those states?

[edit: at this point I just assume that folks on HN don't have any concept of the demographics of reservations and how many children are being born. If you mention lack of Hispanic population but don't mention the Native American population then you are skewing the point.]

It does make one wonder what happens if everything is a type instead of a file. Do you get a command line that looks like Mathematica? I too think every program containing a parser is a waste.

Last I checked, Nova doesn't do keyboard macros and I do a lot of text munging and need them because I refuse to type the same sequence multiple times.

I don't feel guilt, I still feel rage. I didn't determine any of the parameters or rules of the trial so I have no guilt on me. I just observed that the control group is dead because of some belief that they provided value when we already knew exactly what was going to happen to them.

If you can prevent harm to others, then not doing so is just being an a$$. The trolley problem is just counting souls and really doesn't happen much in real life. The true problem is thinking the only choices are us/them versus everyone. I'm not a doctor so I have no idea how their ethics applies to their professional decisions.

I worked on one in the 90's that was $50,000 a day for three years. The drug company, assuming the trial was successful, had about 4 years to make all its money back before the patent expired. Testing blood, urine, and stool for multiple things is expensive.

Intellectually, I can understand the need for control groups, but I still think it's immoral. When you stare at a spreadsheet and see 70% of the control group is dead because some random number generator sorted them there like hell's own sorting hat, and the 98% of the people getting the drug are alive, you have no business talking about statistics. That graph will haunt me til my dying day.

I think there are different varieties of preppers, and some have communities.

Frankly, by some definitions, I'm a prepper which is rather surprising. I think if you live rural you tend to have a lot more supplies on hand. I used to keep 3 full days, but I now have a 7 day supply, and friends feel fairly justified in have a year's worth of goods. Heck, some of the base prepper playbook are rural hobbies (micro-farming) or just basic winter prep (generator).

Now, solar and wind have gotten a lot more convenient with people doing battery walls. I get the feeling that those folks just got tired of listening to the power company say wait.

The funny thing is I tried to setup and Arch Linux box. I can setup OpenBSD with thinking with all the partitions and such, but that Arch Linux install was just a bad time. I'll try Debian when I get back to work. We are replacing our Samba server and the BSDs aren't real current given some changes the Samba team made.

I'm much more familiar with OpenBSD and FreeBSD on the server-side, and I don't feel real comfortable with Linux. The two biggest vendors, Red Hat and Ubuntu, don't really give the warm fuzzies. Maybe something like System 76 backs.

I tell people that I haven't looked forward to new features in the 'California' era like I did in the 'Cat' era. Now, I worry about what Apple will break or take away.

If Microsoft wasn't so intent on spying and advertising to me, I might consider them. I get the feeling I will switch to a BSD eventually.

Our findings confirm that zebra stripes repel biting flies under naturalistic conditions and do so at close range

Which has lead to suggestions to breed this into livestock. Which will certainly change the landscape in US.

As I said before: Somehow driving through South Dakota looking out over a vast field of seaweed eating, zebra striped cows was not the future I anticipated as a youth.