tristero

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[–] tristero 16 points 4 months ago

Mythical man month energy

[–] tristero 3 points 4 months ago

I was promised a robot arm.

[–] tristero 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a healthy distrust.

I recently watched the bearing of a flushtrim router bit disassemble while routing 2" acrylic and I puckered so hard I could taste what color underpants I was wearing.

[–] tristero 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't delved too deeply into violet inks but quite enjoy Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses.

What are your favorites?

 

The flag of East Timor is my favorite current national flag. I especially enjoy its unusual aspect ratio which balances the length of the yellow chevron.

[–] tristero 14 points 1 year ago

"Your sons' war, fought with your grandfathers' rifles."

[–] tristero 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What really puzzles me are the folks who disingenuously argue the climate is changing, but that it's not caused by human action. Because they admit there's a problem, but crucially still want nothing done to address or remedy the problem.

Mind-boggling.

[–] tristero 1 points 1 year ago

Hah.

Swag in this case is corporate-branded clothes and gear, it derives from a colloquialism for all the pens and bags and such that get handed out at conferences.

It stands for "Shit We All Get" and its use predates swag as short for swagger by some decades.

[–] tristero 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's the independent source exemption to the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine, basically. The original data collection wasn't illegal, as it was collected by a third party rather than the government, and so is admissable.

[–] tristero 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Calibre is IMO the premier book management program, FOSS or otherwise.

[–] tristero 9 points 1 year ago

The fediverse is not suited at the moment to fixed mindset types.

Personally, I find that refreshing. It reminds me of my earliest interactions with the Internet on BBS. The web for a long while has felt very consumerist; first curated spaces becoming walled gardens and then the subtle shift from web services as products to our attention & data as the Internet's main product. We lost the magical sense of exploration and experimentation that made the early Internet so special. The fediverse is the first instance (pun half-intended) I've come across that speaks to that spirit.

[–] tristero 0 points 1 year ago

That is Herman & Chomsky's propaganda model in a nutshell.

[–] tristero 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, with vacancy rates being so low the rates flattening seems to be an indication that landlords have squeezed almost as much rent as tenants can bear.

If milk shot up to $15/g before flatlining I wouldn't think that the cost would soon decrease, but rather that nobody would buy $16 milk.

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