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6 days agoWho wants a stadium, though? Those things are a blight.
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Maybe Cory Doctorow can? https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/
Pretty close! It’s tar-soaked hemp fibers (rope traditionally being hemp), called oakum. Sometimes cotton under that for filling if needed. To me it still feels more about carefully easing out, particularly since paying out also has other uses that aren’t rope related, like falling off to leeward after a tack.
As long as we’re being pedantic, when you pay out pitch, you’re not covering the deck with it. You’re making lines of it that go in between the deck planks. It’s basically caulking. You actually have to be careful to not get it everywhere (not least because pitch is really hot when you’re paying it out), so just like when you’re paying out a line, there’s a sense of careful control and easing out the pitch.
I’ve been on the $5 a month plan, and go over probably half the time. The months when I do go over, it just means I start the next month a couple of days early. I’m probably actually somewhere around $6 a calendar month; my Kagi month is probably only 28 days or so.
21·3 months agoChatGPT, of course! What’s the worst that could happen?
31·3 months agoYeah, that’s what my dad says, and he’s a medieval historian, so I believe him. I guess it’s possible that lifespan in 1901 was much shorter than the middle ages, but that seems unlikely
NIST says 2035 should be the target date for organizations to get to something quantum resistant. The talk I saw at DefCon this year laid out a very convincing argument that due to advancements in the implementation of Shorr’s, as well as one other algorithm, that’s not an aggressive enough target and we should really be shooting for 2030. Apparently IBM has never missed a target date, and they’re looking at having enough logical Qubits by 2032 or so.
Still seems like voodoo to me
I’ve heard this before but I still can’t wrap my head around why some money counts and some doesn’t
This is the opposite of bag holding though, isn’t it? Since it’s an expanded offering to sell?
He got it right (which makes sense; he coined the term); OP didn’t.
Sauerkraut is apparently a reasonable way to store vitamin C for a long time. I imagine cabbage in its own doesn’t keep too well.
Windmills can do things other than grind flour. Both terms are correct.
2·6 months agoWhen you say “public transit”, does that include bus lines, or only rail?
Makes sense; thanks!
How would that work? The President is the only one who can issue pardons, I thought.
It reads to me like they’re being responsible and not bowing to censorship; seems very similar to PornHub’s approach to age verification laws. What would be a better course of action here, in your view?