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JackAcid··on The ovary doesn't retire after menopause
Its side gig becomes full time.
JackAcid··on God sleeps in the minerals
I live and I die by the crystals!
JackAcid··on What does " 2>&1 " mean?
A.I. has made the self-important neckbeards of Stack Overflow obsolete.
JackAcid··on A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024)
I’ve had that book for several years. This thread has finally motivated me to start it.
JackAcid··on NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power
Generator maintenance is a thing.
JackAcid··on No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me
Packt books are pure shit.
JackAcid··on No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me
$500/year?? Wow, I get it free as a military veteran. I still use it via browser at work quite often.
JackAcid··on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
Toxic Avenger remake.
JackAcid··on United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet
Dude's arm looks like scabs and I don't see anywhere that claims they are related to the impact.
JackAcid··on Diane Keaton has died
She was also in an early episode of Night Gallery. Imagine having the opportunity to work with the great Rod Serling.
JackAcid··on Defense Technical Information Center: Open Access
So many old papers available here.
JackAcid··on Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet
How did water-rich Theia get its water?
JackAcid··on Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley (1962)
My dad went to a Bertrand Russell lecture at Michigan State University. This would have been around 1960. He can't remember anything BR talked about, though.
JackAcid··on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
Nice.
JackAcid··on How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline
I always understood that Kubrick's inspiration for Dr. Strangelove was Herman Kahn.
JackAcid··on Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress
And FreeBSD.