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Remy's Law of Requirements Gathering: no matter what the actual requirements, what your users really want is for you to implement Excel.
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This weekend only, the Peregrine Lander will be on display at the Moonshot Museum. Last chance to see it before it goes to the moon. cohost.org/t3knomanser/post/…
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Pittsburghers, double check your vote-by-mail ballots: alleghenycounty.us/elections…
Ooh, Feedbin.com lets you subscribe to Twitter feeds without being on Twitter. You can have the RSS from my cold dead hands.
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Given how much debt financing went into purchasing Twitter, Melon Husk is 100% just looting this place for value and leaving investors holding the bag. He's going to intentionally run it into the ground while cashing out and making bank.
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Republicans want you dead.
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Oh, look I have a reason to actually use Cohost now. cohost.org/t3knomanser
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There is interesting science to do on Mars. Colonization is an entirely different prospect, and it's *stupid*.
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And, it's worth noting that in both those events, an undersea city would likely be unscathed or at least well protected. But undersea cities aren't *cool*.
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I'm skeptical about the future of canned monkeys in space, but even setting that aside, we haven't even shown that we can thrive in environments significantly less hostile than Mars. When we've solved those problems, then we can talk about long-term space habitation.
Fully Autonomous AVs are juuuuuuuust around the corner techcrunch.com/2022/10/26/fo…
Way back in the 90s, one of the church ladies running the teen Sunday School session wanted to warn us of the dangers of pop music and how insidious it could be. For example, she liked Nine Inch Nails at first, thinking the name was a reference to the nails which pinned Jesus…
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… to the cross. And lyrics like "bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve," were practically biblical warnings against sin! But then she "discovered" that "nine inch nails" was a reference to the size of their penises, and realized she'd been duped
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Head like a hole indeed.
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I bike everywhere because I don't really want to deal with the hassle of car maintenance. My biggest trip is to work, which would be 20 minutes by car, 30 minutes by bike, and about an hour by bus. It's a no-brainer to just bike in whenever possible.
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We act like this is a totally normal and rational thing, but it's completely bonkers! Lunacy! And it's hard not to react by saying "fuck cagers" and "I hate carbrains", especially when a car decides to breeze past your bike at 40mph with only a few inches gap while passing.
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It's not that I don't ever drive, or think individual drivers are the problem, but the entire way we've structured society creates a situation where we murder 42,000/year for convenience.