qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Seriously, it is the lowest-latency and highest-bandwidth communication method we have, when used appropriately.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, but your wine futures would be worthless, what with his unlimited water-to-wine abilities.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah, I think the issue is that the other racist, xenophobic, antivax, generally incompetent policy choices are actually kind of what he campaigned on.

The tarrifs


even though he campaigned on them


are antithetical to his promise of lowering cost of living expenses.

That said, it's the WSJ editorial page


their coverage of the Second Coming of Jesus would be its impact on your 401(k), so this type of coverage (and not e.g., social justice) is their bread and butter.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 33 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

How do you make a small fortune?

Start with a large fortune and buy a boat.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 4 weeks ago

No, but I think it's good when someone with credibility among certain people reiterate something, even if it adds nothing of value to you and me.

Democratic and left-of-center politicians (or "liberal elite economists") can say this until they're blue in the face but Trumpers will dismiss it as I dunno, woke butthurtism or something. But when someone like Buffet says it, at least they (maybe) have to think a little bit before coming up with some mental gymnastics to dismiss him. And maybe along the way they'll question, if only a little bit, the sanity of Trump's policies.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I prefer the phrase "testicular manifold."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

Some bulk food stores let you bring your own. You put a sticker on them with the bulk item # and also the dry weight, so it's a little more work, but then you can put your jars to use!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

The Gulf of Lesser Canada does have a certain ring to it...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Newer macOS is not Unix certified.

It's UNIX 03 compliant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

One or two Linux distros were (are?) UNIX certified, though.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago

Living things are "entropy eaters"


they take in energy, reduce their own entropy, and poop out entropy to the environment. This is fine, and it doesn't violate any thermodynamics if you look at the whole picture.

So I think the point is that creationists take a myopic view and only look at the creature itself, where indeed it reduces its own entropy...but that's because the creationists are stupid and ignore, you know...everything else.

This is true not only for individual animals, but for evolution itself


more complexity in animals can be viewed as a decrease in entropy (again, this is only a problem if you ignore the rest of the universe).

Their argument is the same as saying that you can open your fridge door to cool off your room.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think mplayer has an ASCII output mode (VLC, too?), and I believe youtube-dl can output to stdout.

The rest is, as they say, left as an exercise to the reader.

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