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  @mcc@mastodon.social the prisoner’s dilemma but trying to figure out if the counterparty in the other cell will give a 3 or a 4

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  ELEVATOR PITCH: We need more First Bloods Every TV show with a weirdo and a cop partnered up solving crimes together is copaganda Cops don’t give a shit about solving weird crimes, let alone care enough to team up with someone who could piss off a beat cop in under five words. Look at the clearance rates for any major city First Blood got this over forty years ago: some weird guy shows up and they arrest and beat him, and then he burns their entire town to the ground Any show with a weirdo c...

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  [staring at Scrabble tiles on conference room table as superheroes argue in background] CHOOSIN TEXAS [rearranges tiles and everyone else in room fall silent and gasp in horror] TOOCHIN SAXES [KENNY G blasts out a killer solo]

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  ROU (Don’t) Hack the Feds https://www.404media.co/fbi-hack-exposed-fbis-own-hacking-unit-remote-operations-shinyhunters/

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  Problem: in the days and years ahead there will be power and communications disruptions. The cellular network or even the internet may fail for days or weeks. Two way radio is a cheap and reliable way to keep the community together during these times, but how do you get people into it without being That Weirdo? Approach: Halloween is coming! It’s the one day of the year when children are still allowed to walk in the streets after dark and talk to strangers. And even adults will commit to the bi...

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  I hate that I miss the days when someone would make a nice software product at a decent price and then blatantly and abruptly sell it off to a tech giant who would assimilate or kill it Now we get open source leaders taking slop payola to become influencers. You can be sure that they aren’t gonna be able to retire on that money The surprising thing about people in the US who spied for the KGB is how little it paid

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  Wondering if the intellectual justification to fire all the QA departments came from Rails TDD the same way that the intellectual justification to fire all the DBAs came from Rails migrations Because let me tell you, TDD out in the trenches is an XKCD-class thought terminating cliche: “I heard that to write unit tests you have to do TDD and write the tests first, and that’s too much work so I don’t write tests

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  In case you missed it, the official single release of the Ace Combat 8 main theme is hitting the streaming platforms. And let me tell you, it goes hard https://youtu.be/DGjhIi_Pp98

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  @Viss@mastodon.social then PIZZA will send out for YOU

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  Turns out that the game ‘Falken’s Maze’ was about not getting tricked into thinking that the WOPR was an intelligent, conscious entity, and nobody in the movie WarGames even knew they were playing it

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  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/117295067361939622 Google Space Program (Bad Ending)

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  one of the heresiarchs of uqbar had declared that multi-user systems and copulation are abominable, because they increase the number of accounts

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@variety/digital-news-gv48mk11z/-/a-EcoBYzBvQ5mmixS0PS3dOQ%3Aa%3A1819762525-%2F0 This is… pretty good so far? The writing so far feels better than AC06 and it’s swinging for the Shattered Skies Yellow 13 arc. For normal nerds, feel free to go with “better than Space: Above and Beyond and swinging for Battlestar Galactica Season 1” Looks like game deluxe preorders get early access on September 29, I am tempted to call in sick

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  What odds are they giving on Polymarket that Ed Sheeran will get an exclusive residency at the Kennedy Center?

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  America 250 is a celebration of life of your drunk Uncle Sam, who left everything to that one cousin who beat you up and stole your toys when you were kids

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  John Temu is announcing a folding phone, innovating by copying a gimmicky dud from Samsung

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  Choose your post-Linux self-exile

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  How often do you think about Ernie Isley? https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/ernie-isley-behind-the-isley-brothers-hit-that-lady

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  @ann3nova@corteximplant.com @ety@corteximplant.com to gently show them the error of their ways

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  The next time I get an hour to myself I am gonna build this roll up 6 meter j-pole and haul it up to the top of a tree k4che.com/6Mtr/6MtrJ.htm

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  Flute rock take: Seals & Crofts “Diamond Girl” goes ten times harder than Van Morrison “Moondance”

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  People are complaining g about Lua on Fedi. There’s something in the air. What gives? Did the AI Bubble Nucleation Event just reach Python? Is there a New Thing?

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  There’s a first time for everything. Today was my first time being within a 10m radius of a red tailed hawk standing on the ground. It had just killed a rabbit and was taking a moment to be proud of itself before chowing down on the legs

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  Life advice: if you get the fajitas, don’t overstuff the tortillas. You can always ask for more. They will give them to you!

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  Sad but true: anyone who has said “I just don’t want to be a bother” is a huge pain in the ass

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  BUBBA VON MISES (2007) - Elvis (Bruce Campbell) and JFK (Ossie Davis) again team up to defend their nursing home, this time from a zombie Austrian economist (Ben Stein)

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  @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org SPOKESHAWK: The raptor was loitering at an altitude of 1000 feet, identified the lagomorph, and launched a successful kinetic strike at the target, following up with a close in knife missile delivery, resulting in a confirmed decapitation kill with secondary disembowelment. The raptor then enjoyed a well deserved meal to celebrate a successful mission, which was cut short when a local corvid rapid response element harassed the raptor until the raptor deemed it necessa...

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  I feel like I am cooping in my Spinner falling asleep listening to SF 10-33 on @somafm@sfba.social “A new life awaits in the off world colonies” https://somafm.com/sf1033/

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  Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) TV Mini Series, Disney+

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  Advice I wish I didn’t get with my General #hamradio ticket: Random wire antenna This should not be your first HF antenna. To use it you need an antenna tuner, and many starter SDR rigs have an ATU built in. In myself and others around me, the ATU gives a low SWR and the appearance of perfect operation, but you have no intuition for how much of your transmit power comes out as RF energy vs. heat At that point there are a thousand points of failure you don’t know to check, so the first time yo...