jonwolski.bsky.social
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In all seriousness, thank you @ahl for your contributions, editing, posting, etc. My life is richer for it.
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You would not believe my entitled indignation late last week when I did not receive the fruits of your labor despite my consistent subscription fee of $0.
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Agreed, “EHCI,” but only so that we can debate for eternity ‘whether the E originally stood for “Extended”’
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Wouldn’t that put the debris in the same spot?
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Exactly. The checks and balances don’t work if Congress colludes to shift power to the Executive branch.
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I don’t know who buys it. I think it’s a mix of foreign governments/central banks, the Fed, private investors, pensions, etc.
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I should have added “caveat: I’m no economist. Just a fan of @marketplace.org “
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It could lower the rating on Treasury bills. That would increase the interest rate we pay on the national debt. Then we would have to drum up more debt just to cover the interest at a time when we had just made American debt less desirable to investors.
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What he needs
is a good defense,
‘cause he’s feeling like …
a uhh 🤔
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This is a modern marvel of art and science. It’s very cool to get to work on that and to have such a historic one ‘to boot.’ 😀
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Twitter SwiftOnSecurity = “what if Taylor did InfoSec”
BlueSky SwiftOnSecurity = “what if Taylor went full Andy Kaufman?”
I’m here for it either way
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Rockets blew up in the lead up to Mercury & Apollo too, but they were developed in secret by military contractors.
2 things changed:
1. We stopped building NASA missions atop rockets designed as weapons.
2. We now have professional & amateur news coverage of the development phase of new rockets
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That was an adventure
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It doesn’t matter who “holds the cards” as long as China likes him? For a minute there I was worried he had no plan.
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I’ll ‘upvote’ any allusion to Douglas Hofstadter
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Every picture I can find of an 80286 bizarrely includes a mouse
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Masterfully put
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Is that the origin of your interest in earthquakes etc?
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Might I humbly suggest the term “24-hour clock?” For people that use 24-hour clock, labeling it “military time” connotes violent force in our everyday use of time.
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It’s usually been some non-rich person, generic king, and rice, but the FIRST time I heard it, I seem to recall they were Persian and the grain was just “grain,” not specifically rice. I was about 18 (1998).
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Thanks for putting this on, and thanks especially for making it remote. I was unable to travel for any conferences this year, so this was a special treat. Kudos on the phenomenal conference tee, as well!
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I need you to write a book so I can read your son’s review of it.
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“All happy timers are alike; each unhappy timer is unhappy in its own way.”
—Leo Tolstoy
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Same. I forget the shortcut key to go to tab n for n>9, so I prune mine back to single digits throughout the day. `:move-window -r` re-numbers after a culling.
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A Framework laptop. Sure I don’t need it, but you know how someone will have 12 guitars half of which sound identical? It’s that but with laptops.
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“Why not both?”