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bluGill

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  • Bring Back Crappy Forums: Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them?

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  • What I still miss from uunet is the concept of 'I've already read this ' going back to old threads is tedious because I keep re-reading the same things I did last time.

  • Discount pizza peel.

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  • that depends on where you buy. Walmart sells new tshirts for as little as $6. You get what you pay for, that cheap tshirt won't last very long, but if you wear it once and then send to a thrift store it will still look fine. If you know what you are looking for a $40 tshirt for $5 is a great deal, but a $6 tshirt for $5 is questionable.

  • What would you like to see on the Fediverse?

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  • Just remember that the definition of literal has changed over the years. I'm close to the original definition, but nothing like today's.

    Hate is too strong a term.

  • What is your favourite album of all time?

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  • Will the Circle be Unbroken - Nitty Gritty Dirt band and friends.

    there are lots of other great ones, but there is a reason this keeps coming up as a defining album in folk or bluegrass music circles.

  • Feds Want to Drop Requirement for Autonomous Cars to Have a Brake Pedal

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  • There should be a mechanical override emergency brake. However it need not be a pedal. The typical use should be the mechanic verifying it works at the yearly inspection

  • T-Mobile Just Ripped 8 Million Customers Off Their Grandfathered Plans – and Raised Their Bills

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  • Inflation. You can be confident that these guarantees won't last unless not only are they in writing but they are backed by independent financial insurance. Same with any life membership. It is very unlikely that they are actually charging enough to continue the service for life and so they are likely going to be forced to do something about it at some point. Often that something is bankruptcy.

    Still, it sucks.

  • What would you like to see on the Fediverse?

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  • More not leftists. Some tolerance for not left wing political views would be nice too. (the people I'm talking about will just down vote me because they are part of the intolerant left wing here. There are plenty of tolerant left wing people, but they don't get attention)

  • Did Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc...have female composer peers?

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  • In the busy season yet it was all hands of deck. However most of the year farming isn't that much. And making thread used a large chunk of time. Even at harvest women were not taking the same jobs if they had a baby (or were pregnant) - since they physically couldn't do some jobs. Women who were not doing either would do the hard work. The elderly (body near worn out) would also not be doing the hard work.

    But overall, the point is that women's work would be anything that was compatible with pregnancy and nursing a baby. There is a large amount of this work to do. There was also a large amount of work that was not compatible with this which men in turn took on, even though only a small minority was things where testosterone made men better.

  • Storage?! In this economy!?

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  • Get lucky - just as this was starting I saw a failed disk notification on my NAS so I ordered a new drive just before they went up. Then I realized it was a stale notification for the drive I replaced a year ago so I have a spare should one fail.

  • Storage?! In this economy!?

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  • somebody is going to want cash in

    Maybe. The hard drive makers have long experience with boom-bust cycles. They are likely trying to figure out if this is real, or just a blip and in a two years (when the new factory opens!) demand drops again.

    If there is new capacity in the future my guess (guess!) is that this is a case of a new factory to replace the old, and they just keep running the old for another year instead of scrapping it right away.

  • Did Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc...have female composer peers?

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  • Same for men, but men's work and women's work was different for good reasons and the people who write history rarely wrote about either (unless the subject is a noble.). If they did write about peasant work, it would have been men's work, not women's work. There's a good chance you should read slave above, but free men who weren't nobles, also had to work hard

  • Did Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc...have female composer peers?

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  • Small correction, in those days, women's work is making thread. Not to say women didn't cook, but that seems to have been a shared responsibility for all civilizations throughout history.

    Note that I said thread, not cloth or clothes. Weaving and tailoring was often a man's job, but making thread took a large part of the woman's time. Though in 1679 the Spitting Wheel existed and that made making thread take a significantly less amount of time versus say a thousand years before when the Spitting Wheel didn't exist and the drop l thimble was 12 hours a day every day for all women just to keep the family in enough warm clothes to survive. Depending on climate, of course.

    Acoup.blog has a lot more on what history is normal women's work in the day although realistically it isn't much because those types of things weren't written about in history. Still, we know enough to reconstruct and it had to have been that. It turns out women's work is easy to figure out just because we know feeding babies had to be done by women (nursing) for the first couple of years and making thread is one of the few jobs that are compatible with having a baby around that needs to nurse at throughout the day. Once the baby was two you could say okay go with dad but by then women was used to doing it then there's a good chance she was pregnant and couldn't do a lot of the "men's work" jobs that had to be done so she is left doing this women's work things that needed to be done.

  • Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years

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  • Thus the 5 year contract - even if someone else starts adding supply they still get today's high prices.

  • Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years

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  • There are only a small number of RAM chips that are not already bought. If you make computers and want at one of those chips you can get priority if you sign a 5 year contract. They are betting that the supply/demand problems ease and so the price they can get will go down in a year - but you are locked into the high price for 4 more years. If prices go up even more you get a great deal, if prices go down you lose - make your bets, but remember this bet also comes with supply today and so you may not have a choice.

  • USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950

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  • I own a trailer because even though I rarely need it, renting is too difficult. I did rent a trailer a couple times. However finding one that was available and fit my needs is harder than you would think. There are many different types of trailers, each serving a different purpose, and most won't work for my purpose. When I need one is also the weekend others need one and so it is highly likely to be unavailable because someone else has it.

    I've tried to make your "rent when you need it" for those rare uses. However every time I do I realize that the cost of a rental is very high, and most rentals have restrictions such that I can't even use it for what I wanted. I've been lucky to never arrive to find my reserved vehicle isn't there, but that has happened to many people I know as well (leaving them at an airport with no way to get around)

    I collect antique tractors, this is one of those rare niches that make me unusual. Having to have a trailer for them to get to shows is part of the costs (and fun). To ensure I can do what I want when I want I have to own a truck and trailer.

    While you are correct the cars are depreciating assets, so it life. I have more than enough money for the basics: I don't need more appreciating assets. Most of my money is reserved for things that bring me happiness, and I don't care (nor should I care!) if it is a good economic investment. Investing everything to grow a number on paper seems like a boring wasted life to me (but this is just me, if your happiness is that number then by all means invest more)

  • USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950

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  • It is likely impossible to rent a truck for pulling your trailer. Most contracts have a no towing clause. Uhaul only allows towing their trailers. When you find the rare exception you are risking they are sold out that week. And the cost when you do find it is high enough to pay for the additional payments for most of the year.

  • USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950

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  • If there is enough money they will. Though I agree with your doubt that enough people will buy this to make it worth it.

  • USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950

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  • I understood this as camping in one location, or parking in one remote location and hiking for a week. This is a fairly common way to camp. Over a week you can get a useful charge if you are not driving. Likely just 1kw would be enough to get a useful charge over a week. If you are driving to a new spot every day this doesn't work (unless the drive is really short).

  • USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950

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  • I wouldn't bet on that - the Silverado EV looks nice on the spec sheet (except no android auto/car play - GM needs to be beat up for this every time their cars are mentioned) and you can get it today. 3X the cost of the Slate, but if you need a truck it is more than 3x the Slate for being a real truck (much larger tow capacity, bigger bed)