“Life is what happens while you’re making other plans,” as they say. The future is important, but so is the now.

Don’t even need to bring force into it. Can you imagine “I’ll give you $20 if you transfer your vote on issue X to me”? Seems like it’s basically just handing the government to the billionaire class even more than we already do.

It seems to me like joining the military is arguably more deserving of the phrase “selling your body”; you’re basically signing up to get injured or killed.

10 years ago would have been 2014; at that point 25 Bitcoin would be a good chunk of cash:

The price of bitcoin opened the year at $770, according to the CoinDesk Price Index. By mid-December, it was trading in the mid-$300 range. This represents a drop of more than 50% from the start of the year.

• https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2014/12/27/bitcoin-price-2014-a-year-in-review/

It’d be interesting to know when this was actually from; it’s a great screenshot even without the exact details, though.

Along with that, I’ll add in “number” vs “amount”:

• A shocking number of people get this wrong (countable)
• The amount of confusion about it is distressing (aggregate)

Interesting! Sounds like they may have changed things a few times, or maybe my co-worker’s memory has some gaps.

A coworker of mine has worked with CrowdStrike in the past; I haven’t. He said that the releases he was familiar with from them in the past were all staged into groups and customers were encouraged to test internally before applying them; not sure if this is a different product or what, but it seems like a big step backwards of what he’s saying is right.

Yeah, that’s much different than the brown bread my family calls Irish soda bread. Here’s the recipe:

• ½ lb./225g whole wheat flour (1-3/4 c.)
• 3 oz./75g unbleached white flour (2/3 c.)
• 1½ oz./40g porridge oatlets (3 heaping Tbsp.)     (steel cut oatmeal or John McCann–in a tin)
• 1½ oz./40g  wheat bran (1 c.)
• 1½ oz./40g wheat germ (1/2 c.)
• ½ tsp. baking soda
• ½ tsp. salt
• 1 pint/600 ml buttermilk (2-1/8 to 2-1/3 c.)

1. Preheat a cool oven, 300ºF/150ºC/Gas mark 2.
2. Grease and flour a 2 lb./900g loaf tin (I use an 8-1/2 x 4-1/2 x 2-5/8 inch bread pan).
3. Mix all the dry ingredients together thoroughly.  Then, add them to the buttermilk and mix quickly to make a wet dough (I have found it better to use only 500 ml or 2-1/8 c. buttermilk).  Turn into loaf pan and bake in the preheated oven on the very bottom shelf for 2 to 2-1/4 hrs.  When cooked, the bread will shrink from the pan slightly and sound hollow when rapped on the bottom with the knuckles.

When I make it it’s much wetter than that and definitely needs to to poured into a bread pan. This is for Irish Brown Bread, not for the white flour soda bread with currants and whatnot.

It’s much closer to a cake, really; it’s a batter more than a dough. It’s not sweet though, which is a defining factor for a lot of people.

Then this is definitely your easiest and safest way to go: no new services to configure, no rolling the dice to see how upset the org will be about possible policy violations.

If the note is with your shoes, doors that make it a footnote?

I do kind of wish the dogs were so sitting around playing poker instead of eating, though.

Hahaha:

if you continue to try { thisBullshit(); } you are going to catch (theseHands)

I love Localsend because it’s gloriously simple: Does exactly what you want, and nothing more. I haven’t used KDE Contact; what else does it add in?

Interesting; it reminds me a little of an addon from maybe a dozen years ago that would do the same kind of thing but with fiction. So you’d be reading a post on Slashdot or whatever, and the addon would find a sequence of words that matched the start of one of the stories it had, and it would add a few words of that story. If you noticed, you could click on them to get more of the story, and if you kept clicking it would eventually replace the text of the whole page with the story. It was a really neat way of just stumbling across fiction. Wish I could remember the name of the addon. For some reason I think it was Australian, maybe put together by a university or an arts council or something?

I came to this thread expecting to see this, and even with that expectation it makes me sad to see; to me the books are unarguably superior, to a large degree because Tolkien is such an excellent writer. I’d encourage anyone who’s bounced off the books a time or two to go back to them and try reading them aloud, even quietly to yourself: even though it’s prose, the text has meter and flow almost as strong as poetry. It’s undeniably a slow read, but it’s just such a beautiful one that the films, fun as they are, don’t hold up.

Plus, Jackson’s Two Towers is garbage.

To add some more detail about Web 2.0: it was a term that came after the dot-com crash at the turn of the millennium. There were a bunch of people saying the web was dead, the Internet was a fad that was dying, the bubble had burst and it was all over etc. Tim O’Reilly (of O’Reilly Books) came up with the concept of Web 2.0 to illustrate that the web wasn’t dead and that it was still an evolving and vital thing. There’s a lot more detail here: https://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html

The first guy I saw doing that was actually on a keyboard a dozen or so years ago.

Indicating trailing off is another way to use it; that’s more literary vs the newspaper thing of indicating removed words. I wouldn’t expect anyone to use it to indicate removed words at the the of a sentence, because you could just end the sentence instead. But some people are weird.