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Während deutsche Autobauer in China Probleme haben, läuft's für chinesische Marken hier richtig gut. Die Zahlen sprechen eine klare Sprache...
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I recently got contacted by someone who had connection issues with Microsoft MX servers. I could reassure him: "It's not you, it's Microsoft's fault."
https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-policy/c/kJ5qysLlo2I

Now I Become Em-Dash Triple Anaphora, Destroyer of Words
In July of 1945, at the Trinity site in the New Mexico desert, J. Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atomic detonation and, by his own later telling, thought of a line from the Bhagavad Gita. The Sanskrit word he rendered as Death is kāla, which scholars also translate as Time depending on context, and Oppenheimer's decision to reach for the more theatrical English word tells you something about the difference…

Now I Become Em-Dash Triple Anaphora, Destroyer of Words | David Boles, Blogs
In July of 1945, at the Trinity site in the New Mexico desert, J. Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atomic detonation and, by his own later telling, thought of a line from the Bhagavad Gita. The…

The vOICe for Android 2.82 is out! It bundles two monocular AI depth models in a trade-off between visual detail and CPU load: toggle one or the other by pressing key 'h' ("good model") or capital 'H' ("best model", higher CPU load) via the soft keyboard https://play.google.com/stor…

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Devil: 10 May - 17 May
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The #git history command deserves more attention
https://lalitm.com/post/git-history/

#TIL that instead of grepping through `git log -p` to figure out when the last dependency on a package was removed, I can just search through gentoo-commits ml archives.
#Gentoo

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#satire #potus45

A starter pack of questions to help think about "discovery" and "knowledge":
1. When was X discovered?
2. Once it was discovered, who knew X?
3. 1000 years later, who knew/knows/will know X?
4. Is X true?
5. Which groups of people would say it's true vs. false?
When X is "a² b² = c² in a right triangle" we think there are nice clean answers to these questions. But when X is "COVID-19 transmits via small airborne aerosols and a mask is needed to reduce the risk of infection" things get more interesting, particularly the answer to question 1. Does something count as "discovered" if many/most people would say it's false?
People love to answer this question by appeal to "scientific consensus" but the scientific consensus on aerosol transmission is still shaky if you consider certain big institutions, and even if it's mostly settled now, there was definitely a period between "experts on transmission know it" and "there's a scientific consensus." So which counts as discovery? What if knowledge is held secret, like many military technologies? What about historical facts that become censored?

I actually spoke to not one, but three sewing machine repairmen today! 😵‍💫 I didn't plan it that way... But it happened. When I spoke to the third, it turned out he had been sitting next to the second when I called him in the afternoon. A strange, small world, apparently.
Anyway, they were all in consensus, even the one not trying to sell me anything: this machine is the shit. And I was very lucky contacting them at the right moment to get first dibs on it. So... #NewSewingMachine
#sewing