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the oldheads are snickering at dotcom 2.0 from behind their gray beards.

after 30y of this business, i’m dumbfounded we haven’t organized. doctors, lawyers, plumbers etc seem to benefit hugely from professional orgs and unions in their corner.

i guess we are too well paid.

(all of the above make more than you do, and it’s because they are organized)

what i saw of cern was a beautiful campus with ongoing cricket matches on the lawn, lots of offices and computers, and a great cafeteria.

my brother worked down the hall from tbl, and we stopped by, but he was out. brother’s boss (mdm wu, of quark fame), was out of town too.

brother was the vms admin, and would bitterly complain that mdm wu never cleaned out her mail spool, and it was now a ruinous 40mb.

st genis is quaint and nice to visit, with views of mt blanc.

no, wood is not a carbon sink. its gets turned back into co2 as it decomposes.

creosote railroad ties are commonly found in landscaping around here. unfortunately, they are hazardous waste, thusly getting rid of them is a bit of a hassle.

I've seen this video, he did a pretty good job, but his chemical treatment didn't penetrate at all. I suspect he would have benefitted from pressure cooker during that step. this is how treated lumber is treated to get full penetration of whatever chemicals they use.

given the depth the of the penetration, he basically case hardened it. you can see in the bullet tests that the interior laminations are much fatter than the exterior layers.

"armor wood"

I really wish Nvidia had gone in this direction instead of gstreamer :/

sounds identical to the well known “dragon hair” noodle technique from china.

this is a police problem. as usual.

read an interesting take that North American bison are (were) an invasive species from europe that wound up in NA by crossing some land-bridge at some point in prehistory.

hold down option when you release the selection to force hidden windows up. i too hate this behavior.

zenhub appears to be having issues as well (can't load ticket at all) due to their GitHub integrations I assume.