Anyone else remember this?
https://www.pbs.org/video/econ-and-me-opportunity-cost/
Fred Parris, who wrote this song while on night guard duty in the army, passed away on the 14th. Bet you know it.
https://youtu.be/fBT3oDMCWpI
Squirrels are amazing.
https://youtu.be/DTvS9lvRxZ8
Ok, this just happened. In a construction trailer with some guys at break and we somehow started talking about The Gulag Archipelago. Three out of the five guys had read it and it was a good conversation. A lot of people generally think construction workers are dumb, but I bet most college freshmen are not as well read.
@neauoire @seaandsailor I’m really enjoying learning about lower level software and hardware and think I will be using Controllino for my hydronic heating and cooling system. Still interested in seeing what I can make run Uxn but I’m still very green. If you wanted to run a VM, but not on an OS, what would you call the piece of software that interprets for the VM to the hardware?
Okay there's something really cool I've just learned. If you are continuously recording air pressure e.g. as part of your home automation setup or a weather station then you should really check the data of the last 24h.
You should be able to spot the pressure wave from the volcanic explosion in Tonga earlier today.
It reached my setup in Kaiserslautern at about 20:30.
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.
—Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun
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