Category Archives: quotes

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This may have side effects. The sun could go nova, or squirrels may finally start talking. Bat-rabbits may attack.
Brent Simmons, NetNewsWire 3.0d53 change notes

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While I’m on the subject of Constitutional rights, here’s another from Mark Jaquith:
Racial slurs may be covered by the First Amendment, but you’re still an asshole for using them

Their ethics fail because we’re asking too much of them

The UCI’s threat to reduce the grand tours is the single biggest threat our sport has faced in years. And if they do it, it will be the nail in the coffin of a sport that was born out of the ashes of long-distance suffering. The very thing that makes our sport so popular will […]

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Hate, unfortunately is what substitutes for political discourse these days. - Diane Meyer

QOTD

…this is totally reinventing the wheel, but reinventing it with corners.

“Winter” on The Daily WTF

Persistance of data

On long-term data storage:

If you write it on papyrus and lock it in a pyramid, we know it will last a few thousand years. Everything else is just guesswork.
David Ely’s uncle