Fanciful energy source claims are fascinating to me: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/neutrino-energy-group-neutrino-energy-203000552.html most of the material on the company website is really bizarre. I am unable to tell if it is an investment scam, delusion, or an elaborate practical joke.
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Cinnamon pecan waffles. Yum! #food #foodie #foodporn #foodphotography #yum #yummy #photography #hungry #waffle #waffle #breakfast #brunch #cinnamon
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I have found my people. This video is everything.
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Seems QOTO has grown so much its time to upgrade to the next level of server. We just hit our 100% point on ram and have started paging... time for more beef!
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I'm going to declare the weekends the time for #BasicSkill and #LifeBefore, and try to ask y'all about it every weekend, but 
the rest is up to you, fediverse! (You're my only hope!)
I'll write up the things I can think of - starting & maintaining a fire three ways, baking bread, making rice, sewing by hand. Canning. Making sauce.
Life before the internet. Life before cable TV. Life without city water.
What've you got?
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Introducing Diagrams: Diagram as Code
Build cloud architecture diagrams without leaving your IDE
https://medium.com/better-programming/diagrams-diagram-as-code-56fec222cdf6
I found this to be an interesting read on formal methods for verification of complex distributed systems at AWS https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/formal-methods-amazon.pdf
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A nice site if your shopping for Static Site Generators and want to compare all the options at a glance.
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Astronomers Have Caught a Star Literally Dragging Space-Time Around With It
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-caught-a-star-in-the-act-of-warping-the-fabric-of-space-and-time
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Testable theory suggests information has mass and could account for universe’s dark matter
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Almost time for bed, super proud of all the cool new features #QOTO has now. If i have time might work on one or two new features in a few more days after we see how this goes.
There was just an earthquake in my area. USGS has interesting interactive maps showing magnitude in contour lines from the epicenter.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci39277736/map
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Scientists have discovered strange objects orbiting our galaxy’s black hole
https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2020/01/21/scientists-have-discovered-strange-objects-orbiting-our-galaxys-black-hole/
One day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" ... When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.
(Final speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1967)
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Scientists at Purdue University have created the world's fastest-spinning human-made object and the most sensitive torque detector by suspending a nanoparticle in a vacuum with a laser, and then using a second laser to test its torque sensitivity.
https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news2/newsid=54377.php
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