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Would you believe this is how we used to install Arch Linux?

@Hearth well yeah but like, if you're like me and want to do things like "generative art involving stuff like hanging power cables" and you know in the back of your head using a parabola would be *just ever so slightly wrong*, this is a thing you care about having a simple answer to. and its just hyperbolic cosine

today i learned the catenary (the shape of a hanging cable or chain) is just the hyperbolic cosine. what the hell. i thought it was one of those shapes you could only get accurately with a physics simulation or something but its just cosh

The car industry is even worse for your privacy than the worst tech company -- and that's because the worst behavior of the tech industry is embedded in every car. This report from @mozilla is what Consumer Reports should have done years ago -- and it is infuriating. foundation.mozilla.org/en/priv

A student came to a Zen master and asked for a Koan. The master said, "how will you stop that distant temple bell?" The student bowed and thanked the master. Later at meditation, the student's back ached and forehead itched and knees cracked. The master broke the silence to admonish the student, "be still!" The student stood, bowed, and left, and the master became enlightened.

why did we call The Fantastic Game and its ilk "egglikes" instead of "videohuevos"

this is the real squid game :ablobcatbongo:

also this was the first lesson where they introduced construction lines to you, which was really what I wanted to relearn.

it has been really helpful to see the construction lines they give you and how they fit into the finished picture, so you can try and come up with your own when you look at images

I'm happy with this one :ablobcatattention:

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why didn't nostradamus write annotations in his books 

he was concerned about his prophet margins

#labor: the United Auto Workers union is expected to strike against one or all three US major auto makers when the current contract expires September 14. "A more combative UAW has demanded a 46% pay raise, a 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay and a restoration of traditional pensions" axios.com/2023/09/05/uaw-strik

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