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salisbot.bsky.social
A fun (?) naval history fact for your weekend:

During the Battle of the Nile, French Admiral Dupetit-Thouars lost one arm, then the other, then a leg to cannon fire.

He ordered his men to prop him up in a barrel on the deck so he could keep commanding his ship until he died.
two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .
ALT: two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .
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vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social
But you don't really remember how good it was.
vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social
“Not a problem with dated print references,” mutters Vinny the luddite.
vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social
Assuming R and Hadoop haven't killed SAS.
vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social
If I was taking a senior director job at the SAS Institute, I'd probably be thinking about it.
vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social
Nice. Kind of McMansion-y when you look at the house: property ratio, but it's 1993 construction.
vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social
while our lawyer argued that their amount was not only a trivial fraction of what we stood to lose if it affected a launched product, it was less than we'd lose if we had to walk away from an early stage program.

Not sure how to divide that baby.....
vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social
Interesting.

I was once on the other side of that argument: a service provider specializing in work for pharmaceutical companies wanted a low liability cap--for issues including IP leak, which can torpedo a product--
vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social
1) I didn't think there was enough concrete in the Manhattan one to have that problem (also, I don't think that was built until the late 80s)

2) I think I would have heard this from someone who worked on campus at (then) SUNY-SB.

3) But my memory can be pretty sketchy.
vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social
Was that the building that had the concrete spalling issues in the 80s?
vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social
I'm with you on the first part.

On the second? You'll find me drinking hot coffee through August.
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elleisanisland.bsky.social
seeing a lot of hubris these days and not a lot of greek mythology type consequences
vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social
Interesting!

And now I'm curious about whether there's an easy way to work out what those layers can extract out of young distillates....
vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social
Sounds like your temporal lobes need somebody to shove....
vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social
40% of GDP sounds high... and I think I remember someone estimating 40% of recent GDP growth.

Not that it isn't a bubble, or that popping it wouldn't be ugly, but that just sounds like a scale error.
vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social
For which the only appropriate pairing is a bathtub gin martini, right?
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thisone0verhere.bsky.social
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became grown, I put away childish things. Then when I became a bit more grown, I rebought those same childish things from a vintage reseller and kinda don’t know how to feel about it