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A fire can be extinguished with diesel (jet fuel is pretty much just cleaner diesel / kerosene) in cold conditions, I know because I’ve done it.

It takes a fair amount of heat / pressure to ignite jet fuel, easier if it’s vaporised.


There’s an argument to be made that if you’re not prepared to deal with all of that, don’t become popular - either online or in meatspace, because it will happen.

Becoming popular isn’t generally something an open source developer chooses to do or not do.

It's something a developer chooses to do or not do though. No need for a public repo to do development.

It's a reasonable argument that, if you don't want to deal with some of the inevitable consequences of popularity, basically don't put yourself out in public at all. It's rarely an actual requirement for a lot of things. You can make videos for yourself without posting on YouTube for example (as most people who historically made hobby videos did).

That’s a wild argument, up there with “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.”

People should be able to produce and publish content without being harassed.


>People should be able to produce and publish content without being harassed.

I don't disagree. (Assuming the content isn't of a nature that deserves a lot of criticism though that's in the eye of the beholder and is a matter of degree of course.)

But there's also the real world where putting yourself out in public can have consequences, especially if you become particularly popular. You take the good with the bad and decide if the tradeoff is worth it.


> Assuming the content isn't of a nature that deserves a lot of criticism though that's in the eye of the beholder of course

The fact that people think there are kinds of content that warrant harassment is kinda the root of this whole problem.


Not to make this political but you don't think there's a lot of content being thrown around at the moment that warrants criticism? Generally speaking I'd draw the line at outright personal harassment although I suppose that's again in the eye of the beholder.

I think there's tons of content that warrants criticism, but no content that warrants harassment.

And I'd say that's a pretty gray line, especially to the degree it stays in an online context.

> I have endured a sustained campaign of abuse from members of the VOGONS forum, been labelled a "clout-chaser", had threats sent to my personal email address, code been used in other projects without proper accreditation, my 3D print designs stolen and sold by faceless eBay/Etsy sellers, personal attacks made towards me when people don't get their feature request... the list goes on and on.

None of that sounds like a gray area to me.


Yes, every device should fail immediately upon warranty expiration.

You should build a company founded on that principle.

Call it GTL Pty Ltd

Formerly known as Guaranteed To Last, but they dropped that naming and are now know simple as GTL after a social media smear campaign where people were saying ‘guaranteed to be the last thing you ever buy from that company’.


Oh, come on, they could totally own that smear campaign. "Guaranteed to be the last [class of device] you ever buy, unless you give it away." Something something heirlooms, put together a simple, 30-second narrative for the advertisement campaign, job done.

This should be the comment.

Or, like, go buy a couple thousand chill tracks, an VHF radio, and actually build your own project.


Don't forget "pay the music royalties"

I’ve always thought that Enterprise D idling for sleeping too, and the alarm clock is the ship going to warp VERY LOUDLY.

Also check out http://di.fm - Goa out the up the wazoo. Other electronic music too.

Also their sister sites of Jazz or Rock are your thing, link on their home page somewhere.


I used to listen to Digitally Imported's Eurodance station a lot 10-15 years ago, but eventually it felt like I just kept hearing the same songs, that they never added any new music to it.

oh wow, nice to see that Digitally Imported is still in business. I used to listen to them like 20 years ago when it was still possible to stream DI through WinAMP :)

Helped me get through University a lot


They're one of the OGs of internet radio. Radio Paradise too. Probably a couple more I'm forgetting.

Hey Rusty! Keep up the great work. We appreciate you.

I started listening to them in the late 90s or early 2000s. These days I've been a subscriber for years. I even one time did their fun little puzzle they had in their view source that was a recruiting tool. (I did let them know I did it, but wasn't on the market lol)

You still can if you’re a subscriber, there’s a section in the settings that lets you download a .pls

Don’t forget Mission Control also from SomaFM, ambient chill with space mission audio comms

https://somafm.com/player24/station/missioncontrol


It’s no coincidence there’s a raging bull sculpture on Wall Street.

Presumably you’re joking, but I wanted to note that this is surely a coincidence.

> The sculpture was created by Italian artist Arturo Di Modica in the wake of the 1987 Black Monday stock market crash. Late in the evening of Thursday, December 14, 1989, Di Modica arrived on Wall Street with Charging Bull on the back of a truck and illegally dropped the sculpture outside of the New York Stock Exchange Building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_Bull


I wouldn't call that entirely coincidental. Di Modica picked a bull because it was a well understood metaphor for market optimism. The bull-run analogy, while not being central to the financial bull concept, has been applied to it plenty.

See: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Wa...


Why else would you put a bull in front of the stock exchange except as commentary on assholes pitching bull markets? How could you possibly construe this as a coincidence?

> assholes pitching bull markets

Totally willing to believe I’m just naive about this; I don’t see what “bull market vs. bear market” has to do with the running of the bulls festival.


I imagine the original use of "bull market" was derived from this practice. If this isn't the case i have no clue myself.

Yeah, fair enough. Wikipedia has this, which I hadn’t found before:

> The terms come from London's Exchange Alley in the early 18th century, where traders who engaged in naked short selling were called "bear-skin jobbers" because they sold a bear's skin (the shares) before catching the bear. This was simplified to "bears," while traders who bought shares on credit were called "bulls." The latter term might have originated by analogy to bear-baiting and bull-baiting, two animal fighting sports of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_trend


I replied to a comment about crypto whale pump and dump schemes in a threat about predicting crowd behaviour in reference to running of the bull festival, which happens to be, at least loosely, couple to the idea of a raging bull. Wall St has a raging bull sculpture.

I feel dumber having just written that out. Don't they teach reading comprehension at school any more?


Unfortunately, I don’t see any words here that describe the relation. I would appreciate if you could point them out to me so I can give my comprehension skills another go.

It’s the seventh commandment, don’t you know?

7. Thou shalt not use more than two browser plugins.


I dunno man, Australia is equal parts desert, heatwaves, floods, and whatever the hell this is https://youtu.be/H7MU39th9Ng?si=pNkLogRdwdBY3lll

Accurate though.

Caution, coarse language.


sydney feels like all the good things about a metro without the downsides of you know having to deal with the rest of the world because they're literally on the other side of it.

definitely greater Australia is quite gnarly. I'm from CA! it's Sydney or bust.


Consider Melbourne if you prefer Northern CA climate and, well, other differences.

Yes, like art, culture, events, getting-around-ability, fewer gangland hits maybe, plenty of tobacco-land arsonings.

Avoid Tasmania, we’re full.


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