vk6flab

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 6 points 1 month ago

That does take away the fun of breaking the rules when you used a knife anyway, but you make a valid point. No orangutan near the box. Right. Does anyone have a chimpanzee I can borrow?

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 15 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I cannot get over just how many bug fix releases have come out in the past six months. It's nothing like the Apple I used to recommend to clients.

As soon as I'm able I'll be factory resetting my MacBook and passing it on.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Right now that's exactly what this is. It's odd enough to be unique, it's memorable, it's short.

Whilst Gimlet media did a whole podcast series on naming the company, the pharmaceutical industry went in the opposite direction:

  • Imlygic
  • OnabotulinumtoxinA
  • Idarucizumab

(Source: https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/12-difficult-to-pronounce-drug-names)

There was a TV show in the Netherlands in the late 1980's called JASDV, which translated acronym meant Jan Behind The Scenes Of.

We use weird names all the time.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 11 points 1 month ago

Thank you, I needed that.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 7 points 1 month ago

Money.

Doing this type of research is extremely time consuming so research needs funding, to eat food and pay rent and even if you discover things worth sharing, the current legal system often prevents you from publishing it, which costs more money to fight.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I wonder if we can hear an entire planet scream..

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 13 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I never understood how you should open such a box, but this seems like the way forward.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 64 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This would be funny if antivaxers weren't so vocal and misinformed.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 8 points 1 month ago

Staying alive, having fun, sharing with friends.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 7 points 1 month ago

Ask the BitTorrent directory sites which don't actually host any content at all.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There were recently a few egregious cases that were heavily fined. I suspect that if they were prosecuted with these new laws the outcome would be prison, but I'm not a lawyer and I don't pretend to be one on the Internet.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 points 1 month ago

You'll get there.

I've been doing it for over 25 years and although it's been hard at times, I've never regretted it.

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