ah, the crack explains the stars. probably no amount of cleaning is gonna remove that. it looks kinda cool but you'll find sometimes it breaks the image when there's too much contrast.
regular microfibre cloths are gold for optics in general. polished surfaces, glass, plastic... don't even need any solvent very often.
i'm sure i'll be fine. got the buttery yoghurt happening, just finished a litre with 60ml of melted butter added to it. tastes soooo good. it takes time for the body to get used to powering everything with grease instead of complex alcohols.
it's nothing new to me. the steemit.com forum system/blockchain had memos with payments that people started to use like this with tiny payments.
you need to get a clean microfibre cloth onto the lenses of your camera
i'm awake, but really not.
i don't think i got 4 good hours last night.
gonna go easy today... i've got some things done, nearly consolidated my ongoing work into a new commit, but i look at my eyes in the mirror and i see tired.
merkle trees, and merkle dags, etc, also have the same topology as packet switched networks, and the data size requirement increase for the number of pieces exactly corresponds with the message count required for a message broadcast over a network.
it's simply not possible to make it scale without changing the propagataion strategy, in both cases.
the speed with which the prophecy of "idiocracy" is coming true is extremely alarming.
my memory is starting to become a better reference for almost everything, the number of retarded, dumbed down, straight up wrong shit being pushed out from web servers on the internet is astounding.
won't be long before you can't find any real information on wikipedia either.
also, the word is not spelled correctly once, or the same way, in that entire image.
F E T I S H
yeah, i fucking hate the EU. i watched it degrade what was left of Bulgaria to shit over the 10 years since 2013, used to be a great place, now it's as bad as the rest of europe. for which reason last place i lived on in the continent was Bosnia.
I said "fetish":
dictionary.com:
fetish
[ fet-ish, occasionally, fee-tish ]SHOW IPA
See synonyms for fetish on Thesaurus.com
noun
any object, part of the body, or activity that is ordinarily regarded as nonsexual and causes a habitual erotic response or fixation.
a habitual erotic response to or fixation on an object, part of the body, or activity ordinarily regarded as nonsexual.
unconventional sexual practices involving an object, part of the body, or activity ordinarily regarded as nonsexual, considered collectively.
THIS ONE HERE:
Anthropology. an object regarded with awe as being the embodiment or habitation of a potent spirit or as having magical potency.
I could say "surrogate" also, with the same meaning.
it's also the basis of most religions, worshipping symbols.
it's the very same thing at play when Pavlov's Dog salivates at the sound of a bell.
the thing and a symbol of the thing have become confused.
i left australia because of the many corrupt economic setups back in 2012. i can't comprehend how anyone can live there anymore unless they are part of the parasite class, and i guess that is the thing... all the average blokes working at the factories and on the farms and mines are the ones being ridden by these pigs.
people's minds are so compromised these days, they can practically walk alond and pluck your baby out of your arms and eat it right in front of you without an consequences.
Yeah maintenance gone wrong was my though too based on timing. Looks like they recently went Juniper for their core:
https://www.crn.com.au/news/optus-uses-juniper-switches-in-core-network-upgrade-330452
internet in oz is fucked up, seriously.
when i first was getting dialup it was so expensive, even right next door to fortitude valley.
i hear from my mother about the state of the NBN and all that fuckin commie bullshit. at my prompting and to great satisfaction for over a decade she was using iiNet but they've been consumed by the Blob as well.
when i was homeless in sofia i managed to scrape together the money to get a little engraving tool and some polypropylene pipe and built myself (several revisions) of a flute. if you consider he may have had a good day and pulled $40 he'd be able to go further.
absolutely horrible being in that situation though. the distance between being able to make and print and laminate a little sign (probably did the design at an internet cafe or library) and getting one of these kinds of EFT terminal, and getting a house is a huge gulf.
i only got out of my pickle, in the end, via my facebook blog and a kind person paying for an airbnb for me for a couple of weeks as i chased jobs. got a job, and that was that. sadly the job was pretty shit too... remote helpdesk for remote hosted apps. i ended up in shit over finding a workaround for a provisioning fuckup with a client who had two different companies tampering with her system, theres was low level, ours was just an app. i "made us look bad" said the manager. i had been squealing for assistance for almost 2 days before they finally figured out what happened. assholes.
that was the year i got burned as the cryptokitties hack at bitfinex crashed the bitcoin price, and i had margin positions and bam.
fuckin crazy world.
probably safer to just find your own dead drop hole in a wall somewhere.
years ago i watched a weed dealer do this in sofia to get a baggie to give to me.
anything related to the government is gonna be a dead end until they are all arrested, tried and executed.
wild. things are changing so fast.
the definition of a fetish is being emotionally attached to one thing that is a symbol of another thing.
it is SO ugly, and once you know... every time i walk past a nearby medical centre it makes me very mad seing "it's curable, if detected early". HOW ABOUT NOT USING CANCER CAUSING XRAYS ON WOMENS BOOBS FOR NO REASON???