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by Qem 10mo ago
This is counter-intuitive for me. Immune system senescence is a thing. Naively I would assume it should be better to get it early, as a younger immune system has better odds to react strongly to the antigen, providing long lasting protectio
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by Qem 10mo ago
Now I wonder if Ratman would be a fourmidable enemy to Batman.
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WHO issues global guideline on the use of GLP-1 medicines in treating obesity(who.int)
3 points by Qem 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Qem 11mo ago
> failure to understand that beginners are the lifeblood of an ecosystem - till this date don't know if ruby can be effectively used on windows. Nor does it include something like Python's IDLE out of the box in the standard in
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by Qem 11mo ago
> Yesterday, I felt sick watching a video on YouTube about how an estimated 1500 people are living in the flood tunnels of Las Vegas and routinely die whenever there is heavy rain. I didn't know about this. Can you share a link?
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OCaml maintainers reject massive AI-generated pull request(devclass.com)
21 points by Qem 11mo ago|9 comments
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OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide(arstechnica.com)
19 points by Qem 11mo ago|5 comments
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by Qem 11mo ago
That makes me wonder if Ayam Cemani chicken have better tolerance to radiation than other breeds. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayam_Cemani
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by Qem 11mo ago
> so people like me should be able to cobble something together that's a workable alternative to Posit. There is Rkward[1], available from the repositories in many linux distributions. Discovered it recently, because I'm curren
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by Qem 11mo ago
It feels like when Opera dropped its own web engine, Presto, to become just another Chrome clone.
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by Qem 11mo ago
Do you mean VSCodium? https://vscodium.com/
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by Qem 11mo ago
A spacecraft carrying a blackhole as propulsion means probably would have poor power to weight ratio.
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by Qem 11mo ago
They should rebrand Screwing Company.
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Pope Francis' popemobile transformed into mobile clinic for Gaza children(msn.com)
4 points by Qem 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Qem 11mo ago
> People really miss the point about why military recruiting occurs so early at 18. The brain is not fully developed yet. I thought it was because if people die in battle at that age, they were statistically unlikely to leave widows and
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by Qem 11mo ago
> It also makes me wonder why the human body rewards young parents when their brains are just simply not fully finished cooking. Probably so that they can grow with their children.
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by Qem 11mo ago
What about vascular dementia?
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Udo Kier, One of Cinema's Great Eccentrics, Has Passed Away at 81(screenrealm.com)
3 points by Qem 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Qem 11mo ago
> Having a clean and pleasant user experience on top of a stable Debian based distributed is the goal. This pretty much describes LMDE[1]. [1] https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
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by Qem 11mo ago
> Ruby not being easily installed on windows back then stopped new blood as well. Also the lack of something akin to Python's IDLE in the standard install, to decrease set-up attrition for beginners. E.g. see https://stac
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Nestle accused of risking babies' health in Africa(aljazeera.com)
2 points by Qem 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Qem 11mo ago
My fav hypothesis - increasing CO2 toxicity: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/va/d5va0...
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BASIC Is Not Dead. Time to Erase the Myths about Basic (2022)(codeproject.com)
6 points by Qem 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Qem 11mo ago
"Penalty" is the key word here. Like, issued by a judge, after proper judgement according to the law of the land. Not random shooting people without any due process.
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by Qem 11mo ago
> Seems like we're bombing a bunch of low level, poverty stricken fisherman There is some precedent: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/cia-faulted-in-shootin...
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by Qem 11mo ago
One wonders what kinds of domestic abuse such legal hacking enables as side-effect as well: "Sorry Ma'am, your husband was killed in that traffic stop, but you know, the officers were not actually targeting him, just his car...&qu
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Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Kills by Claiming Targeting Drugs, Not People(theintercept.com)
63 points by Qem 11mo ago|118 comments
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by Qem 11mo ago
> By the time birth rates plummet below replacement rate in Africa, they would have risen well above replacement again in Europe and North America. What makes you think they will rise again in a timely manner? Demographers naively predic
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by Qem 11mo ago
> not being told that your fertility starts tanking after 30 It baffles me that science books in school don't have a nice graph showing how fertility changes with age. It's plain negligence. It causes people to set unrealistic
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by Qem 11mo ago
> Reproduction's a straight-up genetic instinct in humans. Sex is the straight-up genetic instinct with a strong drive. It used to correlate very closely with reproduction, so the difference between the two was meaningless. The issu

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