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Still Booting: People Stuck Using Ancient Windows Computers(bbc.com)
12 points by andrewl 1y ago|2 comments
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by andrewl 1y ago
Like most people I want to live a long time. But more than life span I am interested in health span. I want to feel good and be autonomous as long as possible. Fitness, especially good muscle mass, is an important part of that.
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by andrewl 1y ago
This looks excellent. And good timing, as I'm ramping up on Neovim this weekend.
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by andrewl 1y ago
I read Paul Theroux's book Sir Vidia's Shadow many years ago. It was just one person's account and point of view of course, but it was pretty damning as I recall.
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by andrewl 1y ago
As if the government could do better capital allocation in the economy than buffett That seems to be what Buffett is suggesting.
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by andrewl 1y ago
Buffett worked, at least informally, with the Obama administration on some financial policy issues. And he is a proponent of greater taxes on the very rich. Here's one short video (2:46) in which he talks about it: https://w
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by andrewl 1y ago
Weird is not the term for it. I'd say suspension of due process is terrifying .
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by andrewl 1y ago
I've been using, and sharing, this site for several years. I think it's excellent. The two things I'd like to see are the provinces, at least in larger countries, and large bodies of water. I'd like to be able to drag On
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by andrewl 1y ago
They're actually quite competent at their real goal, which is not to make America great, but to blow it to smithereens so various titanically rich people can buy everything up, including the land, at rock bottom prices.
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by andrewl 1y ago
Full article at: https://www.cell.com/molecular-therapy-family/molecular-ther...
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95% of Flu and Herpes Infection Neutralized by Chewing Gum(newatlas.com)
7 points by andrewl 1y ago|2 comments
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by andrewl 1y ago
I was also impressed by Tolkien's creation myth. I'm not really familiar with the various religions or mythologies, whether invented by a single author or developed over time by pre-scientific societies, but his is the only one I
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by andrewl 1y ago
My favorite parts of the Silmarillion were the ones where I learned the back story of the world: the Valaquenta, the Ainulindalë, and Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age. I don't have my copy here, but if I recall correctly that
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by andrewl 2y ago
Chocolate, spices, salt, and cassava products are particularly high in heavy metals. I'm surprised to see salt on the list. Where does most table salt come from? And where in the processing does lead come in? Off the top of my head I
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by andrewl 2y ago
I experimented with this for five minutes, and so far it looks great. The one thing missing, or that I didn't see in five minutes, is that when I uploaded the schema for one of our SQLite databases, the tables came out perfectly, but t
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by andrewl 2y ago
The short answer is that disinterested means unbiased, having no conflicts of interest, impartial. So a judge in a court should be disinterested, but not uninterested .
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by andrewl 2y ago
I would say it's more that they don't know the meaning of decimated. Or they don't know the original meaning of the word. Now when someone writes that a population was decimated they probably just mean it was massively re
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by andrewl 2y ago
I get the problem with spending too much time configuring things like Vim or Tmux. But I'm just getting started with NeoVim today to see if I want to go with it full time and get off of Vim. Why is NeoVim dead to you?
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by andrewl 2y ago
A scholar on China reflects on the moment he was denied access to the country — and the compromises others must make to maintain it.
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Life on a Blacklist(chinabooksreview.com)
1 points by andrewl 2y ago|1 comments
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by andrewl 2y ago
Or it may be the application of principles that are described or marketed as being these old principles, but are often just junk with a fake veneer. These giant systems really are fascinating, although I'm glad I don't work in
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by andrewl 2y ago
Does something similar happen with shoes, like at Zappos?
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by andrewl 2y ago
Exactly. It was described in Chesterton’s Fence: There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it a
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by andrewl 2y ago
The gen part of transgenic comes from genes, not gender. Transgenic refers to an organism or cell whose genome has been altered by the introduction of one or more foreign DNA sequences from another species by artificial means.[1][2] Tru
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by andrewl 2y ago
I knew OCaml was being used by a number of big finance companies, or that it had been used. I really didn't know it was still active. Has anybody here used it? How was it?
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Pathfinder 1: The Airship That Could Usher in a New Age(bbc.com)
39 points by andrewl 2y ago|59 comments
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by andrewl 2y ago
We moved from Subversion to Git a long time ago, and we’re fine with it. But we’re only 16 users, so I personally can’t speak to how well it works for much larger teams, although I know of course that it’s used by giant teams for giant pr
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by andrewl 2y ago
mock-possum wrote: ...but it’s so hard for me to get past the thought, “why don’t they just stop being that way, and start making friends who they can open up to?” Past a certain point it’s indicative of pathology, and not necessarily one t
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by andrewl 2y ago
Agreed. There is, or at least were, some parts of the body that were only recently discovered and not just known about and assumed to be inactive. It was only in 2015 that lymphatic vessels were discovered in the central nervous system:
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by andrewl 2y ago
I was mostly thinking that poorly paid agricultural workers or other people doing periodic manual labor may be getting paid in cash, and perhaps they are not paying taxes on the money, even if they are legally required to. The wait staff

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