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by andrewl 3y ago
I had a very good user experience ordering from Dreamsofa.com. They answered questions quickly, sent swatches, then sent more swatches when I needed more information, and their shipping tracking and notifications were helpful and accurate.
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bruce343434 isn’t saying he’s worried the silverfish will sneak into his bed and bite him in his sleep. He’s saying it would be horrifying to live with insects as stealthy and difficult to eradicate as silverfish, but which were also bloods
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The Trouble with Old Men(granta.com)
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Deep Abandoned Mine in Finland to Be Turned into a Giant Gravity Battery(iflscience.com)
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In a different conversation ( https://sigmodrecord.org/publications/sigmodRecord/1906/pdfs... ) Hipp said he’d like to create a combination of Fossil and Git: Q: If you magically had enough extra time to do one
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by andrewl 3y ago
It may happen for email and SQLite. Or at least a mail server that uses SQLite. In this July 2021 conversation Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite, said he’s going to write his own email server: https://corecursive.com/066
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Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar industry(washingtonpost.com)
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Now cork is experiencing a revival as more industries look for sustainable alternatives to plastic and other materials derived from fossil fuels. ... The cork oak’s thick bark adapted to defend the tree from fire, making it a powerful insul
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When I saw the headline I assumed it referred to the gut microbiome. But the subhead says New analysis reveals how skin microbiome could be associated with wrinkles and skin health. Interesting. I know we have a microbiome on the surfac
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Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand(scientificamerican.com)
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More about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills
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Psychedelics Gave Terminal Patients Relief from Their Intense Anxiety(washingtonpost.com)
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There are different ways of setting up a bed with a duvet. In the United States a bed would most commonly have a fitted sheet on the mattress, then a flat sheet on top of the fitted sheet, tucked under the mattress at the foot of the bed. Y
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I do a lot of work with SQLite, and I do sometimes use one of the GUI clients (specifically sqlitebrowser.org). However, I mostly use the command line client that comes with SQLite, not because of how many features it has (not a lot) but be
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by andrewl 3y ago
One of the authors has a good summary on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/ThomasTalhelm/status/1617937439888412673
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People in Rice-Farming Areas Are Less Happy Than People in Wheat-Farming Areas(papers.ssrn.com)
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Fifty-Two Things I Learned in 2023(medium.com)
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The Problem with Software - Why Smart Engineers Write Bad Code by Adam Barr https://www.amazon.com/dp/026203851X
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It might not apply to the pencils in the article, but the flattened shape of a carpenter’s pencil keeps it from rolling off uneven surfaces in a workshop or at a building site. Also, the flattened lead allows you to draw a thin or thick lin
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Tiny Living Robots Made from Human Cells Surprise Scientists(cnn.com)
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This is a good line: Ocean and space exploration are frequently compared, and Don often joked that he had the “Right Stuff”, just in the wrong direction.
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This looks valuable. And it is from the summer of 2023, so quite current.
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Psychosis and Psychedelics(aeon.co)
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Interesting. It looks like it’s modeled on the 1975 Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asilomar_Conference_on_Recombi...
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How Mathematics Built the Modern World(worksinprogress.co)
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An Engineer Showcases the 'Nothing in Particular' Our World Depends On(washingtonpost.com)
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Project Primrose: Adobe's Digital Dress Which Can Change Patterns(euronews.com)
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An article about the gut and Alzheimer’s was posted here earlier today: Scientists discover links between Alzheimer’s disease and gut microbiota https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37931424
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It’s been easily 15 years since I read Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by by James Gleick, and probably 25 or so since I read Feynman’s own books of stories about himself. I remember lots of stories about flirtation, and v
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Speaking as an educated lay person, it seems unlikely gut problems are behind everything . It also seems unlikely that the gut is not involved in systemic health at all . A search here for gut will get you a lot of results. Some are art

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