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How to Maintain Mental Hygiene as an Open Source Researcher(bellingcat.com)
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by andrewl 3y ago
What is everybody’s opinion on Edsger Dijkstra’s quote “It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regenera
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by andrewl 3y ago
This is by the fascinating J.B.S. Haldane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane The essay title is also the title of an anthology of his essays which you can still sometimes find in bookstores. One of his fam
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CubeSat Rocket Thruster Is So Small It Has to Be Made Like Microchips(newatlas.com)
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People who have been through a disaster, what do you think of this list? What other preparedness information did you find to be useful (or not useful)? FEMA points users to www.ready.gov, which has a lot of information, including their ow
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Emergency Preparedness Supplies(nytimes.com)
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This looks quite useful! I’ve also gotten good information from Ian’s Shoelace Site: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
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by andrewl 3y ago
It could have been the diet, the fluoroquinolone, or both. YC News has a good bit of discussion on the damage fluoroquinolones can do, and it’s worth reading.
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by andrewl 3y ago
After I saw the movie The Stunt Man I read Brodeur’s book by the same name, on which the movie was based. Both are worth your time. The movie was underrated in my opinion.
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You can hit somebody accidentally, and then run from the accident intentionally.
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I’ve seen a good amount of research suggesting health benefits of coffee (and tea). I’m not sure if there’s anything definitive, but I periodically look into the topic, as I drink a lot of coffee. Here are free access patient summaries fr
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This Whale May Be Largest Animal Ever-We Have No Idea How It Got So Big(washingtonpost.com)
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Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism(washingtonpost.com)
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It looks interesting. There’s a good bit of information, and marketing, of course, at gabalabs.com.
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Pikchr was created by the same small group that did SQLite, and it is what creates the SQLite diagrams like the ones on this page: https://sqlite.org/lang_select.html
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by andrewl 3y ago
The United States military has, for some decades, been planning for how to deal with the effects of climate change, which include the expected migration of huge numbers of people. Here’s one article: https://www.defense.gov/
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We’ve been looking at Open Project, which is a fork of Redmine: https://www.openproject.org/blog/openproject-an-alternative-... I think at this point the differences are rather significant, but we were interested to se
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Hollywood movie aside, just how good a physicist was Oppenheimer?(science.org)
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‘The Man Who Organized Nature’: Linnaeus(wsj.com)
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Specifically, a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) drive.
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The US Military Revives an Idea for Stealthy Sea Power(bbc.com)
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John Backus, one of the pioneers of functional programming, said “Functional programming makes it easy to do hard things, but functional programming makes it very difficult to do easy things.”
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The Best PTSD Treatment You’ve Never Heard Of(washingtonpost.com)
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan
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Among the surprises in this article were these: “The US appears to screen more vigorously for cancer than Europe and people in the US who are diagnosed with cancer have higher 5-year survival probabilities.” There is a similar, though not q
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The FBI Has Formed a National Database to Track and Prevent “Swatting”(nbcnews.com)
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I Moved My Gmail to Proton. It Was Surprisingly Easy(washingtonpost.com)
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I didn’t know what to expect, but I love libraries, so I clicked the link. Those who are not interested in reading about a traditional library might also like this article, as it’s not about a traditional library. The subhead is “At the Uni
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by andrewl 3y ago
Exercising, eating right, and getting outside might or might not do for people what Ritalin does, but it’s not accurate to conflate Babelthuap’s prescription with homeopathy. It’s also not accurate to call homeopathy natural . I think it’s
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The J. B. S. Haldane essay he’s referring to is On Being the Right Size from 1926. It’s part of the anthology On Being the Right Size and Other Essays , which you can still find, and is still worth reading.

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