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by anon_cow1111 10mo ago
Your ancestors probably had plant-based cures like garlic or walnut hulls for the same infections. Modern medicine improved on the spectrum of parasites that can be treated but there's still some caveman-level stuff that works reliably
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by anon_cow1111 10mo ago
I found it pretty good as a standalone book, but what stuck me the most was this random interaction: I picked it up at a library discount sale, where they give you shopping bags and you can fill them up for a flat 10USD each. I was browsing
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by anon_cow1111 10mo ago
>For a solid trilogy I can recommend the Gaea Trilogy (Titan, Wizard, and Demon), I only read Wizard , how much am I missing out on the other two?
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by anon_cow1111 10mo ago
Question for both you and GPP; is this fear limited to real life depictions, or basically anything? E.g, if you ever played Skyrim or a game with spider-like enemies does it have the same effect as a real spider? Answers I've seen to t
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by anon_cow1111 10mo ago
Anyone find an actual link for the finished track? Credits are mentioned on his site and twitter but I didn't find it anywhere when searching for the artist names.
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by anon_cow1111 10mo ago
Ngl, I had a split second of "oh damn did I just pick up a url hijacker somewhere?" Especially with awkward gifs at the bottom.
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by anon_cow1111 11mo ago
So...... was there ever a resolution with that persistent incompatibility in ROCm/certain AMD drivers and Cycles that made it impossible to render in almost every version of blender? As in, it literally doesn't even detect the GPU
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by anon_cow1111 11mo ago
Every time I hit a "buy" button it brings nothing but horrible anxiety over what future bullshit I'll have to deal with, either because the product will be garbage or the seller will be garbage. And that's after doing an
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by anon_cow1111 11mo ago
The actual error bar of "typical time-to-infection", as per CDC guideline is 36 hours minimum. 24 is my generous amount of error factor in the most optimistic (or worst, if you're a human and not a tick) direction. So in othe
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by anon_cow1111 11mo ago
I got a ~1600 character reply from gpt, including spaces and it worked first shot dumping into an html doc. I think that probably fits ok in the limit? (If I missed something obvious feel free to tell me I'm an idiot)
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by anon_cow1111 11mo ago
I'm having a hard time believing this site is honest, especially with how ridiculous the scaling and rotation of numbers is for most of them. I dumped his prompt into chatgpt to try it myself and it did create a very neat clock face w
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by anon_cow1111 11mo ago
This is the one area where the CDC actually does have accurate advice, Lyme is excellent at hiding itself from your immune system and tends to burrow into joint tissue where antibiotics have difficulty reaching. DON'T assume the disea
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by anon_cow1111 11mo ago
"Around 24 hours" means approximately 1 day. "More than 24 hours" means more than approximately 1 day. Please do not comment further unless you actually have something useful to add.
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by anon_cow1111 11mo ago
First year: Very covid-like symptoms, to the point where I initially did a quick home covid test (or multiple tests if I remember) that was negative. Very distinct soreness around the crease of the hip/leg joint, probably a lymph gland
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by anon_cow1111 11mo ago
Lyme desperately needs more attention and revised CDC guideline as it's becoming an epidemic in the northeast United States. As and outdoor-hobbies type person I've had it 3 out of 4 previous years and have begun sourcing antibiot
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by anon_cow1111 1y ago
For anyone who's actually wondering about this, 100-200mw is extremely damaging to camera sensors(also eyes) and doesn't cause birds to burst into flames from a stray reflection. Most cheap pen-size laser pointers sold as "
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by anon_cow1111 1y ago
See also "glitch tokens"; words that cause unexpected output on some LLMs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_token A notable example was "petertodd" which was a bizarre case studied extensively i
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by anon_cow1111 1y ago
Might be unrelated in this example, but when a message is written in a lazy ROT13-like cypher, the letter e becomes a notorious rat that allows anyone to break the entire thing in very little time. Randomizing/obfuscating the letter ca
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by anon_cow1111 1y ago
ctrl+f "furthermore"
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by anon_cow1111 1y ago
>the server would have to do occlusion tests for each player pair, but a bounding box and some reasonable spatial partitioning should make that reasonably efficient. Shadows and reflections are the hard part. Especially when light can be
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by anon_cow1111 1y ago
Well what's the alternative? Get in a week long battle with the hospital while they struggle to locate and send a 500kb jpg? I AM talking about the American healthcare system here. Yeah, I'll just grab it myself. It was a standing
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by anon_cow1111 1y ago
I know basic things like cpr, how and where to apply pressure to stop bleeding, signs of a stroke or hypothermia, you know, basic vital stuff to keep someone alive in case of emergency. Similarly, I'd expect a doctor to be familiar wit
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by anon_cow1111 1y ago
Sure did! I think you're vastly overestimating the security of... basically everything computer related in the 2010 and earlier era. I did not poke around obviously, because I was only interested in my personal files and assumed I only
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by anon_cow1111 1y ago
This is probably one of the best, and maybe the most shot-in-the-dark responses I've received on hn to the point I wish I could upvote it multiple times. I was really expecting nothing at all. I did skim read a few papers on the subjec
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by anon_cow1111 1y ago
Me(2010 ish): Hey can I get my x-ray pictures before I leave? Doc: No, there's no way to get pictures off of this computer I had the pictures saved on a flash drive about 30 seconds after he left the room. They were using some awkw
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by anon_cow1111 1y ago
What I really want to know is how do I CULTURE Bacillus thuringiensis, sure its available readily on the web as a pesticide, but only at very high prices for anything beyond a small hobby garden; -what if I have an acre of crops to treat?
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by anon_cow1111 1y ago
2004 eastern US reporting in, can confirm the school Mountain dew conspiracy. I wonder if there's a site dedicated to tracking these kind of pre-social media viral memes and conspiracies. (I should say 'mass' social media sin
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by anon_cow1111 1y ago
We have a number! Around 0.1c maximum and unsurprisingly it involves using nuclear bombs to push yourself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
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by anon_cow1111 1y ago
Also note this image in the sibling reply's article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pole_2_Thyristor_Valve.jp... Which is part of a transmission station bridging islands in NZ and probably one of my favorite pi
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by anon_cow1111 1y ago
Read "Call me Joe". Short story so you may be able to find a text dump of it with a little google-fu.

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