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by biofox 2y ago
Someday, but I think we're still a way off. Regarding your interaction with the doctor, I completely understand both sides, and I can guarantee he was well aware of the small risk of tendon weakening. People usually want their physicia
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by biofox 2y ago
Genius idea! I've found Vaseline to be less than ideal for running, and "personal lubricants" dry out much too quickly. I hadn't considered using industrial lubricants. Pretty much everyone who uses WD-40 for mechanical
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by biofox 2y ago
The author's key takeaway is "flow is king", but what stuck me most was giving people freedom to do their job -- e.g., giving the nurses unrestricted access to the medication, letting the CT tech focus on their job, roaming E
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by biofox 2y ago
The original copies of the magna carter, all written on sheepskin, are still intact and legible after eight centuries. In contrast, the hardbound, acid-free, books from my undergraduate days are falling apart.
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by biofox 2y ago
Psychology is messy. If you assume that impulse control and the ability to delay gratification is an inherited trait, then the income of parents becomes supporting evidence rather than a confounder. Time to do some GWAS to see if there is i
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by biofox 2y ago
This doesn't apply when talking about terminal diseases like advanced cancer. Dead patients are the least profitable of all.
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by biofox 2y ago
I'm in my 30s, and my first computer as a kid had a 5.25" FDD. Fondest media-memory of that era was CD-ROMs coming in caddies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddy_%28hardware%29#/media/Fi...
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by biofox 2y ago
This is the first credible defence of the decision I have read. Do you know of any other examples?
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by biofox 2y ago
As a kid in the 90s, Encarta was pure magic to me.
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by biofox 2y ago
Yes
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by biofox 2y ago
No point fixing something that isn't broken (someone please tell Microsoft)
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by biofox 2y ago
I'd argue hacker culture goes back much further than the 70s, e.g., with MIT hacks during the 1930s and 40s (see Feynman) and in Cambridge UK, as well as the early HAM radio enthusiasts in the 1900s...
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by biofox 3y ago
I recently had this problem after downloading the latest version of GIMP and becoming frustrated trying to decipher the default low-contrast icon set: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MwVjEL1dNWg/maxresdefault.jpg
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by biofox 3y ago
Google Reader and RSS feeds were also heavily used internally :(
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by biofox 3y ago
I typed all of this out, and I'm still stuck in Vi. Please send help. /s
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by biofox 3y ago
You can store an insane amount of plain text or low-res jpegs. My collection of papers and ebooks far exceeds 20 GB though.
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by biofox 3y ago
Reminds me of "Cosmos for Rednecks": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX1Q8PQLAhQ
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by biofox 3y ago
If you add up the investigators' time, prosecutors' time, judge's time, legal fees, data collection and archival costs, etc., etc., the fine probably barely even covers the state's costs.
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by biofox 3y ago
Had no idea who you were referring to, so had to look it up. Apparently, Hal Finney may have been Satoshi, and he was cryopreserved back in 2014: https://www.wired.com/2014/08/hal-finney/
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by biofox 3y ago
Lockheed Martin didn't get the memo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
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by biofox 3y ago
A previous time this was asked on HN, someone linked to these, which I quite like: https://sciurls.com/ https://mathurls.com/ https://techurls.com/ https://finurls.com/ ht
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by biofox 3y ago
Disassembling and building computers as a teen, the smell of a freshly booted motherboard was almost intoxicating. The clicking and buzzing of the floppy drive. Crackling of the screen. Warm hum of the fan. It all transported me to another
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by biofox 3y ago
Despite the US Army abandoning the idea, the British Cyclist Corp was active for much longer and saw service in WWI https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Cyclist_Corps
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by biofox 3y ago
When I first watched the XPrize flight in 2004 (!!) on a tiny pixelated video over an ISDN connection, I thought we would only be a couple of years away from regular space tourism. I never would have dreamt that chatbots would pass the Turi
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by biofox 3y ago
In fairness, Mable might have died at 11:59 and been resuscitated at 12:01.
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by biofox 3y ago
Maybe I'm just in the wrong field, but I wish papers were still written like this.
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by biofox 3y ago
The support and documentation for MATLAB is really unparalleled though. Worth every penny when you want to focus your time on being productive, rather than banging your head against the language.
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by biofox 3y ago
The sort of personal mentoring, practical supervision, and social skills development that is required for intellectual maturity cannot be acquired from YouTube videos.
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by biofox 3y ago
It's harder to criticise someone when they're less receptive to criticism.
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by biofox 3y ago
How times change. To run the same experiment in the UK today you'd need a Home Office licence, a project licence, and on-site veterinary facilities.

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