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by bolangi 4y ago
I still have a reference manual for XyWrite on my shelf. Cool people used XyWrite. WP won.
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by bolangi 4y ago
So, impossible to make a syntax error.
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by bolangi 4y ago
On our small farm, we use ducks for fertilizing our fruit trees. We put a temporary fence for them around a tree.The ducks are out during the day, at night inside the fence. After a week or so we move the fence to another tree.
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by bolangi 4y ago
Is this not a replay attack?
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by bolangi 4y ago
Historically desalinization has been an extremely inefficient way to produce drinking water -- energy intensive while discharing a large fraction of the input water. I doubt the fundamental economics of desalinization have changed.
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by bolangi 5y ago
> I feel like this change is a far bigger one than thought, and it's gonna break some workflows Breaks the CI system for perl, for example.
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by bolangi 5y ago
The expanding photos make me queesy.
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by bolangi 5y ago
Hope this discovery will influence hospital lighting policies.
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by bolangi 5y ago
What about HIV incidence in gay women? Doesn't it deserve a mention?
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by bolangi 5y ago
Even single-cell organisms have neurotransmitters, the "molecules of emotion"
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by bolangi 5y ago
What's hard is not using an external display but responding to events such as closing lid or plugging in a external monitor. I find the lack of advertising and nagging more than compensates for manually entering an xrandr command or se
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by bolangi 5y ago
Uh, no. Motorcycle racers learned about countersteering in the 70s. Before they had no idea.
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by bolangi 5y ago
Putting satellites in low orbits will help, since everything in those orbits will eventually decay.
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by bolangi 5y ago
> Is there some succinct explanation for why Murray's reporting facilitated 'jigsaw identification' while other reports did not? That is the point: other media reports gave more information about the accusers than Murray&#
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by bolangi 5y ago
I don't even use google, except I have a youtube login, and many friends I correspond with use gmail. In the present surveillance regime we can experience, through the medium of digital communications, the myth of the Evil Eye and the
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by bolangi 5y ago
Evidenced in the Icelandic sagas, c.f. https://www.sagadb.org/
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by bolangi 5y ago
The distinction between government and big business (what an archaic expression!) is artificial, and doesn't exist in practice.
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by bolangi 5y ago
To be clear, NSM is one project, and doesn't represent all of Linux Audio.
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by bolangi 5y ago
I know a guy who researched aerated concrete. He used a slimy additive to help hold the bubbles. Basically, the compression strength of concrete is so much higher than necessary that addition of a large portion of air results in a material
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by bolangi 5y ago
Her workshop covered both aerobic and anaerobic compost. Anaerobic composting has uses, and one is getting rid of animal carcasses.
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by bolangi 5y ago
According to Dr. Elaine Ingham, "the compost tea lady", a large compost pile designed to be anaerobic can consume cow carcasses. It does take several months.
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by bolangi 5y ago
XyWrite was the bees knees of that era, IMO. But far be it from me to make it a religious debate :-)
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by bolangi 5y ago
I've read his two-volume book on mammalian hybrids. He guides the reader through some thousands of reports, and some suprising commonalities can be seen that are hard to discount, even if specific cases may seem unlikely.
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by bolangi 5y ago
Not about computers but the science of what is possible to do using a computer and thus understandably referred to as "computer science". It rolls off the tongue easier than "computing science"
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by bolangi 5y ago
IOW, the best part is no part.
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by bolangi 5y ago
Widespread supply of mosquito nets treated with an insecticide is one of the more successful measures.
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by bolangi 6y ago
The source in this video, a former FAA inspector, gave figures in years rather than pressurization cycles.
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by bolangi 6y ago
The internal problems may be shared. Also the whistleblower efforts to get problems recognized continued for a decade.
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by bolangi 6y ago
Here are gruesome, firsthand details about production and management problems with the 737NG in a documentary from Al Jazeera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaWdEtANi-0 The following summary is my own: The whole story is
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by bolangi 6y ago
XyWrite, faster and more customizable.

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