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by coobird 4y ago
While plutonium is mildly radioactive than fission products like strontium-90 and cesium-137, you can't discount its chemical toxicity and will accumulate in the bone marrow if ingested. Also add that alpha decaying isotopes (like plut
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by coobird 4y ago
Less than a couple months ago, Intel seemed to be very enthusiastic and showcasing a bunch of testimonials from partners: https://riscv.org/blog/2022/12/intel-pathfinder-for-risc-v-n...
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Chinese Chipmaker Loongson Enters GPU Biz with New iGPUs(tomshardware.com)
5 points by coobird 4y ago|0 comments
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by coobird 4y ago
Note that the JPY lost about 30% of value this year, while rent (nor wages, nor cost of living) haven't caught up to those figures. For the past few years, the JPY/USD rate was around 110.
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by coobird 4y ago
It's definitely a section on the Toden Arakawa Line, the last surviving streetcar line in Tokyo. The catenaries look like them, especially the 3rd one in with the tower-like structures. Those are likely the ones built over 100 years ag
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by coobird 4y ago
I'm surprised that there are still new cases of people, especially children, who are getting cancer in the area. High cancer rates surrounding the area has been reported for decades and I recall watching local TV news reports about it
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I'm a security reporter and got fooled by a blatant phish(arstechnica.com)
7 points by coobird 4y ago|0 comments
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Hertzbleed Disclosed as New Family of Side-Channel Attacks(phoronix.com)
3 points by coobird 4y ago|0 comments
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Trying to Compile 3D's Movie Maker's Source Code Live [video](youtube.com)
1 points by coobird 4y ago|0 comments
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by coobird 4y ago
Actually, many city governments in Japan already get a redistribution from the national government in "local tax allocation" to the tune of over 100 billion USD every year, and cities like Tokyo with a large tax base or industry a
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Don't Worry If You Lost Your CPU Sticker, Intel Will Send You One for Free(tomshardware.com)
3 points by coobird 5y ago|1 comments
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by coobird 5y ago
Well, seems like a Shinkansen derailed. It doesn't seem very serious as there's someone tweeting about it from inside that train...[1] There's also a tweet that the part of the overhead power line broke off and fell[2], so it
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by coobird 5y ago
It was two earthquakes -- one "small" one and another "big" one that followed about a minute later. On TV, they were announcing the quake intensity of the first one and and there was a video feed of the Fukushima nuclear
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by coobird 5y ago
From the article I read[1], the nuance was along the line of this -- a person who was previously exposed to the original COVID vaccine or the virus itself (and had an immune response) getting the updated version of the vaccine ends up havin
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by coobird 5y ago
This isn't anything new. That's always been Japan's position on the "Northern Territories" as it's commonly called here. From the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan: https://www.mofa.go.jp/reg
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by coobird 5y ago
It may be easy to dismiss Intel's move to SDSi by saying "just buy AMD instead," but if this model turns out to be lucrative enough, there's no guarantee that AMD wouldn't follow suit. We'll have to see how thi
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RIP Virtual Console: Nintendo will shut off Wii U, 3DS game downloads(arstechnica.com)
4 points by coobird 5y ago|0 comments
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Some words aren’t welcome in the New York Times’ Wordle(arstechnica.com)
4 points by coobird 5y ago|2 comments
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by coobird 5y ago
Shinkansen rolling stock tend to be phased out much faster than commuter and local trains, to take advantage of the newest technologies that enable cost reductions and improved amenities. Tokaido Shinkansen, the busiest and most profitable
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by coobird 5y ago
Definitely looked the same (TABLE layouts and all) back when I was browsing through it during the mid-90s on dial-up. I recall it was a gray background rather than bright white, but maybe because Netscape's default background was gray
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AI makes Robert De Niro perform lines in flawless German(arstechnica.com)
3 points by coobird 5y ago|0 comments
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by coobird 8y ago
Even here in Japan, I don't recall seeing any news outlets cover this as top story material; in fact, the first place I heard about this was from non-Japanese news sources...
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France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994(arstechnica.com)
491 points by coobird 8y ago|224 comments
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Taking Apart a Hitachi (IBM) Microdrive [video](youtu.be)
1 points by coobird 9y ago|0 comments