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by dmckeon 6y ago
tl;dr: digital pregnancy test only uses digital tech to scan a standard paper test, and display the result, at 4x the price.
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by dmckeon 6y ago
The pattern of using eponyms instead of descriptives is also recognized in medicine: https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2020/01/30/eponym-debate-the-...
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Safe ways to do things in bash(github.com)
4 points by dmckeon 6y ago|0 comments
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“It is easy to build something complicated; it’s hard to build it so that it’s simple.” Father of the Sidewinder: Dr. William B. McLean Good thought for modern software.
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A greater risk than flames crossing firebreaks is firebrands or cinders - flaming bits of bark, small branch, clumps of pine needles - being carried aloft by heat and falling past the firebreak into combustible dry grass or other fuel, or o
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Big Basin has burned before, and was “doomed” in 1904: https://mobile.twitter.com/DustinMulvaney/status/12977663634...
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Only 10% of the cells in a human body are human, but that 90% is only 2-3% of human body weight. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-human-micr...
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by dmckeon 6y ago
tl;dr: Private is easier/cheaper. Almost any set of policies and procedures can be gamed by a motivated set of participants, and the more information that is exposed by a moderation process, the easier it becomes to game the process, a
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by dmckeon 6y ago
A system that was used in some counties in California a few years ago used a paper ballot that was marked by the voter, and then fed by the voter into an optical scanner (made by Eagle, IIRC) which either successfully scanned the ballot, xo
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by dmckeon 6y ago
A favorite quote seen in the introduction of a cookbook in the 1970s or so, which unfortunately I have never been able to later attribute: “The world needs more cooks, not more cookbooks.” I think this can also apply to some programming env
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Run genny to cool freezer, refrigerator, UPS batteries, and all rechargeable devices. Stop genny overnight, or when all is cooled or recharged. Repeat as needed. The less expensive generators may run at a constant speed, regardless of wa
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by dmckeon 6y ago
A similar confusion may be audible in any McDonalds. Their kitchens have many alerts and alarms, and many of them use the same tone. Get a beverage, stand with a view behind the counter toward the kitchen, wait, and listen.
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by dmckeon 6y ago
> their framing lumber quality is really poor For 1x and 2x softwood at big box stores, assume that the 10% of pieces that are the most accessible have been picked over and rejected by previous customers. If you just need strength, take
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by dmckeon 6y ago
The impact to labor mobility is significant: people who rely on employer-provided health care would be more reluctant to change jobs if there is any risk of discontinuity of health care for chronic conditions, or a higher cost for any cond
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by dmckeon 6y ago
With regard to https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPkaz0nX4AAcr_v.jpg if the capture and separate elements can be decentralized, then distribution and one storage phase are eliminated. In other words, if a refueling station
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by dmckeon 6y ago
> the traditional American crossbuck, the simple X-shaped railroad sign that warns drivers to yield to an oncoming train. I would guess that roadway signage in the US runs about 80:20 textual:symbolic, but that the EU runs about 20:80, w
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Some of those investigations were more than theoretical, as the Jicarilla Apache well know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gasbuggy
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by dmckeon 6y ago
If you fly on British Airways, their passenger identity page has a menu that includes titles: Lord, Lady, Dame, etc. Of course, you must use this power for good ...
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Unorthodox desalination method could transform global water management(phys.org)
3 points by dmckeon 6y ago|0 comments
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See also “micro-trenching” https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9Cmicro-trenching%E2%...
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by dmckeon 6y ago
As a thought experiment, imagine some wealthy private citizen who could afford to spend, say, $10 million USD and had a few hundred employees to draw a team from, and adequate transportation to a disaster location. Now identify a country t
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Fewer potential users in the near-polar regions, so the orbits are angled & aligned like wrapping a ball of twine, while polar coverage would require multiple tracks in north-south orbits. edit: more answers at https://news.
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Defendants in US federal courts plead guilty in about 90% of cases: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/11/only-2-of-f... Whether that is due to “very good reasons” or the possibility that pro
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Because in the US, states get to make some rules, and the federal government gets to make some other rules, and each is protective of their rights and prerogatives as enumerated in the US constitution, as amended. Look into amendments 9, 1
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Also at: https://elemental.medium.com/coronavirus-may-be-a-blood-vess... Briefly, previous SARS viruses reproduced in the lungs, impairing respiration, but Covid-19 reproduces in the cells lining blood vessels, impairing ci
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Pulmonary Vascular Endothelialitis, Thrombosis, and Angiogenesis in Covid-19(nejm.org)
3 points by dmckeon 6y ago|1 comments
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Changing all existing man pages (in all distorts, languages, etc.) seems like a “boil the ocean” solution - perhaps easy on the technical side to automate conversion of 1000s of pages, but harder on the social side of persuading most distr
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by dmckeon 6y ago
No mention of what effect one's choice of file system might have on the "holographic nano-layer catalyser" /s
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by dmckeon 6y ago
The curved upper/exposed surface could act as an airfoil, allowing gusts of wind to lift the moss-mouse, and move it a bit, and/or rotate it around it’s vertical axis.
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I believe they may have grown out of “terms of venery” or words specific to hunting - an activity often divided into class-specific groupings.

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