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by erdewit 5y ago
> That’s called cruise missiles There's also the class of "Loitering munition", which was used to great effect in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/loitering-munitions
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by erdewit 5y ago
Yes, the internal Xiaomi apps even start playing video adds now. When flashed with LineageOS the battery lasts nearly twice as long. I also noticed that the device now feels cold to the touch, whereas before it was always ever so slightly w
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by erdewit 5y ago
The new one can be called the Samsung 970 Evo PlusMinus.
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by erdewit 5y ago
> The sounds easiest to identify were a castanet, a percussion instrument, and short clicks. Not coincidentally, this is exactly the type of music where lossy encodings such as MP3, Ogg or AAC fail.
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by erdewit 5y ago
> FBI say blast consistent with 552 tonnes of chemicals Seems unlikely that this estimate can have three digits of precision, which begs the question what the real margin of error is.
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by erdewit 5y ago
These UAPs love to troll US Navy pilots but seem otherwise not at all interested in communicating.
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by erdewit 5y ago
From the article: > Analysis of samples from the patient showed that the virus evolved rapidly after the plasma therapy, developing mutations that changed how it could infect cells and resist antibodies. Seems to be that the plasma thera
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by erdewit 5y ago
He's adding sugar, I think that's cheating since you can quickly caramelize anything that way. The result is basically steamed onions with butter/caramel sauce - very different from simmering in butter for a long time. What I
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by erdewit 5y ago
Also, the article mentions that the introns - the "junk" DNA around the DNA that encodes the actual protein - is 95% similar.
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by erdewit 5y ago
I've read recently that it may have been her daughter that took over her identity.
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by erdewit 5y ago
Some photos look exactly like Battlefield - Operation Metro.
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by erdewit 6y ago
Was wondering the same thing. PyPy can do wonders for other asyncio-based frameworks.
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by erdewit 6y ago
For Fedora 32 and 33 it seems to be already fixed: >>> repr(x) "<cparam 'd' (1e+300)>"
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by erdewit 6y ago
Most seed-based oils contain a lot of linoleic acid, for example sunflower oil has 65%. It is an essential fatty acid, but the average consumption nowadays is way too high. It oxidizes easily which leads to health problems when too much of
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by erdewit 6y ago
> Carbon dioxide can of itself reduce human cognitive capability That seems to be only when the CO2 concentration is raised abruptly. After that the body compensates. For example, submarine crews operate perfectly fine in an atmosphere o
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by erdewit 6y ago
It's a pretty big coincidence that most memory runs at the required Wi-Fi frequency of 2.4 GHz (overclocked or not).
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by erdewit 6y ago
Phoronix did a similar set of benchmarks with comparable results. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=apple-ma...
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by erdewit 6y ago
According to the story it's not about jamming the sonar but giving of a warning that the moth is toxic. Sort of the acoustic equivalent of bright colors that some toxic animals have.
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by erdewit 6y ago
The mushrooms produce vitamin D2 though, not D3.
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by erdewit 6y ago
> 82.5 % of participants in the Intervention group survived COVID-19, compared to only 44.4 % in the Comparator group So the intervention with vitamin D3 slashes the death rate from 55.6% to 17.5%, that's by a factor of over 3, or s
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by erdewit 6y ago
UV radiation from the sun also effects the taste; It brings out the 'nightshade' flavor.
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by erdewit 6y ago
Here's some Soviet kids doing that, gathering around a mercury lamp: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=soviet+uv+lamp&t=brave&iar=images&...
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by erdewit 6y ago
I used to get gigabytes of logfiles from the SSH probes, but that has stopped since moving the port. That was the only reason for moving.
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by erdewit 6y ago
I had to use 4k@30 Hz for the past week (waiting on a USB-C to DisplayPort cable to replace HDMI) and actually gotten used to it. Turning off animations and smooth scrolling helps.
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by erdewit 6y ago
async def process(): time.sleep(JOB_DURATION) # simulate CPU time This is synchronous (blocking) code, so if that is scheduled all at once that will block the event loop and make the heartbeat late. It's first come fi
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by erdewit 6y ago
One other gotcha with asynio.gather is that is that it starts the awaitables in a random order.
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by erdewit 6y ago
Replacing str(i) with the f-string f'{i}' lets it run about 2x faster.
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by erdewit 7y ago
Yes, sucralose is chlorinated sucrose (table sugar). If the structural formula looks like a pesticide it might be better to not ingest it.
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by erdewit 7y ago
For KDE on X11, enabling the display compositor also seems to resolve screen tearing.
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by erdewit 7y ago
For push-type events there is eventkit: https://github.com/erdewit/eventkit (I'm the author).

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