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hfo
3y ago
> Zotero was key to finish my long delayed thesis, reducing the toil of managing a lot of references on a topic that I disliked more and more by the minute. Exactly the same for me, I'm forever grateful.
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hfo
3y ago
It worked, I checked out what that browser is.
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hfo
3y ago
Physician here with ER experience (and IT too). I think it's quite realistic, except the relatives being in the ER room, giving orders to nurses. But that might be different in other hospitals and countries. The reason for the edema is
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hfo
3y ago
Thanks, I was about to ask, good thing I searched first!
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3y ago
I don't get it, can someone explain what is going on here?
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4y ago
Mine was the Atari 800XL. Atari Basic hadn't PEEK and POKE as the C64 (though something similar which I can't remember right now), but some more possibilities to switch graphic modes and plot things. But I never learned how the ma
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hfo
4y ago
For anyone interested in the great pyramid, here is a book recommendation (free), IMHO it surpasses even the gold standard "Maragioglio and Rinaldi" (M&R). Unfortunately on that horrible academia.edu site: https://
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hfo
4y ago
> but it's pretty clear it served /some/ purpose. One would think the sarcophagus in the center would give away what that purpose could have been...
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4y ago
EDIT: I was wrong, it's all there. Amazing! Also missing: The horizontal passage, the queens chamber, the descending passage, the lower chamber and the passage to the relieving chambers of the kings chamber. They're all not acces
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4y ago
They have. It's a few levels higher. The robbers tunnel is easier to reach from the ground, so it became the main entrance for visitors for centuries now.
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4y ago
The floor of the entrance is exactly at the right height, a little to the right of a crucial element to get access to the upper chambers: The crossing between the ascending and descending passage. This is where the ascending passage was blo
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4y ago
> For what historians claim to be a monument, there's not a single hieroglyphic that I saw. It's the pyramid of Khufu, 2nd king of the 4th dynasty. None of the pyramids of the 4th dynasty have hieroglyphs. That slowly came into