isolli

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   by isolli 10mo ago

   There is a semantic one.
2. 62.▲
   by isolli 10mo ago

   Cortana! I had forgotten that name...
3. 63.▲
   by isolli 10mo ago

   Wiping out shareholders. I bet shareholders would be a lot more cautious if that was an option.
4. 64.▲
   by isolli 10mo ago

   We already know about social media companies (allegedly, at least): > Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege [0] > In a 2020 research project code-named “Project Mercury,” Meta scientists
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   Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication(lemonde.fr)

   308 points by isolli 10mo ago|279 comments
6. 66.▲
   by isolli 10mo ago

   Is this the way it is usually prescribed, a small dose every few days?
7. 67.▲
   by isolli 10mo ago

   You're confusing mean and median.
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   How AI is rewiring childhood: Dazzling opportunities and ominous risks(economist.com)

   2 points by isolli 10mo ago|0 comments
9. 69.▲
   by isolli 10mo ago

   Time to bring up a pet peeve of mine: we should change the definition of a moon. It's not right to call a 1km-wide rock orbiting millions of miles from Jupiter a moon.
10. 70.▲
    by isolli 11mo ago

    I recently came to realize the same things about physics. Even physicists find it hard to develop an intuitive mental picture of how space-time folds or what a photon is.
11. 71.▲
    by isolli 11mo ago

    "EU vehicle safety regulations have supported a 36% reduction in European road deaths since 2010. By contrast, road deaths in the US over the same period increased 30%, with pedestrian deaths up 80% and cyclist deaths up 50%." Eve
12. 72.▲
    by isolli 11mo ago

    Also a testament to their foresight that it managed to send back useful data decades after the end of the mission, for instance when it crossed the heliosphere.
13. 73.▲
    by isolli 11mo ago

    Or seaborn. It was built exactly for this purpose: abstracting some of the annoying kinks of matplotlib while still offering a rich set of features. https://seaborn.pydata.org/tutorial/introduction.html
14. 74.▲
    by isolli 11mo ago

    We're built on so many layers of emergence, it's wild! quantum particles => atoms => chemistry => biochemistry => cellular life => multi-cellular life => intelligence
15. 75.▲
    by isolli 11mo ago

    Isn't everything descriptions, in the end, aka models? Turtles all the way down...
16. 76.▲
    by isolli 11mo ago

    Only tangentially related, but I was greatly disappointed when I learned that iPhones cannot read contact information from an NFC chip. I help my son program the chip, and then we realized that a significant fraction of the population would
17. 77.▲
    by isolli 11mo ago

    Because, to my knowledge, it's not included anywhere in Europe. A quick search seems to show that Australia would be the only country to do so. Thanks for the info!
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    by isolli 11mo ago

    I wonder what the reasoning can be to ban Twitch and TikTok but not YouTube. Because I highly doubt that YouTube will ever be banned. Yet YouTube has shorts and a devilish algorithm, just like TikTok.
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    by isolli 11mo ago

    Whiplash warning: seeing the portal in the video just threw me back 30 years!
20. 80.▲
    by isolli 11mo ago

    It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: "You never finish, you give up." It was said speaking of art, but it could also apply to software projects :)
21. 81.▲
    by isolli 11mo ago

    Fair point, but respecting the page's own title would have been better and avoided much confusion (just look at the comments here): "Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads"
22. 82.▲
    by isolli 1y ago

    I've always wondered why we enjoy eating fish predators, but not animal predators...
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    Porn's War on Civilization(cafeamericainmag.com)

    7 points by isolli 1y ago|0 comments
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    by isolli 1y ago

    Mine was automatically set to Celsius ;)
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    by isolli 1y ago

    For the sake of completeness, I would also mention: - Suunto (20 to 30 days in smartwatch mode for the Verticals, optional solar charging, flashlight on the Vertical 2) - Coros (2 to 3 weeks depending on the model), no flashlight - Withings
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    by isolli 1y ago

    Thanks, I learned something today. If Wikipedia is to be believed: > He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom (the "Jacquard loom"), which in turn played an important role in the developm
27. 87.▲
    by isolli 1y ago

    In fact, this inspired me to buy such a book for my 9-yo son! They've grown in size, apparently (250-300 pages). Let's see how, in the age of omnipresent screens, he likes it :)
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    by isolli 1y ago

    Thanks for sharing. This part resonated :) "Today, it’s all too easy to see all of the limitations and infelicities of The Cave of Time and its successors: a book of 115 pages that had, as it proudly trumpeted on the cover, 40 possible
29. 89.▲
    by isolli 1y ago

    I agree it's odd, and I've tried to fix this problem for a long time before giving up... While we're at it, I wish there was a 30 minutes option! There are many situations where 15 minutes is too short, and 1 hour is too long
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    by isolli 1y ago

    That's how my children's iPads are too. Permanent downtime, with a few always allowed apps, and the rest on demand. And indeed, the most frustrating part is when my daughter needs to do some research for school. I'd have to a