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by isolli 3y ago
It's indeed a relatively recent addition, but the idea that the king would get a special move is a bit older [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castling#History
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New documents strengthen the lab leak hypothesis of Covid-19's origin(city-journal.org)
26 points by isolli 3y ago|4 comments
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An analysis of the full DEFUSE proposal on gain-of-function experiments(twitter.com)
1 points by isolli 3y ago|0 comments
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by isolli 3y ago
> I'm actually more interested in getting a good sound image. This is the goal. The best image I've ever heard was from a pair of Bang & Olufsen Beolab 5 [0], set up in their shop (due to their acoustic lens, I suspect). I
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by isolli 3y ago
As they say, and audiophile is someone who spends more on his stereo system than his records. For a music lover, it's the opposite.
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by isolli 3y ago
Thanks, very interesting! It took watching my children having to learn French numbers to realize just how difficult (and unnecessary) it was. Then you get used to it and it becomes second nature. I wonder if the added difficulty persists in
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by isolli 3y ago
Indeed, I stand corrected! I still think that "octante" was used on the trading floor, but it was more than 10 years ago, and I was not trading myself...
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by isolli 3y ago
In French banks, to avoid costly confusion, traders use the words "septante", "octante", and "nonante" in use in the French-speaking part of Belgium instead of "soixante-dix", "quatre-vingt"
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by isolli 3y ago
I couldn't tell in this case, but sometimes it is also definitely useful [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster#Lega...
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by isolli 3y ago
Surgeons don't wear masks to prevent the spread of airborne diseases. They wear them to prevent spittle going into an open wound and to protect themselves from blood splatter. If they wore masks to prevent airborne diseases, they would
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by isolli 3y ago
Civ evo [0] applies the same rules to AI and human players. It is supposed to have a very strong AI. Also, AI does not have a personality (friendly, aggressive, etc.); it just wants to win. Unfortunately, I could never bring myself to learn
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by isolli 3y ago
Fantastic! I think that I prefer their visualization to the alternatives that have been suggested here (all worth exploring, of course). I have been looking for a good tree-of-life poster for a while, so I was disappointed to read this on t
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by isolli 3y ago
In fact, the hard-working culture at SpaceX has me worried that they will slip and make a tragic mistake. (Disclosure: I have no first-hand knowledge of how the work culture there really is, only hearsay.)
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by isolli 3y ago
Another difference is that we sent Voyager traveling orthogonally to Earth's orbit. Well, not exactly, but you get the point... > Voyager 1 is now leaving the solar system, rising above the ecliptic plane at an angle of about 35 deg
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by isolli 3y ago
A lot of developers I know have moved to Firefox recently because of containers. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-firefox-contain...
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by isolli 3y ago
Why stop here? This engineer experimented with 20 wings and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Frederick_Phillips
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by isolli 3y ago
Skipping meals also helps counter jetlag. Something about not eating keeps you alert.
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by isolli 3y ago
For a second there, I genuinely thought you had a very smart dog!
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by isolli 3y ago
I once read about prodigy pianists who had mastered the technical part of their skill at age 13. But their career does not take off because few people actually want to listen to their performances (perhaps because they lack maturity). After
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Berlin Fought Soaring Rents and Lost(wsj.com)
3 points by isolli 3y ago|10 comments
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by isolli 3y ago
The same is true of pneumonia, I believe.
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by isolli 3y ago
How so?
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by isolli 3y ago
Thanks again :)
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by isolli 3y ago
It even gave me a good story to tell once, when my kids were acting out. They sat down and listened, and have mentioned it several times since.
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by isolli 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. What time was that, if I may ask?
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by isolli 3y ago
This was a good one [0]: > When men message women, women tend to respond most often to men around their own ages. But when women message men, they’re actually more likely to get a response from younger men than they are from older ones.
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by isolli 3y ago
> Interesting Sweden, who had one of the worst COVID responses That is simply not true. Sweden has one of the lowest excess mortality of the pandemic of all developed countries. Only New Zealand and Denmark appear to have done better. No
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AI Funds Don’t Like AI Stocks(bloomberg.com)
2 points by isolli 3y ago|1 comments
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In Wuhan, doctors knew the truth. They were told to keep quiet(washingtonpost.com)
41 points by isolli 3y ago|15 comments
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by isolli 3y ago
It reminds me a bit of this book, which I recommend: Algorithms to live by. [0] https://algorithmstoliveby.com/

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