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by miles 4y ago
> Former head of the US patent office Charles Duell agreed: “Everything that can be invented has been invented,” he yelled from a hole in the mud in 1899. Duell did not say that[0,1]; in fact, he said rather the opposite[2]: "In my
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by miles 4y ago
Atmospheric water generator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_water_generator This water harvester can turn desert air into drinkable water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6T3ICXWqjc Extractin
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by miles 4y ago
Another legendary wizard, Paul Graham (founder of HN), also sees fit to serve his personal page[0] purely unencrypted; "elegant protocols for a more civilized age" (apologies to Ben Kenobi). [0] http://www.paulgraham.co
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by miles 4y ago
The author, Steve Friedl (brother of Jeffrey Friedl, of regex fame[0]), is not only a wizard but also an inspiration; this article had a huge positive impact on me early in my career. Here are two other times it generated a number of commen
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by miles 4y ago
From the study: "A total of 1431 patients were enrolled in the trial from December 30, 2020, through January 28, 2022. ... The median BMI was 30 (IQR, 27 to 34)." A BMI of 30 is not overweight - it's obese[0]. The CDC declare
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by miles 4y ago
> I’ve been seeing numerous headlines suggesting that you don’t actually feel that way - in fact no one does, and everyone really wants to go back to the office. A Full Return to the Office? Does ‘Never’ Work for You? https://
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Google Executives Warn Employees About Layoffs: 'There Will Be Blood on Streets'(in.mashable.com)
6 points by miles 4y ago|2 comments
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by miles 4y ago
https://tinyapps.org/blog/202010210700_whose_computer_is_it....
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Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone(bloomberg.com)
115 points by miles 4y ago|83 comments
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by miles 4y ago
> Love your work BTW! Thanks so much - glad to hear that it is of some small use to someone other than just myself!
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by miles 4y ago
My apologies, the links have not been updated since 2018, though the principle/method still stands. A cursory search turned up this current link (the price has gone down to $237.99): https://www.cdw.com/product/win
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by miles 4y ago
https://tinyapps.org/blog/201811300700_windows_10_ltsc.html
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by miles 4y ago
Sorry about that, Tom; the blog is perhaps not quite so universally loved ;-). Over the past few decades, I've certainly received a number of spicy missives from across the political and ideological divide. One of the best things about
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by miles 4y ago
Love Blosxom! Still using it to power my senescent blog[0]. Rael Dornfest's original Perl script was later annotated separately by Frank Hecker[1] and Rob Reed[2]. (Neat side note: according to Rob, Blosxom "played a part in my de
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by miles 4y ago
> The only way to not be complicit is to not have a phone. China makes them all. Not exactly: Librem 5 USA: "The Freedom and Privacy of the Librem 5, plus Made in the USA Electronics with a Secure Supply Chain." https:/&#
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by miles 4y ago
>> Taiwan says there is only one China, and Taiwan is part of it, and the government of Taiwan is the legitimate government of China - all of it. > That's not true. "The ROC constitution, meanwhile, still claims Taiwan, C
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by miles 4y ago
Not much different really... Taiwan’s indigenous people remind Xi Jinping that it has “never belonged to China” https://qz.com/1518787/taiwans-indigenous-people-remind-xi-j... The First Nations of Taiwan: A Special Rep
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by miles 4y ago
> I understand that he received an estimated 74 mSv of radiation "The ministry said he had been exposed to about 195 millisieverts (mSv) of radiation. The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends avoiding more
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by miles 4y ago
> That's basically a judge saying it. The scientific basis is very unclear. "In January 2015, the MHLW [Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare] compiled medical knowledge on lung cancer and radiation exposure in a report resul
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by miles 4y ago
> While Chernobyl killed people from radiation (around 50, with a hotly debated number between 0 and 4000 from long term effects), TMI and Fukushima did not. Japan confirms first Fukushima worker death from radiation https://w
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by miles 4y ago
> Which papers did the CDC rep cite in her speech? Dr. Walensky is much more than a CDC "rep"; she is[1] "an American physician-scientist who is the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the admini
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by miles 4y ago
The platonic ideal once existed: NewMogul https://web.archive.org/web/20090531210722/http://www.newmog... Nickb's very own New Mogul: business, leadership, management and financial news.arc https:&
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by miles 4y ago
Here is someone who should certainly know what they're talking about: CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, March 29, 2021: "[O]ur data from the CDC today suggests, um, you know, that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don&#x
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by miles 4y ago
> and get to bank their billions. The only billions Uber has is in losses: 2022: Uber lost $6 billion to start the year, but reports a rebound in ride-hailing and no issues with driver supply https://www.marketwatch.com/s
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by miles 4y ago
> It the bullshit echochamber of journalists and politicians that ended up defining the vaccine “working” as stopping transmissions, rather than serious cases. But that was not a claim from the manufacturers of the vaccines. Pfizer state
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by miles 4y ago
> Remember these vaccines are more intended to reduce the severity of the virus. People could be forgiven for thinking otherwise: https://tinyapps.org/blog/202201040700_gaslighting.html
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by miles 4y ago
Apple admitted the service manual was theirs: https://gizmodo.com/thermal-greasy-apple-sics-lawyers-on-som... "After a Something Awful denizen took apart his MacBook Pro and discovered that Apple had slathered on far t
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by miles 4y ago
> claimed (with no evidence whatsoever) to be from the repair manual showing wildly inappropriate levels of thermal paste being applied. ... the factory instructions wouldn't be in English The claim was for the service manual, not
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by miles 4y ago
Glad to see Maildir support hasn't fallen off the map: https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap#maildir > Maildir is a message storage format that should improve data safety, allow for incremental (de
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Apple’s Mac team gets a lot less attention than before (2016)(arstechnica.com)
5 points by miles 4y ago|2 comments

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