mirimir

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   by mirimir 7y ago

   Ah, you can paste. I pasted ~6000 words of "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, ..." in hardcore mode, before I gave up.
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   by mirimir 7y ago

   In '89, I was on DOS. It was unstable.
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   by mirimir 7y ago

   Hey, thanks! I didn't know that ¶ is a pilcro. But yeah, you can edit the format on one little paragraph, and the entire document format changes. I do understand that one should define styles for documents, but I've never had the
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   by mirimir 7y ago

   So do I. Also the habit of saving multiple copies, as a revision history. Because Word occasionally wrote garbage to files, while crashing.
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   by mirimir 7y ago

   I suppose that it could create a blog from whatever people type ;)
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   by mirimir 7y ago

   Damn. I was almost going to guess that. One of my clients was still using WordPerfect for DOS in the late 90s. They didn't want to deal with the retraining cost for secretaries and paralegals. I always did like WordPerfect much more th
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   by mirimir 7y ago

   What a trip. I've never done anything that visually elaborate. But I have created data visualizations, using conditionally colored cells in large arrays.
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   by mirimir 7y ago

   Huh? What dangerous userbase did it have?
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   by mirimir 7y ago

   This reminds me of early versions of Microsoft Word. Edit: And more generally, DOS, FAT and CHKDSK. You never knew, when there was a power interruption -- or when the system just crashed for whatever mysterious reason -- just how bad it wou
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    Funny. NoScript blocks this link as XSS.
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    It's appalling how much many containers (plastic, waxed paper, and multiple-layer) and how much packaging we go through every week. We get some bulk food from the local coop. And in the summer, we buy from farmers' markets. But th
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    Maybe it's just my biology training, but that was obvious to me decades ago. I mean, why should humans be different from other mammals, regarding such a basic thing? It's also part of why I never wanted kids. That, and the threat
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    I appreciate that many sex workers don't dress like streetwalkers, or sex hostesses in bars, clubs, etc. I' sure that there are sex workers who dress like most people dress. Whatever the client wants. Escorts, for example. But sti
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    I wasn't aware of those caravans. And it does seem like climate change has been at least a contributing factor.
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    I did admit to being a little pedantic. But upon reflection, it's arguable that the paper would have been more interesting if they had included L-canavanine, in addition to L-arginine and three analogs with shorter cationic side chains
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    > What do online trolls guard? They guard whatever it is that they're trying to dominate :)
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    Yes, I was wrong about that. Alfalfa seeds and sprouts don't themselves use canavanine in their proteins. And yes, plants do seriously get into chemical warfare.
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    I'm not sure what you mean by "don't have these amino acids in their DNA structure". There are 64 codons that code for amino acids and start/stop signals. But there are only 20 common amino acids, so multiple codons
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    Yeah, some sprouts are ~dangerous. That is, if you're unlucky to have an immune system that got self-deselected in the "wrong" way.
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    OK, but the judge here is unlikely some expert in Scandinavian mythology. And it's pretty clear that they understand troll as someone who guards something valuable, and demands payment from those who want it. And then there's onli
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    That's a good point. And as you say, it's hard to know with closed-source stuff.
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    People who used it characterized it that way.
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    I only knew it only as the source of SQL-like data dumps. And people told me that it was more than an OS with DB2 as the default database. But maybe they were wrong.
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    Please see my reply to Sharlin.
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    Except that some sorts of life, such as some sprouting plants, do incorporate those "non-proteinogenic" amino acids into proteins. Which then screw up animals that eat them. Because they, in turn, also incorporate them into pr
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    Or fly fishing, right?
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    As is often the case with titles like this, the answer is that all life doesn't use the same 20 amino acids. For example: Akaogi et al. (2006) Role of non-protein amino acid L-canavanine in autoimmunity. Autoimmun Rev. 5(6):429-35. ht
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    > But it does not have to be this way. If a database engine is implemented as a core system service, along with simple tools to browse and modify database records, the gordian knot of system configuration files disappears. MacOS comes ve
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    OK, I see: > In Scandinavian mythology, trolls are large, ugly, unfriendly, brutish, slow-witted, anti-Christian creatures said to dwell in isolated rocks, mountains, or caves. In the movie, there are two main types of trolls: mountain t
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    by mirimir 7y ago

    Isn't a troll, regardless of what they look like, an entity that hides under bridges, and jumps out to demand a toll? That's apparently how the Court understands it.