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by mjd 5mo ago
It's worse than that, it's 11 people who wore sweaters in various shades of red, orange, and pink, at some point in the past ten years. “Anthony Chavez, 79, worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory until he retired in 2017. He rep
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by mjd 5mo ago
Last time I looked into this (last week, I think) it was a big wad of nothing. The people had disappeared over a span of many years. They weren't tied to any particular program, employer, or even any particular area of study, just “u
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by mjd 6mo ago
What I want to know is, how much longer will I have to wait for my Mark Zuckerberg AI sex doll?
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by mjd 6mo ago
Arthur Clarke's “Report on Planet Three” touches on this.
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by mjd 6mo ago
Did amazon.com go bust? Seems like I heard they were still in business as of a couple of years ago at least.
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by mjd 7mo ago
Most people are more than one person.
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by mjd 7mo ago
XV was excellent, and had some features I've never seen anywhere else. For example, it had a control panel that would allow you to take part of the color space and map it uniformly to a different part of the color space, for example, t
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by mjd 7mo ago
In companies I've worked for, Sales has often come to management saying things like: * I couldn't sell our product because our competitor's has a certain feature. How soon can we have that feature? * I can't make any ne
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by mjd 7mo ago
Every company I have ever worked for has wanted to produce more better stuff to sell for more money. Some couldn't because they were resource constrained. Where are these businesses that only ever want to sell the same amount of the sa
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by mjd 7mo ago
Or it might mean they produce more valuable product and more of it and therefore need more devs to do it. If a dev produces value for the company, and then the company can automate away the least valuable part of the dev's job, the dev
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by mjd 7mo ago
If it were the latter, why would it be misspelled in the title at the top of the page?
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by mjd 7mo ago
I didn't know about this. Thanks!
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by mjd 7mo ago
Bonus trivia: unlike nearly all plants, brassicas make do without symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza
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by mjd 7mo ago
If you liked this, you will be delighted to learn about the “Triangle of U”: the common brassicas are not just tetraploid, they are Frankensteinian mashups of earlier diploid species with different numbers of chromosomes! https:/&#x2F
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by mjd 7mo ago
The article doesn't say much about what was in the library, but it does mention that it contained 10,000 thriller novels.
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by mjd 7mo ago
But you nobody can read 70k books, so what was the point? He had a library nobody knew about, full of books he hadn't read. That's not a library, it's an imitation of a library built by someone who doesn't understand wh
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by mjd 8mo ago
The filibuster isn't part of the system; it's not even part of the law. It's just part of the rules that the Senate chose for their own internal procedures.
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by mjd 8mo ago
tl;dr
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by mjd 8mo ago
I'm puzzled by this. Why hasn't there been, over the last fifty years, a huge amount of research into EM staining techniques and which materials were best under which circumstances? Edison supposedly tried 3000 different materia
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by mjd 8mo ago
It was a great theory, and I was glad to have read it. Thanks for posting!
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by mjd 8mo ago
Still not good, sorry. Before I posted the comment I had tried looking at it in reverse video, very similar to your night mode. It was a little better, but not enough for me. Update: it looks fine on my desktop computer. It's only ill
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by mjd 8mo ago
There is something here that I do not understand. The article claims that “[The tablet] is a copy of the night notebook of a Sumerian astronomer as he records the events in the sky before dawn on the 29 June 3123 BC” But radiocarbon dating
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by mjd 8mo ago
Even if you were right, your comment would have been a useless waste of time. But the article appears to be a copy of a press release from the University of Bristol from 2008. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/21
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by mjd 8mo ago
Trademark, not copyright. Legally they are very different.
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by mjd 8mo ago
I wanted to read this, but I couldn't because the text was light gray on white background.
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by mjd 9mo ago
“In an American police procedural, we would either have…” In the first minutes of the American show “Keen Eddie”, the titular character bungles a project so badly that he is exiled to London. It unfortunately lasted only one season.
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by mjd 9mo ago
Wikipedia has an article about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long_Sucker
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by mjd 9mo ago
It's just like that episode of Star Trek, where Kirk shuts down the alien computer by talking to it in Armenian!
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by mjd 9mo ago
That's also how it seemed after the Iraq invasion and the removal of Saddam Hussein. “Once we get rid of the bad guy at the top, everything in Iraq will get better.” It didn't turn out well. I hope this one turns out better.
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by mjd 9mo ago
I'm glad that someone decided to be "that guy". Putting the Euler-Mascheroni constant third the list was a very questionable choice.

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