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by nabbed 7d ago
I loved, loved, loved this show when I was a kid (I saw it as a syndicated show in the US around 1971, I am guessing). Yes, the soundtrack was the hook: I came for the (at the time) great theme song, but I stayed for the mystery of the UFO
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by nabbed 15d ago
It left a temporary spot in my vision after I scrolled it away.
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by nabbed 15d ago
Here! Here! This always annoys me. My company hired a bunch of older programmers to fix many Y2K problems in our legacy but critical systems. Even the (then) new-fangled thing I was working on needed some amount of Y2K work, which I did mys
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by nabbed 17d ago
Ha! Me too. I have first.last@gmail.com, which means firstlast@gmail.com (without the dot) also maps to my email account. (first and last are placeholders for my actual name, of course). I get lots of stuff intended for other people (includ
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by nabbed 21d ago
Might be a temporary rescission, though: 'the Pentagon said that the document, titled “Clinical Guidance for Health and Human Performance Optimization,” had been temporarily rescinded on September 3 to allow for updates.'
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by nabbed 25d ago
The article also hints at throwing Taiwan under the bus to get China to withdraw support from Iran: "The counter-trade is Taiwan. Beijing has wanted a public American recalibration on Taiwan for two decades. "
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by nabbed 1mo ago
At this point the American people have no additional say, except indirectly through congress. Barring an impeachment with a successful conviction (extremely unlikely without a blowout loss for the republicans in November), the man will &quo
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by nabbed 1mo ago
>He’s in for a surprise. I guess this went over my head.
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Her Brain Was Broken. It Was Fixed with Sound–Not a Scalpel(wired.com)
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by nabbed 2mo ago
I responded to an ad in the newspaper for a C programming job way back in mid-1980s. The team that posted the ad was not impressed with my resume, but they sent it on to a different team within the same company. That team hired me and I sta
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>And then it all went bad. The Daily Telegraph, following up on biographical discrepancy in a BBC documentary, uncovered proof that Patrick O’Brian…was not Patrick O’Brian. About 15 years ago, I decided to know as little as possible abou
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The diabolical world of convincing AI thirst traps(vox.com)
15 points by nabbed 2mo ago|6 comments
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by nabbed 2mo ago
After several interviews with a big telecommunications company, I got a verbal job offer from the recruiter over the phone. I accepted. They said the formal job offer would be coming in the next week or so. I never received the formal job o
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>it was a Finance company so people suddenly not coming in the next day was a thing. Oh, I'd love to know why this is a thing. I did work for a mutual fund company for 18 months, one of those companies where the title Vice President
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The Hair-Dryer Incident Is Just the Start(theatlantic.com)
3 points by nabbed 2mo ago|1 comments
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by nabbed 2mo ago
https://archive.md/eGGxu
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by nabbed 2mo ago
Doctors blamed my first afib episode on dehydration. I had been very sick, could not eat or drink for days, and just experienced the highest fever of my adult life, nearly 105F. A few hours after the fever finally broke, I went into afib. A
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I have paroxysmal afib. After my third episode, the doctor told me to quit consuming caffeine. Before quitting caffeine, I had an episode every 2 years. After quitting caffeine, I had an episode every 2 years. So I believe the statement tha
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by nabbed 2mo ago
>Interestingly there is no mention of semantics or what does actually "TV watching" mean. Also, is one watching "The Real Housewives of <place name>" on Bravo or an author interview on CSPAN.
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by nabbed 2mo ago
Not sure myself. There's more variety of content on youtube, whereas I think TV sometimes caters to lowest common denominator (although that's less the case in the era of streaming: TV is much higher quality than it was when this
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by nabbed 2mo ago
I didn't pick up on it. I see this often: comments on HN remarking that something is AI generated, yet it's not obvious to me. Makes me worry that I am an LLM myself[1]. I've seen lot of bizarre, hard to understand or weirdly
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by nabbed 2mo ago
I watch (or listen to) a lot of youtube on my iPad (and sometimes on my TV, but not too often). I wonder if youtube watching is also correlated with the mentioned brain changes.
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by nabbed 2mo ago
>The results indicate a correlation, not necessarily causation Just to drive that home, "Study participants also did not undergo a baseline MRI", which of course could mean that they already had some of these brain changes, whi
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by nabbed 2mo ago
Kobayashi Maru :)
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Article reprinted by Yahoo here: https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/clue-night-mh370...
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A New Clue from the Night MH370 Vanished May Change the Search(popularmechanics.com)
5 points by nabbed 2mo ago|2 comments
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by nabbed 2mo ago
I did the same. Maybe the cookie banner was the CAPTCHA in question ;).
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by nabbed 2mo ago
One reason I didn't finish the article is because it said "Join Slate Plus to access this article."
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What housing in America could look like in 50 years(vox.com)
4 points by nabbed 3mo ago|3 comments
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https://archive.md/nnxs6 The article seems to change its title from time to time. The above is the title I saw when I last checked the actual link (the archived version has a different title). A few interesting tidbits: &qu

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