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by ngvrnd 5y ago
Anecdote: tried this years ago and found the bite guard intolerable. The one I had, which looked just like the picture, was big and bulky and uncomfortable. CPAP in my experience was much less annoying. Obviously YMMV.
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by ngvrnd 5y ago
who said "Insort Geront"?
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
"slightly"???
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
neither/both
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
"what are the people like in this city?" "what are the people like in the city you come from?"
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
You know how people always say "it isn't rocket science?" Well, this is rocket science.
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
What tools are you using to measure this?
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
Isn't this just what dexwiz was saying, restated?
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
"in isolated blood cells"
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
Pocket won't let me save this link. Other links work fine... weird.
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
It's only surprising if you don't understand that this is a block universe.
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
a lowly position is a great boon
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
I thought ignorance of the law wasn't a valid defense?
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
Wait I've seen this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_Earth_(film)
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
It's more like anti-buoyancy. They put anti-gravity in scare quotes at least.
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
First job out of college was coding in BLISS for automated test equipment at Teradyne. A very interesting language with a powerful macro facility, and as others have pointed out, expression semantics for almost everything. Another quirk w
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
>>> Is there a good reason to have a class hierarchy in modern programming? rarely, but perhaps not "never".
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
Lem was a great author of real imaginative fiction. His novels shaped my world view more than any other SF author. I hope more of his stuff gets republished.
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by ngvrnd 6y ago
error/typo
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by ngvrnd 7y ago
In high school we had access to the Univac 90/70 at the local college. It supported interactive use via dial up terminals and batch jobs. There were exactly two slots in the batch queue. I wrote an assembler program which created a l
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by ngvrnd 7y ago
While I agree that the grey goo sensationalism is wrong, it would also be wrong to throw the baby out with the bathwater. First admit that single-celled life is really just very very advanced self-reproducing nano-machinery, or else explai
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by ngvrnd 7y ago
Utter nonsense. Collapse is caused by interactions between particles, humans got nothing to do with it.
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by ngvrnd 7y ago
this worked for me also.
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by ngvrnd 7y ago
Father in law (rest in peace) worked for a while at a hydrogen reduced iron plant. Basically they were baking iron in ovens filled with H2. They had UV detectors hooked up to alarms for this reason.
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by ngvrnd 7y ago
This linked article says this chip was produced to support a standard that didn't catch on. It's not surprising that it's no longer in production if this is true.
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by ngvrnd 7y ago
I imagine he meant to write "experience last in the world?"
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by ngvrnd 7y ago
I have seen some terrifyingly complicated things implemented in structured text.
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by ngvrnd 7y ago
only if they can tell.
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by ngvrnd 7y ago
Why are some things not darker when wet?
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by ngvrnd 7y ago
it's all the same photon

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