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by nick__m 1y ago
Radon, a perfectly natural source of radiation, cause more cancer than all the other nuclear sources combined. Stop it with the nuclear fear mongering!
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by nick__m 1y ago
outdoor cat's are an invasive species, they put unatural pressure on birds population so I hate them !
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by nick__m 1y ago
it a safety mesure, the ground coud potentially act as a really crappy antenna but if the foil is touching something conducting on the modem and there is a malfunction, you want that current to go somewhere and the ground is that place.
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by nick__m 1y ago
If you cannot disable it and you don't trust the wifi but need the service, wrap the isp provided box it in aluminum foil and ground that foil ( no need to try to solder on the foil, an alligator clip is more practical), the wifi will
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by nick__m 1y ago
how do you know which is better? Well you try the generic first, if it's does what it says on the tin, you continue the generic! Antibiotics, pain killer, antidepressants are usually not problematic. Hopefully, the doctor w
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by nick__m 1y ago
thank you, that's an incredible paper ! This statement in the introduction applies to so many things in CS: I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of progra
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by nick__m 1y ago
here in Canada the active ingredient must be identical in identical quantity but the binding agents, excipient, and propellant are proprietary. The generics have to have the same bioavailability +-20%.In some drugs it doesn't matter,
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by nick__m 1y ago
Happy that my clumsy writing brought you joy !
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by nick__m 1y ago
I received Ketorolac after a tooth replacement (airbags packs a good punch) and it was more effective than the 5mg baby sized morphine pills they prescribe nowadays. It's a NSAIDs but it's not to hard on the stomach but it's
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by nick__m 1y ago
Some people pratice self-mutilation to relief their depression. 20 something years ago I frequented a girl who was full of scars under her clothes, she was pretty good at finding plausible excuses for the scars (plausible to a 20yr old igno
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by nick__m 1y ago
Powerful tools that would not exist otherwise !
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by nick__m 1y ago
And somewhat surprisingly the heat death of the universe is the maximal entropy state. Because there are an infinite number of microstates (all the particles are interchangeable) that lead to the same macrostate: nothing happening for ever!
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by nick__m 1y ago
English is not my native language yet I love pun and joke in doc. If those hypothetical developers are wasting time on this, maybe they should just get better at English because there are important nuances that will fly over theirs head.
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by nick__m 1y ago
For lessening the effect of traumatizing experience, 40mg of propranolol an hour before remembering and visualizing the traumatic, under guidance of a therapist, should be the gold standard for treatment. There a lot's of researchs sho
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by nick__m 1y ago
A colleague did this to me some years ago, he thanked me for the mentorship and confidence I gave him that enabled him to apply for a better paying job title. It felt like rays of sunshine that came at a time were I particularly needed some
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by nick__m 1y ago
Do you see any curative Parkison (not even reversing the damage but stopping it) treatment being available in the next few years ?
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by nick__m 1y ago
Calc was not a great alternative to Desktop Excel but maybe it's better now, my opinion is 8 major version behind. But I remember that in v17 the array functions were a pale imitation of what's possible in Excel. I also find that
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by nick__m 1y ago
Incomplete combustion is much worse, no question there. But burning in facility design for that is really clean. Climate change won't destroy life on earth, the very worst case according to the IPCC is a billion death by 2099 but natur
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by nick__m 1y ago
After reading the article, that company name takes a whole new meaning. I use to think it meant "we are maniacal about computing" (informatique in French), now I suppose it means: "we are maniac hoarder of metadata"
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by nick__m 1y ago
unless society as a whole embraces that we’re all unhealthy and we’re all flawed, but at that point perhaps things become too flexible and very bad things happen. What bad things do you see happening? I see that as a good thing, we
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by nick__m 1y ago
Developmental prosopagnosia affect as many as 2.5% of the population and it's on an continuum¹ 1- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5398751/
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by nick__m 1y ago
You cannot have use-after-free if you never call free, so there are no points at which memory should not be touched. That's the beauty of the never free memory management strategy.
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Growing Kiwis in Fukushima(japantoday.com)
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by nick__m 1y ago
Try this https://www.spreeder.com/app.php I am sure that the default 300WPM will be easy.
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by nick__m 1y ago
The demands from the lunatic fringe of a mouvement should be completely ignored. "Positive" racial segregation is still racial segregation and racial segregation is racism; unlike positive discrimination, there are no intellectual
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by nick__m 1y ago
It's still that way in Québec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Day_(Quebec)
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by nick__m 1y ago
I parsed that as: one day, you will have to use the zoom too.
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by nick__m 1y ago
Your approach is safer for sure and doesn't require me the read the JLS before going to see my mother for mother's day, so it's doubly better !
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by nick__m 1y ago
hack was created at meta for meta...
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by nick__m 1y ago
It's possible to recover enough to cleanly save the user work and shutdown. You have to mesure of much memory you need for a clean shutdown and allocate a byte[sizeForShutdown] at the start of the application in the top level exception

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