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by nope96 4y ago
A third party seller did, not Walmart.. However, Walmart itself did recently sell me an OEM 'not for resale' labeled hard drive, so there is some strangeness going on in their warehouse just like at Amazon
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by nope96 4y ago
Not ACH, but the ACATS system (transfer securities between brokerages) has recently seen a number of thefts. It seems like a horribly insecure system. If a scammer knows you own stocks, and can impersonate you, they can set up an account at
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by nope96 4y ago
> But they are nowhere near as prevalent as otherwise reputable publications claim. So the CDC is just junk science? Nearly One in Five American Adults Who Have Had COVID-19 Still Have “Long COVID” https://www.cdc.gov/nch
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Could long Covid be linked to herpes viruses? Early data offer a hint(nature.com)
79 points by nope96 4y ago|64 comments
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Science Denial, Overconfidence, and Persuasion(sciencebasedmedicine.org)
3 points by nope96 4y ago|0 comments
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by nope96 4y ago
34,423 subscribers: https://old.reddit.com/r/covidlonghaulers/ I wonder if some % of the population can be extrapolated from that
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Furcadia(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by nope96 4y ago|0 comments
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by nope96 4y ago
But not really a pythonic syntax. Reminds me more of ruby? i.e.: > 2.times! do!:
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by nope96 4y ago
Isn't 22 C == 71.6° Fahrenheit ? That sounds like standard room temperature, not cold
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Supreme Court Denies Coinbase Request to Intervene in Lawsuits(pymnts.com)
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by nope96 4y ago
It's a p2p mesh network. Lots of people open channels to lots of other people, payments are routed over the network.
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by nope96 4y ago
I know Crypto is scam-city, but the Lightning Network on top of Bitcoin is the "real deal". There are some brilliant people working on it like Linux guru Rusty Russell and Olaoluwa Osuntokun, who have come up with some amazing wor
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by nope96 4y ago
How does a stuffed animal toy manage to contain lead?
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by nope96 4y ago
> I somewhat don’t trust “cloud” providers and would avoid them as much as I can since my paranoid level is kinda high. Syncthing has a new untrusted feature, which sends encrypted blobs to the nodes you set as being "untrusted&quot
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by nope96 4y ago
There is a fantastic windows clone of XTree that has been around forever... still updated https://www.ztree.com/html/ztreewin.htm
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by nope96 4y ago
Ah, maybe this is how Snowpiercer drives itself! (A sci-fi show where the only remaining humans live on a train that circles the world, they never explain how the train has infinite fuel.)
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by nope96 4y ago
Previously posted: Use Turbo Modula-2 Instead of Turbo Pascal Under CP/M? (2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16704733 [2018, 21 comments] Also interesting: Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice for Programming Under CP
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If only Borland had stuck with Turbo Modula-2 for CP/M (2013)(techtinkering.com)
133 points by nope96 4y ago|88 comments
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by nope96 4y ago
Also needs a clear/restart button, I randomly started clicking things and now I'm stuck with a confusing jumble of letters.
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by nope96 4y ago
> Buy a compiler book and start reading! so what's a good first book for a 15 year old to pick up?
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by nope96 4y ago
ECC RAM, yay! I've read so many posts like this where they did NOT use ECC RAM.
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by nope96 4y ago
https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/
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by nope96 4y ago
Yeah, this was actually one of the exercises I was shown, but it was explained that a key part was that I did NOT use certain muscles while doing it. I don't remember exactly - but the idea was, if you could feel them bulge in the fron
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by nope96 4y ago
Sort of. I'm not sure what muscles were being targeted, but I went to two different physical therapists who both showed me the same set of exercises. I did not see any improvement, (the second time things briefly got worse), but I admi
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by nope96 4y ago
I've found some neat, mint quality 1980's computer books just like these in furniture stores, where they fill the floor model bookcases with old books.
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by nope96 4y ago
I ended up with a devastating sudden neck injury that seemed computer related. Had noticed when I'd go to turn my neck, occasionally it would not actually turn, and I'd hear a 'crunch' noise. No pain. One day, it did hur
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by nope96 4y ago
Found out about Tetr.io from this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29728892 Instantly got addicted, and I was amazed to see how good everyone is. 14 year old me with my gameboy would have been stunned at how
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by nope96 4y ago
Are there reasons I'd use this over LibreOffice?
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by nope96 4y ago
like https://everything2.com/ ?
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by nope96 4y ago
I first heard of the pistol shrimp a few days ago when I read the makers of Star Control 2 have formed a company, called Pistol Shrimp games ( https://pistolshrimpgames.com ), to make a Star Control sequel (technically "UQM&q

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