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by retrac 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calutron_Girls
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by retrac 3y ago
Unfortunately it seems that nearly all software platforms with a dominant market share, end up degenerating to serve only one purpose: to shove advertisements and subscriptions onto you. My mother's new Windows 11 laptop's out-of-
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by retrac 3y ago
> My 12 year old can take the subway to school by himself, but ONLY if he has a phone in case he ends up in some wackadoodle situation where his train has gone express or is on another train line and he needs to call his lifeline (me!) t
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by retrac 3y ago
Asthma induced by influenza would be about right, I think. Much of this is novel, in having the ability to attribute to a specific viral cause, easily and cheaply and widely. This is new ground, new technology. Much of this was until rec
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by retrac 3y ago
> So then why do we never talk about long flu? With both RSV and influenza, infection as a baby or toddler seems to increase the likelihood of asthma in later life. Do we talk about asthma? I think it is just so ordinary, an accepted pa
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by retrac 3y ago
I cannot comprehend a position of total long COVID denial, though I have encountered it online. Every virus you can think of that causes acute illness, can cause long term or even permanent damage. Sometimes rarely, sometimes often. Even
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by retrac 3y ago
The single most expensive resource in development is the developer. I could write everything in optimized assembly, using minimal machine resources to either write my software or run it. Of course that would mean I have to run my desk lam
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by retrac 3y ago
Dark mode is fine on CRTs. They have excellent contrast; they are like OLED displays in that regard where the unlighted regions are truly not lit. CRTs have a harder time with black on white. The Mac's choice of black on white was u
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by retrac 3y ago
The reason for that is interesting, IMO. The Amiga was intended as a home computer. And in 1985, a home computer might have a TV for display, or a very fuzzy low-quality colour monitor. For some reason, yellow/orange/red/w
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by retrac 3y ago
The angry/warning caw of a crow is sometimes called scolding, I think. It has a wide range of intensity. There were many American crows around my last house. The degree to which they cawed, and in particular started up a chorus, was
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by retrac 3y ago
The Shang of early China are a good example. The oracle bone divination was highly systematized. They would ask the ancestors questions written on bones and shells, with the supposed answers forming along the cracks through the writing wh
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by retrac 3y ago
They are dehumanizing because of the relationship to the work. It is of no value to the worker. It is meaningless. And that is dehumanizing. Digging holes in a random field for 8 hours a day for minimum wage to make someone else richer i
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by retrac 3y ago
This is a common confusion with the ancients' lack of germ theory. It doesn't mean they weren't aware of the association between filth, excrement, and the concept of contamination or unhealthy influence. Miasma theory goes
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by retrac 3y ago
How much could a good lawyer with a long and distinguished career make in the private market? That's how much we should be paying our judges. If you want the best you have to at least be moderately competitive with what's on off
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by retrac 3y ago
I suspect it depends on whether you know your early Internet history. The Internet was a US research and military project at first. It was US-centric for a long time. The original top level domains are all US-centric. Walmart.ca is Walm
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by retrac 3y ago
It's probably not a valid contract, assuming a fair hearing. The scammers would not sue the victim here, most likely. They get their money from these schemes purely through fear and anxiety and vague legal threats. A simple, pay us w
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by retrac 3y ago
The evolution of altruistic behaviours is unclear. There is no single universally accepted reason. The most common argument is probably that it was selected for in the same way your genes would have a survival advantage even if you die wh
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by retrac 3y ago
Construction cost is materials + labour hours. If you put a building in a built-up populated area, stocked with construction vehicles and materials, it'll go up in a matter of days or weeks, simulated time. If you place it way out in
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by retrac 3y ago
You may like Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. [1] Fair warning: it has a rather brutal learning curve. It's somewhere between Factorio, Simcity and OpenTTD. To build an apartment building, you need prefab panels. To get pan
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by retrac 3y ago
The mental health epidemic is real enough in terms of presentation to the ER. The numbers are quite shocking. Where I live in Ontario, Canada, psychiatric emergency calls involving the police have increased about 200 - 300% over the last
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by retrac 3y ago
In terms of causes and forces, the influence of telecommunication on computing is really hard to overstate. In the Internet era, I think some might be unaware that telecommunication definitively came first, and in my view, effectively led
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by retrac 3y ago
Brassica are the same way. Turnips, cabbage, bok choi, cauliflower, mustard, rapeseed, Brussel sprouts, kale, etc. Effectively all the same species -- hybrids or cultivars of a few wild ancestors that hybridize easily.
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by retrac 3y ago
It's interesting what hypotheticals, straw men really, that we project in our minds as we read. When he said "doing nothing" I pictured a literally homeless man drifting through life. Such people can certainly "afford&
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by retrac 3y ago
Not in a literal sense. The article mentions T1 probably not because literally expecting literal T-1 service on coax, but because T-1 used to be used as a metric of bandwidth. It's 24 standard voice circuits (12 and 24 being traditi
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by retrac 3y ago
Funnily enough, you'd be hard-pressed to read cards much faster than that today. The limit was on the mechanical side, moving the cards fast enough without jamming or tearing them. The processor would have been 99% idle if reading 12
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by retrac 3y ago
I always understood the limit on tinting to be bidirectional in its safety benefit. The driver needs to see, but the driver also needs to be seen. As a pedestrian, if I can't see the driver, I don't know if they can see me. I w
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by retrac 3y ago
Elemental lead is fairly reactive - it forms a number of compounds, some of which are soluble in water. Dissolved compounds may precipitate but they don't always "fall out" simply because the elements in them are heavier. &g
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by retrac 3y ago
For the unfamiliar, Linear A was an ancient script that is associated with the Minoan civilization of the island of Crete, around 1500 - 1800 BC. The later Linear B system encodes archaic Greek, and is very similar to Linear A in glyph for
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by retrac 3y ago
Python has no standard and the language implemented by the reference compiler is a moving target. (E.g. every script in Python 2 that used print without () broke in Python 3. There were other breaking changes. Some software still depends
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by retrac 3y ago
In the era of IPv6 you can't assume that your device is implicitly firewalled for incoming connections. My smartphone currently has a public IPv6 address from my relative's home wifi network.

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