stefantalpalaru

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by stefantalpalaru 1y ago
> one of the only things that actually worked to stop people dying was the roll out of effective vaccines "A total of 913 participants were included in the final analysis. The adjusted ORs for COVID-19 infection among vaccinated ind
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by stefantalpalaru 1y ago
There are many factors - most of them economic and cultural - but it all starts with an intense maths syllabus in school, Soviet Union style. Here's the current one for 5th to 8th grade: https://www.scribd.com/document&
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by stefantalpalaru 1y ago
> Unfiltered cigarettes must be worse for smokers than filtered cigarettes. You'd think so, but no. "Cigarette filters are believed by many to reduce the health risks of smoking. This article outlines the history of the technol
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by stefantalpalaru 1y ago
From a YouTube comment: • Slopes made video on a(n alleged) scammer • Alleged scammer was mad and doxxed him • Slopes went into the alleged scammer's WhatsApp group anonymously • It's all in Spanish, so he downloaded the chat logs
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by stefantalpalaru 2y ago
The glibc manual has a section about writing a job control shell: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html...
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> cleaner energy Fusion is far from clean and unlikely to ever become economically viable: https://thebulletin.org/2017/04/fusion-reactors-not-what-the...
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> yet again shows that C should just die as a language It's a logic error. Nothing to do with the language. "now that the vma layout uses the maple tree code, we *really* don't just change vm_start and vm_end any more, and
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
https://archive.is/EXGLv
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> Romanian vocabulary likewise includes words of an unclear pre-Roman substrate language That would be the Dacian language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacian_language?useskin=vector
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> Historical connection to the land "For a more scientific take on the Jewish origin debate, recent DNA analysis of Ashkenazic Jews – a Jewish ethnic group – revealed that their maternal line is European. It has also been found that
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> It's not personal. It sure feels like it, from this end.
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> St Gall (or St Gallen) was a town that ran on talk ...and cat and dog meat: https://www.thelocal.ch/20121227/dogs-still-eaten-in-switzer...
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> false claims "This study applies Benford’s law to detect anomalies in county-level vote data for the 2020 US presidential election. Most prominent distribution violations are observed with Republican vote counts in blue states, al
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
There is a command line tool for time-based one-time passwords, if you can get the relevant key from PyPI: https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/man-oathtool.html This allows you to lose your phone without losing your ac
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> In assessing Microsoft’s reaction to DR DOS, I must think what would be own reaction if I had designed and implemented something, and someone copied my design into a distinct implementation of their own. "MS-DOS was a renamed form
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> If you have actual medical data published in journals and peer reviewed, I'd be very happy to see it, and possibly even change my opinion if it's convincing. https://gist.github.com/stefantalpalaru/b63041
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
The "banana equivalent dose" is an error that refuses to die. Based on tables that estimate the effect of various radioactive isotopes acting for 50 years, people ignoring physiology decided that the average K40 in a banana will p
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> I have one of those AC units in my apartment that sits on the floor with an outlet tube terminating at a window to pipe out hot air You might want to add an intake tube, to cool the compressor more efficiently: https://imgur
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> The carbon footprint of cows is still horrendous. A constant number of cows produce a constant amount of methane which plateaus quickly due to its very small atmospheric half-life. "Additional methane emission categories such as r
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> Furthermore, the law can be generalised to digits beyond the first Reminds me of a fun use for second digit analysis: "This study applies Benford’s law to detect anomalies in county-level vote data for the 2020 US presidential ele
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> Why is the media so eager to help the Justice Department by supplying potentially viable leads? Because journalist-activists are now part of the military-industrial complex and are fully aligned with the intelligence apparatus. > Be
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> Is NPR state funded? Yes, in part. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR?useskin=vector#Funding : "According to CPB, in 2009 11.3% of the aggregate revenues of all public radio broadcasting stations were funded f
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> if you want to understand fusion https://thebulletin.org/2017/04/fusion-reactors-not-what-the...
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by stefantalpalaru 3y ago
> They have poisoned multiple people in England over the same time frame. Did they really? https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/04/pure-ten-poi...
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by stefantalpalaru 4y ago
> You only get banned on HN for a crude antisemitic joke. I got hellbanned for writing "occupied Palestine".
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by stefantalpalaru 4y ago
"It is interesting to note that humans, uniquely among the primates so far considered, appear to have stomach pH values more akin to those of carrion feeders than to those of most carnivores and omnivores. In the absence of good data o
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by stefantalpalaru 4y ago
«GOOD Meat induces the ability for its adherent cell line to grow in suspension (“suspension adaptation”) through selective culture in the presence of bovine serum.» - https://www.fda.gov/media/166348/download Of
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by stefantalpalaru 4y ago
> From https://xkcd.com/radiation/ that is 90 bananas, 2 dental x-ray or 1/4 of a flight from NY to LA. The "banana equivalent dose" is an error that refuses to die. Based on tables that estimate the
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by stefantalpalaru 4y ago
> committing a commit hash from a foreign repository in a text file (.gitmodules) No, that file is just for submodule URL, path, branch and options. The submodule's target commit hash is stored in the superproject's ".git&
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by stefantalpalaru 4y ago
> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=... . That's a mistake. You need to always delete the command line argument cache, in case you intentionally omit arguments later: rm -f CMakeCache.txt; cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=... . > Autotool

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