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AT&T ksh93 is being actively developed(github.com)
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by swingline-747 8y ago
In the 90's, MIT researchers suggested a 600 mph hypercane were hypothetically-possible if large areas of seawater were heated to around 120 F / 50 C, such as after a massive volcanic erruption or asteroid impact. http:/&#x2
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Having experienced vestibular dysregulation, which included rapid, transient vertigo, headache, delirium and nausea upon moving one's eye too fast, I would suspect it's related to genes or epigenetics of the vestibular system.
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We still don’t understand motion sickness(qz.com)
69 points by swingline-747 8y ago|32 comments
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Not on a moving/bobbing/weaving/zigging/zagging carrier, but here's Alaskans doing what they do best... taking off and landing in ~3m / 10 ft. https://youtu.be/f7u1jzjFL8s And here's a &qu
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by swingline-747 8y ago
FlowDock is/was the best of the chat apps pre-Slack due to threading, search and tagging that worked. HipChat/Campfire were scrolling hell.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Winamp was my fav after AcidTracker. Warez/demoscene apps were usually awesome with badass visuals and music.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Davis, CA seems like a bikers' paradise until one visits the Netherlands. "Bike highways" with separation and clearly-marked routes. (Insert holy enlightment sound fx.)
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by swingline-747 8y ago
True. Not all doctors or patients exhibit these behavior patterns, but many do in my (anecdotal) experience because of the very basic healthcare I have access to. If I had zillion$, there are astronomically-better doctors whom likely trea
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Good that there are counterexamples. I have no such luxury as I'm on the fifth PCP doctor this year. I lost two within a week.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
True. Nice parallels to Martin Niemöller's famous quote.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
It's likely a first shot among many chilling-effects that will have consequences opposite to those intended. Silencing debunk-able ideological debate volunteers to hand power over Machiavellian criminals.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a really good book. Two hospital MD's independently stopped me at gym to say "that's one of the best books I've ever read." And the department chair where I worked exclaimed similarly. An
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by swingline-747 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Yup. And when fully-inculcated as socially-reinforced virtues, these lies take on a self-fulfilling, self-sustaining quality that makes them seem as unquestionable as gravity. TBH, this is likely why I have no social use for most other Amer
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Leaving permanently doesn't solve the underpayment problem. Striking and collective bargaining often does. It sucks but it's vital.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
My stepsister and her husband are on benefits in order to make ends meet because teaching special ed in America, by the signal of pay, isn't valued enough for livable recompensation.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Big pet-peeves of doctors: 1. The Academic Elitist: When they act like know-it-alls, poo-poo informed patients or any information that didn't originate from them. 2. The Thickheaded: When they don't LISTEN and go about diagnosing
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Copy-writers' job security and greater eyeball time to sell ads. Succinct or GTFO. ;)
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Hang on, I need to switch seats to clean out my left kidney. I'm surprised there's no 1950's-style fat-blaster for the modern dislodging of kidney-stones by vigorously shaking a person's midsection.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Felix Dennis called these sort of cargo-cultings "point-at-the-sky guide to success." If the billionaire points at the sky, clearly that's really, really important. sarcasm ;)
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by swingline-747 8y ago
I would suggest it's not cool, but the meta concept of status, that became the big deal. When essentially everyone became materially-comfortable in Western life circa post-WW2, society got flatter and flatter. In order to break up that
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by swingline-747 8y ago
https://www.netflix.com/title/80038199
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Og: Optimistic Golang(github.com)
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by swingline-747 8y ago
It's usually an organosulfur or mercaptan IIRC which humans can detect in PPB. I think one of the compounds is that which is used in stinkbombs. PS: Are stinkbombs still a thing in schools? Or has zero-tolerance made that a capital c
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Hey zeitgeist, bring this back. There's barely anything open past 9 pm and almost nothing with power-plugs. How is one supposed to work afterhours? At home? (yeash) There's a 24 hour cafe called Happy Donuts however it's anyt
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by swingline-747 8y ago
I can't see it either. If I had to, I'd get an used 16 GiB iPhone 6S, change the battery for $29 while it's still cheap and then flash chip-swap to 256 GiB via the usual sources. Headphone connector and undocumented water-res
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Makes one want to check out of society and get a homestead going growing your own food in rural Utah.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Fly me to the moon Let me play among the stars Let me see what spring is like on A-Jupiter and Mars In other words, hold my hand In other words, baby, kiss me I knew a guy whom took dates to buzz around th
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by swingline-747 8y ago
To give some context, rstring rep is like an expanded Pascal rep with more metadata. rstrings allow nearly free substrings if string data is immutable. IIRC this is similar to what Java uses for string-table constants (CONSTANT_Utf8_info).

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