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by virgulino 3y ago
Mel Brooks explains how he came up with "Hedley" Lamarr https://youtu.be/ZEQ3OxYL2Co
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by virgulino 3y ago
I've been taking the "blockbuster drug", Humira/Adalimumab, for more than 10 years. Humira alone is estimated to have generated US$200 billion in profits for a single company. Its history, its legal and commercial maneuv
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by virgulino 3y ago
Obligatory reference to The Floppotron: https://youtu.be/kCCXRerqaJI
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by virgulino 3y ago
For a deep technical dive into the architecture of Windows NT 3.1, I highly recommend the book "Inside Windows NT", the very first edition, by Helen Custer. She had extensive access to the development team, including key architect
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by virgulino 3y ago
Nature video: https://youtu.be/pq53uCDZelQ UZH video: https://youtu.be/fBiataDpGIo
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AMD Ryzen APU turned into a 16GB VRAM GPU and it can run Stable Diffusion(old.reddit.com)
172 points by virgulino 3y ago|59 comments
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by virgulino 3y ago
All generations of the MSX home computer were based on the Z80. Until the last one, the MSX Turbo-R, when ASCII Corporation designed the R800, a CPU derived from the Z800. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R800
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Brazil central bank names its digital currency DREX, scheduled for 2024 launch(reuters.com)
5 points by virgulino 3y ago|0 comments
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by virgulino 3y ago
My Brazilian 8-bit MSX back in the 80s, by default, emitted the sound of a typewriter, through the TV speakers, for every key pressed! tek-tek-tek...
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by virgulino 3y ago
A long time ago I developed a simple SNMP tool in C++. The ASN.1 BER encoder/decoder was very annoying to develop. A very bizarre specification. If GPT can help a lot in a case like that, I'm very impressed and see great value in
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by virgulino 3y ago
Back in the days of Turbo Pascal 5.5 I had a secondary monitor, a monochrome orange phosphor, connected to an EGA card, I think. The main screen was VGA. Two monitors provided a huge productivity gain, with common and cheap hardware, and it
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by virgulino 3y ago
Florianópolis is a peculiar little island. It has gotten much bigger and trendier in this millennium.[1] But it is still the island of witches and other supernatural creatures.[2] As a dinosaur from the 8-bit era, I appreciate and resent bo
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by virgulino 3y ago
Now four.
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by virgulino 3y ago
The growing pain of messing up the right click on links, is what it is!
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by virgulino 3y ago
Just as Excel carried the Lotus 123 bugs. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
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by virgulino 3y ago
As far as I know, the main ecological problem is its veterinary use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diclofenac#As_a_veterinary_dru...
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by virgulino 3y ago
I have been taking diclofenac every day for more than 10 years. It is not an uncommon medicine here in Brazil.
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by virgulino 3y ago
"UK PhD Research: Books Babies and Bonding - The impact of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library on parental engagement in book-sharing and on child development from 0-5 years old." https://youtu.be/pKU5kqKypY4
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by virgulino 3y ago
Absolutely YES! They were Big here in Brazil. Alphaville too.
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by virgulino 3y ago
>To be a genius artist like him in the Soviet Union meant privileges unheard for art film directors in Europe (let alone US), eg see the wheat field thing above. It also meant you’re at the mercy of the “masses”. It also meant being at t
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by virgulino 3y ago
May be of interest: "Behind the Yugoslav art movement that predicted the birth of digital art". Five international exhibitions (named New Tendencies) between 1961 and 1973 in communist Zagreb. https://www.new-east-archi
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by virgulino 3y ago
Uh. I shudder to remember all the problems I had with 10Base2. And the electric shocks. I think I still have PTSD from all the electroshocks.
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by virgulino 3y ago
I bet the governor had enough on his plate managing the Brittunculi . 8-)
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by virgulino 3y ago
The Romans built a wall (the Great Pict Wall) bisecting Britain because they were so afraid of the Picts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall
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Timing matters for Covid vaccine effectiveness(nature.com)
2 points by virgulino 3y ago|0 comments
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by virgulino 3y ago
I loved your username "spondylosaurus", it made me laugh, thank you. I wish you well too. Cheers!
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by virgulino 3y ago
I started with a diagnosis of reactive arthritis (still called Reiter's Syndrome at the time), after an intestinal infection. After 10 years of feeling fine and unmedicated, but with occasional flare-ups, I suddenly went downhill and m
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by virgulino 3y ago
Ankylosing Spondylitis is a closely related disease, treated with the same anti-TNF biological drugs. There is 30 years of contradictory research on the association of the disease with the bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae. So far, it has come
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by virgulino 4y ago
I am pretty sure that ID is not required, but they ask for it, so that they can access and update your medical records.
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by virgulino 4y ago
Brazil here. A few years ago, my wife was bitten by a dog. We simply went to the neighborhood free healthcare clinic, the standard entry point to our free universal healthcare system. After a very short wait they cleaned the wound and admin

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