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by wl 6y ago
At least 10.14 is supported for now. It's really frustrating to see Apple make all these poor decisions and they almost never are willing to admit their mistakes and go back. In the rare case when they do (e.g. butterfly keyboard, Mac
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by wl 6y ago
I've seen cats bond with people who don't feed them. Some cats are food motivated. Others are affection motivated. Some are both.
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by wl 6y ago
> Right now if you re-install Signal on your device, you lose all your messages. That's already a very bad user experience, but imagine how much worse it would be if you lost your entire address book in that moment as well. How abou
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by wl 6y ago
There are a few clear lines you can draw. Many institutions built their collections through a practice known as partage or division of finds. They would go to a government and offer their services as archeologists in exchange for a portion
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by wl 6y ago
It's not very complicated to know what's legal and what's not. Was it exported from the country of origin prior to 1970? Legal. Exported with the permission of the government at the time? Legal. The problem here was fraudulen
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by wl 6y ago
Some truckers use them for manipulating the trackers on their vehicles. Some of them are stupid enough to have them active when they are anywhere near an airport, which makes it far more likely they'll get caught.
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by wl 6y ago
That's not accurate. Every GPS receiver in existence uses filtering. The question is, how sharp does that filter have to be? The GPS frequencies were chosen to be away from frequencies used by transmitters that might be near GPS receiv
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by wl 6y ago
Rehnquist characterized his role as presiding over the Clinton impeachment trial by quoting from Iolanthe (A comic opera): "I did nothing in particular, and I did it very well." My impression of Roberts presiding over the Trump im
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by wl 6y ago
The already dubious legal rationale for the fairness doctrine disappeared with cable and satellite television. The internet danced on the rationale's grave. The limited broadcast spectrum that is theoretically regulated to benefit the
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by wl 6y ago
Would you characterize the Clinton impeachment trial in the same way? What do you believe the Chief Justice should have done but didn't in either or both trials?
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by wl 6y ago
The Internet Society has proven itself to be an untrustworthy steward of .org by even contemplating this now derailed sale. How can .org be put under control of a non-profit public benefit corporation with a mission restricted solely to run
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by wl 6y ago
They pioneered the knowledge based authentication approach. It was never a good one. It's now utterly broken now that they leaked everyone's information. At the very least, Equifax should be destroyed. And society would benefit mo
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by wl 6y ago
The Work Number collects payroll information from employers without informing employees that they turn around and sell that information to third parties. They mislead people by saying they don't release pay information without employee
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by wl 6y ago
Written English—especially the formal register—is a different language than the spoken English of a native speaker.
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by wl 6y ago
English has largely lost the nominative/accusative distinction with the relative/interrogative pronouns "who" and "whom." The first person personal "I" and "me" are probably next. The nom.&#
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by wl 6y ago
From what I've read here and elsewhere, they're putting everyone they would normally put on a vent on high flow. They only move to the vent when not doing so in the near term would likely result in death. That means, among other t
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by wl 6y ago
As I understand it, what's new is that it's being used under these circumstances. The ARDS algorithm would have these patients be intubated. Instead, they're putting these patients on HFC and letting them get hypoxic, reasoni
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by wl 6y ago
To contextualize why "history for atheists by an atheist historian" is a thing... > After over ten years of seeing supposed “rationalists”, most of them with no background in or even knowledge of history, using patent pseudo hi
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by wl 6y ago
I posted the following scholarly overview in response to a different comment. There are sources if you want to drill down further. https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ocw/pluginfile.php/437863/mod... The shor
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by wl 6y ago
Galen is the only source for this practice. Most scholars in the relevant areas find his claim dubious.
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by wl 6y ago
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ocw/pluginfile.php/437863/mod...
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by wl 7y ago
Single-drive NAS exists. Apple's now-discontinued Time Capsule is probably the most famous example.
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by wl 7y ago
Mediumwave AM broadcast uses the center frequency as the channel identifier, same as FM.
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by wl 7y ago
> If there is no bed, respirator... Most of the people who go on respirators die. If the health system is going to be our weapon here until the vaccine is developed, we need to find ways to manage the disease before it gets to the point
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by wl 7y ago
The audio in most movie theaters is so loud, I have to bring ear plugs. A knob on my dash that can turn it down is a superior experience.
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by wl 7y ago
I would say it's the other way around: A really good transmitting antenna is necessarily a really good receiving antenna (at least at the frequencies it's tuned for), but a purpose-built receiving antenna might make a poor transmi
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by wl 7y ago
It may not be formal English, but it's idiomic language that a native speaker would use. > Where have expresses a state rather than an event it is replaceable by the idiom have got . The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language,
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by wl 7y ago
Wireless phones transmit speech. These only transmitted CW which was used to send Morse code.
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by wl 7y ago
If I'm using a standalone camera, I don't want to be fiddling with other devices just to get geotagging working.
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by wl 7y ago
My partner has been treating COVID patients. The numbers she's seeing for COVID patients on ventilators surviving are better, but not by much.

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