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by wl 2y ago
The security devices on the door are easily and quickly bypassed with the specialty tools.
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by wl 2y ago
Yes, beginning in 2022 the government of the Republic of Turkey asked people to use "Türkiye" in English rather than the traditional spelling, "Turkey," which dates back to the 18th century in English or possibly earlier
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by wl 2y ago
Anecdote: I’ve got an otherwise healthy cat who requires an appetite stimulant to stay at a healthy weight.
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by wl 2y ago
The slot in question is not a slot for a part 15 WiFi card. It's a slot for a cellular modem, complete with pins going to a SIM slot. There's FCC complications with that that go beyond the standard part 15 rules. You're also
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by wl 2y ago
While the XKCD illustrates the principle in play here, "crypto" did not have a meaning of "cryptocurrency" at the time it was published.
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by wl 2y ago
The inscriptions you refer to aren't Sanskrit, but Hurrian. The inscriptions in question contain Indo-European loan words and seemingly reference Vedic gods, but that does not make them Sanskrit inscriptions. If you're looking for
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by wl 2y ago
My experience is that after blocking Censys, unwanted traffic on non-standard ports from other IP blocks has basically gone to zero. It appears to me that some bad actors are using Censys scans for targeting.
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by wl 2y ago
2100 BCE is too early. Yes, some Gilgamesh stories date there. The epic proper is a later redaction of several of those stories.
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by wl 2y ago
Hearing aids (ignoring implantable ones like BAHA and cochlear) weren’t going for anywhere near $50,000 in the US.
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by wl 2y ago
The test isn’t that someone can’t breathe effectively on their own, but that they don’t even try.
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by wl 2y ago
Yes, the same sort of anesthesia. You mention blood pressure in particular. Controlling pain, usually with opioids, is a huge part of controlling blood pressure.
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by wl 2y ago
> You're also not given any anesthetic because it's presumed you're completely brain dead and unable to feel anything. The linked article is about doing just that. Anesthesia for brain dead organ donors is the standard of
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by wl 2y ago
Brain death presents differently than locked-in syndrome. It’s diagnosed by weaning a patient off drugs that could impair breathing and then seeing if the patient breathes on their own. If they don’t breathe on their own, the assumption is
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by wl 2y ago
An AI-controlled robot isn’t going to be intubating, placing 14 gauge lines, or doing blocks anytime soon. And even for algorithmic-type things, the reason you have anesthesiologists around is for all those times when the standard algorithm
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by wl 2y ago
Both of those seem idiomatic to me. English generally marks the noun as plural. Blasts of the Baja type. Blast is the noun, Baja the adjective. Dew from the mountain. Dew is generally uncountable, but referring to a serving of a soda as a c
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by wl 2y ago
I used "trespass" as a transitive verb. It's a remedy, not something the hypothetical photographer is doing. It's when a person who controls a property can demand you leave and not return under penalty of arrest. It&#x27
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by wl 2y ago
In the US, private property isn't very grey. With a few exceptions like ag gag laws (which probably won't hold up to first amendment challenges) or invasion of privacy, you can photograph whatever you want on private property and
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by wl 2y ago
The Deaf (capital D) community has its own special language. There's a lot of culture that comes out of that. On the other hand, the blind community has the same languages as the rest of us.
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by wl 2y ago
Their crawler now ignores robots.txt.
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by wl 2y ago
> I wish the IA were little more aggressive about not retroactively applying robots.txt rules on archived content. They've stopped doing that. They now ignore robots.txt completely and you have to email them to stop them.
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by wl 2y ago
> And why are you picking a 45 minute commute if work is picking up the tab for a hotel. I've had work trips where the only decent hotel was an hour away from where I needed to be.
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by wl 2y ago
Every time I've rented a Tesla from Hertz, I've been bombarded with emails I could not opt out of all about how Teslas operate differently than normal cars and how to charge them.
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by wl 2y ago
I've done both. If you and your remote station have good antennas, a low local noise floor, and the right atmospheric conditions, a little power can take you to the other side of the planet.
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by wl 2y ago
A lot of people will tell you to study for the technician exam, take the test, and buy a Baofeng handheld radio. The end result of that is usually that the new licensee keys up a local repeater a few times, doesn't find a community the
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by wl 3y ago
> Jesus was a jew, and while he wasn't a big fan of death penalties, he certainly believed that all 613 of the minutia-governing rules of judaism were important to obey. The tradition of there being 613 mitzvot likely dates a centur
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by wl 3y ago
The prevailing winds are generally west-to-east across the US, so east-to-west means more headwinds than tailwinds.
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by wl 3y ago
Late third millennium BCE is the era of written history in Mesopotamia. There are documents with dates. There’s some debates about how we might line up their dates with our calendar, but the discrepancies are nowhere near 500 years.
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by wl 3y ago
Gilgamesh stories start showing up circa 2100 BCE. The epic proper, a compilation of several of these stories, is newer, dating no earlier than 1300 BCE. And while the Gilgamesh stories that became the epic date nearly to the point where st
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by wl 3y ago
The linked tweet is really a picture of an L. Ron Hubbard office.
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by wl 3y ago
The value of the $9k vicuña sweater is in the material. If you just want very soft, cashmere and baby alpaca are nearly as soft and considerably cheaper. People get vicuña fiber garments because it's rare, it was the fiber of royalty,

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