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by zik 7y ago
There's no doubt that people decline cognitively in their old age. I don't think this study's saying that all cognitive decline is due to retirement. People get old and their bodies and brains deteriorate. To my mind the ques
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by zik 7y ago
There are some just above in this thread.
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by zik 7y ago
Let's not call it "telemetry", let's call it what it is: spyware.
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by zik 7y ago
TIL "vishing" is a word. If like me you were wondering what it meant: "Vishing is the telephone equivalent of phishing. It is described as the act of using the telephone in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering privat
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by zik 7y ago
Bulls have wikipedia pages now? Ok, this is the thing I'm most surprised about out of all of this. Maybe I'm just annoyed that there's a bull who's more famous than me, and that he got that famous by being a lot more rep
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by zik 7y ago
Oh wow. That's quite something.
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by zik 7y ago
The link between coal and the Great Barrier Reef is the proximity of an very large new coal mine to the reef: https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/06/13/australia-app...
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by zik 7y ago
I'd argue that if you used -Wall and you got all the warnings you can't really complain too much because you got exactly what you asked for.
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by zik 7y ago
The idea that UBI would cause inflation seems intuitive but it's shown to be a small effect at most: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/20/16256240/m...
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by zik 7y ago
Also this doesn't give you the right to repair your own devices. It gives you the right to take it to a "professional" who'll repair it for you.
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by zik 7y ago
It depends where you live. I imagine they're pretty uncommon in the USA. I've seen one or two in Australia. Most companies making shaft driven bikes seem to be in countries where bikes are used more commonly for commuting like Ger
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by zik 7y ago
Shaft driven bikes are not uncommon [1] [2]. This variant on the theme seems to be more about the novel gearing system than the lack of a chain. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaft-driven_bicycle [2] https:/&
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by zik 7y ago
It might make sense to connect it to get a firmware update. And some bug fixes, hopefully.
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by zik 7y ago
As a terrible cook I love that they do all the work of finding an achievable recipe and shopping for all the (sometimes obscure) ingredients. I've improved my cooking skills significantly as a result and I'm almost ready to move o
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by zik 7y ago
Everyone here saying paging is uncommon on modern systems with large RAM is correct, but there is another factor. TLB misses are expensive and since they involved MMU misses their effect is pretty analogous to paging. So slowdowns still exi
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by zik 7y ago
What about those DNA companies that collect even more sensitive medical information - your DNA - and then straight up sell it to companies who'll use it against you (health insurance)? Why are these guys not facing billions in fines an
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by zik 7y ago
It supported recursion in its microcode which is very unusual.
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by zik 7y ago
Maybe "speed readers" still receive knowledge at around 39bps - they just filter out a lot more.
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by zik 7y ago
IRIX [1] was the version of SVR4 UNIX which ran on SGI [2] computers. QEMU [3] is an emulator used to run programs for one machine on another. N64 [4] is the Nintendo 64 games console. SGI Indy [5] was a desktop SGI workstation from 1993. [
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by zik 7y ago
Common usage indicates that "than us" is just fine. Remember English grammar doesn't come from a grammar book - grammar books are merely imperfect attempts to describe common English usage.
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by zik 7y ago
At least then they'd be representing the concerns of a larger number of people which is arguably what they should be doing as representatives.
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by zik 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velomobile#Electric_assisted_v...
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by zik 7y ago
It's a velomobile. They're somewhat unusual but surely not so unusual that they're worthy of a newspaper article? There are quite a few manufacturers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velomobile#Velomobile_m
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by zik 7y ago
> you regularly see downright absurd stuff like this That's a bug which only occurs on five year old distributions and which was fixed years before any exploit was ever found. Honestly if that's being brought up as a bad exampl
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by zik 7y ago
It's less plastic but it still emits BPAs into your drink.
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by zik 7y ago
There was also the A2500 which had a 68020 processor with an MMU.
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by zik 7y ago
I know it's only a one off anecdote but two developers in my team who previously didn't know python used it for a small time-critical project and it was a brilliant success.
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by zik 7y ago
He needs to remarry her.
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by zik 7y ago
Most Melbourne buses are horrendous. They're unpredictable timing-wise, slow, noisy, uncomfortable and many of the routes are poorly thought out so they don't get anywhere in a useful amount of time anyway. There are some express
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by zik 7y ago
I hope that some day the US will join the civilised world in banning that atrocity.

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