GioM

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by GioM 11mo ago
I have had tinnitus from an infection, which (very thankfully, and I admit very luckily) slowly resolved over a period of years. That said, I have experienced occasional reoccurrence. One thing that helps is I ask my masseuse to concentrate
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by GioM 1y ago
Ah, I think I get it. Article says: > In the Gmail app on iOS, it looked completely legitimate — the branding, the case number, everything. Even the drop-down still showed “@google.com.” > So when he asked me to read back a code — sup
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by GioM 1y ago
I don't get this part either. if the scammers had spoofed the email, they would already have that code, and if they hadn't spoofed that email... I mean it looks like a case ID, why would they need it? Maybe the reading back the co
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by GioM 1y ago
I feel like what trips people up is the abstraction layer. Viruses are abstracted on top of other living things in the same way that animals are abstracted on top of plants, in that they both require the lower layer of abstraction for their
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by GioM 2y ago
I remember that the "Slashdot Effect" used to be a thing, getting featured on Slashdot generated enough traffic that it routinely took sites down. Then digg came along, and I started using that, but kept Slashdot on the backburner
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by GioM 2y ago
There’s a good discussion in the previous article discussed on HN, including links to various papers. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893627 2. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC823499
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by GioM 2y ago
This is true. Extensions currently (manifest v2) are able to evaluate net requests dynamically, and are able to modify requests according to a dynamic ruleset that the extension can retrieve from some filter list published on the internet.
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by GioM 2y ago
More wild speculation: an expansion point in the previous universe, centred perfectly on a quark-antiquark pair.
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by GioM 4y ago
Whole genome sequencing is commercially available for $299. https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/
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by GioM 5y ago
It’s a bit of a shame, the inability to modify requests for CORS will break a lot of frontend developer workflows. It’s going to force the adoption of cors-proxy type solutions instead of a relatively simpler extension.
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by GioM 5y ago
If you consider only the selection pressure from the mother’s side then yes that is the case. However you must consider that the mother and the father are in an arms race with respect to the carrying capacity of the mother. The selection pr
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by GioM 5y ago
The forests of New Brunswick are routinely sprayed with large amounts of glyphosphate herbicide. Is it possible that this is the cause, instead of prions? [1] https://www.conservationcouncil.ca/where-our-forest-is-being...
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by GioM 5y ago
Slashdot, to digg, to reddit, and now... nothing. I hope a new one emerges.
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by GioM 6y ago
I think the answer here is alternate capacity. Canada gets a relatively small portion (11%) of its energy from natural gas, with no province exceeding 21% (Alberta). On aggregate, most energy generated in Canada is renewable.
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by GioM 6y ago
I think I have the opposite of this. I grew up on a bush lot, and my father used to look up and point out different species of plants. When I'm outside that general geographical area I always find it unsettling that I can't recogn
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by GioM 6y ago
Interesting. Could you comment a little further? I can see the analogy here to advertising making their other products appear less competitive internally, but it sounds like you may have further thoughts.
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by GioM 6y ago
Sorry about this. It is really shitty. Like you, I got a case of tinnitus via ear infection. In my case it was caused by a three-week-long infection. However, I count myself massively lucky that it did slowly resolve over about 5 years, to
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by GioM 6y ago
Arthur C Clarke posits a consumable shield made of ice in The Songs of Distant Earth [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth
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by GioM 6y ago
Take the idea a little further, to the end of the universe, and the rate of acceleration of expansion of space increases so much that stars become isolated from each other, then planets from stars, then molecules from each other, then atoms
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by GioM 6y ago
I started that book, got about 60% of the way through, and had to put it down. It seemed like Jocko was re-teaching the same lesson over and over again from slightly different angles. Maybe I missed something big, but that's just the w
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by GioM 6y ago
Looks like some similar functionality to pushbullet... message syncing from Chrome to Android. I wouldn’t be surprised if Google is preparing to roll out a message sync service of their own in the next few months.
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by GioM 7y ago
One example, Qiime[1] can now run on windows via WSL. Much faster than the previous best solution, which was virtualbox. [1] https://qiime2.org/
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by GioM 8y ago
Ever tried to replace a screw? Finding the exact threading, length, etc?
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by GioM 8y ago
In the 90s, yes. But in the early 80s when there were dozens of different computer architectures competing, the rise to dominance of MS-DOS brought about the standardization of computer hardware on a single platform. That, in turn, led to l
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by GioM 8y ago
Am by no means an expert, but I believe it's something like: Invest in company in china -> company builds in valuation (pump) -> company IPO in america -> sell ownership share in america for american dollars (dump) I imagine t
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by GioM 8y ago
He/Him. The author has a clear preference[1], please use it. [1] http://codylindley.com/
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by GioM 9y ago
Yahoo pipes was ok when it worked, and could have been brilliant. I remember setting up a pipes page to filter the digg front page around the time when the last harry potter book was being released. It worked well enough to keep me from get
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by GioM 9y ago
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Hurtubise#Firepaste There seems to be an easily-composable fire retardant substance that can be made from household materials and that's been discovered several times b
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by GioM 9y ago
>“There have been lots of acid attacks too, I’ve heard really scary stories in our area.” Whhaaaaaa.... That's far worse than the merchandise. Why have I not heard this before?
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by GioM 9y ago
It also packs well as a fluid app if you'd prefer a standalone (and fluid doesn't seem to purge the cache and lose offline mode like your browser might)

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