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by chasil 9d ago
Did they avoid peacock feathers onstage? Reciting lines from The Two Gentlemen of Verona and A Midsummer Night's Dream is also rumored to be helpful (from the last section). "For the more athletically inclined, one should exi
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by chasil 10d ago
As I understand it, tryptophan can become either niacin or serotonin in metabolism. Serotonin is the natural source of all malatonin. Niacin and tryptophan will maximize the serotonin pathway, but this is deadly with an SSRI.
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Long-term melatonin use linked to 90% higher heart failure risk(sciencedaily.com)
15 points by chasil 10d ago|5 comments
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by chasil 10d ago
LineageOS keyboard and the Trebuchet launcher would be most helpful. I do miss keyboard symbols without shifting and icon packs.
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by chasil 10d ago
I would qualify that as X-rated propaganda. https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/bayeux-tapestry... https://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/who-was-the-mysterious-...
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by chasil 14d ago
The de Havilland Comet (involved in this event) also has a famously dark history as the first passenger jet. This status was short-lived when square windows popped out of their frames at high altitude when the cabin was pressurized. The lin
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by chasil 14d ago
I admit that I glossed over the section on the machining of the oil pipe, but the facility appears to bear most of the blame. These were pulled and scrapped from the whole A380 fleet. "Investigators also criticized the culture within t
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by chasil 14d ago
One must believe that MTE was intended for use on this device, as it is present on everything down to the Pixel 6. Everything else is in the realm of bean counters, I would think.
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by chasil 14d ago
"Aside from MTE, Google downgraded the Pixel 11 series GPU compared to the Pixel 10 series in addition to reducing RAM for base Pro models." I will make a note not to buy this model. Is this the worst quality control lapse since t
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by chasil 17d ago
https://archive.ph/xXHBw
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by chasil 18d ago
At that point, you had to deal with questions of interleave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaving_(disk_storage)
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by chasil 18d ago
Defragmenting XFS is much less dramatic.
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by chasil 19d ago
Basic suggestion: many countries give much less time for copyright than the U.S. Gutenberg Australia has all of Orwell online for download, legally: https://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#orwell Might I suggest that an
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by chasil 19d ago
As Microsoft has expressed, Aero is "cheesy." Despite nostalgia, it was stripped in pursuit of a mobile-friendly UI (at the time). '...calling the UI that debuted in Vista and continued in Windows 7, “cheesy” and “dated.”&#x2
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by chasil 23d ago
Biden's debate performance, and the aftermath, are the well-recognized reasoning.
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by chasil 23d ago
Here is a good example where this is not so. Unfortunately, my datacenter runs this vulnerable VMS release on an emulated VAX. https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2018/02/06/ghost-in-the-...
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by chasil 25d ago
First of all, did you disable the calculator? This app is an amazing feat of intellect, and should be retained due to its fundamental worth of ingenuity. https://medium.com/@jnebos/the-humble-android-calculator-4f1...
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by chasil 1mo ago
https://archive.ph/9Lfum
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by chasil 1mo ago
How closely related is this CPU to SPARC? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Am29000 "Based on the seminal Berkeley RISC, the 29k added a number of significant improvements... One design element used in some of the
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by chasil 1mo ago
The wiki says: "Additional XMM (SSE) registers: Similarly, the number of 128-bit XMM registers (used for Streaming SIMD instructions) is also increased from 8 to 16... "The original AMD64 architecture adopted Intel's SSE and
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by chasil 1mo ago
My production binary was built on Oracle Linux 5, with gcc 4.1.2.
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by chasil 1mo ago
I just rebuilt a core program that talks to my UNIVAC OS2200 CITA and my VAX ACMS from Linux. I built this first as a 32-bit binary, and there was noise that I had to cut with a substr function. In the rebuilding with my MinGW 64-bit Window
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by chasil 1mo ago
Today's surviving UNIVAC architecture originated in the first transistor-based machine, the 1107, which was not compatible with any of the previous designs that all used vacuum tubes. "Only 36 systems were sold." https:&#x2F
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by chasil 1mo ago
They were also able to drastically cut their own internal demand and external sales/shipments (the article mentions jet fuel to other Asian nations). This was possible because their economic planning is centralized.
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by chasil 1mo ago
In researching this question, 40% of the refineries in the U.S. can process light crude efficiently. They all can refine it, but the more technically adept refineries that specialize in processing heavy, sulfur-soured crude do not run effic
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by chasil 1mo ago
It might be said that this article casts China as a "super capacitor" in that it can store and release massive quantities of oil at will. It also has its own domestic oil production of 4.3 million barrels per day.
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by chasil 1mo ago
DEC also blew a fortune on the ECL VAX. "Meanwhile, the engineering team's predictions about the relentless march of CMOS proved true. By 1991, the NVAX was also on the market, offering roughly the same performance for a tiny frac
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by chasil 1mo ago
This interview with Allen Baum seems to imply that DEC was quite aware of what could easily be done with Alpha, and what could not. I'm also assuming that ARM code density was better than Alpha (conditional opcodes being a major contri
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by chasil 1mo ago
For everyone who says that the Alpha was a technically-superior CPU design that should have prevailed, I will draw attention to an interesting fact: "According to Allen Baum, the StrongARM traces its history to attempts to make a low-p
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by chasil 1mo ago
I realized some time ago that Oracle spelled backwards is "el caro," which (according to Google translate) means "the expensive one" in Spanish.

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