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by nunb 4y ago
Thank you for all the follow up posts on this thread... It strikes me they're probably taking up as much, if not more, time just in the clarifications!
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by nunb 4y ago
In 2000 came across a binary space partition algo that did this, but used a small scheme interpreter to codegen the c++ BSP code. Would love to find out the library name... have now forgotten it.
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by nunb 4y ago
PopOS is awesome. It's what I use on my XY Thinkpad (repurposed Intel/hexa-core/12-HyperThreads/64GB/matte-screen/2TB(SSD+HDD)+256GbNVME/VGA/Trackpoint/USBC/laptop)! Nothing better imo, unle
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by nunb 4y ago
Shilling XYtech's repurposed Intel/12-core/64GB/matte-screen/2TB/VGA/Trackpoint/USBC/ laptops! Nothing better imo, unless he adds an E-Ink option!
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by nunb 4y ago
This is exactly what I meant. Particularly visible in richer social strata in SEA, especially in the Philippines and to a lesser extent in Malaysia & Singapore. The amount of sucrose consumed in that first country beggars belief. Everyt
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by nunb 4y ago
Just wait until we get viable electric mo'bikes! I don't remember exactly, but I think Michael Cyzsz was working on transmissions before he passed away.
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by nunb 4y ago
This company (and the founder) are just a bunch of mechanical geniuses. Other than in pure-electric, where they partnered with Rimac, they have driven so much innovation, especially with ICE: form-factors, alternatives to camshafts (free-va
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by nunb 4y ago
yes, I agree with you. It's just at the time I was unaware that brain chemistry could be genetically dependent; although as you say that's pre-disposition, and the trigger can be trauma, and sometimes knowing you are adopted can b
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by nunb 4y ago
Probably because it comes through as tall claims based on anecdata? But I've lived in Europe, America, Asia, ME & Australia (also visited every SEA country) and the prevalence of male feminization & rich-people obesity (esp cen
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by nunb 4y ago
adoptee turned to hard drugs (opiods) in his teens. the opinion was: what do you expect, the father was an addict too. at the time I was shocked as I was so firmly in the nurture camp.
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by nunb 4y ago
Disclaimer: I am quite firmly in that camp now, although at first I considered them all nutters. Some thing has been driving global ill-health in our post-disease world (excluding viruses) from 1920 onwards... imho there's clearly a
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by nunb 4y ago
I heard the most bizarre & unexpected opinion first-hand from an obgyn. Prior to this I was firmly in the nurture camp of nature/nurture, but this obgyn's opinion on adoptions shocked me out of my complacency. I am hoping Sapo
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by nunb 4y ago
I find this topic very interesting. My observation (anecdata-lly, but I would love to see RCTs or perhaps a cleanly designed ANOVA study) is that these symptoms of infertility are particularly (world-wide) prevalent in people who have (usua
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by nunb 4y ago
Have you tried the Ear Hero Bluetooth adapter?
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by nunb 4y ago
It would be interesting to see the correlation in families with a history of diabetes, and to correlate it to T2 diabetes or "metabolic syndrome". I have anecdata about this, but I wonder if any studies are being done in family-gr
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by nunb 4y ago
To identify quality one may start by eschewing the habit of wearing undergarments as one’s main garment.
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by nunb 4y ago
I faced a similar issue with Netflix when I tried to update the credit-card on my account. Got a PHL Call Center that insisted the card txn was being declined. I tried to explain that there had been no api call for an authorisation attempt
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by nunb 4y ago
All this and not one mention of DabbleDB !! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCVj5RZOqwY https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=102
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by nunb 5y ago
Similar to what car enthusiasts do, restomods are probably the sweet spot for performance and ownership.
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by nunb 5y ago
Ran IRIX back in the day and the thing I most remember is display postscript with zoomable everything. Today a resto-modded [1] ThinkPad is probably a better choice, featuring repairability, 64GB max RAM, three storage drives, docks, usb-C,
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by nunb 5y ago
The curation tools are limited especially with playlists and worst of all watch later SILENTLY fails after 5000 videos are added to the watch later playlist. Yesterday a watching now playlist glitched and kept looping in the middle. I had t
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by nunb 5y ago
And their protein is more usable by our digestive systems than plant proteins.
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by nunb 5y ago
Perhaps a riff on French immersion schools like we have in British Columbia which are supposed to impart a higher level of education due to their much-vaunted academic standards.
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by nunb 5y ago
A pity about F-Script for sure, if only it had targeted app builders. Smalltalk history seems to be littered with abandoned projects. Amber ST in the browser and F-Script on OSX come foremost to mind.
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by nunb 5y ago
I had a fantastic experience with ordering my laptop from XYtech and have had the pleasure to have met him in person. If anyone has questions I would be happy to answer, although mine is based on the X230 chassis.
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by nunb 5y ago
He's certainly saying the right things to have the state-lobby put him in the awards lists. I cannot imagine how this tripe warrants any award at all, and a bagging a Hugo in this case is absurd.
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by nunb 5y ago
I am curious if you have read, and of what you think of Jason Fung's book Cancer Code. Is it a fair overview of the papers you have read? What level of understanding does he achieve?
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by nunb 5y ago
The Coasians sentence seems to have run away after "Coasians ran around" ! Or did you mean "ran aground" ?
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by nunb 5y ago
could you tell us a bit more about the flushing process and what these meds were? if they were anti-anxiety & anti-depression meds, then perhaps they could have had the effect of unsedating a person?
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by nunb 5y ago
The 51nb "Thinkpads" achieve three goals you may find useful: reuse, upgrade & repairability. In effect, you are recycling while upgrading! In addition to repurposing some of the old electronics & the entire chassis, they

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