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by zelse 3mo ago
We have very few effective antifungals, and discovering new ones is an order of magnitude harder than discovering new antibiotics due to fungi being more closely related to animals (what's toxic to them is often toxic to us). Resistanc
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by zelse 1y ago
In practice, 100%. In theory we could likely design "good enough" anonymous systems that work like buying alcohol or tobacco in most countries (buy a scratch token in cash at a corner store after showing ID, picked at random from
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by zelse 1y ago
"They are shrinking from responsibilities such as marriage, homeowning and child-rearing because “adulting is hard”, as one of his students put it. Western culture, Mr Hayward wrote, indulges childish fancies." Yes, it is surely t
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by zelse 1y ago
They also have absurdly huge TIFFs of all 3 posters if folks are interested: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Gary+Overacre%...
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by zelse 1y ago
FWIW, your Enterprise key for Win10 should also work to install Win11 enterprise (the MAK keys for the two versions are identical, even), so you can test this fairly easily if you're inclined. That said, I can aver that domain-joining
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by zelse 2y ago
When I'm carded in RL, it is atypical for my ID to be stored, and I must be informed of the fact. A clerk examines the birthday line, and that is that. There is no record. The purchase is de facto anonymous; if I pay in cash, there is
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by zelse 2y ago
This. They're following the Orban-Erdogan-Harper (International Democratic Union) playbook - purge the judiciary of independent judges, control the news media, and open culture-war fronts to distract and sap the strength of opposition
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by zelse 2y ago
HaveIbeenpwnd says it was just passwords/usernames/emails, so seemingly not. (My company just got an email from them about the breach and I confirmed I'm in there with a quick search on their website.)
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by zelse 2y ago
I do -- I use WinAmp myself, mostly, but xmplay was updated as recently as 2020 so it's still a thing.
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by zelse 2y ago
It might be, though a lot of municipalities also have bylaws that require certain forms of ground cover on lots, either for aesthetic or drainage purposes.
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by zelse 2y ago
Your handling of folks' feedback in this thread is impressively graceful, fwiw.
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by zelse 2y ago
Plenty of monkeys will opportunistically consume things, and some groups like the baboons and mandrills are gleefully omnivorous and have been known to take down small antelopes. Take a look at those canines and wonder not.
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by zelse 3y ago
The 'Project Farm' reviews on Youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectFarm ) really have been eye-opening for me in that regard; sometimes there is still a strong correlation between price and quality but half the
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by zelse 3y ago
It can make sense for a company where you know the printers will be used regularly and heavily and thus will also be subject to a lot of wear and tear, plus the pricing the big players offer can be pretty decent.
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by zelse 3y ago
Jason @ textfiles also did a nice compilation: http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/ There's a delightful irony in the fact that such a page would absolutely have murdered a browser from its era. Nevertheless, t
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by zelse 3y ago
Oh neat. Do these writings use Hanzi or something else?
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by zelse 3y ago
Re: Publishing in Mandarin, just in case you're curious: Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, Wu, etc are spoken languages (or dialects, or varieties), but the writing system is common to all of them, albeit in two major forms -- Simpl
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by zelse 3y ago
It varies by market a lot. In my part of Canada -- for example -- appliances are almost always included with a house or apartment purchase. Similarly, I only recently learned that in large parts of Canada, it's the norm to rent or leas
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by zelse 3y ago
Northridgefix? Tronicsfix? TheCod3r? (Louis Rossmann, of old?) There's several of them, but it really depends on the value of the device more than the cost. A lot of what Northridgefix repairs is valuable for the data being recovered m
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by zelse 3y ago
Snake-oil and moralizing. Dietetics suffers from the same issue that mental health does: there's an underlying stigma that causes people to inflict a moral judgement on the ill; fat people - or so the old line of thinking goes - are im
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by zelse 3y ago
This is indeed /exactly/ what I wondered once people started quoting St. Paul, and as a historian, the implications aren't great.
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by zelse 3y ago
If they can get the attention of a sufficiently well-connected person, they can probably scam their way into patronage via some form of bundling either via a well-connected private entity or government. "Most-favoured browser of the RS
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by zelse 3y ago
The very same Louisiana that insists that age verification on websites is completely safe and reasonable? Shocking. Sadly, probably not the first such breach we'll see, though perhaps the least embarrassing.
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by zelse 3y ago
It's funny, because in Old English ('Anglo-Saxon'), vowel and consonant length are both semantically important. For those of you who want to have a better handle on the distinction, you can think of it as the sound having an
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by zelse 3y ago
I once happened across a Github where all the repos were subtle little bits of anti-Semitic cant relating to the Holocaust. More than subverting them, they also often function as dog-whistles for fellow travelers. (For those not getting the
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by zelse 3y ago
Nicely put. At its best and its worst, reddit reminds me of a more impersonal version &TOTSE's forums from the web of the 90s and early 00s: a community of communities, where you might see familiar faces from one spot to the next,
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by zelse 4y ago
FWIW re the mangling: According to foone, the reason they blank out the name is to avoid it showing up on searches for the game (automated or otherwise), which they say has led to a subset of fans of the game sending them transphobic commen
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by zelse 4y ago
Foone is a them, not a him. And yeah, you're right, it's definitely easier for the reader, but the author isn't required to make it easy for their audience -- if it was, Judith Butler wouldn't Judith...Butle and James Jo
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by zelse 4y ago
Sure, except in this case foone has explained exactly why they dislike their stuff showing up on HN.
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by zelse 5y ago
Lots of banks and law offices, a lot of bigger name accounting/auditing/consultancy firms, and a substantial amount of government/quasi-non governmental organizations. When I started at my current government position, the onl

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