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by zkms 4d ago
Run the abstract through pangram.com; this is AI slop: https://www.pangram.com/history/49f81c92-a2f4-46f6-91b3-e185...
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by zkms 10mo ago
>An interesting part is the "we'll send you an email to confirm you're you", followed by a "enter validation code here" screen that immediately gets forwarded to the re-enrollment message. Also, no confirmat
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by zkms 1y ago
My reaction to PCIe gen 8 is essentially "Huh? No, retro data buses are like ISA, PCI, and AGP, right? PCIe Gen 3 and SATA are still pretty new...". I wonder what modulation order / RF bandwidth they'll be using on the P
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by zkms 1y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shoggoth-with-smiley-face-art... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/technology/shoggoth-meme-...
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by zkms 1y ago
His "The Shepherd" is amazing. Linking a PDF of it (it's 29 pages, and 100% worth reading) and not the wikipedia page for spoiler reasons: https://www.cessna150152.com/ubbthreads/attachments/13553-Fr
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by zkms 1y ago
"Wi-Fi calling" (LTE over IP over wifi) often allows you to get SMS messages over wifi only, on an ordinary cell plan: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108066 (Android supports it too)
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by zkms 1y ago
There are even multiple services that will mail a Potatoe to the recepient, possibly anonymously: https://potatoparcel.com https://www.mailaspud.com https://www.anonymouspotato.com https://myst
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by zkms 1y ago
>(More surprisingly, there is evidence that lead is an essential micronutrient in trace quantities but its biological function is not currently known.) Do you have some links about this? I found some papers re arsenic but I can't fi
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by zkms 2y ago
>it was 30 or so shots into my stomach, given over multiple days - and causing a lot of soreness and pain in between. I wonder if it’s still like this, because damn it's not like this anymore; it's just four shots in the upper
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by zkms 2y ago
There has got to be some sort of two-man rule ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-man_rule ) integrated into the system that can't be bypassed by the people with authority to make changes to accounts. Otherwise any
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by zkms 2y ago
Looking into vitamin K2 (not K1) along with vitamin D is interesting as well -- I got my bone mineral density to 99th percentile (DEXA measured) without changes in physical activity (which has just been walking) with lots of K2 and vitamin
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by zkms 2y ago
If there are plants (there is a patent and a paper describing this in some algae, IDK if it has been replicated or not...) that have preferences (kinetic isotope effect!) for one isotope of uranium over the other you could technically have
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by zkms 3y ago
Have you tried some from Waveform Lighting? I have some of their bulbs (none of which has broken yet) and I selected them because of the low blue light and zero flicker. (No relationship with them beyond being a satisfied customer). https:
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by zkms 3y ago
The claim is that plants cannot run nor fight so their defenses must be chemical (or physical, like spines or needles or camouflage) in nature. It's far more difficult for a prey animal to have its muscles/fat/organs suffused
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by zkms 3y ago
I feel the author is a bit too quick to debunk/discount the weird extreme claims of the carnivore tradfluencer set and jumps into the opposite direction: there seems to be a consilience of evidence (not just archeological) establishing
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by zkms 3y ago
> It's trivial to find people inside your echo-chamber being well-behaved --- this doesn't answer what a platform's moral responsibility is to society. I am not a Republican, Tom Cotton is incredibly far away from anythi
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by zkms 3y ago
> I never met anyone who didn't equate "lab leak" with an intentional act by china The likes of Alina Chan and Richard Ebright are "easy mode" counterexamples for your statement. I'll swing for the fences: E
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by zkms 3y ago
>I'm not sure I understand why you think this is evidence for the ability of the USSR to keep it secret or otherwise control perceptions? The USSR successfully manipulated many prominent Western civilian scientists (and subsequently
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by zkms 3y ago
> fluoride is created by nuclear weapons construction as waste and the government has to get rid of it somehow, so in the water it goes Like some wild conspiracy theories, there is a kernel of truth to this one. Namely, the fluoride used
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by zkms 3y ago
They claim to use the spontaneously immortalized UMNSAH/DF-1 chicken fibroblast cell line, which isn't a tumor cell line. I still wouldn't eat any "cultured meat" regardless of the cell line (if my great-grandparent
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by zkms 4y ago
This is really interesting; is there somewhere with more detail on the work completed under this program?
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by zkms 5y ago
and belt-sander racing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt-sander_racing
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by zkms 6y ago
> Are there any of those Japanese ones you can buy in North America? Any brands you're aware of? yeah, i'm curious as well.
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by zkms 6y ago
> The only success stories with this strategy are Australia and New Zealand, which are island nations completely isolated from anywhere else. Taiwan is another such success story (7 deaths total, zero domestic cases for over 200 days) an
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by zkms 6y ago
For what it's worth i can attest to receiving such an email from ubiquiti about 40 minutes ago.
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by zkms 6y ago
tl;dr per this Nature article, there's different type of antibody responses, intramuscular vaccines are better at inducing the flavor of antibody that works in the lower respiratory tract (which is excellent at attenuating disease seve
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by zkms 6y ago
the nose fairing -- which protects the warheads and the post-boost vehicle during ascent -- on the Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles is made from some beautiful Sitka spruce (and some glass, but it's mostly wood).
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by zkms 6y ago
For the Luneburg lens antennas, are they using MatSing ( https://matsing.com/ ) balls? They look a lot like them, especially the rear part where the RF cables terminate....
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by zkms 6y ago
> Yes most people don't seem to realize the hybrid system tends to just shut down at highway speeds. There's still an advantage to having a hybrid system onboard even at highway speeds. The continuously-variable ratio of the hy
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by zkms 6y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182860/ this is a neat paper as well -- the hallucinations can be provoked without any pharmaceutical assistance -- just diffuse flickering light.

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