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725686··on U.S. Will No Longer Recommend Covid Shots for Children and Pregnant Women
No suprises there. What did you think RFK would do? Complete nut job.
725686··on Starship Flight 9 booster explodes on impact [video]
Also, Starship is out of control now.
725686··on MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0
That would be a TMA
725686··on Four years of sight reading practice
I was using this free browser based app ( https://sightreading.training/ ), but the fact that there were random notes drove me crazy.
725686··on InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel
The problem that I see is that, if the thickness is so drastically reduced as in the video posted somewhere above, you will need (much, much) thicker wood to start with.
725686··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
I used to love WSL when I had a Windows machine because I used lots of docker containers, but now that I am in a Mac with Apple Silicon, there is no going back.
725686··on Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018)
I'm pretty sure there is a consensus among experts that every living organism has a single ancestor "organism". Life, as far as we know, originated only once on planet Earth.
725686··on What’s new in Swift 6.2
The advantage is obvious if you already use Swift.
725686··on ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
So, the only thing alchemists needed was a large particle collider. They were way ahead of their time.
725686··on Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry
"The name paternoster ("Our Father", the first two words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin) was originally applied to the device because the elevator is in the form of a loop and is thus similar to rosary beads used as an aid in reciting prayers."

I would have thought the name was related to the users praying before entering to increase their chances of surviving the ordeal.

725686··on The language brain matters more for learning programming than the math brain
For the 99% of programming I come across, I need about 0% math.
725686··on Firefox tab groups are here
I have never understood why people have hundreds, or even thousands of tabs. Why not use bookmarks? Hoarders.
725686··on What if we made advertising illegal?
I haven't reade the article, but YES PLEASE.
725686··on Microsoft’s original source code
So you had to be "that" guy. I think it looks pretty cool.
725686··on 4o Image Generation
Not a criticism, but It stands out how all the researchers or employees in these videos are non native English speakers (i.e. not American). Nothing wrong with that, on the contrary, it just seems odd that the only American is Altman. Same thing with the last videos from Zuck, if I recall correctly. Especially in this Trump era of MAGA.
725686··on Steam Networks
6,000 years, according to Wikipeda. That is wild.
725686··on Feds Link Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks
Yes! I'm totally aware, but, for the first point, attacks are generally automated. If someone tries to find the pattern, you are being personally targeted and you have bigger problems. As per number 2, it is true and it sucks big time. As per number 3, I don't really mind much. You don't generally have to use your password every time.
725686··on Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions
I wish there was regulation for limiting what can go in the screen. Only the "new" stuff should go there. The rest, as it has always been, with easily accesible knobs and buttons. Even new stuff should be handled with voice commands. No screen fiddling.
725686··on Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks
I use a simple algorithm. So you don't actually remember the password, put the algorithm to produce the password for the site or service. Not perfect, but each passwords turns out to be unique (mostly). I don't know what experts think about that, but it has worked fine for me.
725686··on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon
I am not a native English speaker (or English native speaker, ;)), but I've been using it forever...but didn't know there was an official adjective ordering.
725686··on Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
"If you can retire around 35-40" really? If you can retire that young, you probably don't need any advice.
725686··on One year after switching from Java to Go
"cargo cult" really? Have you ever built maintained big a Java codebase? Spring is a marvel that sprang out of the experience of very, very talented people. It can be misused, of course, like any other technology, but it is a huge productivity booster.
725686··on Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters
290 Java mentions but only 59 mentions of Spring?
725686··on A study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field
You should probably approach some of the people investigating this.
725686··on Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
So if they let you try a Ferrari for free, you wouldn't because you might like it but you can't afford it? I would, even if I know I could never buy one.
725686··on Show HN: Mapping the Unix Magic Poster – An Interactive Annotation Project
Faster ye, just right click open in new tab. The annotation dots are not part of the image.
725686··on Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
So Rich Hickey is Richard Richard.
725686··on Thomas Aquinas' skull reveals appearance and cause of death
I would also love to see this. I I'm very skeptic about this kinds of reconstructions based only on the remains.
725686··on Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use activates when people listen hard
You might enjoy the book Junk DNA by Nessa Carey. Very interesting how complex and interrelated our DNA is. Pretty much spaghetti code.
725686··on Earth's magnetic North Pole is on the move, scientists just updated its position
is on the move... approaching the actual geographic pole.
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