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Qemon Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (2017)

> It’s not like Brazil doesn’t have its own FDA, which is much more strict than the US one, from what I know.

Unless we are talking about pesticides, where Brazil is effectively dumping grounds for substances banned in EU. Every time some pesticide is forbidden in Europe, brazilian regulators are happy allowing local agribusiness import it by the ton in fire sales: https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/10/14/export-grade-pois...

Qemon De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)

> The Dollar is antifragile.

Apparently the guy that invented the concept disagrees: https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1914633020671246352

Qemon Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age – study (2025)

> Long after humans spread out across the stars, maybe the perfect human consuming predator will emerge.

It already emerged. Corporations.

Qemon Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%

> How many IPs have they stolen from universities and companies across the world?

As it's often said, "There is no honor among thieves":

https://www.nber.org/digest/mar18/confiscation-german-copyri...

Qemon Cyberattack in Venezuela demonstrated precision of U.S. capabilities

> Let's hope those chicken never come home to roost.

Bare minimum it gives chinese tech suppliers a great pitch to convince buyers to choose their products over US suppliers. Even if theirs are also full of backdoors, at least they have no history of taking advantage of them to kidnap heads of state far away.

Qemon Mageia 10 Alpha Released – 32-Bit ISOs Still Available

I recently installed and spent some weeks testing the past release, Mageia 9. Nice system. I'm currently learning R, one thing I noticed is that mandriva-derived distributions are some of the few that have RStudio packaged in the repositories. When LMDE 7 was released I installed it instead, as the package versions in Mageia 9 were quite old, but once Mageia 10 is released I intend to go back.

Qemon Mageia 10 Alpha Released – 32-Bit ISOs Still Available

With RAM prices skyrocketing, I wonder if we'll see a ressurgence of 32 bit operating systems as mitigation against LLM-driven scarcity.

Qemon Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation

> mypy won't make your Python faster

Mypyc will do. See https://blog.glyph.im/2022/04/you-should-compile-your-python...

Qemon I Taught Myself to Code on a Cracked Android Phone. Now I Can't Get Hired

> I installed Mandrake Linux (Now Mandriva? if it’s still around)

Mandriva doesn't exist anymore, but it left descendants, OpenMandriva, Mageia and ROSA, IIRC.

Qemon Iran has now been offline for 96 hours

Mossad itself confirmed boots on the ground: “We are with you. Not only from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field.”. See https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-881733

Qemon Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn

IIRC the Himalayas are still being pushed up, as the indian plate pushes against Eurasia. That makes me wonder if the loss of ice will result in taller mountains, with less ice to grind the upwelling rock.

Qemon I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

In Ubuntu MATE there's a mode that sort of emulates Unity.

Qemon The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform

Why Johnny can't be unreasonably effective?

Qemon Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)

Is it added deliberately or just concentrated as a side-effect? Say fat comprised, let me guess, 5% of whole milk volume. If you take away this 5% v/v component, now everything else in one liter of skim milk is 5% concentrated by comparison, unless they add water.

Qemon UN accuses Israel of 'apartheid' in West Bank

Full report: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/israels-...

Qemon Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

What new regime? The president was kidnapped. The vice-president[1] assumed meanwhile. I wouldn't count that as new regime.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delcy_Rodr%C3%ADguez

Qemon Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

The vice-president: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delcy_Rodr%C3%ADguez

Qemon HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark

Armpit skin tags also seem to be related to some HPV strains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_tag

Qemon Python numbers every programmer should know

> Under the assumption of using Python, what is the use of knowing that your int takes 28 bytes?

Relevant if your problem demands instatiation of a large number of objects. This reminds me of a post where Eric Raymond discusses the problems he faced while trying to use Reposurgeon to migrate GCC. See http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8161

Qemon Children and Helical Time

> To a childs perception of time, it was an agonizing eternity.

For me as a child, even getting a haircut was a dreary experience. It felt as an eternity I had to sit mostly immobile, while somebody else maneuvered sharp blades around my head. Nowadays it feels like I barely accomodated in the chair, it's already over.

Qemon The story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself (1997) [pdf]

Inflation-adjusted, those prices today would correspond to ~$552.2 and ~$207.6

Qemon Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers

They built a meta-scam, on top of other scams.

Qemon UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating

> Accounting is what you might call an exact science, one where creativity isn't rewarded

Not sure of this. Corporations pull a lot of creative accounting all the time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_accounting

Qemon Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results

Same problem. My workaround is to use Yandex instead. In my experience it's consistently returning more relevant results than Google for some time already, and there's less censorship while searching torrent related content.

Qemon Cat Ownership Linked to Increased Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests

I think a more obvious candidate is self-selection. People with known mental issues that want a pet are wise to choose those that demand less maintenance. It's hard to go walk the dog while undergoing a mental breakdown. Cats, on the other hand, don't require people to walk them, and are mostly self-cleaning. They are a safer pick for people whose routines are subject to sporadic disruption.

Qemon Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth's Inner Core

Thank you. I thought that was settled matter.

Qemon Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth's Inner Core

Without magnetic fields, the solar wind strips away atmospheres, like what happened to Mars.

Qemon ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

> Do any of you could think of a reason (UX-wise) for it not to be displayed?

I can imagine a legal one. If the LLM messes big time[1], timestamps could help build the case against it, and make investigation work easier.

[1] https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/new-study...

Qemon How GNU Guile is 10x better (2021)

For those with no previous experience with Scheme, how does one learn Guile? Are there recommended books or MOOCs? Is familiarity with Emacs effectively a pre-requisite, as it happens with most open-source lisps?