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kylekon Archaeologists Identify Traces Cannabis in Ancient Jewish Shrines

Not charas, the wikipedia article about it.

Found it- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/25/russia-bans-wi...

kylekon Archaeologists Identify Traces Cannabis in Ancient Jewish Shrines

A (rather infamous? I recall a ton of controversy about it) wikipedia article for you:

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

kylekon Archaeologists Identify Traces Cannabis in Ancient Jewish Shrines

There's some theories that the burning bush was an acacia tree, which could contain DMT. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush#Biblical_entheoge... also https://www.rickstrassman.com/publications/dmt-and-the-soul-...

kylekon Swarm satellites probe weakening of Earth’s magnetic field

NOAA has a map showing historical data of the pole movements -

https://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/viewers/historical_declination/

kylekon GE switches off light bulb business after almost 130 years

That should have been impossible. It was protected. I thought they made it protected.

I'm looking ...

Can they save it? Keep all the pieces together, maybe they can save it.

There's nothing to save. Look for yourself. It's just ... gone. There's nothing left.

kylekon America's Growth Ponzi Scheme

It's pretty unfortunate that article 5 conventions are so hard to get started. It's the only bloodless way I see to fix things.

kylekon Show HN: Hacker News Dark Mode

I've been using this greasemonkey script for a while to do this- http://userscripts.org/users/509235

kylekon Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

I think the conversation needs to change a bit. People just don't care in the current state. I've been toying with the idea of calling all this (seo/ads/blogspam/content marketing and the auto-twitter-bot-ira-shill-to-cause-controversy-and-mass-media-parroting-it-feedback-loop) "internet pollution" in order to get average joes to think about it differently.

kylekon Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum

"Pulling a keybase"

kylekon Show HN: Passwords Fountain – password manager interface as a PWA

IDK WTF "PWA" in TFA means. SOS.

kylekon Ask HN: Do you ever go back and admire a piece of code you wrote?

Sometimes I leave random/joking comments around my code if I've been in a rabbit hole for a long time and end up with a preposterously simple and elegant solution. I erupted with laughter a couple days ago seeing "# i fink yo freaky and i like u a lot" in the middle of some brambles I was untying.

kylekon Show HN: I built a tool to remove news articles from HN

I used to have a greasemonkey script that would filter articles or domains they come from based off of keywords.

Found it! (this was made by hn user furgooswft13) https://gist.github.com/m00g00/e539ec22bf588edca0e6dfe1a05eb...

I think I used it for "737" and "Boeing" for a while.

kylekon Tetris: The Soviet 'mind game' that took over the world (2019)

I wish there was an odometer for electronic devices.

edit: Yes, I guess that would just be a counter. But it'd be fun to see how many miles a relic like this actually has.

kylekon A sweary, ranty YouTuber who's become an isolation cooking sensation

Ordinary Sausage is my go-to for youtube chefs.

kylekon Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19

If you're a man you'd use leeches.

kylekon Was there PTSD in the ancient or medieval world?

Astounding that we’d think otherwise.

kylekon My NixOS Desktop Flow

>> If I want to know how I configured my nas three years ago, all I have to do is read the nix file I checked onto github. Thats powerful.

Have you had to deal with breaking changes in the config language? (Does this ever happen? Are there versions/specs of the language that can be pinned?)

kylekon My NixOS Desktop Flow

>> ... and not have it installed globally is amazing.

Yah, the more I think about it this is the biggest selling point to me.

>> Of course, you can use the nix package manager on any Linux distro and even macOS if you want a gentler introduction.

I actually never thought deeply into nix NOT on nixos (I've probably been conflating the two). As an infra/devops-y person I can think of a lot of cool use cases off the bat in the server-space (theoretically anyways, I've a feeling the details would be quite the devil). But, except for the case of developing for such a system, I'm struggling to see a use case that warrants it in the desktop realm. (I need to meditate on this one..!)

kylekon Face-touching may reflect unconscious hand-smelling [pdf]

This must be why beard stroking is effective.

kylekon Time is the only real currency we have

Hah. You must be new to humans. Ordered destruction is a thing. (Alas, so is chaotic creation. Hail Eris!)

kylekon An un-edited view of Saturn

>> They consist of countless small particles, ranging in size from micrometers to meters

>> The densest parts of the Saturnian ring system are the A and B Rings,

I don't see anything that says exactly how dense the rings are, though...

kylekon An un-edited view of Saturn

Discrete enough to have names of their subdivisions-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn#Subdivisions_a...

kylekon Engineering NetBSD 9.0 [pdf]

The abstract in this is really great, a full lineage of the product going back to 1965. Yet short and concise. Beautiful!

kylekon Psilocybin Produced in Yeast

I do wonder what is lost, too. Some folks talk about "mushroom pills" (simply powdered, full spectrum mushrooms) and some talk about "psilocybin extract". It's my understanding that different psilocybe mushrooms species have different effects due to varying levels of not just psilocybin, but psilocin (psilocybin metabolizes to psilocin, but it is also in many species), baeocystin (mexicanas tend to be higher in this) and norbaeocystin.

kylekon PatchAttack: A black-box texture-based attack with reinforcement learning

Shower thought: vinyl car wrap with a bunch of pictures of stop lights at various angles

kylekon Female Computers Mapped the Universe and Brought America to the Moon

  computer [ kuh m-pyoo-ter ]
  noun
  ...
  2. a person who computes; computist.

(This actually isn't a joke)

edit: (super obvious if you click the link, btw)

kylekon Some Rich Americans Are Getting Stimulus ‘Checks’ Averaging $1.7M

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kylekon My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie

Oblig-

https://nmap.org/movies/

kylekon Hacking my arm prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into my synth [video]

This is so rad- I love that the prosthesis designers are so excited to work with him on this. Really need to ditch those cables for bluetooth though.