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I inherited a small hardcover handbook on the use of cocaine in medicine and the household. I don’t have it in front of me at the moment so I don’t remember the print date. I’m guessing late 1800 or early 1900. Ah. DDG to rescue, here is a version of it. https://www.thebookmerchantjenkins.com/product/coca-and-coca... Certainly a different perspective on it from today.

You're mistaken. I'm not cowering in fear or fright as you imagine. I am merely pragmatic considering I have waited two years for the vehicle to be delivered and I know that if it's stolen the insurance company will not payout for a replacement vehicle. It will payout what I paid but a slightly used replacement will cost more than what I am about pay due to the constrained market for these vehicles. As for your circumstance, I'm glad you have come to a reasoning that is suitable to you.

I'm about to take delivery of a Toyota Sienna in Canada, and despite it being a minivan, it's a Toyota which are popular to steal right now. I plan to use both a steering wheel and accelerator pedal club. I've watched videos of both devices being rendered futile in less than 60 seconds but I hope that it will deter the less determined thieves. Then, after my kids have thoroughly destroyed the interior, I will hope that it gets stolen.

I read the original comment not as a lament of not being able to trust the content, rather, they are lamenting the fact that AI/LLM generated content has no more thought or effort put into it than a cheap microwave dinner purchased from Walmart. Yes, it fills the gut with calories but it lacks taste.

On second thought, perhaps AI/LLM generated content is better illustrated with it being like eating the regurgitated sludge called cud. Nothing new, but it fills the gut.

Yes, your quotes' source is from a 1971 paper and I realize this source isn't much better than you saying otherwise, but it could be that the Socrates quote is not accurate - https://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher...

The Egyptian priest quote is muddied too - https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4923/was-this-q...

I wouldn't build an argument on them...

I got hooked with Yggdrasil on CD-RROM. The 20+ 3.5” floppies was too bulky for me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X

That price should be divided by 10 since the CPU is 5th gen from 2015[0].

[0] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5600U...

I like that multiple databases can be used in the same scripting context. http://www.linqpad.net/FAQ.aspx#cross-database

“We are super proud to have made this open source piece of technology” - of course it’s open source - you live in the state of “Live free or die!” My favourite state motto. Thanks!

So, are you suggesting that the gel was the cause of the cancer for the supervisor? If so, was that sink’s drain connected to a diverter such that the waste didn’t enter the typical sewage system?

Non-mainframe maintenance:

https://research.ibm.com/blog/ibm-molecule-generation-experi...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ibm-engineers-push...

1Gbs? Why not go for 6Gbs?

https://ca.store.ui.com/ca/en/pro/category/all-60ghz-wireles...

This reminds me of the supposed factory floor modification to include a battery heat sink on the Model Y. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24424567

Could this eventuality happen to Google, Nvidia, or Apple?

Aeons ago I paid $50 to a manual shifting driving instructor to teach my wife to drive manual. It saved our relationship and she drove stick better than me as a result. The instructor’s trick was to show how a clutch works then he had his students get the vehicle moving from a stopped position by only feathering the clutch pedal. He wouldn’t let them use the accelerator pedal. Once they learned where the engagement happened in the pedal’s throw the rest was easy.

I read a quote once that said “Simple bacteria can divide about every 20 minutes and have many hundreds of different proteins, each containing 20 types of amino acids arranged in chains that might be several hundred long. For bacteria to evolve by beneficial mutations one at a time would take much, much longer than three or four billion years, the time that many scientists believe life has existed on earth.” I haven't performed the math to back up the quote. As well would it change the time required if the bacteria mutate in parallel rather than in series?

Doxycycline worked for my Lyme infection.

I live in an hot spot of tick borne Lyme disease (had Lyme once so far) so I would have to take these constantly as I'm constantly outside and I'm not hiking or in the woods. Ticks are everywhere here and with the lack of snow this winter they were active during the winter too.

Oregon is beautiful. For the Canadian “east is least” crowd there’s the Torrance barrens dark sky park 2 hours north of Toronto with impressive night skies. But, like every attraction around the GTA it gets very crowded and many don’t respect the code of darkness which has lead to same nasty verbal fights.

https://www.torrancebarrens.com/dark-sky

Pkl, pronounced like pickle?

Pickle in Python https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html

Tcl pronounced tickle. https://www.tcl.tk/

PCL, was it ever pronounced pickle? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_Command_Language

Agreed. They are workhorses that keep on running. If/when a piece of hardware fails like a disk or RAM it gets hotplugged via the Hardware Management Console [1] and since it has single level storage [2] all pages in RAM are protected for 48 hours in the event of a catastrophic power failure.

[1] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/POWER5/iphan_p5/iphanbook.pdf

[2] https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/discussion/ib...

Are the drivers expected to deliver 110% all day and everyday? We all know long haul truck drivers pee in empty Gatorade bottles to avoid using a restroom. Do Walmart drivers also defecate in diapers to avoid stopping so they can continue to be in the top tier of drivers?

This sounds like a very useful addition to Linux - https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/entities/publication/b6b6cb90-417...

I would say part of this is related to resale value of their fleet. The daily rental companies have been taking a bath repairing their fleet of vehicles due to supply chain problems that force them to hold on to the vehicles for longer than desired. An offset for these companies has been the strong used vehicle market so they could sell a vehicle with 60,000 miles for more than they ever did in the past. The problem is that used EVs don't hold up in value compared to ICE vehicles. I personally know of a case where a customer purchased a Mercedes-Benz AMG EQS 4MATIC+Sedan and sold it after 6 months at a loss of $50,000 because there was no market for it. The EV resale market is a hot potato that no one wants to hold on to.

It feels sad to read the comments about people reaching 30 years of age and these ones realize they are giving their time to someone else when they’re so well paid and when there are so many people in the world that have s*t work and will never get out of it. I hate this world, and how it delivers another year of pain, misery and greed. Just blow up and take us all with it please.

Agreed. I prefer the 180 degree hinge provided on the ThinkPad line up.

The documentation states 'automatically populate based on JSON requests that fire as you browse the web' so does this mean that gRPC protobuf are not captured?

I use the T14s 3rd gen and I find its two USB type A and two USB type C super useful for connecting a suite of external devices. I prefer wired devices over wireless hence my need for ports.