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Re:NYT and Vaping: How to Lie by Saying Only True Things (2022)
on Saturday May 16, 2026 @05:08AM (#48158361)
So one thing that always strikes me about vaping is that we ignore the metal heater. It’ a coil of metal that glows, during which it will boil off metal atoms. After a while it has lost so much material that is breaks and needs to be replaced. That metal went into your lungs.
Re:I Bought a "Junk" PSP from Japan: Here's How It Went
on Saturday May 16, 2026 @04:56AM (#48158296)
Just tried it. Pretty much anything in electronic measurement equipment comes with this red banner:
“This is a prohibited item. Therefore, it is unavailable.”
Re:Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined
on Thursday May 14, 2026 @05:33AM (#48133053)
This is an example of how twins give us information when one variable is fixed - genetics. Can reciprocal information be found when observing the opposite: adoptees who share no genetic base but had the same upbringing in the same environment?
Re:I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @03:26PM (#48126295)
If all the juicy content moves to the EU, the US will force the EU to open its platform for external access. See what happened to the Swiss banking.
Re:UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @03:22AM (#48105253)
Was expecting an article about
Re:I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up a...
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @03:16AM (#48105227)
Whenever I sleep with ear plugs, I wake up with brain fog.
Re:What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting
on Saturday May 09, 2026 @06:24AM (#48073752)
Maybe just salt water and skip the filings?
Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device with...
on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @07:13AM (#48020852)
There’s the problem: we want change without giving up the things we’re accustomed to. We’re locked in.
Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device with...
on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @06:25AM (#48020497)
Which ullustrates that humanity has reached such numbers that the smallest collective change has an enormous impact.
Re:The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced
on Saturday May 02, 2026 @04:13AM (#47984458)
This strikes me as weird. In 92/93/94 I was on packet radio, a ham equivalent of digital lora which used hopping to get you to neighbouring countries. Most had 1200 baud, some 9600. I downloaded executables from bbs’es over the air and chatted with likeminded folks. Around that time we also had the first guest lectures about software defined radio with proof of concepts. I find it impossible to believe that a bunch of amateurs in EU were more digitally connected than the folks this thread talks about. Without a monthly payment, mind you.
Re:Trump fires all 24 members of the U.S. National Science Foundation
on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @06:13AM (#47946283)
Cumulative Historical Emissions (1850–Present):
US ~537Gt
China ~312Gt
Re:Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
on Saturday April 25, 2026 @08:24AM (#47900881)
Elliott, Chris (2017). "Bandages, Bitumen, Bodies and Business – Egyptian mummies as raw materials". Aegyptiaca (1): 40–46.
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/aegyp/articl...
Also:
Re:Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural di...
on Saturday April 25, 2026 @03:30AM (#47899482)
We all just need a little more iodine in our sodium.
Re:An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon
on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @03:48AM (#47671972)
Have you actually looked in that repo? No hardware source and a few things related to sdr or fpga but nothing that allows someone to build this.
Re:China stands to benefit most from the war-driven energy crisis
on Monday April 06, 2026 @02:30PM (#47664899)
Archive.ph:
(Title changed)
Re:An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon
on Monday April 06, 2026 @02:16PM (#47664730)
Apparently it’s a way to attract attention and support. I’ve been following picoIDE which got some attention here on HN 4 months ago [1]. When asked then where the src is, the answer was in a few weeks. Fast-forward a crowd-supply campaign (no mention 4 months ago) to the tune of 350k and the repo is still empty.
Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down
Re:An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests
on Friday March 27, 2026 @12:31PM (#47544857)
Wind is not a homogeneous movement, there are highways and slow lanes. Spores (as from fungi), pollen (from wind pollinators such as grasses) and dust-like seeds (e.g. from orchids) are ideal nucleation points for condensation. So when wind is forced up (because of changes in the terrain) these are the particles that get filtered out: either physically as precipitation or functionally by freezing.
For those interested, there have been a number of studies that put numbers on the action radius. When genetic manipulation of wind pollinators (e.g. wheat, corn and others grasses) came in vogue they needed to put a number on the dispersal of modified pollen.
Re:Sodium-ion EV battery breakthrough delivers 11-min charging and 450...
on Thursday March 26, 2026 @04:04AM (#47527799)
I’d like to add construction materials to the list of energy intensive products. Glass, bricks, rockwool and cement.
Re:A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm
on Sunday March 15, 2026 @05:13AM (#47385607)
We still live in an age of deterministic computers. It’s the software that’s become fuzzy. (And since we’re on the subject: there’s no AI)
Re:Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and R...
on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:37AM (#47348008)
From my personal experience, the article and the comments I read here they seriously undersold the reliability of rewriting. For any other RW medium (audio or video cassettes, even floppies) I remember ad campaigns by Sony, TDK, Philips, … on tv. But not for these.
Re:I used pulsar detection techniques to turn a phone into a watch tim...
on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @02:42PM (#47327204)
If you know the structure of the “tick”, you can apply the technique of a correlation receiver. It can dig up signals below the noise floor and is used in GPS reception.
Re:Scientists detect a sudden acceleration in global warming
on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @04:18AM (#47320419)
Scientists detect a sudden acceleration in global warming
Re:Microscopes Can See Video on a LaserDisc
on Monday March 09, 2026 @01:27AM (#47305186)
I did the same thing to evaluate random number generators by drawing pixels with the count value. You see a pattern, line or clusters? Bad generator.
Shift in the Gulf Stream could signal ocean current collapse
Re:A ternary plot of citrus geneology
on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:33AM (#47271258)
During lockdown I started growing clementine from seed. One of the interesting details of this genus is polyembryonism: multiple seedlings emerging from one seed. Apparently, one of the seedlings will be a clone of the motherplant and the rest will be the product of pollination/genetic reshuffling. My clementine seeds all had 2 seedlings per seed but other attempts (with lemon I think) yielded 3 or more).
During my reading I came across a lot of contradictory info about the origin of the clementine: some papers say it’s an unknown hybrid, other clearly state it’s a mutation instead of a hybrid. So it’s interesting to read the hybrid parentage in this triangle, stated with confidence.
Re:Where things stand with the Department of War
on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:19AM (#47271178)
Re:OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation
on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:42AM (#47178159)
That’s why I switched from map.me to Organic Maps. This one too?