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Re:Why getting your hands dirty is good for you on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:55AM (#49610412)
Did you know that walking barefoot in the Southern US was how most people contracted hookworm? At is height an estimated 40% of the population in certain regions had the parasite which was know to cause a "mental haze". Some historians attribute the disease (again, contracted by walking barefoot outdoors) to have caused the stereotype of the "lazy slow southerner" [1].

Do you feel walking barefoot is worth the risk of catching this and other potentially hazardous diseases?

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-so...

Off topic, but I totally recommend you check out Total Recall (1990)

"Wake up, Mr. Quaid!"

Re:The case for overhauling American science on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:32PM (#49306727)
Letting China or other foreign nations invent the next great technologies and then buying it from them sounds to me an lot like outsourcing R&D. The US already outsourced much of its manufacturing, if we outsource the R&D as well what jobs will remain in the US? Surely we cannot become a nation of middle managers.
Why would a terrorist want to plant a Bluetooth device on someone else's bag when all it would accomplish is a minor delay of one flight and would result in a prison sentence after security camera review??
Re:Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:27PM (#48216662)
What do you mean by etching? Google does also it's own chip design with TPUs, data centers, and models but afaik only TSMC Intel and Samsung do the actual semiconductor fabrication
So that you don't accidentally run malware. MacOS is not iOS, you can run unsigned code if you really want to, but it will make you jump through a few hoops.