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Re:Emacs Is My New Window Manager on Monday December 08, 2025 @08:03AM (#46191729)
I think this may be it (or something similar).

https://web.archive.org/web/20041030060909/http://www.inform...

Here's another similar Staub affiliate site with the legendary Jane Doe, Professional Chef offering their approval. At least this one is up front that they're just in the affiliate advertising program.

https://www.usastaub.com/staub-cast-iron/

1 cm = 0.3937 in

5 cm = 5*(0.3937) = 1.9685 ≈ 2 in

There are two forms of Social Security disability benefits, one paid from payroll taxes (SSDI) and one from general tax revenues (SSI, this one). I for one was not really aware of the distinction.

https://www.usa.gov/social-security-disability

https://blog.ssa.gov/understanding-social-security-disabilit...

Re:Shinzo Abe's Assassination on Saturday November 04, 2023 @11:03AM (#38141655)
The same thing happened to me on a different article yesterday using Firefox. It worked using Edge.
"In 1997, Congress passed the Balanced Budget Act, a bipartisan effort to cut back on spending. The act put a cap on the number of annual residencies CMS would support, and froze the funding at 1996 levels. . . . Since 2007, a bill to increase the number of residencies has been introduced in every Congress . . . but never passed."

https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/04/13/were-short-on-healt...

Re:The Open Buddhist University on Monday May 22, 2023 @07:14PM (#36037902)
I think this is less true than it used to be. At my university, most material is locked up behind a Learning Management System (LMS) like Canvas.
Re:The moral case against equity language on Saturday March 04, 2023 @03:55PM (#35024416)
Bats are vertebrates, aren't they?
Same for me, as of this evening, the 'Latest' tab is now gone (it was there this afternoon). This largely eliminates my preferred way to use Twitter. I suppose I was of little value to them as a not-logged-in user, so they have eliminated any value for me.
I have one of these plugging up a hole inside my heart.

https://www.goremedical.com/products/cardioform/septal-occlu...

Re:Clojure from a Schemer's Perspective (2021) on Thursday November 03, 2022 @10:12PM (#33461030)
Serious question, would clipboards meet current compliance requirements? There's no authentication, no audit trail, etc.
Re:My Elm Experience on Saturday January 22, 2022 @12:12PM (#30038561)
> small, gui, command line, networked projects ... switched to chicken scheme for that purpose

What's your preferred gui library for Chicken for this sort of thing?

Re:The medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’ on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @10:26PM (#29901906)
Maybe this? "Melatonin synthesis in rice seedlings in vivo is enhanced at high temperatures and under dark conditions due to increased serotonin N-acetyltransferase and N-acetylserotonin methyltransferase activities"

https://doi.org/10.1111/jpi.12111

Re:Typos, tricks and misprints on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:09PM (#28019355)
I've known multiple people with the last name spelled Koch. One pronounced it "Coke", one "Cook", one "Cock", and one "Cahch".
Re:An Object-Oriented Language for the '20s on Saturday March 13, 2021 @12:06PM (#26447925)
"Data in Newton is stored in object-oriented databases known as soups."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton#Data_storage

"Plastics production accounts for about 4 percent of global oil production. That’s according to figures for 2012, so now it may well be higher."

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/How-Much-Crude-Oi...

Re:St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries (516) on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:18PM (#25724435)
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library (https://ccel.org) versions are pretty decent and in a variety of formats.

Rule of St. Benedict is at https://ccel.org/ccel/benedict/rule/rule

Textured Vegetable Protein, a soy-based product.

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

Indeed, if the short sellers are wrong, they should be able to take advantage like VW in 2008.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-idUSTRE49R3I92...

Re:Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: primitive functions on Saturday September 05, 2020 @05:58PM (#24387175)
There's also Bones, an R5RS Scheme that compiles to x86_64 assembly (from the Chicken Scheme creator).

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/bones/

https://bitbucket.org/bunny351/bones

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