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Magnesium absolutely helps, and with our modern farmed diet, most people are deficient. It it part of over 300 chemical reactions in the body. I've also been seeing a lot of commen…

I've read the Bobiverse series too :-). Maybe the question then is, do intelligent species have the will to invest the capital and labor required when there is no payoff in those d…

I wonder if the "generational problem" is a potential reason for the Fermi Paradox. If it is extremely difficult for a species to expend resources on multi-generational projects, t…

And when it's offered for free once, it's then a race to the bottom. People in general don't understand the value of curation nor quality, especially when it comes to information. …

No, it's not in the text at the original link, however, yes, there is a link to the full article in the blurb with the how: https://www.nationhoodlab.org/the-american-nations-regio…

We started with a Betamax player. I think one underappreciated reason for VHS's win was that you could put a movie on one VHS tape, whereas the Betamax required two (at least at th…

http://archive.today/tq9Vw

Out of the box Linux Mint, Debian or Fedora Gnome or KDE is similarly "just works". A lot has changed since 2007 Linux.

And you couldn't fit a whole movie on a single Betamax tape. That alone was a reason for VHS's acendancy.

> the entire Amiga hardware and operating system was written to make assembly coding convenient I am curious what specific examples do you have of the HW and OS being made/written …

Is it just me who 15 years ago laughed at the first big April Fools jokes by companies online, but now just cringes when I see headlines like this?

It's more common than you think, and it's called "terminal lucidity": https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/terminal-luci...

I pay for kagi.com and they seem to be fighting that battle. I also frequent their "small web" ( https://blog.kagi.com/small-web ) initiative.

because the crypto bros love him

At least for ^ I was always told that the ADM3a terminal keyboard had a HOME key with ~ and ^ on it, which is why ~ means "home directory", and ^ means "home of the line".

Where do left-tech activists tend to hang out? I would be interested in joining...

I did much the same thing (and much more) 10 years ago. I used a RPi as well as a Canon point-and-shot out my window. My pics were 1 per minute. Here is a link to the keogram secti…

That's a great concept. That was part of the premise of Smalltalk and Oberon, for example. How are you extending Lua to accomplish that goal?

Thank you! This is wonderful.

Do you have any texts/websites/papers that would allow one (me) to learn about "deeply rudimentary Lisp" and how to create one? I am especially interested in learning why 4 general…

Ohhhh... I didn't know you could blacklist, thanks!

The shepherd.com link is the second one that shows up on Kagi, after a Quora link: https://kagi.com/search?q=best+books+on+Battle+of+Midway

The same could be said of the ARM Cortex-M0+.