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XOR A absolutely works on Z80 and it's of course faster and shorter than loading a zero value with LD A,0. LD A,0 is encoded to 2 bytes while XOR A is encoded as a single opcode. X…

I think the answer is in the article text "all meticulously sectioned by publisher". Book sizes differ somewhat between publishers, but each publisher tends to only print books in …

I always thought it to be the other way around. If you assume that we are living in a simulation, then gravity might well be an artifact of a simulation that runs on localized, loo…

The same thing happened a week ago in Hamburg/Germany when the fire department wanted to inform the local population about necessary evacuations for removal of World War II unexplo…

I just ran into the same issue yesterday when I was updating one of my machines. Furtunately I caught the DKMS error when mkinitcpio ran after the upgrade: ==> dkms install --no-de…

I would argue that the credit of first 3D open-world game belongs firmly to Mercenary from 1985, and not to Hunter with it's 1991 release date. Mercenary is a 3D vector environment…

The best exploration of this theme that I have read, was an East German SF novel from the former GDR. Unfortunately, as far as I know, it has never been translated into English. He…

There's more to the story than that. The last German government before Merkel came to power, was a coalition between the Green party and the Social-Democrats (SPD), this government…

It's also available on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/305272247

Some other webcomics I remember from that time: - CFRH or College Roomies from Hell, still ongoing although at a much slower pace: http://www.crfh.net/ - Sabrina Online, started 19…

If you would like to have more background information, here is a great thread about Chechen history and Kadirovs rise to power in view of this conflict. https://threadreaderapp.com…

It looks like the proposed Covid-19 antibody find for Italy from 2019 is not uncontested among the science community, here is a comment from virologist Marion Koopmans [1], who was…

According to the Guardian article [1] they had already traced him down to Spain and only used Google Maps to confirm their leads. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/05/…

Do you have source for that claim? I tried to find that recommendation, but all I came up with, was this fact check [1]. According to the fact check the CDC did NOT change cycle th…

Well apparently it is possible, and it has been done, probably more than once. In his German language podcast Dr. Drosten, a Coronavirus specialist from Charite Berlin, is addressi…

This WHO statement has been widely misinterpreted, is is not the case that PCR tests were resulting in inflated numbers of false positives, see Reuters fact check [1] from February…

In this Twitter thread Immunologist Kristian G. Andersen is addressing similar claims about the Furin cleavage site and the use of CGG codons: https://twitter.com/K_G_Andersen/stat…

This is good summary of the intellectual property situation for mRNA vaccine. The link was posted 2 weeks ago on the Twitter stream of Katalin Kariko, pioneer of mRNA vaccine techn…

I had the exact same question. What I could find was this Reuters article [0] which lists nucleotides and special plastic containers as two of the items in short supply. [0] https:…

Relevant twitter thread by Kai Kupferschmidt, a science journalist, whose top-notch coverage of COVID-19 related topics, I have come to appreciate during this pandemic. Key points:…

I was going to post the same link, as I also feel that this article is more nuanced. There is also a twitter thread by one of the article's authors summarizing the article and disc…

It seems more like the majority of borosilicate vials are produced outside of China. It doesn't even look like China has any significant domestic production capacity for the type o…

Not a biologist. But this interesting article [1] in Science Magazine, describes a possible route how SARS-CoV-2 may acquire multiple new mutations: Immunocompromised patients with…