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To quote the article: suspected terrorism activities because of his alleged association with the movement against Cop City Complete horseshit on many levels, but presumably a legal…

As it happens, in humans there is a single gene on the Y chromosome, named SRY, that typically switches on male-linked traits. But you're right, the full range of biological possib…

Biology is often an intensely statistics-heavy field. A remarkably large part of statistics was developed to study issues in biology, particularly dealing with evolution and ecolog…

You'd be amazed how easy it is to take down a janky decades old LAMP stack.

It's the web-scrapers. I run a tiny little mom and pop website, and the bots were consistently using up all of my servers' resources. Cloudfare more or less instantly resolved it.

Looking at these bulletins, they appear to be quick summaries of pretty much any nuclear related incident that happens in the US, no matter how minor. I would assume that these are…

As I understand it, English at it's core is a Germanic language that underwent significant creolization with scandinavian sources. That core then acquired a significant amount of O…

Finding local players is always an issue, but there's tons of folks who prefer the more classic style of D&D. Take a look into Dungeon Crawl Classic and OSR takes on D&D like the B…

There's a consistent effort to make all the SI metric units based off of discreet measurements of physical constants. The speed of light is a constant, and the SI second is "define…

Two dashes are fine, the other options have different literary functions than em dashes, and shouldn't generally be used as replacements.

Most people don't use em dashes... apart from professional and skilled writers, who use them regularly. It's a bit of a problem that the same character is both a mark of LLMs and s…

Em dashes are very similar to semicolons. You use em dashes if your related sentence is in the middle of another sentence, and semicolons if it's at the end. They're frequently use…

En dashes, I'll grant you, are pointless. Those can go away. However, em dashes are a different case. The main reason why it's desirable to use em dashes (beside convention) is for…

I imagine it would have been up to the typesetter to make the call. The conventions for dash usage are fairly straightforward. You use em-dashes for asides, en dashes for ranges, a…

It's infuriating that people are drawing this conclusion. LLMs pick up on em dash usage because professional and skilled writers use em dashes. They're a consistently useful, if ni…

A ping pong ball would be roughly 2 trillion trillion atoms, for reference

Yep, that was also my takeaway. In addition, the population of mitochondria regulates the proportion of their specializations via fission and fusion among themselves. I wonder if t…

The fourth amendment requires them for search and seizures.

Well, the writer is the community manager, so at the minimum they are reading the CoC. That in itself shapes their moderation, which shapes the community. However, in my experience…

Things like this are actually some of the main reasons I'm moving my family to Europe. In Europe, my kid can be her own person with her own schedule and her own environment to expl…

I agree. For reference, the underlying cause of the Darwin and Wallace coincidence was the establishment of modern geology by Hutton (which established the earth was old and natura…

It's worth emphasizing that part of the reason why publishers are happy to work with providing libraries with ebooks is that libraries are extremely good customers. There's somethi…

If the IA is creating their own digital copies of physical books, it could be argued that that the IA is creating and distributing derivative works. I'm not certain, but my impress…

That's very interesting. Just goes to show that there's plenty to be learned. Thanks for sharing.

Well, worry not! Research suggests that the human body can produce up to a quintillion unique antibodies ! A vaccine is a drop in a solar-system. https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-e…