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NYC is highly walkable, and very large. Same with London. The benefits of large walkable cities is that people get motivated to do urban 'hikes' and the hours of exercise are much …

Coffee is an anti-thiamine factor (because of compounds like caffeic acid, which also exist in Dcaf). It also hinders absorption of thiamine and minerals such as iron. Other than m…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorticity If anyone is looking for a fun numerical simulation project I highly recommend reading up on the Vortex Lattice Method, which is an approxim…

I got steam going perfectly on MX linux, but the AMDGPU setup was a royal PITA to get working. Took me days to figure out. Definitely not turnkey. Maybe ubuntu is better in this re…

back in the day when sharks were not equipped with laser ranging devices.

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all "old" computer users urged to move to unix/linux.

this will work only if it's Xorg that has crashed. For a kernel panic or lockup I think it's a combination roughly similar to: 1. Ctr-Alt-PrintScreen 2. continue to hold Alt 3. R-I…

oops, correction first sentence should read: The rocket achieves orbit from the potential energy plus the kinetic energy. (Both kinetic and potential energy factor need to be a tak…

I think there might ve been a court scene in Bicentennial Man. i never saw that movie though, only the trailer. I haven't seen Black Mirror either.

It gets orbital speed and kinetic energy from the aircraft. Being dropped from a 747 the kinetic energy is far smaller than the potential energy. The 747 goes perhaps mach 0.8-some…

Yeah it's a hunger suppressant but it can wear out your adrenals if you use it that way regularly and very often. (spikes cortisol if you drink it on an empty stomach; I think it's…

unless you keep your cell phone a few cm away from your body physically you are generally exposed to above thermal limits (assuming you have airplane mode off and data or wifi enab…

AI lawyers, my goodness. I've never even seen this in sci-fi. Welcome to the future!

isn't android based on Obnox OS? I think this could be an issue when it's used for critical automotive functions as well as incredibly important issues such as driver distraction f…

For 90% of the pastries that are available in my area (NY) the factories/bakeries seem to use sugar by the bucket-load in their recipes. Often it's hard to taste anything in some p…

Anyone in normal health getting a second or follow on shot (aka booster) should have done so only with a negative D-Dimer test monitoring their reaction to their initial (or previo…

well, that was timed well for Christmas. While Buffalo got hammered twice by snow so far, it almost totally missed Rochester and portions in central NY. Rochester still got a white…

They didn't test it enough with crude approximations (Kerbal in particular)? More drag over the path than initially than estimated?

> The downside of [Visible Light Communications] comes from a high rate of “leakage” of energy with the emitting of side-channel radio wave signals. The researchers believe that if…

also more favorable weather for pickle jar babushkas to be outside, on balcony. So more protection from drones and cruise missiles.

This coming August we probably won't need to use electricity to brew coffee. You can just leave a pot of water out on the porch, let it warm to about 50C by 6PM , run that water th…

Winter has almost been a total dud in western NY and much of the US. How much of this is due to just: (A.) randomness and chance (B.) the fact that we're above 400 ppm carbon dioxi…

Because a PCIe slot is more versatile, and for quite a few other reasons. While one person might find a RX 6400 GPU optimal, with its 50 some watt TDP and 1080p medium capability, …