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To add something similar: I am now at the point where maybe a few times a day I can visualize a glimpse of a memory, but otherwise it is blank and I have no visual dreams. But it d…

There is an interesting reddit community 'CureAphantasia' with resources to develop your ability to visualize mental images. Together there are ca. 25 posts that offer a complete g…

To give an example from my software at work, structural engineering: You make a 3D-model (BIM, Building Information Model) of the steel skeleton of some project. The software can t…

Software engineering takes surprisingly little responsibility compared to other engineering disciplines. This seems like a good development to me. Of course you can't expect someon…

As it was explained to me warts are caused by a virus, which at some point the local skin tissue no longer attacks. Any treatment that provokes the immune system in the area withou…

On average man burns ca. 2500 kcal per day, mostly in rest. One hour of reasonably intensive cardio burns 500~600 kcal. If you have two such workouts a week it comes down to an inc…

When it comes to economics it never ceases to amaze me that we build an entire system on the basic assumption that everyone acts primarily in their own self-interest, and that that…

Or something changed in the environment that made younger fish less healthy.

Paper that discusses similarities between the envelope glycoprotein of retroviruses and syncytin: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758191/ This field is called paleovi…

> The syncytiotrophoblast is the outermost layer of the placenta, the part that is pressed against the uterus. It’s literally a layer of cells that have fused together, forming a w…

Prince has been doing this for 20 years and is in my opinion the gold standard, with good support for footnotes, endnotes, page headers and other little extensions that are only re…

If wish we could merge this comment with the thread where people are defending Youtubes right to show ads. I am so glad there is technology available to choose what I want to read …

If a CC2 building collapses, the expectation is that in only about 3% of the cases this leads to someone dying. I don't know the complete reasoning, but can imagine some factors of…

It may be nice to know the safety factors used for structural engineering of homes, offices and other regular buildings in the EU. The Eurocode defines 3 consequence classes: CC1, …

Animation of a turbo roundabout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkmelZhvlPk (or search for 'turbo rotonde', there is a lot of material in Dutch available). There are over 2000 of …

That is before my time, I only ever owned a serial A3 XY-plotter. Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter#History ) suggest it was possible on a roll: > Early pen plotter…

For construction plans the A0 and A1 paper sizes are standard. But those paper sizes don't come as sheets, they are printed on a roll of ca. 900mm wide and cut by the printer. So i…

Corridor Crew: https://www.youtube.com/@CorridorCrew If you want to learn more about visual effects, stunts, CGi in popular movies.

From http://prize.hutter1.net/ : Being able to compress well is closely related to intelligence as explained below. While intelligence is a slippery concept, file sizes are hard nu…

I wondered what makes these 'molecular jackhammers' attack only cancer cells. The trick is that they are dye molecules, which can be engineered to attach to a specific biomolecule.…

What was the reason Firefox for Android did not have a large repertoire of extensions from the start? Was it because of different multiprocess support?

My Brother HL2240D (ca. €100) started to see some wear on the wheel that picks up pages after ca 80.000 prints. I combined some parts with another HL2250 that had some wear, and wa…

There was a lot of talk about Firefox having poor performance, but I have never experienced any of it. For daily use Firefox has always been one of the more responsive applications…

Unless the environment is also touched by a part of the program written in Go, Julia, I don't know... The lock is not shared across languages.

You are right. POSIX specifies one thing, the standard library in Rust and some other libraries specifies something different. 'Safe to use unless there are other threads' is not r…