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Wrote my first programs for this too, at 7. Copied from the manual with no understanding but eventually writing my own. The only coder in the house! Didn't write anything decent un…

Sadly I'm in the same boat, for years now. Fatigue is such an inadequate term. Can't even sit up for long without getting exhausted. Still trying treatments but to no avail so far.…

A lesson learned from hard experience and unfortunately too late: get your own illness benefit insurance. If you have it through your employer you can't sue the insurance company s…

I love that song and found out recently it was actually written by Peter Hames.

You may enjoy https://behind-the-screens.tv/

You're right. Tom Clancy used it in The Sum of All Fears

The book is well worth a read too. There are some great bits with John Von Neumann. On a similar note, Adventures of a Physicist by Luis Alvarez is also a great read. Among many ot…

There's a nice webcomic called Drawing History that gives a gentle overview of many ancient civilisations, including the Kush https://m.tapas.io/series/Drawing-History/info

Zoom traffic is encrypted, just not end-to-end. So your ISP and flatmates can't sniff it but people with access to Zoom servers could

I'm interested in your opinion of the citations too. They purport to show persistence beyond standard treatment in mice, dogs, macaques and humans, the latter via xenodiagnosis and…

I got one shipped to Ireland and it arrived in one beautiful piece. Cliff also sent on a email documenting the process and I replied with an unboxing photo. It was worth ordering j…

30000 Lyme cases a year are reported by health services to the CDC so eventually some celebs are going to catch it, and since they make good news you'll hear about it. On "chronic …

> But the concept of a "chronic" bacterial lyme infection has little to no medical bearing. From your first link: "In 2017, scientists at the Tulane National Primate Research Cente…

The last being one of the founders of ycombinator

I found it well worth reading, and found his writing about thinking to be so clear that I felt like I could almost understood thought, for a while. You might like the abridged vers…

Normal DB indexes are designed to be general-purpose so that they give predictable performance no matter the data you insert. The paper basically describes a more efficient way to …

Postgres has a query optimizer that uses Genetic Algorithms: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/geqo.html Clarification: this is for planning how to execute a query, no…

It's worthwhile to remember that Athenian democracy was direct and not representative like nowadays. Individuals voted on bills rather than electing officials to vote in their plac…

Seems life expectancy of 70 years was considered normal a couple thousand years ago: https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Psalms-90-10/ Edit: never thought I'd be quoting the bible…

It's tangential, but I'm reading Dracula atm and Jonathan Harker mentions taking pictures with a Kodak. It was written in 1897.

There are some great videos by the author on the same subject at: http://videolectures.net/course_information_theory_pattern_r... They cover a lot of the same ground but in a gentl…

For anyone wondering what distance fields are for, check out: http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/raymarchingdf/raymarching... The code to generate all those images comes to only 13…