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This is how Nintendo engineered a legal argument disallowing 3rd party cartridges original GameBoy. The cartridge needed to display the Nintendo logo on startup which was checked p…

Radiation units are fiendishly tricky to convert between. Here, the only indication is that after decontamination their hair was still reading 300 counts per minute. CPM are instru…

Always has been. Julie of the Wolves is a Newbery winner and the sexual assault in the first quarter of the book is central to the entire story. The Giver is another, and deals wit…

Embarassingly, as I reread this 11 days later (wondering where I got a 20 point score bump from), I notice I once again said the exact opposite of cone and rod. I seem to be cursed…

So tired of defending against this same, old, completely wrong intuition from people especially those saying "do the science" to justify their ignorance instead of looking themselv…

Women (here I mean XX individuals) have two different alleles present for each of the green (OPN1MW, also the OPN1MW2 duplication) and red cones (OPN1LW), since these are found on …

Presumably because the price was about 5x higher to begin with than any the competitors at the same tier of performance? Perhaps it's better to get paid anything at all than to jus…

Can you elaborate? All I see is a lot of ghosting of the home screen items still showing all around the text, eating up the contrast ratio so it's much worse than a cheap TN panel …

Those wanting to duplicate the electronic bbq idea can build themselves a HeaterMeter. https://github.com/CapnBry/HeaterMeter/wiki

It depends, what are you charging for the new features in the update/version? Twenty years ago, you'd put out a new version and I could go find what new features it had and decide …

I disagree that evolutionary arms race is a specific term of art; we have many specific terms of art but 'arms race' is a broad generalization popularized by Dawkins as a pop scien…

While I do like LLMs for these tasks, unfortunately this one failed you but was a near enough miss that you couldn't see it. What you were really looking for is the Red Queen probl…

> If you haven't read it yourself how do you know... This vacuous objection can be raised against every single piece of information any human has ever learned from elsewhere, recur…

Can you explain what burned you? I imagine many of us are trying to sift through the raft of alternatives, and waterfox is a frequent mention, so data about pros and cons is valuab…

While this is confirming that Mozilla is already outright selling data, it at least DOES provide clarity on the issues around the acceptible use policy. That language had been so b…

It's against ToS to watch R rated movies.

(A sibling comment is wildly off the mark, and rather than reply and have my information buried far down the page, I'd rather it stay visible:) The lead/caesium iodides are from th…

Because the Talalay and Dunlop processes involve vulcanization at 115+ C to turn the material into a foamed rubber, which denatures the proteins that the immune system recognizes a…

This continues the pattern of all other announcements of running 'Deepseek R1' on raspberry pi - that they are running llama (or qwen), modified by deepseek's distillation techniqu…

It's unfortunate that he doesn't understand complexity analysis and has taken it upon himself to write an article that requires it as an underpinning. In particular, I stopped read…

Oh? Which pepper species and carrier mammal are involved here? Edit: DERP duh you mean humans. :D Literally made the comparison without recognizing it, too. /Edit Not challenging y…

Liquid capsaicin treatments for bird seed are an effective squirrel repellent. They also illustrate the evolution of this protein: birds have no receptors for capsaicin, while mamm…

And yet last night youtube broke itself on my Nvidia SHIELD by turning all video thumbnails into a larger size than the entire screen, such that no text or title is video nor even …