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> Sodium phosphate is no longer recommended as a bowel preparation regimen due to its serious side effects Well in my country, it's still wildly used for people without renal issue…

I was thinking the same thing. Simple sugars and highly processed foods tends to affect the gut microbiome. I guess "more ressearch is needed".

> Not allowed in EU. I'm surprised, I know for a fact that some stores definitely have the ability to do that on their hardware.

And they even put a nagware in it to point you to the new notepad. Oh MSFT.

No, no, no, Emacs is a pretty good operating system, it just lacks a good text editor.

Maybe it's just a PR stunt, maybe not, we'll find out in due time. The thing is, there has been a lot of announcement like that in the past, but when the dust settles, you find out…

It goes well with their greenwashing "search engine" (API to bing and google).

However, Holywood might like the idea of producing an endless stream of content/music/movies/etc. with little human intervention.

Could a gladiator win such a fight? I guess with a long reach weapon like a pilum, the gladiator may have a chance but it would be a hell of a fight. With a gladius or any other sh…

Most of the time it was not the church that did the execution. The church was more an expertise if you will and delivered the suspect to civil authorities with a judgement. The civ…

I doubt that. Big predators don't quit fights even when mortally wounded.

For a time it was a new market, full of potential growth. Then it got mature, every one who wanted one had one and given the nature of the device (low cost/low performance) it woul…

It's better than days old refrigerated food, but not equivalent to freshly picked. I grow beans in my garden. French beans and broad beans are quite good frozen, perhaps amongst th…

Unfortunately no. The cold degrades some molecules involved in the flavour of the fruit.

As someone who started it's career in a thinkpad only shop Indeed, old thinkpads were designed to survive a coffee spill on the keyboard and they did, and various drops (with spinn…

0% chance of this happening, but I like the idea.

XP 64 was kinda good but crippled by poor driver support and thus stability issues.

>look at what China is doing China needs everything it can build and more. It's not much the what but rather where, when and how much that is crucial.

There is indeed a difference between specced for "incandescent bulbs wont start a fire" and "it's warm enough to cook the electronics of your led bulbs"

Big talk. Let's see if it will survive another media cycle.

Moped going 20+kph are regulated need registration and can't ride on sidewalk, there are ebikes weighting more than moped and going faster.

What? Pastures? Grassland are actually good for biodiversity.

Drywalling is easy. Good drywalling is not that difficult if you are patient. Now good and fast that's the hard part.

Russia did that [1] But it was more to deal with the remoteness of the region and the challenges/costs to build a npp on permafrost. [1] https://www.revistanuclear.es/en/tecnologia…

Hard to standardize after decades of use. Each of these are well known to the public, referenced everywhere. Changing this would be painful and the benefice is not evident.