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We have very few effective antifungals, and discovering new ones is an order of magnitude harder than discovering new antibiotics due to fungi being more closely related to animals…

In practice, 100%. In theory we could likely design "good enough" anonymous systems that work like buying alcohol or tobacco in most countries (buy a scratch token in cash at a cor…

"They are shrinking from responsibilities such as marriage, homeowning and child-rearing because “adulting is hard”, as one of his students put it. Western culture, Mr Hayward wrot…

They also have absurdly huge TIFFs of all 3 posters if folks are interested: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Gary+Overacre%...

FWIW, your Enterprise key for Win10 should also work to install Win11 enterprise (the MAK keys for the two versions are identical, even), so you can test this fairly easily if you'…

When I'm carded in RL, it is atypical for my ID to be stored, and I must be informed of the fact. A clerk examines the birthday line, and that is that. There is no record. The purc…

This. They're following the Orban-Erdogan-Harper (International Democratic Union) playbook - purge the judiciary of independent judges, control the news media, and open culture-war…

HaveIbeenpwnd says it was just passwords/usernames/emails, so seemingly not. (My company just got an email from them about the breach and I confirmed I'm in there with a quick sear…

I do -- I use WinAmp myself, mostly, but xmplay was updated as recently as 2020 so it's still a thing.

It might be, though a lot of municipalities also have bylaws that require certain forms of ground cover on lots, either for aesthetic or drainage purposes.

Your handling of folks' feedback in this thread is impressively graceful, fwiw.

Plenty of monkeys will opportunistically consume things, and some groups like the baboons and mandrills are gleefully omnivorous and have been known to take down small antelopes. T…

The 'Project Farm' reviews on Youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectFarm ) really have been eye-opening for me in that regard; sometimes there is still a strong correlation bet…

It can make sense for a company where you know the printers will be used regularly and heavily and thus will also be subject to a lot of wear and tear, plus the pricing the big pla…

Jason @ textfiles also did a nice compilation: http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/ There's a delightful irony in the fact that such a page would absolutely have murdered a brow…

Oh neat. Do these writings use Hanzi or something else?

Re: Publishing in Mandarin, just in case you're curious: Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, Wu, etc are spoken languages (or dialects, or varieties), but the writing system is co…

It varies by market a lot. In my part of Canada -- for example -- appliances are almost always included with a house or apartment purchase. Similarly, I only recently learned that …

Northridgefix? Tronicsfix? TheCod3r? (Louis Rossmann, of old?) There's several of them, but it really depends on the value of the device more than the cost. A lot of what Northridg…

Snake-oil and moralizing. Dietetics suffers from the same issue that mental health does: there's an underlying stigma that causes people to inflict a moral judgement on the ill; fa…

This is indeed /exactly/ what I wondered once people started quoting St. Paul, and as a historian, the implications aren't great.

If they can get the attention of a sufficiently well-connected person, they can probably scam their way into patronage via some form of bundling either via a well-connected private…

The very same Louisiana that insists that age verification on websites is completely safe and reasonable? Shocking. Sadly, probably not the first such breach we'll see, though perh…

It's funny, because in Old English ('Anglo-Saxon'), vowel and consonant length are both semantically important. For those of you who want to have a better handle on the distinction…

I once happened across a Github where all the repos were subtle little bits of anti-Semitic cant relating to the Holocaust. More than subverting them, they also often function as d…