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  • Marjorie Taylor Greene turns on Trump administration

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  • Why are you guys getting so personally triggered by a one-word comment? They said it's performative. Yes, the liberals do it too. Is this a sports game? Are we keeping scores? Is your team winning?

  • Trump’s Tariffs Have Done What No US Adversary Could

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  • I don't think the world applauds that at all. The US used to be the good guys. Very flawed but still "good" as things go. Now they're just dangerous and thrashing wildly...

  • Venezuelan man disappeared to El Salvador by US immigration Gestapo after making wrong turn on bridge

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  • In Soviet America, a wrong turn takes your life.

  • Trump says EU must buy $350B of US energy to get tariff relief

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  • Feeding money to Russia was madness and had to be stopped as a priority. Nothing ridiculous about it.

  • Two cranes - Ohara Koson (1925 - 1936)

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  • I wasn't aware of that site. There's almost too much great stuff there!...

    Thank you again.

  • An antiviral chewing gum to reduce influenza and herpes simplex virus transmission

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  • a chewing gum made from lablab beans, Lablab purpureus—that naturally contain an antiviral trap protein (FRIL)—to neutralize two herpes simplex viruses (HSV-1 and HSV-2) and two influenza A strains (H1N1 and H3N2). The chewing gum formulation allowed for effective and consistent release of FRIL at sites of viral infection.

    They demonstrated that 40 milligrams of a two-gram bean gum tablet was adequate to reduce viral loads by more than 95%, a reduction similar to what they saw in their SARS-CoV-2 study.

  • Two cranes - Ohara Koson (1925 - 1936)

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  • This plus good other images are amazing, thank you!

    For me, in this one, the receding reeds capture the show... The way Japanese prints use negative space is unequalled, even in contemporary art!

    Photography was available during his time, and he seems to be mixing traditional with a much more modern look. It's fantastic:

  • New vaccine concept tackles harmful bacteria in the intestine

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  • Vaccines turned me into a newt!

  • Seize the Means of Production

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  • Ok, so Two-Tone-Beard-Man is Marx, Slightly-Darker-Beard-Man is Engels, but who are Long-Beard-Man and Auntie-Glasses-Lady? I ask because Long-Beard-Man appears to be the winner of the heated exchange at the end...

  • Trump set to announce new round of tariffs on his so-called ‘liberation day’

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  • You are being liberated. Please do not resist.

  • Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today

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  • Thanks, and sorry about that! I removed the colon from near my URL now, just in case.

  • Scientists release plans for an even bigger atom smasher along the French-Swiss border

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  • "could help solve" was the quote.

    Physics is like that joke about halving the distance to a woman at a bar*. I don't expect it will ever be entirely solved, but whatever stands as the "for all practical purposes" of the era might. I'm taking "help solve" as just another halving of the distance in this analogy.

    A mathematician and an engineer are sitting at a table drinking when a very beautiful woman walks in and sits down at the bar.

    The mathematician sighs. "I'd like to talk to her, but first I have to cover half the distance between where we are and where she is, then half of the distance that remains, then half of that distance, and so on. The series is infinite. There'll always be some finite distance between us."

    The engineer gets up and starts walking. "Ah, well, I figure I can get close enough for all practical purposes."

  • Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today

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  • The real meat of the story is in the referenced blog post: https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-in-64kb-ram

    TL;DR

    If you're short on time, here's the key engineering story:

    • McIlroy's first innovation was a clever linguistics-based stemming algorithm that reduced the dictionary to just 25,000 words while improving accuracy.
    • For fast lookups, he initially used a Bloom filter—perhaps one of its first production uses. Interestingly, Dennis Ritchie provided the implementation. They tuned it to have such a low false positive rate that they could skip actual dictionary lookups.
    • When the dictionary grew to 30,000 words, the Bloom filter approach became impractical, leading to innovative hash compression techniques.
    • They computed that 27-bit hash codes would keep collision probability acceptably low, but needed compression.
    • McIlroy's solution was to store differences between sorted hash codes, after discovering these differences followed a geometric distribution.
    • Using Golomb's code, a compression scheme designed for geometric distributions, he achieved 13.60 bits per word—remarkably close to the theoretical minimum of 13.57 bits.
    • Finally, he partitioned the compressed data to speed up lookups, trading a small memory increase (final size ~14 bits per word) for significantly faster performance.

  • Which Shampoos From Europe Do You Use?

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  • After a lifetime of dealing with dandruff, I've recently discovered the best anti-dandruff shampoo in the world, hands down: hot water.

    No shampoo at all. Just scrubbing with hot water every two-three days. After about a month or two the scalp stops overcompensating for the degreasing effect of shampoos and calms down. The first month will be pretty itchy and dandruffy though. Tapering out shampoo use gradually and some spray-on/drip-on anti-seboreic dermatitis lotion can keep things under control until the scalp normalizes.

    I think this was the video that I first got the idea from:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmDBYsRJN7A

  • Why indeed

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  • Ok, that could be true. I assumed they meant the "building" phase that some frameworks go through.

  • Why indeed

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  • Except... the compilation step doesn't add type safety to JS.

    As an aside, type safety hasn't been something I truly miss in JS, despite how often it's mentioned.

  • Incredible progress on solar power

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  • Terrawatt hours (per year, I assume?) is a strange way to express power usage. It's like saying "my girlfriend lives only 60 km/h minutes away" instead of "1 km away".

    And the value is equivalent to 2.74 gigawatts of continuous power output. Which is way too low to be right.

    But it's what I'm finding online too. It's like nobody understands what the units mean and they only care about relative changes over time.

    I did find the statement that "the total global electricity [generation] capacity in 2022 was nearly 8.9 terawatt (TW)", which makes more sense.

  • "They basically want to kill me": GOP efforts to turn Musk into a MAGA martyr are backfiring

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  • Bees are pretty much the angels of the insect world... Harming no-one and nothing, and almost single-handedly holding up the ecosystem of a quarter of the planet's life forms.

    He's got a long way to go to reach level bee.

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  • I just funged it. You'll never get me, coppers.