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The U.S. last beat screwworm in 1966

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Trick or spice? How the 'nutmeg' came to dominate the soccer world

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LHCb Collaboration discovers new proton-like particle

home.cern
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Strip mining of Illinois' coal deposits reveal the secret of the Tully Monster

uhaul.com
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Exploring the chip on a contactless payment card

facebook.com
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The Vault Guy

science.org
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Volcanic eruption might have helped bring the Black Plague to Europe

sciencenews.org
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NASA Rover Detects Electric Sparks in Mars Dust Devils, Storms

jpl.nasa.gov
5 points·by mzs·قبل 7 أشهر·1 comments

Sterile Neutrino Prediction Muddled by Latest Experiments

nytimes.com
5 points·by mzs·قبل 7 أشهر·2 comments

Forensic and bioarchaeological ID of the skeletal remains of Béla, Duke of Macsó

sciencedirect.com
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Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of first pan-European culture

science.org
6 points·by mzs·قبل 8 أشهر·0 comments

Distributing unnotarized Mac apps in a text file (2021)

web.archive.org
2 points·by mzs·قبل 8 أشهر·1 comments

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mzs
·قبل شهرين·discuss
I wonder how, if at all, you can improve precision with 4 stratum-1 clocks like he author has.
mzs
·قبل شهرين·discuss
I miss the days of knowing who last touched every source file and precisely what version it was:

  $ what /usr/bin/file
  /usr/bin/file:
   PROGRAM:file  PROJECT:file-106
   $File: apprentice.c,v 1.309 2021/09/24 13:59:19 christos Exp $
   $File: apptype.c,v 1.14 2018/09/09 20:33:28 christos Exp $
   $File: ascmagic.c,v 1.109 2021/02/05 23:01:40 christos Exp $
   $File: buffer.c,v 1.8 2020/02/16 15:52:49 christos Exp $
   $File: cdf_time.c,v 1.19 2019/03/12 20:43:05 christos Exp $
   $File: cdf.c,v 1.120 2021/09/24 13:59:19 christos Exp $
   $File: compress.c,v 1.129 2020/12/08 21:26:00 christos Exp $
   $File: der.c,v 1.21 2020/06/15 00:58:10 christos Exp $
   $File: encoding.c,v 1.32 2021/04/27 19:37:14 christos Exp $
   $File: fsmagic.c,v 1.81 2019/07/16 13:30:32 christos Exp $
   $File: funcs.c,v 1.122 2021/06/30 10:08:48 christos Exp $
   $File: is_csv.c,v 1.6 2020/08/09 16:43:36 christos Exp $
   $File: is_json.c,v 1.15 2020/06/07 19:05:47 christos Exp $
   $File: is_tar.c,v 1.44 2019/02/20 02:35:27 christos Exp $
   $File: magic.c,v 1.115 2021/09/20 17:45:41 christos Exp $
   $File: print.c,v 1.89 2021/06/30 10:08:48 christos Exp $
   $File: readcdf.c,v 1.74 2019/09/11 15:46:30 christos Exp $
   $File: readelf.c,v 1.178 2021/06/30 10:08:48 christos Exp $
   $File: softmagic.c,v 1.315 2021/09/03 13:17:52 christos Exp $
   $File: file.c,v 1.190 2021/09/24 14:14:26 christos Exp $
  ...
 
  WHAT(1)                     General Commands Manual                    WHAT(1)
  
  NAME
       what - show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file
  
  SYNOPSIS
       what [-qs] [file ...]
  
  DESCRIPTION
       The what utility searches each specified file for sequences of the form
       "@(#)" as inserted by the SCCS source code control system.  It prints the
       remainder of the string following this marker, up to a NUL character,
       newline, double quote, `>' character, or backslash.
  
       The following options are available:
  
       -q      Only output the match text, rather than formatting it.
  
       -s      Stop searching each file after the first match.
  
  EXIT STATUS
       Exit status is 0 if any matches were found, otherwise 1.
  
  SEE ALSO
       ident(1), strings(1)
  
  STANDARDS
       The what utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 ("POSIX.1").  The -q
       option is a non-standard FreeBSD extension which may not be available on
       other operating systems.
  
  HISTORY
       The what command appeared in 4.0BSD.
  
  BUGS
       This is a rewrite of the SCCS command of the same name, and behavior may
       not be identical.
  
  macOS 26.4                     December 14, 2006                    macOS 26.4
mzs
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
archive of forth translation of Crenshaw’s howto

https://web.archive.org/web/20190712115536/http://home.iae.n...
mzs
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
You'll probably dislike this too:

  $ {
  >     echo foo \
  >     && echo bar \
  >     || echo baz ;
  > }
  foo
  bar
  <^P><^A>$<^F>IFS
  ${IFS#   echo foo   && echo bar   || echo baz ; }
  $ _
There's good and bad to both approaches. I like how I can use () and {} to bracket things and otherwise every line that end in \ is continued. I line-up on the left with the operator, you with indentation. When you use a # style comment, you have to look up and back and forward to see what the operator is you are continuing over to the next line:

  $ foo |
    bar | # ?Do? *the* $bar$ && [do] {it!}
    baz
Which only takes an extra neuron or so, but then history...

  <^P>
  $ foo |   bar | # ?Do? *the* $bar$ && [do] {it!}
  baz
mzs
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
Wow I hate* that. I use bracket comments. They're cool cause they are bracket comments, so I use it in scripts to document pipelines. They are annoying cause they are bracket comments, in an interactive shell I have to type more and in TWO places. It's fun to reason-out how it works ;)

  $ echo foo | tr fo FO | sed 's/FOO/BAR/'
  BAR
  $ echo foo | ${IFS# tr fo FO | } sed 's/FOO/BAR/'
  foo
It's nice to have a way to both /* ... */ and // ... in shell scripts though:

  foo \
  | bar ${IFS Do the bar. Do it. } \
  | baz
* in the best possible way, like it's awful - I hate I didn't think of that
mzs
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
indeed: B. Joshua Rosen https://www.polybus.com/hdlmaker/Resume.html
mzs
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
"Part 64: Self-compilation on an 8-bit CPU"

Unlike how a bunch of projects end right as they start to get good, this has a great ending. Thank you
mzs
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
the code from 1995

https://github.com/thomas-hori/mirror-cwi-stdwin
mzs
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
1. is? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1659672
mzs
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
Had an assignment to build a shell in a week, how hard could it be?

  controlling terminal
  session leader
  job control
The parser was easy in comparison.
mzs
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
Solving the mystery of the Tully Monster: https://www.anl.gov/article/solving-the-mystery-of-the-tully...
mzs
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
links to this entertainment: https://crackhead.technology/anjoy-ssc338q-libtools/
mzs
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
Who was the 222nd commentator?

https://imgur.com/a/i5YQ2c4
mzs
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
This might be a Polish thing but hero has to die. Does not matter if accomplishes a goal, just that hero put it all on the line against incredible odds.
mzs
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
vxworks 6.x:

(one login session, say over serial)

  -> ioTaskStdGet 0, 1
  value = 3 = 0x3
  -> taskIdSelf
  value = 13600784 = 0xcf8810
(another session, say over telnet)

  -> ioTaskStdSet 0xcf8810, 1, 0x9
  value = 0 = 0x0
(first session ie SERIAL)

  -> printf "foo\n"
  -> taskIdSelf
  -> i
(otherone eg TELNET)

  -> foo
  value = 4 = 0x4
  value = 13600784 = 0xcf8810


     NAME         ENTRY       TID    PRI   STATUS      PC       SP     ERRNO  DELAY
  ----------  ------------ -------- --- ---------- -------- -------- ------- -----
  ...
teeheeheehaw!
mzs
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
I completely understand! I'm also Polish American. I have to say it helps when mother's side of family is Gdańsk+west and father's Lublin+east. My wife's family is all from Warsaw area and I had to translate for my father-in-law during a holiday to Władysławowo-Hel (probably helps my aunt's father's side is Kashubian too, mmm... dessert first).

I was blown-away on holiday to Croatia. It was so unexpectedly relatively easily understandable after Czechia, Austria, and Slovenia. I was all, "What just happened!? Shouldn't this be something more like Italian?"

It took only a month for me to be able to communicate in Ukrainian with my ESL students, you're totally right about Cyrillic. And I too think in concepts but switch my brain to express them externally via language, whatever that language may be at the moment. I am terrible at translating OTOH, so unnatural!

But it has it's limits, I got to a point after German and Norwegian that I thought I harbored a super-power. Then I went to school in Hungary ;) I also had an ESL student from Lithuania, yep incomprehensible.
mzs
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
https://github.com/KernelTuner/kernel_float
mzs
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
insightful footnote, thanks: https://web.archive.org/web/20190301193516/http://www.drdobb...
mzs
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
from one of the previous papers:

"To provide causal as opposed to correlational evidence, we take advantage of the fact that, in Wales, eligibility for the zoster vaccine was determined on the basis of an individual’s exact date of birth. Those born before 2 September 1933 were ineligible and remained ineligible for life, whereas those born on or after 2 September 1933 were eligible for at least 1 year to receive the vaccine."

Eyting, M., Xie, M., Michalik, F. et al. A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia. Nature 641, 438–446 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08800-x
mzs
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
A zoom of not 100% breaks the QR one at least.