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Surprised doctors find 10-inch worm in man's groin during elective surgery

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nianderwallace
·3 gün önce·discuss
The utility poles in alleys are my signal that the video is shot in Vancouver. I haven't seen many other cities with such utility poles.

see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vancouver_BC_alley_a...
nianderwallace
·5 gün önce·discuss
The NY Times article about Target marketing to expectant mothers - see https://web.archive.org/web/20120216181457/http://www.nytime...

  “My daughter got this in the mail!” he said. “She’s still in high school, and you’re sending her coupons for baby clothes and cribs? Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?”

  The manager didn’t have any idea what the man was talking about. He looked at the mailer. Sure enough, it was addressed to the man’s daughter and contained advertisements for maternity clothing, nursery furniture and pictures of smiling infants. The manager apologized and then called a few days later to apologize again.

  On the phone, though, the father was somewhat abashed. “I had a talk with my daughter,” he said. “It turns out there’s been some activities in my house I haven’t been completely aware of. She’s due in August. I owe you an apology.”
Even though they tried to be subtle about marketing pregnancy-related products to new mothers, they didn't go far enough.

Perhaps a graphic, on the front page, above the fold, pointing to pregnancy-related sales on interior pages of the flyer. Non pregnancy-related sales should dominate the front page.
nianderwallace
·9 gün önce·discuss
from https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/state/california-weal...

  Under the initiative, “For any interests that confer voting or other direct control rights, the percentage of the business entity owned by the taxpayer shall be presumed to be not less than the taxpayer’s percentage of the overall voting or other direct control rights.”

  ...Together, for instance, Larry Page and Sergey Brin own about 11.3 percent of Alphabet (Google) but control 52.3 percent of voting rights. Similarly, Mark Zuckerberg owns about 13.6 percent of Meta but has 61.0 percent voting control.
nianderwallace
·11 gün önce·discuss
For specific cases, you'd convert your memory allocator - hopefully you could reduce the need to just certain mem allocs - and write-protect (aka read-only memory) those mem allocs except for the situations where your code is purposely writing to those areas of memory.

Yes, it'll be slow and use p lots of memory pages, unless you can reduce the mem allocs to a certain small set of allocs. And you'll have to have code to write-enable/write-disable those mem allocs. But if it catches the culprit writing bytes where they shouldn't, it'll be worth it.

The one time I did this for a buffer passed to a HW device, I could prove that the hardware was doing DMA-writes where it shouldn't. Had to bring a HW logic analyzer to verify.
nianderwallace
·geçen ay·discuss
People in other professions are jumping on this bandwagon - Tony Gilroy decided not to publish Andor TV show scripts to prevent AI companies using them for training.

see https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/andor-creator-refuses-publi...