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New comment by ekaryotic in "The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination"

ekaryotic — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:09:14 +0000

also, if you are blind from birth or go blind within a year of birth you won't develop schizophrenia. those folk are completely absent in the population.

New comment by ekaryotic in "A simplified model of Fil-C"

ekaryotic — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:51:41 +0000

could you recompile a c program in fil-c and then decompile it to c and recompile it in c to have the high performance.

New comment by ekaryotic in "Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin"

ekaryotic — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:35:16 +0000

Do you happen to know the reason the term for english is sasanach in irish language. i.e. is there a connection between sasanach and sassanian.

New comment by ekaryotic in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

ekaryotic — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:56:01 +0000

iirc it was bmw who was selling their electric seats as a service. It maybe the only way to avoid this exploitation is a socialist model, nationalize industries and/or pay the workers for their time inside of for their product.

That worked in a case i know of locally, there was a forestry company that had workers speeding for years. So a karen i know got on to a politician and managed to get them to pay by the hour instead of by the load. I still see the trucks on the road, they are much safer now.

New comment by ekaryotic in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

ekaryotic — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:57:18 +0000

or run without an OS like an arcade or console.

New comment by ekaryotic in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

ekaryotic — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:37:56 +0000

could have been a pressure to decrease wages, decreasing quality in exchange for increased quantity of code.

New comment by ekaryotic in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

ekaryotic — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:49:03 +0000

speedrunning super mario world with neural nets is weirdly effective though. i guess you need a genetic algorithm to refine different approaches rather than a neural net.

New comment by ekaryotic in "Reversing memory loss via gut-brain communication"

ekaryotic — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:12:22 +0000

not the commenter but I bake my own soda bread and found that i was getting heartburn from the salt that was in the recipe. once i eliminated that i could eat as much as i wanted. I also cannot eat salt preserved potato chips on consecutive days.

New comment by ekaryotic in "CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate"

ekaryotic — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:35:19 +0000

great comment. actually reminds me of how intel screwed up with developing the first 64 bit processor, then amd came along with theirs and managed to force intel into compatibility. All these big companies think they're too big to fail until they do. at the end of the day the consumers hold the purchasing power. ignore them at your peril.

New comment by ekaryotic in "1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists"

ekaryotic — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:28:23 +0000

> An Tróid leis na 'Cráidmí' = The war with the Craidmi

The battle/fight with the Craidmi. troid is singular whereas war is plural.

New comment by ekaryotic in "LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop"

ekaryotic — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:41:57 +0000

neat. not something i´d hanker for. i saw a 16 core z80 laptop years ago and i often think about it because it can multitask. https://hackaday.com/2019/12/10/laptop-like-its-1979-with-a-...

New comment by ekaryotic in "EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline"

ekaryotic — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:36:20 +0000

software is a bad example since all the coding is done in english. the translation tools are inexpensive nowadays. bilingual persons have lower rates of dementia so it's not even sure that standardising on one language would be a net benefit. also it's universally accepted that english is one of the more difficult languages to learn. If there was a revival of the movement for a single language then english wouldn't be picked by non native english speakers.

New comment by ekaryotic in "Richard Feynman Side Hustles"

ekaryotic — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:31:29 +0000

many of the older analog low impedance multimeters drew so much current that they affected the circuits they were trying to test, requiring a high impedance digital multimeter instead. it's a similar problem, and i'm sure the physicist was aware of it, but didn't like to admit it.

New comment by ekaryotic in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

ekaryotic — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:55:47 +0000

could you cut russias undersea cables in a tit for tat?

New comment by ekaryotic in "In 1776, Thomas Paine made the best case for fighting kings −and being skeptical"

ekaryotic — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:30:43 +0000

there are physical laws that cannot be broken, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. therefore attempting to restrain a higher power only ends in self restraint. have you considered that the best approach is to go on strike, depriving the higher power of something of yours, whether that be labour, or progeny.

New comment by ekaryotic in "Ants trapped in a Soviet nuclear bunker survived for years (2019)"

ekaryotic — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 21:04:13 +0000

actually there was a chinese serial killer that used a technique like this. He had a septic tank and threw his victims in along with the dead bodies of his previous victims and would only let them out if they brought more victims from a train station. article is partially paywalled but is the case in question. https://archive.is/QxBDr https://medium.com/crimes-by-mr-o/this-teacher-was-thrown-in...

New comment by ekaryotic in "Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant"

ekaryotic — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:11:06 +0000

the school to prison pipeline is talked about a lot.

New comment by ekaryotic in "How modern life makes us sick"

ekaryotic — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 18:04:24 +0000

or that the leaders of our society have consistently elected to increase the birthrate in the hope that attrition will prop up the status quo rather than making a social contract with their populace to achieve what they mutually want from life.

New comment by ekaryotic in "Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained""

ekaryotic — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:51:36 +0000

If you had requested your code be rolled back to an earlier stable version as an alternative way of fixing the bug rather than merging unstable code you may have come to a compromise.

New comment by ekaryotic in "Building the most accurate DIY CNC lathe in the world [video]"

ekaryotic — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:03:11 +0000

most lathes have a hole in the chuck to feed the work through. so if the material is ground down by hand to a diameter small enough to fit in the hole then to be turned and then removed and flipped over it's possible.