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They're loud because silence is not a priority in their design and their fans run non-stop.


Yes. One might want to take care of the main stuff the usual way at least in part before passing on to the bidet, though, so as not to risk soiling. Source: Argentina, land of bidets.


That would be a reimplementation of the venerable HP 95LX palmtop.


Too bad its UI is ugly and its update procedures make me nervous. It needs a rewrite.


The message seems to be: sales is a soul-sucking job, a demoralizing exercise on psychopathic exploitation in which making people feel something (be it good or not) is the way into their wallets.


The message is also that consumerism is driven by demand creation - and that demand creation takes its toll on both the demander and the buyer.


The greatest minds of our generation are hard at work creating algorithms to give kids eating disorders, making the next iPhone 3mm thinner, and figuring out how to make a TV dinner that contains no actual food.

Our modern world is so incredible. I wish we could do some good things.


Looking forward to there being some derivative technology for mosquitoes.


Remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcwBH_Uevxo

Where is that I wonder.


For anyone interested in the phenomenon of consciousness who finds this microtubules idea suspiciously impenetrable like I do, I suggest to look into the Reticular Activation System in the human brain, which acts as its on-off switch and could well be its seat too.


"And up to this point, no other VPN solution has ever been integrated into the kernel." Not so. IPSec is implemented by a kernel module.


Fair enough! Adding that as a correction.


It's probably the carbs.


Probably not, since carbs have always been the easiest food to get and they didn't have this problem. Protein, and especially meat, was always rare and a minority of diet. But greens, fruits, nuts (ish, they have fat) are plentiful.


We exist but p-zombies, as far as we can tell, do not. So their existence is a hypothesis we cannot assume.


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