
Art Kilner
@RamblingAK
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There's REAL engineers and there's "engineers". "Engineers" are looking for some excuse why "it can't be done". REAL engineers are looking for PROBLEMS TO SOLVE.
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"Female Umpire Ejects Player For Something He Did In Her Dream Last Night". [. "Her refusal to listen to reason is what makes her a great fit as an umpire.".
babylonbee.com
ATLANTA, GA — The qualifications of a new female Major League Baseball umpire were called into question today as, during a simulated game the night before, she ejected a player for something he did...
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"Retailer ships RTX 5090 with missing GPU and memory chips to customer — defaced GPU took over a year to ship". [. HAH! You have to get into the story before they tell you "they ordered an MSI RTX 5090 [. ] from Amazon in France in July 2024.".
tomshardware.com
The box was allegedly sealed.
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"Enthusiast builds 'AMD gaming PC' entirely made of cardboard — specs include unreleased AMD 5800GT CPU, DDR8 RAM, PCIe 6.0 SSD, and 2,400W power supply". [. Really, though, "how much thermal paste does a cardboard processor need?".
tomshardware.com
This is a detailed as it gets for a cardboard build.
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"California man sues Microsoft for discontinuing Windows 10 — says company is doing this to 'monopolize the generative AI market'". [. Microsnot has NEVER provided a product that worked 100%. They've ALWAYS had to go back an fix a bunch of stuff.
tomshardware.com
Will the courts intervene to keep Windows 10 alive?
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"Trump removes Billy Long as IRS commissioner, giving him the shortest-ever tenure in the role". [. He gets the deep freeze?. "Ambassador to Iceland.".
federalnewsnetwork.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has removed former U.S. Rep. Billy Long as IRS commissioner less than two months after his confirmation, a White House official said Friday. It was not...
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"Chilling 66-million-year-old discovery rewrites primate origin story". [. Maybe someplace like Alaska?. Which does (AFAIK) get occasional hot summers. Along with very cold winters.
newatlas.com
A groundbreaking study has traced the 66-million-year evolutionary history of primates and overturned conventional thought that our ancestors originally inhabited warm tropical forests. Using...
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"Scientists Discover “Master Key” Protein for Stronger Memory and Learning". [. The underlying "peer-reviewed" article: [ is OPEN ACCESS.
scitechdaily.com
Research led by Rutgers suggests there could be significant new possibilities for treating neurodegenerative diseases and brain injuries. Researchers have uncovered how a specific protein supports...
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"Rare Footage Shows a Fault Line Tearing Open. It’s a Game-Changer for Earthquake Science". [. Video actually shows the earthquake several times, with commentary.
scitechdaily.com
A historic Myanmar earthquake was caught on CCTV, revealing the fault moving 2.5 meters in just 1.3 seconds.
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"California Supreme Court hands victory to rooftop solar panel owners". [. "Those without rooftop solar, utilities said, have to pay more than their peers for routine maintenance to the grid.". I guess I don't see why people who sell energy shouldn't. .
calmatters.org
Justices reversed a decision upholding cuts to solar panel owners by 75 percent. A lower court must now revisit the net metering decision.
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RT @RamblingAK: @cremieuxrecueil "Trump signs executive order targeting debanking". [. Seems they couldn't find any….
thehill.com
President Trump signed Thursday an executive order taking aim at alleged discrimination against conservatives by large banks, directing regulators to investigate and punish financial institutions f…
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"Membrane rearrangements mediated by coronavirus nonstructural proteins 3 and 4". [. "Coronaviruses replicate their genomes in association with rearranged cellular membranes.". Hijacking parts of the endoplasmic reticulum to create replication vesicles.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Coronaviruses replicate their genomes in association with rearranged cellular membranes. The coronavirus nonstructural integral membrane proteins (nsps) 3, 4 and 6, are key players in the formation...
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"Nearly all of the major human coronaviruses have evidence of spike recombination in their evolutionary history (SARS-CoV-1,42 , 43 , 44 MERS-CoV,18 , 45 HCoV-229E,46 HCoV-NL63,46 , 47 HCoV-HKU1,48 and HCoV-OC4349).". [OPEN ACCESS].
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recombination is thought to be a mechanism that facilitates cross-species transmission in coronaviruses, thus acting as a driver of coronavirus spillover and emergence. Despite its significance, the...
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A single instance of RECOMBINATION (both OPEN ACCESS), and all the "mutations" the above gobbledygook references could be acquired in a SINGLE MUTATION.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recombination is very relevant in generating genetic variability in viral populations. Viral recombination has important consequences for different areas of research. These include molecular biology,...
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"RFK Jr. defends $500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook". [. THIS ARTICLE is "pseudoscience gobbledygook". There are many more risks to mRNA "vaccines" than the one @SecKennedy mentioned. And the vulnerability he did mention is true.
arstechnica.com
He clearly has no idea what antigenic shift means.
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"Kiss goodbye to your keyboard and mouse, in Microsoft's vision for the Windows OS in 2030 they'll both 'feel as alien as it does for Gen Z to use DOS'". [. OTOH I often pull up a DOS window for more complex activities WRT my internet access.
pcgamer.com
And it's all thanks to, yup you guessed it, AI.
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RT @VigilantFox: #9 - Tulsi Gabbard says the Russia Hoax wasn’t James Clapper’s first intel scandal—she says he “manufactured” the WMD lie….
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