Art Kilner Profile
Art Kilner

@RamblingAK

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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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@RamblingAK
Art Kilner
11 months
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.".
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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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Art Kilner
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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.".
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tomshardware.com
The box was allegedly sealed.
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Art Kilner
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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?".
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tomshardware.com
This is a detailed as it gets for a cardboard build.
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Art Kilner
4 hours
"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.
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tomshardware.com
Will the courts intervene to keep Windows 10 alive?
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Art Kilner
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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.".
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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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Art Kilner
8 hours
"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.
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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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Art Kilner
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"Scientists Discover “Master Key” Protein for Stronger Memory and Learning". [. The underlying "peer-reviewed" article: [ is OPEN ACCESS.
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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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Art Kilner
11 hours
"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.
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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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Art Kilner
2 days
. Have to pay their fair share of the costs of "routine maintenance to the grid.".
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Art Kilner
2 days
"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. .
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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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Art Kilner
2 days
"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.
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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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Art Kilner
2 days
IMO.
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Art Kilner
2 days
Many so-called "scientists" don't really distinguish between the terms "mutation" and "point mutation", especially when writing propaganda ("gobbledygook") intended to deceive the non-scientific public. If they reached that level of precision they wouldn't be able to LIE easily.
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Art Kilner
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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].
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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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Art Kilner
2 days
A single instance of RECOMBINATION (both OPEN ACCESS), and all the "mutations" the above gobbledygook references could be acquired in a SINGLE MUTATION.
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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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Art Kilner
2 days
"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.
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arstechnica.com
He clearly has no idea what antigenic shift means.
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Art Kilner
3 days
But when they combine eye-trackers with active software eye interaction (gaze control: [), I expect to be an early adopter.
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Art Kilner
3 days
"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.
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pcgamer.com
And it's all thanks to, yup you guessed it, AI.
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Art Kilner
3 days
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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