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If I do not own a scanning electron microscope, and if I cannot pair that microscope with comparable images of the circuitry when it was 100% healthy, I really wouldn't be able to tell ya the root cause of malfunction in SODIMMs, SSDs, mainboards, or sdcards or smart-cables. ESD is a silent and invisible killer of electronics. Prevention is its best cure, IMHO.
"Spectacular McGetchin Crater" article from the source: https://lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1501
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeh7812?referrer=...
Earth observation satellites and Lunar observation satellites map the sphere in "stripes" with still photos. If you want to watch live video from low earth orbit, the ISS has two cameras that livestream to YouTube and NASA+ whenever available.
A mapping/recon satellite camera has a field of view of a few degrees, so its orbit will precess around teh globe, taking still photographs in a stepwise fashion, and once a complete set is downlinked, the data scientists and image processors can stitch them into a mosaic, whether that means a flat 2D projection, or a 3D globe (yes I know that none are a perfect sphere).
By the way, Google Fit's body-temperature entry is cool, but when it comes to "Location", why is "mouth" in the middle of the list and next to some other, unrelated parts? How is the list being sorted?
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/stonking/man1/pwd.1.htm...
I appreciate that you know what is happening near you and in your homeland. As the snowclone could go, "think locally, speak globally"? My epistemology in this regard is unfortunately limited to concrete measurements, such as the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
The English Wikipedia is such an unreliable source, that I could not even be certain whether Mary of Hungary was born in 1505.
I am sorry that I have allowed the bigger picture, or mere coincidence and happenstance, to cloud my opinion of your yearly ceremony and the annoying disruption to your daily commute.
"History may not repeat itself, but it does often rhyme." -- unknown
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED343791.pdf?utm_source=c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_at_the_White_House...
It is also true that solar water heating has unpleasant failure modes.
It was only about 3 years ago when I learned that petroleum comes from almost anything organic. So, ferns and trees and moss, in addition to Velociraptor and Triceratops, I guess?
Perhaps every month I should bestow a Procrustean Award on some Show HN like this. I hereby proclaim the September 2026 Procrustean Award goes to vantezzen for their 11-bit flag-encoding.
I will also point out that flags change over time, and there may be more than one flag in use by an entity (the latter is something that Unicode ignores.)
And my favorite flag drama of the 2020s is when Wikipedia "discovered" that its Vatican Flag image was "wrong"... after distributing it far and wide: https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/wikipedia-had-the-wrong-va...
M.A.D. … “treaty”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutually_assured_destruction#O...
This distinction consists of sharing visions and describing your interior life that is ultimately intangible, beyond words, and unknowable to other human beings. There are no diagnostic criteria or indications, but drugs sometimes play a part. This is something that will garner a TikTok “community” of self-identified spectral faithful adherents.
There is no quantifying this; there is no standardized measurement except for ectoplasmic ghost sensors. How can empirical comparisons or baselines be established without a vocabulary or metrics?
Commenters in this thread are making claims about these but even further, judging and speculating on the interior lives and abilities of other people, hypothetical people, people you haven’t met. These seem problematic.
... Theurer put two conditions to his work: neither the attacking nor defending states would be named, and the game would be purely defensive and never put players in situations where they would be the aggressor. ... Players would also not be able to retaliate, as that would be a scenario of mutual assured destruction, which Theurer didn't find noble: "I did not want to put the player in a position of being a genocidal maniac. Only a crazy person would sling nuclear weapons without context, right?".[9] ... The only possible game outcome of total destruction was also a message on the futility of war.Have you read their update announcing changes as of March 31, 2026?
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There were rows and rows of shoes to try, and a salesman was helping me for a while, but after trying 3 pairs I just got the feeling that the store was a dumping ground for the odd styles and odd sizes, and having figured out which size fit me, I left all the shoes there, and only purchased a lanyard, which was at least $25.
Also, let's not limit our scenarios to one process and one file descriptor. Each of those is a reference count. So your process may open the same file 3 times. And/or 10 processes on the system may hold the file open. 30 file descriptors might as well be 30 hardlinks in the filesystem. The file has life until all of those references go away.
Thou unmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane !C is coulombs
And casualty is a dead person
Lithiated beverages were all the rage in the 1930s and 1940s. It was equivalent to the coca beverages, which included coca wine, coca tonic, coca teas. There was lithia beer, lithia spring water (because there were natural springs containing some amount of dissolved lithium salts) and 7Up Lithiated Lemon Soda was a market leader. The "Lithiated" quality was on the bottle caps and it was in their advertisements.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geolog...
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-toxic-history-...
The FDA first banned lithium citrate in 1948. There were over a dozen deaths related to lithium toxicity. It is unclear which products caused these deaths. The FDA doesn't have to say which ones: they were identifying a controlled substance, not issuing a recall.
There was yet another FDA ban in 1949. You see, doctors had begun recommending low-sodium diets to people with CVD and related illnesses. So people cut out table salt from their diets. But lithium chloride was commonly available in the same medium. So your wife and restaurant chefs cooked with a teaspoon of lithium chloride; your dinner table at home had a shaker of lithium chloride; people "salted to taste" with this marvelous salt substitute. But the lithiated effects were, again, lethal, and this secondary ban put the last nail in the coffin for the next 20 years before anyone started playing around with manic-depressive patients.