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anon___on Elementary schoolers prove EpiPens become toxic in space

79.5% of statistics is false. (82.9% on the Internet.)

anon___on Elementary schoolers prove EpiPens become toxic in space

You'd rather ask a stranger on an Internet forum than trust the information on the packaging of your medicine? And still use that medicine?

anon___on Wikipedia Outage

Wikipedia has Cancer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

anon___on My favourite 3 lines of CSS

This reads like a haiku.

anon___on Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has students correct them

Socrates was worried that writing, the then new invention, will cause forgetfulness.

> The people who invent something new, create a new tool or technology, are not necessarily the people who are going to understand what the social impact of those inventions will be.

>> And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

>> What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only the semblance of wisdom, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much while for the most part they know nothing. And as men filled not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom they will be a burden to their fellows.

https://fs.blog/an-old-argument-against-writing/

anon___on Vramfs – GPU VRAM based file system for Linux

Thank you for the tips! It was just a quick hack and I never knew much about the mount options, but I guess it's time to learn.

anon___on Vramfs – GPU VRAM based file system for Linux

I have more RAM than I need, and just the other day I set up a RAM disk to put my /tmp directory on. My comic reader unpacks huge rar and zip archives into /tmp at every run, and I don't want it to wear out my SSD. I put this line in /etc/fstab:

  none  /tmp  tmpfs  defaults,size=4G  0  0

It works like a charm. And in the worst case, if I run out of RAM anyway, it readily swaps out.

anon___on Another Russian spacecraft at ISS has a coolant leak

NASA plans to retire the International Space Station by 2031 by crashing it into the Pacific Ocean:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/02/world/nasa-international-...

And it's already planning its replacement:

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-companies-to...

anon___on Solving the cube root of 19,683 mentally

Everything you listed, and the linked article is about perception, not thinking. Paradoxically, our thinking is linear, and it seems to be useful to change that: https://hbr.org/2017/05/linear-thinking-in-a-nonlinear-world.

anon___on The Python Paradox (2004)