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anonoholicon Swiss Post Suspends Drone Delivery Service After Second Crash

A lab is not just "a testing machine". Depending on the analysis being performed, you need an array specialist equipment. Then the lab has to be staffed.

I imagine shipping samples to a shared facility is significantly more cost effective, otherwise it wouldn't be being trialled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_laboratory

anonoholicon U.S. Designates China as Currency Manipulator

That would keep me calm!

I'm pleased to report though that I lost nothing, since that's about how much I have.

anonoholicon The brain avoids looking at glassy skyscrapers

Apparently not. The same architect had previously designed the Vdara Hotel in Las Vegas, which suffered from the same problem. Apparently no lessons were learned.

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-vdara-death-ray-hotel-is...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vdara

anonoholicon Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler (2013)

After the US dropped nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they had no more bombs ready to go, and would have taken at least 12 days to prepare, ship and deliver to its target.

Of course Japan didn't know that.

anonoholicon Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain

Sorry, but "citation needed"? High fructose corn syrop is just not a thing outside of North America.

anonoholicon Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain

"think HIV / AIDS / HEP-C"

Think viable transmission vectors for those diseases.

anonoholicon Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface

There's one other difference that makes the lower case "a" stand out. The other characters have a slight rightward lean(there's probably a technical term for that). The lower case "a" is the opposite, and it really stands out.

anonoholicon Exhuming the Glacier Girl (2009)

Oops! The "Thank you" below was meant for you. (Dodgy 3rd party mobile app, honest!)

Looking again, I'm going with de Havilland Vampire as the most likely candidate.

anonoholicon Exhuming the Glacier Girl (2009)

Are there many other planes with this design of airframe? I recall seeing a plane similar to this in the air in the mid 70s (in the UK).

It stuck with me as it was unlike any plane I'd seen before, or since, until recently a drone passed overhead which had a similar construction.

anonoholicon A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud

> RedHat has joined them in turning license audits into a profit center.

If a company is using licenses it hasn't paid for, and so isn't entitled to, why is the vendor the bad guy for catching them out?

Maybe I'm the odd one out here as an individual in paying for the movies I watch, and the music I listen to; but I would expect a business to pay for the software it's using, irrespective of your stance on "big media".

anonoholicon Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force

Hmm, yes. Re-reading the synopsis, I can see I was mislead by the heading.

anonoholicon Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force

The 2014 University of Texas example is also two materials - "fishing line and sewing thread", so the unique is this new research is something else.

anonoholicon South African teens fly from Cape to Cairo in plane they assembled from kit

Not sure it's fair to call a $120K - $140K† kit (not including the cost of having the engine and avionics professionally installed) "homemade", but still an impressive flying achievement for the 17 year old pilots.

† https://www.airplanefactory.com/aircraft/sling-4-kit/

anonoholicon Human Skeletal Muscle Possesses an Epigenetic Memory of Hypertrophy (2018)

Fit to Fat and Back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew7g7AqGqzo

anonoholicon After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed

It's not as if Netflix isn't trying, it's just that the movie industry as a whole is determined not to cooperate.

Can you imagine a music industry where, in order to listen to new releases, you are required to go to "listening parlours", or wait for radio, CD, streaming release|?

anonoholicon Grumpy Cat has died

Nice try by the owner, but it's spelled "tartar". Pretty clear what 'Tard really meant.

anonoholicon Introduction to Containerization

But that picture... doesn't have any container ships in it!

anonoholicon Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash

> Anything less than L4 autonomous driving is completely reckless.

"L4 autonomous driving is completely wreck-less"?

anonoholicon EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content

Funnily enough, English does too. "drugs" vs. "medicine" (pharmaceuticals).

anonoholicon Microsoft says its data shows FCC reports overstate broadband adoption

> it's astounding to me that affordable broadband access is still an issue even in the United States

Not sure how to respond to this, other than to point out that by most metrics, the US is largely a 3rd world country:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/theres-a-third-world...

https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/study-by-...

https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/poverty-in...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/six-ways...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-develop...

etc., etc.

anonoholicon No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug in a strange USB stick

I was surprised from the get-go that no-one seem to be talking about the legality of an ad-hoc search of a USB thumb-drive.

The stupidity of it (from an infosec standpoint) should be a given, yet this aspect appears to be the focus of the debate.

Am I missing something?

anonoholicon Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it

> "not supported" can mean anything from "physically impossible" to "we don't want you to"

More like:

from "physically impossible" to "we haven't tested that"

> they just couldn't be bothered to document all the possible combinations

Each combination adds exponential testing and documentation requirements.

Not tested != doesn't work. But that doesn't make not supporting it malicious. There are practical and financial cost to testing every combination, ultimately born by the consumer.

anonoholicon Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name

The daft thing is there are plenty of alternative names they could have taken, that are genuinely idle accounts, and arguably better names:

sussexroyals (there are two of them after all) thesussexroyals (more grammatically correct) thesussexes (as they are commonly referred to in the press) harryandmeghan (has only posted once since Dec 2017) meghanandharry (ladies first!)

and so on...

anonoholicon Apple Cancels AirPower Product

> no obnoxious blue LEDs...

:) True! But for $10 I'll live with it.

anonoholicon What Citrix is doing with Xenserver

> They take the XenServer sources, remove licensing restrictions

Um, how exactly? You generally can't take software with licence X, and republish it with license Y...

anonoholicon The cortex is a neural network of neural networks

So, a deep neural network?

anonoholicon Does Carnitine from Red Meat Cause Heart Disease?

So not meat, but as a result of chemicals added in the processing of meat.

anonoholicon On Semicolons and the Rules of Writing

> an em-dash works just a well without any of the pretense [of the semicolon]

The author makes a clear distinction between the semicolon and the em-dash.

> And using them to separate list items which themselves contain commas is asking the reader to do too much work

The article is specifically about prose, and at no point suggest using semicolons for lists, although I think you overstate the difficulty in parsing your first example.

anonoholicon On Semicolons and the Rules of Writing

The article is talking specifically about the use of the semicolon creative writing.

anonoholicon The Fred Rogers We Know

Do they have a "you're 16 already, how about you close your damn mouth when you chew your food" song?