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user20180120··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
What about DMT and a laser experiment?

The Unexplained Laser Experiment That Breaks Reality

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W5YiFEghnrw

user20180120··on Vāgdhenu A vṛtta (meter) aware śloka-to-chant text-to-speech system for Sanskrit
https://prathosh.in/vagdhenu/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/prathosh-a-p-50ab9511_ai-open...

user20180120··on Why the Amish Have Never Needed a Gas Station [video]
Why the Amish Have Never Needed a Gas Station — The Plant That Fuels Any Engine They Buried in 1937

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl9peJKkf1M

user20180120··on Nobody gets promoted for simplicity
It is simple to be difficult but difficult to be simple.
user20180120··on 'Ultrahigh Energy' Neutrino Found with a Telescope Under the Sea
https://archive.ph/aCDlr
user20180120··on Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing on Gzip, ZSTD
Long Range Zip tends to give faster decompression. Anyone know which command line switches gives optimum results?
user20180120··on A Lot to Like About Eneos Holdings
There's A Lot To Like About ENEOS Holdings' (TSE:5020) Upcoming JP¥11.00 Dividend
user20180120··on Mass worldwide IT outage affects airlines, media and banks
Mass IT outages reported worldwidepublished at 07:58 07:58Breaking

Major banks, media outlets and airlines are currently suffering major IT outages.

Flights have been grounded at Sydney airport, United Airlines has stopped flying, and the London Stock Exchange group’s platform is experiencing outages.

user20180120··on Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
Francisco J. Ballesteros Laboratorio de Sistemas, Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid Madrid, Spain 2006
user20180120··on Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/9.intro.pdf
user20180120··on Högertrafikomläggningen
Making everyone speak English should not happen!

We need to understand that the language you are able to think in - limits your thinking.

Some languages have things you cannot translate into English.

These non translateable concepts do not exist in the Western world view point.

user20180120··on Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
Plan9 was/is used at a university is Spain for teaching
user20180120··on Autonomy co-founder Mike Lynch cleared of fraud
HP strikes again.... not many things going well for HP recently...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40601711

user20180120··on PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software
Can it do lrzip?

Did a quickish search

https://github.com/nakijun/peazip/issues/149

user20180120··on 'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
Would this device be even better if it has the newer efficient propeller design called MX-1 Sharrow Propeller ?

https://www.boatus.com/expert-advice/expert-advice-archive/2...

At the 2020 Miami International Boat Show, Philadelphia-based Sharrow Marine introduced the culmination of a seven-year research and development project called the MX-1 Sharrow Propeller. Unlike every prop that's come before it, rather than blades, the MX-1 has loops of metal attached to the hub.

How does this change the dynamic? In a nutshell, much of a prop's inefficiency can be blamed on the blade tips, where vortices and cavitation (commonly called tip vortex cavitation, or TVC) form, creating turbulence and sapping efficiency. Simply put, the loops on a Sharrow have no tips. The net result is an efficiency gain of between 9% and 15%. But just as important, eliminating the cavitation vastly reduces vibrations and noise and makes for a smoother, quieter boat ride.

Company president Greg Sharrow tells us that the development of the MX-1 can be credited to music videos.

"I was trying to solve the problem of reducing unwanted noise from drones while filming live music productions," he says. "I've always thought it would be cool to use a drone to get cameras closer to subjects and film them from onstage, but you can't use drones for music broadcasts because they're too noisy. I knew that most of the noise comes from the blade tips and is caused, in part, by tip vortices. So, I'd have to find a way to eliminate them."

user20180120··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Why is the Long Range Zip lrzip compression format not used? It gives better compression than xz when using the correct switches.
user20180120··on Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2016)
Why is the Long Range Zip lrzip compression format not used? It gives better compression than xz when using the correct switches.