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xaldir··on Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?
> Sodium phosphate is no longer recommended as a bowel preparation regimen due to its serious side effects

Well in my country, it's still wildly used for people without renal issues.

xaldir··on Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging
I was thinking the same thing.

Simple sugars and highly processed foods tends to affect the gut microbiome.

I guess "more ressearch is needed".

xaldir··on What your Bluetooth devices reveal
> Not allowed in EU.

I'm surprised, I know for a fact that some stores definitely have the ability to do that on their hardware.

xaldir··on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
And they even put a nagware in it to point you to the new notepad. Oh MSFT.
xaldir··on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
No, no, no, Emacs is a pretty good operating system, it just lacks a good text editor.
xaldir··on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
Maybe it's just a PR stunt, maybe not, we'll find out in due time.

The thing is, there has been a lot of announcement like that in the past, but when the dust settles, you find out that every other ministry just signed another contract with Microsoft, so yeah.

The DINUM (the state agency behind these tools) just try very hard to be relevant, but in the end, the ministries are relatively autonomous in their choices.

xaldir··on Ecosia: The greenest AI is here
It goes well with their greenwashing "search engine" (API to bing and google).
xaldir··on DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model
However, Holywood might like the idea of producing an endless stream of content/music/movies/etc. with little human intervention.
xaldir··on A Roman Gladiator and a Lion Met in Combat. Only One Walked Away
Could a gladiator win such a fight? I guess with a long reach weapon like a pilum, the gladiator may have a chance but it would be a hell of a fight.

With a gladius or any other short range weapon, it's just a fancy execution.

xaldir··on A Roman Gladiator and a Lion Met in Combat. Only One Walked Away
Most of the time it was not the church that did the execution. The church was more an expertise if you will and delivered the suspect to civil authorities with a judgement. The civil authorities then did what the law called for.
xaldir··on A Roman Gladiator and a Lion Met in Combat. Only One Walked Away
I doubt that. Big predators don't quit fights even when mortally wounded.
xaldir··on Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life
For a time it was a new market, full of potential growth. Then it got mature, every one who wanted one had one and given the nature of the device (low cost/low performance) it wouldn't need to be renewed for some time. Some manufacturers went upmarket (bigger and more powerful devices for more money) blurring the line with their entry level laptops. It wasn't a recognisable market segment any more. At some point, the market must have both shrunk too much and merged into other segments for anyone to care. Mobile devices ate their lunch too I guess.
xaldir··on How refrigeration changed our food
It's better than days old refrigerated food, but not equivalent to freshly picked.

I grow beans in my garden. French beans and broad beans are quite good frozen, perhaps amongst the vegetables that tolerate the freezer the most. Very happy to have those out of season. But there is no comparison possible with the fresh stuff.

xaldir··on How refrigeration changed our food
Unfortunately no.

The cold degrades some molecules involved in the flavour of the fruit.

xaldir··on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
As someone who started it's career in a thinkpad only shop

Indeed, old thinkpads were designed to survive a coffee spill on the keyboard and they did, and various drops (with spinning rust as storage and cfl backed screens)

And when you achieve to break some part, it can be easily swapped. Oh and the documentation for that is available and very detailed.

xaldir··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
0% chance of this happening, but I like the idea.
xaldir··on Unofficial Windows 7 Service Pack 2
XP 64 was kinda good but crippled by poor driver support and thus stability issues.
xaldir··on The polar vortex is hitting the brakes
>look at what China is doing

China needs everything it can build and more. It's not much the what but rather where, when and how much that is crucial.

xaldir··on Next generation LEDs are cheap and sustainable
There is indeed a difference between specced for "incandescent bulbs wont start a fire" and "it's warm enough to cook the electronics of your led bulbs"
xaldir··on Dutch Parliament: Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options
Big talk. Let's see if it will survive another media cycle.
xaldir··on For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower
Moped going 20+kph are regulated need registration and can't ride on sidewalk, there are ebikes weighting more than moped and going faster.
xaldir··on How the U.K. broke its own economy
What? Pastures? Grassland are actually good for biodiversity.
xaldir··on Schools reviving shop class
Drywalling is easy. Good drywalling is not that difficult if you are patient.

Now good and fast that's the hard part.

xaldir··on Floating nuclear power plants to be mass produced for US coastline
Russia did that [1] But it was more to deal with the remoteness of the region and the challenges/costs to build a npp on permafrost.

[1]https://www.revistanuclear.es/en/tecnologia-e-innovacion/the...

xaldir··on Every .gov Domain
Hard to standardize after decades of use. Each of these are well known to the public, referenced everywhere. Changing this would be painful and the benefice is not evident.
xaldir··on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
Ducks are noisy. And stinky unless you have a medium/large pond. On the plus side they are indeed resilient and can forage a good portion of their food.
xaldir··on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
> Maybe they just never develop a bond with these animals.

I love my chickens and I'm really sad when I lose some to predators. Yet I have no issue to harvest them for eating. They are not pets, I raise them for eggs and meat.

Maybe it's because I was raised on a farm, but I make a difference between pets and farm animals and that does not mean that I don't have a "bond" with some of the latter.

xaldir··on Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration
China needs every power generation it can build.
xaldir··on LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
Ironically, at $work we do have more success opening old files (pre-2000) with LibreOffice than MsOffice, so yeah.
xaldir··on YouTube's New Hue
Clear sign of a bloated corp.
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