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Bad Apple But It's Proteins
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Long chains of amino acids linked together by peptide bonds.
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Bad Apple But It's Proteins
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Long chains of amino acids linked together by peptide bonds.
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Radioactive Steel
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I'll go down this rabbit hole for you because I was also curious.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-roman-lead-physics-archaeology-controversy/
All lead mined on Earth naturally contains some amount of the radioactive element uranium 235, which decays, over time, into another radioactive element, a version of lead called lead 210. When lead ore is first processed, it is purified and most of the uranium is removed. Whatever lead 210 is already present begins to break down, with half of it decaying on average every 22 years. In Roman lead almost all of the lead 210 has already decayed, whereas in lead mined today, it is just beginning to decay. (Of course, many lead 210 atoms have already decayed in this ore, too, but the supply is constantly replenished by uranium in unprocessed lead). "The longer since it was originally processed, the lower its intrinsic radioactivity," Gonzalez-Zalba says.
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Polish BMX and MTB Freestyle Racer Dawid Godziek Performs on a Moving Train
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It's basically the same as doing it on the ground, except here you get hit by a train if you mess up.
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Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
Sounds like Tailwind is facing some headwinds.
I'll see myself out.
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I need the pattern for this ASAP
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It's a drink coaster, it's supposed to hold moisture
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Asking the real questions
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If someone else has to debug the problems caused by a parent naming their child with a special character, does that make the parent the bugger? 🤔
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Are there any foods or drinks that naturally stain or bleach your teeth white over time as a corollary to things that make your teeth yellow over time?
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How to oil pull: Put about 1 tbsp (15 mL) of oil in your mouth Swish the oil around your mouth for about 15–20 minutes Spit out the oil, then brush your teeth
Hmmm I'll live with my coffee stained teeth, thanks
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Read Animorphs Instead
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But people will die if they have no HP
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Deaf woman removed from Frontier flight for "not listening"
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That's easy to solve. We just give them an allergy service dog that warns about potential allergens and chases them away if needed.
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GitHub is many things nowadays. Some people use it sort of like a blog where they can easily post long pages of text, sometimes it's the first thing that shows up in the search results when you search for a computer/phone problem.
I'm gonna sound old here but the younger generations are in general less computer literate than they were back in my day, and a lot of people have no qualms about downloading and running random exe's from discord or mediafire.
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No Microslop for me
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To be fair they tried posting it on the Linux community on .ml and there were so many upvotes and positive feedback that it crashed the server. So they had to post it again somewhere more balanced to limit the impact.
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In 2025, People Will Try Living in This Underwater Habitat
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Nah if you only build a 2D structure, you won't have to worry about the water pressure because your structure will likely not be able to interact with 3D matter. It's genius engineering IMHO.
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Announcing ARC-AGI-3 - A benchmark that tests if AI can explore, learn, and adapt in unfamiliar situations. Humans score 100%. Frontier AI scores 0.26%.
If human scores were included, they would be at 100%, at the cost of approximately $250
Wait, why did it cost real humans $250 to pass the test?
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Why is waking up when my alarm goes off so difficult and unpleasant yet "sleeping in" doesn't feel good and isn't satisfying?
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+1 for sleeping without an alarm. If you really need an alarm to get up every day, you might not be getting enough sleep to begin with. Some of that is unavoidable (noises, light waking you up at night etc.) but a lot of people think they can get by with like 6 hours or less of sleep and just get by on extra coffee.
Taking a week or so to just let your body wake up when it wants (even if it means going to bed early, ugh) will help you figure out how much sleep you need.
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Indies devs band together for 100-game, $10 bundle aiming to help an "unprecedented number" of laid off developers
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The bundle is on itch.io so you download the games from that site. Most of the time you download a zip or an installer for each game.
If you check out the bundle on itch.io you can filter by platform.
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Nvidia’s all-in-one app will replace GeForce Experience later this year
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Yep, the second paragraph of the article says that the new app will eventually replace both GeForce experience (yay) and the Nvidia control panel (boo).
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What side hustles have you personally seen work pretty well?
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Taking on one extra dog for a few days seems like the easiest, most chill way to make a little money on the side if you are careful about which dogs you take. Those people who sit 4+ dogs at a time are insane but must pull in a good bit of money.
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Console modder hunts down world's largest CRT TV — saves it from noodle restaurant demolition death half the way around the globe
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Sounds like CRTs do produce some radiation but the amount it produces is marginal. Modern CRTs should have leaded glass which should substantially reduce the amount of X-rays you would receive.
The above article says 0.3 microS/hour which is less than one tenth of the radiation you get from an hour of flight, or about 10 hours of sun exposure.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight-time_equivalent_dose#Radiological_exposures_and_limits
So it looks like you will get radiation exposure from CRTs but it is not much higher than background radiation. Bring sedentary for hours in front of a CRT TV is probably worse for you than the radiation you would get from the CRT.
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Lindsey Graham's sister chosen as replacement after senator's death
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Hmm "widow's succession" but Graham never married, this is Graham's sister, and they live in the deep south. This would raise a lot more questions if Graham wasn't openly secretly gay.
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Ten years on, Alien Isolation’s biggest problem is its runtime
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Yeah the beginning is a bit rough because apparently the alien is specifically programmed to not leave you alone in the first level or two that it appears. My initial experience was similar but after the first level it got a lot better.
To me the game either works great and you get a legit scary experience or the alien pops out at the wrong time and you have to briskly walk through the rest of the level or die instantly.