If you don’t know less than 50% of Americans have a passport.

It reached 51% last year

no relation, presumably

if he and your sister^[1] are people you plan to continue to maintain contact with, you should aim for something that will be conducive to improving your relationship with them rather than further deteriorating it. and if they aren’t, then nothing.

Tylenol is Acetaminophen

… which most of the world calls paracetamol.

this is the futo funder

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instructions unclear. is it rue as in the herb ruta graveolens or rue as in the archaic noun meaning sorrow / repentance / regret / pity / compassion?

Thanks for pointing this out. Looking closer I see that that “journal” was definitely not something I want to be sending traffic to, for a whole bunch of reasons - besides anti-vax they’re also anti-trans, and they’re gold bugs… and they’re asking tough questions like “do viruses exist” 🤡

I edited the post to link to MIT instead, and added a note in the post body explaining why.

here is the full res version of the image, via the author’s 2019 twitter thread… where there was also this important update two years later:

this other post “A Marine Biologist Ranks Shark Emojis” covers some of the same and also some other ones

something from the “stable ports” list at https://www.rockbox.org/

Can someone tell me what vibe coding is?

a term coined 6 months ago for writing software using an LLM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding

paywall bypass: https://archive.is/mdi9x

some context.

(tldr: libxslt is a significant source of vulnerabilities and it should absolutely be removed from browsers ASAP.)

Botryllus schlosseri, also called a star tunicate, is humans’ closest evolutionary relative among invertebrates in the sea. […] The way the invertebrate’s brain degenerates and disappears has important parallels to the way the brain degenerates in human neural disorders.

also the maelstrom in question actually does exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskstraumen

looking closer I see the earliest archive.org snapshot of this URL (from Feb 27, 2020, the day it was published) also says 1857 so it seems like the transposition to 1847 must have happened somewhere else - and yet the attribution to SciAm (external to the screenshot) was somehow preserved. @[email protected] can you shed any light on this mystery? where did you obtain this image (and know to attribute it to SciAm)?