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I heard that more important than ocean currents is the Rocky Mountains, which causes the jet stream to go south, then north.


It's probably both I'm not a climate scientist so I can't really say one is more important than the other but the AMOC does bring warm water up the coast as well and if that goes away and the water cools the air brought over by the Gulf Stream will probably be colder as well.


OK, but I hope you realize that the Gulf stream is a water current whereas I,m talking about an air current.


X11 used shared libraries since its beginning in the 1980s.


SunOS paper about shared libraries, 1987

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.37.9...

SunOS 4.0 lists "dynamic linking" as new feature, released 1988

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

AT&T System V Release 3 got shared libraries in 1986

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_V_Release_4#SVR3

While the first X11 release was in 1987, the fundamental architecture was designed already since 1984, and this architecture includes a heavyweight server that implements things that in most other window systems are done client-side.


Meh. I liked Emacs better when RMS still led the project than afterwards. Fewer changes that annoyed me.

RMS was definitely opinionated, but he was consistent about it, so that once you are familiar with some of his decisions, you could guess how he would decide other things.


What are some examples of recent annoyances you found?


>Antibiotics . . . would be impossible without refrigeration

Any idea what the author means by this?


I presumed he misspoke and meant vaccinations.


If citrulline were Rx-only in the US, then I doubt Doctor's Best would make it and I doubt Walmart would sell it:

https://www.walmart.com/ip//150061958


A dust particle in the middle of the room takes many hours to settle on the floor or other horizontal surface. During that air time, it frequently changes direction and rises and falls many times. Every time someone walks on a dusty floor, lots of dust is put into the air. Most will eventually settle on the floor again, but some ends up on other horizontal surfaces. But the dust that ends up on the fllor again is likely to put in the again by people walking.


How did people figure that out?

Ever since the invention of writing, the #1 predator to humankind has been other humans, so we must go back to the time before written records to get to a time when cats were the #1 predator. My question is, in the absence of written records, how did the people of the current age determine the rate of death from the various predators?

Maybe you mean the #1 predator not including other humans?


Predator as in eats you for food, not metaphorically.


I was not writing metaphorically.

Maybe I was unclear because I was trying not to cause offense.

My question is, How would anyone know that there was a time in human history or prehistory when cats were the #1 predator of human ancestors? (I assume he means the #1 killer of our ancestors that eats us for food.)


"Because of skulls with jaguar-like teeth marks" @29athrowaway wrote nearby in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24807745


maybe I don't get your point (in which case, ignore me), but couldn't you just count the number of deaths by each predator? i.e. count the number of human skeletons with cat teeth stuck in their bones?


Tobacco offers short-term relief for some the negative emotions (anxiety?) caused by schizophrenia. I have heard that it is very effective (and of course fast-acting).


Most people don't know that in addition to nicotine, tobacco contains a MAOI, which are a class of drugs used to treat anxiety and depression.


Monoamine anti-oxidase inhibitor (MAOI)


The problem is that not all of the software someone might want to run on Windows handles backslashes gracefully.

There are situations in which for example VS Code will run git commands "behind the scenes" (without ever showing the command to the user). The way it is now, VS Code sometimes obtains a file name to be used as an argument to a git command from a Microsoft function that return the name with backslashes, gives the name to git, which doesn't consider a backslash a path separator, so git causes an error, "no file named foo\bar\bash," or such, and since that git command line (command with arguments) was never manually submitted or entered by the user, the user can't get past the error just by replacing some backslashes with slashes, then resubmitting the command line.

Microsoft could submit patches to the git project to make git recognize the backslash as a path separator, but there is no guarantee that the maintainers of git would accept the patches. So, Microsoft could end up choosing to bend (on the backslash issue) to make Windows more compatible with git -- and other Unix-centric projects.


When Pixar spun out LucasFilm in 1986, it was not worth very much because they had yet to produce any films or sell anything at all.

20 years later, Disney paid $7.4 billion for Pixar.


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