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Interesting. Which is the more significant effect, coefficient of expansion of metal threads, or raising pressure in the airspace? The hole method has a downside if it's a jam jar and your fridge is not the cleanest. Those wee spores find their way in there.

Improving the rez does greatly reduce the crater-dome illusion that can manifest on grainier old images. You can dispel the illusion by concentrating for a moment, or just rotating inage, but it is an odd experience. Greater detail seems to reduce the effect.

Cool. I'm also the jar opener in my house, and also getting older (seems to be a common thing in human existence). I also recommend the shock method - tap the edge of lid against something, which seems to slightly disengage the threads. (Obv not too vigorously, if it's a glass jar) Various heat methods work, I gather, because metal has a greater coefficient of expansion than glass or plastics.

I think that's correct. If I'm in Old Blighty, and the money gets tighty, and I need anything pawned, I will be careful how I respond.

Dear Mr Turnip , Please heed the advice of our neighbor, posted above. And please note that, while he correctly identified diarrhea symptoms, you should also seek treatment for mental constipation. I wonder if several years of you trying to live on a working class income would help loosen whatever is stuck up in there.

As I recall, you want FL if you handle highly imbalanced datasets. You are reducing the weight of well-classified examples. This is especially useful in object detection. Your situation with object detection is one where background examples far outnumber foreground objects, right?

To my ear, pawned and pond sound the same, in American English. FWIW, your line "Who knows what's out there, Is it dangerous, is it blonde?" struck me as pretty funny. Ha! I've noticed that, despite the French origin, Americans often fail to properly gender their usage and just attach the e to everyone. We Yanks toss suffixes into a blender, And often ignore the uses of gender, When to such neutering we dumbly surrender, We can't tell a girdle from a suspender.

Gosh it's almost like the government says one thing while doing just the opposite. AP NewsBorder Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining thos...The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

Abscond respond frond pawned dawned bond pond spawned batoned conned....if any of that's of use? While I'm here, this is from a 1956 New Yorker, so may be familiar to older members... Well up beyond the tropostrata There is a region stark and stellar Where, on a streak of anti-matter, Lived Dr. Edward Anti-Teller. Remote from Fusion’s origin, He lived unguessed and unawares With all his anti-kith and kin, And kept macassars on his chairs. One morning, idling by the sea, He spied a tin of monstrous girth That bore three letters: A.E.C. Out stepped a visitor from Earth. Then, shouting gladly o’er the sands, Met two who in their alien ways Were like as lentils. Their right hands Clasped, and the rest was gamma rays.

Did I swap God for a jalapeno, Nepal, a jar of dog paws? I did.

I wonder if early ragweed exposure is much guarantor of avoiding that allergy. My early life was in Kansas, which is just swimming in ragweed pollen and I had some allergy to it, off and on. Like yours, it abated in later life. (Goldenrod is the state flower of Nebraska, btw, and there's an amusing story about a governor's event manager who organized some gathering in which she thought it would be a nice touch to have vases of goldenrod set out everywhere at this banquet. About 30% of the population is allergic to the ragweed family, so there were all these people sneezing and wiping their eyes before someone figured out what was going on...) I saw that, too. With foods it does seem that desensitization protocols are pretty useful. I worked for a while with a nutritionist who advanced the theory that exposure to certain foods with pesticide/herbicide residues could trigger allergy formation. The idea being that the body would start to associate the food with toxicity. She fed her young children all organic foods, hoping to diminish such an effect. I think I've had some Indonesian cuisine. There was a peanut sauce, anyway. Fortunately my dinner partner and I were both PB junkies.

Haha! I'm proud of my work on the sulking in the Happy Vertical People Transporter.

I'd say let's not fix the alpha-gal, though. Too much red meat eating going on in the world. Any assist from ticks appreciated! Seriously, yes, I think hygiene hypothesis could be modified. I wouldn't entirely discard the hygiene aspect where some douse household surfaces with antibacterials and generally try to create a clean-room ambience. I also am unsure that putting HEPA filters on HVAC systems is good. As a lifelong benefactor of the vag/boob/poo/dander/turf/no antibiotics regimen (kids! ask me for my pro tips on faking washed hands!), I am very nearly a Filth Evangelist. We did go kind of overboard on the animal contact, though. These are the species I had live contact with ages 1-10: cats, dogs, horses, cattle, goats, chickens, pigs, rabbits, possums (don't ask), toads, lizards, hamsters, rats, parrots, and elephants (riding an elephant is surprisingly comfortable), to name some of them. If someone doesn't have relatives who farm or employed by a zoo, "petting zoos" are also a possible option for conditioning an immune system.

That was my first thought on seeing this thread. Second was the expense and energy consumption of moving fairly diffuse heat somewhere useful - the net gain seemed possibly tiny. Paging Maxwell's demon...

Your deep and incisive analysis has provided a fresh and illuminating perspective on this longstanding mystery!

Hoping the unintentionally humorous aspect of this article is obvious to our members... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/house-representative-vote-on-epstein-files-release ICYMI... I mean, there was one No vote. What was the point of the mile-long chart? Just write, "All House members voted Yes, except Clay Higgins, LA Dist.3." Any reader with an IQ higher than that of a cement block will immediately have complete information on their district from that sentence. I suspect the era of AI generated content is going to bring more such absurdity.

Makes sense, given they're basically cylindrical. And cylindrical coordinates being a 3D extension of polar coordinates.

The only thing I ever knew about k-space was its use in MRI, where there's a Fourier transform of image measurements. And why the 2π factor. (glad the AI gave such a straightforward answer to that) The rest of it may as well be spaniels howling in Urdu. (though I dimly grasped the use of Fourier analysis when I volunteered my PC years ago for a SETI crowd computing project that analyzed signals from...somewhere)

I blame Jim Carrey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_23 And my condolences to anyone who watched the US series "Lost" and wandered into a morass of 108.

In humans I wonder if caffeine has served, among other things, to counteract the sluggish feeling that can follow breakfast. When I greatly reduced caffeine ( due to an inner ear issue ), I really noticed post-BF sluggishness. I eventually joined those who skip breakfast, not eating until after 10am. This created a microfast each day, around 16-18 hours, and improved several health markers for me. But really, I think Dostoevsky had it right: "Man is the animal who can get used to anything."

Pickled beets are an essential of civilized life, agree. I'll be interested to learn how the fermented form compares. Lactobacillus casei is one that naturally appears and works well. It's used with ginseng, too. And congratulations to you and the Archbishop of Canterbury, on being primates.

Seems like we are, in evolutionary terms where hundreds or thousands of generations are sometimes needed to implement systemic physiological changes, only starting to shift from Homo nomadicus (with shifting and sometimes sporadic nutrient supply) to Homo urbanus (with complex networks of mass food production and a steady grain-dominant diet). Lactose tolerance was managed in relatively few generations thanks to the LP mutation, which was a SNP, and its great adaptive value for pastoralism (herder agriculture). But a system retooling, where we would all manage a very non-HG diet well, e.g. lots of grain without the woes of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, would be much harder given that these woes don't much block reproductive success and are amenable to cultural management (shifting to higher fiber, pharma intervention in developed nations, Paleo diets, etc.) And meal frequency is another highly adjustable cultural factor and some such adjustments are being shown to ameliorate metabolic syndrome, e.g. the sixteen hours between dinner and breakfast regimen that's becoming more popular. Pretty much all the research I've seen points to small-scale fasting as something we are built for and benefit from. OldChem has really taken that short-fast ball and run with it. Like Ramadan, year-round! 😄

Could you tell my cats that? But seriously, that probably underscores the effect of domestication and a steady food supply. HG bands sometimes had to gorge, to eat a food before something else did. Not because it was optimal digestively. Moving into temperate zones might have been one change that brought the need to store foods for winter, and then ration that out as meals.

True, though I'm still a bit puzzled, given that milk used in infant formulae has to be pasteurized. So I wouldn't think there would be much of a starter colony going into the dehydrator, let alone afterward. It could slip in from somewhere else, maybe with an additive. Will be disturbing if this does turn out to be the source of the botulism. Infant food companies usually don't feck around when it comes to sterilization. Given the rudimentary immune system, the liability issues are massive.