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Been making yogurt at home for years. I just heat milk to the point when it's just about to boil over. Never measured the actual temperature, but I'm pretty sure it's less than 100C. I just cool it until it's warm to touch (about 40-45C) before adding the culture (a spoonful of last day's yogurt), then leave it overnight in the oven with the pilot light on.

and people drinks cow piss to cure COVID

This is a false stereotype that has no place in HN. Yes, there are people who do that, but I bet a similar number of people per capita do that in Bangladesh too, we're not that different. It's like saying how can America be so developed if people still believe the earth is flat.

Heh, I grew up in a small town in Southern India. One of the summertime activities for kids was to go shake these trees (they are everywhere), extract kernels and make a few bucks at the local markets.

They were quite bitter. And the bitterness transferred to anything you touch after handling them unless you wash your hands thoroughly. IIRC, the oil was used in the soap industry.

Having said that, isn't any kind of monoculture bad? Traditional farming always had crop rotation and/or mixed cultivation. Any "magical" and "hardy" crop is gonna ruin the soil if planted over and over for years.

Perhaps the title should have been "Brain uses Quantum effects in a useful/controllable way". Sabine explains it well in the video. To use quantum effects for computation, you'd need very controlled conditions and it was thought be to not possible in the brain.

Politics and war discussions have been increasingly common at work too. Companies have promoting ERGs in the hope of diversity and in the name of "bringing your authentic self to work", and these groups have become a hotbed of activism. I've witnessed flamewars in work channels on the topics of BLM, war in Gaza etc in the past two companies I've worked.

Bosch ones (at least the one I have) can even be set to 100F. I haven't actually tested how well it maintains such low temps, but I use it for proofing.

Yes, this was my dad. He went from very healthy, active and social to suddenly aloof and reserved. People from his generation in India have a thing against regular medical checkups and only visit doctors when something is wrong. The visual degradation from his cataract was so gradual and severe but he failed to notice that. After I dragging him to a GP, he got his diagnosis in 5 minutes. He had a cataract surgery the same week and he was like 10 years younger instantaneously.

The Dance of Śiva 3 years ago

Varanane = One (female) with a gifted face. God, Sanskrit names are so beautiful!

Also, apt username (the three-eyed one)

The Dance of Śiva 3 years ago

I didn't know about Shiva Sutra until today, but I just thought it was interesting they both have 47 syllables, although not identical.

The Dance of Śiva 3 years ago

Pāṇini, during his twelve-year-long tapas (fervour, ardour) to Śiva, hears the ḍamaru beat fourteen times. Fourteen classes of syllables drop, resonant, into his fervent ears.

    a i u ṇ
    ṛ ḷ k
    e o ṅ
    ai au c
    ha ya va ra ṭ
    la ṇ
    ña ma ṅa ṇa na m
    jha bha ñ
    gha ḍha dha ṣ
    ja ba ga ḍa da ś
    kha pha cha ṭha tha ca ṭa ta v
    ka pa y
    śa ṣa sa r
    ha l
47 syllables in Shiva Sutra by Panini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Sutras), so similar to Japanene Iroha (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroha). Coincidence?

It is famous because it is a perfect pangram, containing each character of the Japanese syllabary exactly once. Because of this, it is also used as an ordering for the syllabary, in the same way as the A, B, C, D... sequence of the Latin alphabet.

Gating as late as possible was precisely the philosophy of the OMSCS program of Georgia Tech. They reduced the bar for admission and admitted as many as they could (given they didn't need to fit everyone in physical classrooms) but kept the same academic rigor.

I benefited greatly getting this program, but would have never bothered to apply by taking GRE first (in my 30s, if I may add) otherwise.

It is junk, but "space junk" has a very specific meaning [1] and this is not it. Pretty much all rocket launches have debris designed to fall back down into ocean, some recovered and some not. Not only that, but defunct satellites are intentionally crashed into the ocean and left there [2].

There is literally nothing special about this part other than perhaps it floated and ended up in another country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_cemetery