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Molly White, a prolific Wikipedia editor, has written a good overview of how information source reliability is handled in practice: https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war.... There's a process for how decisions about source legitimacy and reliability are made, and these "decisions aren’t made lightly and are frequently revisited: there have been over fifty discussions about the Daily Mail’s reliability, for example, with both sides being vehemently argued".


Measurement of subjective wellbeing has a long history in healthcare and can be very useful for both treatment and research; see e.g. pain scales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_scale


It's long, but do give it a chance. The main premise is how the legend of Feynman (as in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!") is often at odds with Feynman the person. It is neither a character assassination nor a redemption story but somewhere in between--with a few plot twists. Also, Dr. Collier is an excellent science communicator.


1.5 hours of complete downtime for our apps now.

We're getting "App boot timeout" errors for every request and "One or more of these arguments were missing: uid, gid, gateway, somaxconn, event_fd, out_fd" for scheduled tasks. The incident report has been up for almost four hours and it's not getting better: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2590


Case in point: The ongoing Covid-19 inquiry request for access to government WhatsApp messages: https://www.ft.com/content/208263bf-b6bb-4ea6-8e6b-ee2e522ac...


Later popes did indeed. Popes Leo XIII and Pius X were drinkers of the Vin Mariani coca wine, the former even awarding its creator Angelo Mariani a Vatican gold medal.

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


Vin Mariani was the inspiration for John Pemberton to create his own "French Wine Coca" nerve tonic, which also included caffeine from the Kola nut. Later, influenced by the temperance movement, he left out the alcohol (but not the coca), and thus, the first iteration of Coca-Cola was born...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#19th_century_histori...


> It originally contained 6 mg of cocaine per fluid ounce of wine (211.2 mg/L),

0.2g per L of uncut yeyo ... that's definitely not a placebo.


That’s gonna pack a fair whallop, especially given the coadministration with ethanol results in the whole cocaethylene thing happening resulting in a longer lasting buzz.


those were the days ... but then society went down the drain and they all died - good that it's illegal now and nobody uses it anymore!


If using Django there are tools like django-docs (https://django-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and the recently released django-sphinx-view (https://noumenal.es/django-sphinx-view/).


She was interviewed on February 4th 2021 as part of their digital events series ("An audience with Ann Wroe, obituaries editor"). Worth a listen: https://economist-subsevents.zoom.us/rec/play/5b6CntzRCPHSJz...


For those familiar with the original 1998 version, note that a remastered and illustrated edition was released in 2018--worth a replay and a good way of supporting the author! https://store.steampowered.com/app/726870/Anchorhead/


I don't use Steam, but would gladly play this on pretty much anything else.


You can buy it on itch.io as well: https://www.anchorhead-game.com/purchase/


I didn't think it was on itch.io. I'll go ahead and buy it there. Thanks!


I'll second the recommendation for Anchorhead. It's a great lovecraftian horror, the plot draws you in and it's hard to stop until you finish it. Beware of dead ends though so save often.


I prefer the ultraportable freeware (on any machine with a Z8 machine interpreter), but I'd gladly support the author by other means.


You may be thinking of Ice Station Zebra (1968). The Wikipedia page mentions Project COLDFEET as one of the inspirations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Station_Zebra


Yep, that's it. Thank you!


Wow. I read this book as a teenager.


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