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A hotel in Germany uses 3D carpets to prevent guests from running in the passage...

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1000 out of 1200 kids in this school in #Oulu, #Finland, arrive by #bicycle, even in winter. 100-150 walk, rest by ski, kicksleds and car. This day it was -17°C, some days it can be colder than -30°C.

Note that this is only one of the four bicycle parking areas of this school 🤗

#Wintercycling #MeanwhileInOulu

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Desert Bighorn Sheep. Goler Wash, Death Valley National Park, 2021 I was off roading as it was a Sunday and no planes were flying. I decided to head up the wash to the Barker Ranch (where Manson was caught) and it took about 3 hours to go ten miles. Saw no life on the way there but was treated to these beauties. #sheep #DeathValley #wildlife #animals #photography

@rmerriam What I like is "interspersed" posting where answers appear just below the question or comment. This is especially true for official or technical emails.

I've read that our bodies contain tens of trillions (10 raised to 12th power) of cells! Each one has a mind of its own and wants to survive badly. Of course, there are bad actors who go rogue and cause havoc.

Trillions enclosed within multi-layer cells called the skin. We are nothing but a sack of cells.

Oh, yeah, you guessed right, I'm just reading "The Song of The Cell" by Siddhartha Mukherjee.

Listen to his interview on Fresh Air.
npr.org/sections/health-shots/

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Just landed, and straight into the player:

Elvin Jones - Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub (Blue Note Records)

Elvin Jones-d, Joe Farrell-ts/fl, Billy Greene-p, Wilbur Little-b, captured live July 28-30, 1967 at Pookie's Pub in NYC. Larry Young sits in on piano on one track.

@jazz

#MusicAgainstMadness #jazz #NowListening

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@freemo @Gargron @trinsec @khird
So I'm curious how all this got started.
What is the origin story?
Right or wrong...

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Semiconductor history 

@groundie Thanks for the info. I interned at Intel in the mid-1980s but don't recall the 4004 being mentioned.

I was there when the 80286 (or just the "286") was the hot new generation, the 8086 and 8088 were the bread-and-butter standards (excluding microcontrollers like the 8041, 8042, and 8051 series). The 80186 and little-known 80188 were compatible with the 8086 and 8088, respectively, but included core motherboard features like the interrupt controller on the processor chip.

That was also the time of Intel's 432 processor, a microcoded CPU that directly executed Smalltalk bytecode for object-oriented programming (OOP). The 432 was an interesting idea but failed massively in the marketplace because its microcoded architecture on a CPU core of that era was simply too slow to be viable for real applications.

This may be old hat to the entire universe, but I just discovered "Horizontal Scrolling" just 'cause I've got many Mastodon columns (8 and counting).

The Shift key is the secret. With a thumb-wheel, it's downright fun!

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Close-up shots of a common yellow swallow tail (Papilio machaon) butterfly, photographed in Epirus, Greece. #photography #insects #entomology

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@groundie Or switch to a different theme which doesn't have tickers included.
@khird

@trinsec @khird
Thanks! That was it, now with no-ticker, the page loads in a flash.

But I've had ticker theme all along,
so why now? And just what are tickers in Mastodon context? I do not remember seeing any...

It's taking up to 10 seconds for qoto.org to load! Yes, I've checked and it is just qoto that is slow. Other sites load fine and the issue occurs with any browser.

I suppose it's the influx of new users.

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