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Once I held the hand of a dying man who looked into my eyes two hours prior to his death and said, doc, be honest with me, is this going to hurt. He was seventy-eight years old, ex-military, and…

Top stories for Long   How painful is death? Lewis Vandebeek, Licensed Medical Doctor • Answered April 15 Once I held the hand of a dying man who looked into my eyes two hours prior to his death and said, doc, be honest with me, is this going to hurt. He was seventy-eight years... Read more » 2.1K 569   Why are CPUs still being made when GPUs are so much faster? Jonas Sørensen, B.S Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark (2019) • Answered May 26, 2018 Think of it in this way, your cpu is made of perhaps 2-4 very performant cores. 1 core is able to do some few billion instructions a second, which is plenty for most cases.... Read more » 1.9K 97   How do Chinese restaurants keep their rice safe to eat compared to home-cooked leftover rice? VitalSign, Answering your health questions • Answered April 7 Boiling rice doesn't kill the bacteria inside it. Uncooked grains contain spores of Bacillus cereus that easily survive the extreme heat. The key difference between safe re... Read more » 956 64   Why did European armies struggle to defeat the Ottomans despite often having larger forces at battles like Nikopolis? SepiaGlyphs • Answered April 13 In 1396, Europe's finest knights charged into battle absolutely certain their heavy armor made them unstoppable. Instead, they were annihilated. For centuries, European arm... Read more » 476 44   Do you regret your marriage, and why? Suki, look before you leap • Updated April 14 I am 27 female, working as a software engineer. I got married this April. I found out my husband had lied about his job, salary, educational qualification and age to get ma... Read more » 3.6K 638   Why did the B-58 Hustler fail despite its impressive speed and design? Bob Keeter, F/A-18 ordnance flight test engineer • Answered February 6 The B-58 was one beautiful aircraft, fast as greased lightning, but operational for a quite short time. those engines hanging under the delta wing were early versions of the... Read more » 1K 93   Can you fail a Ph.D. thesis defense? Jan Jakubik, Test Tube Shaker at Maximegalon Institute for Slowly and Painfully Working Out ... • Answered July 10, 2025 Yes, it happened to one of my students. The excellent one. The recommended upper limit of a PhD thesis at our faculty is 20 pages for the introduction, elaboration of the h... Read more » 257 48   Why did King Charles III erase the title Queen consort and Camilla is known as only the Queen Camilla? Charles David Burt • Answered January 15, 2024 He Didn’t. There are 4 classifications of Queen. Queen Consort: Woman Married to the King. Queen Regnant: Woman who is the sitting Monarch in her own right.... Read more » 529 45   Why do the DC-10 and MD-11 have a reputation for being dangerous, and is it really about the tail-mounted engines? OpenBlueprint • Answered March 31 Despite their deadly reputations, the massive tail-mounted engine on the DC-10 and MD-11 wasn't the problem. The real killers were faulty doors, tiny wings, and a forklift. ... Read more » 243 25   Why do people buy Hyundai or Kia cars when Toyota are much better? Gary Brown, Senior Fellow • Updated Fri Let me explain. I had a friend who opened a gourmet pizza restaurant. People raved over his pizza. It cost more because he used the highest quality ingredients. He eventual... Read more » 2.1K 322   How were the bodies of the Challenger crew found? Andy Burns, Student of Space History • Answered January 10, 2025 Two Navy divers, Terry Bailey and Mike McAllister, diving from the salvage ship USS Preserver, found the Challenger’s crew compartment on March 9, 1986, nearly six weeks af... Read more » 6.5K 282   Why is C++ used at all now that a faster language (Go) has been created? Christopher F Clark, Mentored 12-ish software engineers, taught programming • Answered April 20 I am going to offer a different perspective on the question than the speed one. At Lemurian Labs we were considering using Go for a project we were building, but we needed ... Read more » 96 9 Read more in your feed

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The Betrayed Spouse's Space and Community • 6.4K followers Help, Support and Advice for remaining together or separating after Betrayal.   I was cheating on my husband of 18 years with his own friend and after 2 years, my husband caught me. How can I make this go away from his mind and have him forgive me and move forward? Hayk Jernazian Answered March 27   As a psychologist, I’ll give you some honest feedback without being cruel. To be clear, I am stating my profession, and I am NOT operating as one in my feedback. judging by ... Read more »     I was cheating on my husband of 18 years with his own friend and after 2 years, my husband caught me. How can I make this go away from his mind and have him forgive me and move forward? Robert Yunk, Sr Automation Engineer in Pharma and Biotech (2019-present) Answered February 15   There is only one possible thing you can do to make this go away from his mind. And even with this one thing, there are no guarantees. The one thing you can do to help make ... Read more »   Read more in The Betrayed Spouse's Space and Community

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