bdevine

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by bdevine 3y ago
Ah. It was paywalled and I foolishly assumed it was copy I read earlier about it passing the Assembly with it yet to be sent back to the Senate. That's what I get for assuming.
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by bdevine 3y ago
My cynical take is that this will not make it past the Senate, due to Newsom leveraging himself into the discussion behind the scenes. His national political ambitions likely prevent him from taking a public stand on this issue, as he would
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by bdevine 5y ago
You've independently discovered Betteridge's Law of Headlines[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by bdevine 5y ago
He's citing year-over-year? Seems to me that for some reason the economy was in the toilet this time last year but it had reason to be an aberration. I don't know, it's a real mystery.
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Lightning, Gods, and Mushrooms (2013)(blog.mycology.cornell.edu)
72 points by bdevine 5y ago|4 comments
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by bdevine 6y ago
You've missed your very best chance ever to lead with "Well, actually"!
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Artificial lightning strikes encourage growth of shiitake mushrooms (2020)(physicsworld.com)
2 points by bdevine 6y ago|0 comments
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by bdevine 8y ago
Summary: mild electrical stimulation of ectomycorrizhal matsutake mushrooms yielded immense gains in both quality and quantity of fruiting bodies.
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Lightning, Gods, and Mushrooms (2013)(blog.mycology.cornell.edu)
3 points by bdevine 8y ago|1 comments
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by bdevine 8y ago
Ok, I have a dumb question about this sort of technology. Aren't these devices essentially just borrowing from tomorrow by capturing moisture that would have eventually collected as clouds? Are there any long-term ramifications to usin
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by bdevine 9y ago
"Turns out the last shower curtain you bought from us isn't working out so great, is it? Well, check out all these top-ranked shower curtains that your search didn't return!"
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by bdevine 10y ago
Up voted for this: "If you do not understand every single command in this thing, you should avoid it, and if you understand every single command in this, you don't need it." It's so universally applicable!
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After trademark lapses, N.D. bar owner claims geographic center of North America(wsj.com)
2 points by bdevine 10y ago|0 comments
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by bdevine 10y ago
Count me in too! Who knew we were so many?
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by bdevine 10y ago
From the abstract: "This article argues that there is a 50-square-mile swath of Idaho in which one can commit felonies with impunity. This is because of the intersection of a poorly drafted statute with a clear but neglected constituti
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The Perfect Crime, or how to get away with murder in Idaho(ssrn.com)
3 points by bdevine 10y ago|2 comments
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by bdevine 11y ago
That's great and all, but when you've got multiple goals in multiple domains, something is going to fall to the bottom, or, more likely, right off it. There is only triage and its attendant guilt.
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by bdevine 11y ago
"Sir, Thank you very much for the article on hoarding. I've put it with the others."
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by bdevine 11y ago
Now I have to spend time deciding between this source or https://xkcd.com/1205/
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by bdevine 11y ago
I'm completely unfamiliar with this stuff, but from the article: "In risk individuals, a thymine (T) is replaced by a cytosine (C) nucleobase, which disrupts repression of the control region and turns on IRX3 and IRX5. This then t
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by bdevine 11y ago
At a minimum, I'd guess that it goes directly to PG's concept of "submarining"[0]. [0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by bdevine 11y ago
I've felt more or less the same as you and recently I've found Test-Driven Development with Python[0] to be a really nice resource. It is first and foremost a TDD book, which I certainly appreciate, but it takes you through creati
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by bdevine 11y ago
The mapping was done for the purpose of reproducing the error though. I wouldn't call that a wasted effort.
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by bdevine 11y ago
Wallace Stevens is a favorite of mine. His work has been described as "rigorous", which I would agree with. He is an inspiration to me due to his ability to straddle two worlds: his day job was mainly as an insurance executive, bu
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by bdevine 12y ago
It's not clear from the article that that's a smoking gun. Just prior to that point, we see: "Elevated levels of radon and carbon monoxide were detected but later ruled out as a cause.", with a link to a Russian page tha
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by bdevine 12y ago
Previously submitted here[0] and here[1]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4261263 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7890367
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by bdevine 12y ago
This points to http://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/introducing-gitlet , not http://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/git-in-six-hundred-words .
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by bdevine 12y ago
Your "bid data" typo seems like a nice little Freudian slip! As far as your second point though: although it's not ideal, don't virtualenvs do the trick? If you really needed to, you could even set up a workflow of diffe
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by bdevine 12y ago
Three! Don't forget boredom. Does feeling faintly amused also boost creativity?
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by bdevine 12y ago
Ah! Thanks for the correction. Somewhere along the way I picked up the belief that in addition to the file-closing aspect, "with" ensured a line-at-a-time iterator, akin to adding on "for line in f:". I'm not sure I

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