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by cmpb 1mo ago
To nit 1: "totally unrelated" could reasonably mean "not in the same genus", but even relaxing that to "not in the same family" holds true for the word "cedars". The author's point about "co
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by cmpb 3mo ago
I had the same thought, but then I realized that everyone on my team actually _does_ have experience with JavaScript async, so I just rolled with it. Not sure what that's about
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by cmpb 4mo ago
I'm not familiar with Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, but I am aware that Rosalind Franklin [1] was extremely important for our understanding of DNA, comparable to Watson/Crick, with whom she co-discovered the structure of DNA. So it see
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by cmpb 5mo ago
Could really use a post-mortem to set the story straight. The apparently-hallucinated support response copied-pasted by the submitter showing up in the github issue thread is very misleading without scrutiny
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by cmpb 6mo ago
That assumption feeds into the moral of the post and its followup
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by cmpb 7mo ago
Specifically this type of modifier is called a "noun adjunct"
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by cmpb 11mo ago
Really great book (and series). Though it's not "hard sci-fi" by any means, the technology feels real enough to keep my brain from focusing on the holes and enjoy the fun philosophical and ethical problems that Scalzi comes u
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by cmpb 2y ago
The other side to the localizers is the communication / mesh networking, and the extremely effective security partitioning. Even Anne couldn't crack them! It's certainly a lot to package in such a small form
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by cmpb 2y ago
Well, Deepness is set a few thousand years in the future, so we've got some time to work on it.
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by cmpb 2y ago
Yes, and in fact the extinction event associated with this high-velocity change is termed the "Holocene Extinction" [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
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by cmpb 3y ago
This "find the latest row for each <column>" query is kind of a poster-child for seemingly-simple but actually difficult to get right/performant sql. E.g. see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13
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by cmpb 3y ago
I'm from the area, so I feel I might be qualified to give you an answer. The short story is that some people here do still speak dialects of French [1]. The number of native speakers is rapidly declining (and will soon diminish complet
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by cmpb 3y ago
Strange seeing not just my state, but my hometown, rising on HN. Sad, too. Related: For those interested in point-and-click / text-based games, check out the game NORCO, which is about the city Norco (named for the refinery that graces
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by cmpb 3y ago
Obviously, we should try to figure it out and learn from our mistakes, increase security, etc., but what accountability can we really expect from knowing that the pandemic started due to a lab leak? Accountability is almost meaningless comp
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by cmpb 3y ago
>We removed 1.5 million plants at 21 events in seven state parks this year. I have been involved in Ardisia and Tallow removal efforts here in the US south. When the infestation is this bad, you're not going to solve it with mechani
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by cmpb 3y ago
And be prepared to interact with many other animals. This includes the ones we all seem to love, like birds and bees and fireflies, but also those that are typically considered vermin, like spiders, snakes, mice, wasps, roaches. Not that th
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by cmpb 4y ago
The article indicates that the bulk of the extinction of large mammals happened during the Quaternary Extinction[1], between 52kya and 9kya, so 100 years ago the damage was already done. It also makes the argument that the extinction events
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by cmpb 4y ago
I really like this version of the joke, but it's impossible to tell during regular face-to-face conversation
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by cmpb 4y ago
Accidents on bikes happen, which is a generally accepted risk among parents. I think they'll have more luck with the helmet manufacturer lawsuit, given that the girl died of a head injury.
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by cmpb 4y ago
We do get a lot of rain and there are a lot of low areas. It was mostly "bottomland" before the woods were cleared out. Back in 2016, it basically rained for 15 straight days and flooded huge portions of north and east Baton Rouge
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by cmpb 4y ago
From the article: >Arrest warrants can “go stale” due to the passage of time and changing circumstances, and one from 1955 almost certainly wouldn’t pass muster before a court, even if a sheriff agreed to serve it, said Ronald J. Rychlak
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by cmpb 4y ago
The article mentions planting natives and leaving leaf litter for the insects to nest in. Anecdotally, that works extremely well. My neighbor always leaves his leaves under the trees (gums), and I'd noticed his yard always has a prolif
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by cmpb 4y ago
Ever since I was a kid, whenever I would read things like this or stuff about animals doing human-like things, I always wind up thinking "what would it be like to be <whatever animal> for a day?", and in particular, what exa
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by cmpb 5y ago
There we go, thank you, that's the mental model I needed to bring it together
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by cmpb 5y ago
I was confused at first because the article mentions that "a spacecraft bound for the center of the solar system would need to slow itself down" and "engineers must take Parker past Venus seven times throughout the mission, s
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by cmpb 5y ago
True, but odds are by 2050 we will not have this mostly solved and we will still be arguing with each other about what's important when it comes to preserving the current climate vs adapting to a changing climate. I think that on the s
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by cmpb 5y ago
I (30) also just sent this to my dad. It made him very happy as we reminisced about all the old machines we've gone through over the decades. Thank you for spending such quality time with your son
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by cmpb 5y ago
PiHole[1], with the default adlist/gravity configuration, actually works pretty well for removing ads from my LG smart tv from about 3 years ago. Doesn't keep it from updating, but you can easily configure pihole to block whatever
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by cmpb 5y ago
In the US that would be a (search?) warrant which also comes from the judge during a police investigation and authorizes the police to get your phone's passcode under threat of prison time. This particular case is different because the
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by cmpb 5y ago
>we Homo sapiens outcompeted them and made the world better (in someone’s point of view) for Homo sapiens I think what's coming into focus for a lot of people nowadays (i.e. the last 50ish years w.r.t eco conservation) is the idea t

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