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by oinksoft 4y ago
As far as I know, Furnace Creek is an oasis, and its golf course is irrigated by non-potable groundwater from local springs. Water Conservation at The Oasis: https://www.oasisatdeathvalley.com/who-we-are/sustainability.
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by oinksoft 6y ago
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-04-28/coronav... > “It is possible that this was partially due to reduced emissions, but meteorology likely played a much larger role.” Here in OC over the pa
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Eddie Paul: How to build a mechanical shark(newatlas.com)
1 points by oinksoft 7y ago|0 comments
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by oinksoft 9y ago
Somewhat related, from my .bashrc for a in $(git var -l | sed -nE 's/^alias\.([^=]*)=.*/\1/p') ; do if ! command -v g$a >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then alias g$a="git $a"
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by oinksoft 9y ago
ML for the Working Programmer is my favorite programming book! It's fantastic because it is serious and goes into great detail about practical matters in working with SML. Its treatment of SML's module system is without match. I
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by oinksoft 9y ago
I don't know if this is helpful for you, but I map <c-p> to run the open buffer in Vim in the buffer's filetype's interpreter (or compile and run, etc.). For GNU APL, this is: nnoremap <buffer> <C-P> :wr
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by oinksoft 10y ago
Highly recommend https://github.com/othree/yajs.vim
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Cassette Tapes Find New, Unlikely Following in Southeast Asia(realclearlife.com)
4 points by oinksoft 10y ago|3 comments
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by oinksoft 10y ago
Either way, mapping the arrow keys to <nop> seems wasteful. In normal mode I map up/down to :cprevious/:cnext and left/right to :colder/:cnewer, which makes error list navigation effortless. Some other good targets
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by oinksoft 10y ago
Obligatory warning about running `strings` on untrusted files: https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/10/psa-dont-run-strings-on...
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by oinksoft 10y ago
The Salton Sea is fascinating. Its bed is as low as Badwater Basin in Death Valley, and were it not inundated, it might be the hottest place in the US. A little while ago I submitted a fellow's account of hiking its perimeter during su
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by oinksoft 10y ago
Unfortunately, this is the only source I could find referring to plants marked as "cursed" by the church for the reason that they didn't "bow before [God]." Most primary sources are in Amharic, of which I know littl
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by oinksoft 10y ago
Apparently as recently as the 19th century, coffee was forbidden in Ethiopia (the birthplace of coffee, where its cultural importance is tremendous) by the Orthodox Church. Coffee, along with tobacco, cannabis and khat were considered &quot
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by oinksoft 10y ago
This is a real problem with ML. There's competing tooling from SML/NJ and MLton, not to mention interesting, useful projects like MoscowML or PolyML. So finding reusable libraries and such is a real battle, and you can't esca
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by oinksoft 10y ago
Not a pun, just what this immediately reminded me of :) I've always found it astonishing that people would live on an island with such a low maximum elevation.
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by oinksoft 10y ago
Tuvalu is in similar straits.
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by oinksoft 10y ago
Also here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reston,_Virginia
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by oinksoft 10y ago
Echoing what you said, I've never met nicer people or made friends more easily than when I lived in Sacramento.
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by oinksoft 10y ago
Mali is on the west coast of Africa, so such an ocean crossing would not require rounding the Cape. They're also well-situated to take advantage of trade winds, and are at the point of the narrowest middle Atlantic crossing. So it&#x27
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by oinksoft 10y ago
According to their oral history, they went clear across the ocean. My source is "A History of Madagascar" by Mervyn Brown (2001) and it could be incorrect, I didn't seek out the primary sources.
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by oinksoft 10y ago
Of course it's realistic. The Malagasy people are descendants of Polynesians who crossed the Indian Ocean to Madagascar, in canoes. With calm seas, there's no reason you couldn't make such a trip. Canoes can have sails too, a
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The Violin Thief (2016)(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by oinksoft 11y ago|0 comments
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by oinksoft 11y ago
EC2 is a proprietary service for creating virtual machines on demand in Amazon's infrastructure, it is not a computation system. Much as a relational database system provides a framework for storing and retrieving relational data, a co
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by oinksoft 11y ago
The line count of a diff has nothing to do with how focused the patch is. Some PRs are simply larger than others due to the language in use or the nature of the code being changed. Presumably a codebase in an array-oriented language would h
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by oinksoft 11y ago
Actually you don't need to use React.createClass to use mixins, there is https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-mixin which implements them via decorators. Either I wouldn't consider inheritance and mixins inter
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by oinksoft 11y ago
This is not limited to ES6+, class/inherits/super are syntactic sugar for existing prototypical OOP idioms.
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An Art Powerhouse from North Korea(nytimes.com)
4 points by oinksoft 11y ago|0 comments
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by oinksoft 11y ago
It surprises me how clearly I remember the first time I used the internet in 1995 (I was barely 7). My father worked on a predecessor to modern email in the 80s and by then was no longer programming, working in telecom instead. He had a kee
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by oinksoft 11y ago
This is also true of Standard ML, where unary minus is ~, and APL, where unary minus is ¯
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by oinksoft 11y ago
It took a few tries to find a non-classic book I've read and own. I was surprised by the neighbors/recommendations for Henri Troyat's Tolstoy : - George Orwell's 1984 , a "Bloom's Guides" edition (Cliff&

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