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A Possible Link Between ‘Oumuamua and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena(scientificamerican.com)
29 points by thomas11 5y ago|32 comments
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by thomas11 6y ago
The code is correct. That's a Lisp thing called `quote`. https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/Pairs__Lists__and_Racket_...
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by thomas11 7y ago
The bigger, of course also more distant and vague, announcement is that "by 2050 Microsoft will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded in 197
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Tempest: Startup says ‘Sober is the new black’(techcrunch.com)
3 points by thomas11 7y ago|0 comments
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by thomas11 7y ago
In feed lots they're fed grain, but that's only the last few months of their life. That's why it's called grain-finished rather than grain-fed.
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by thomas11 8y ago
I'm a German engineer in the US. The thing with these stories is that they won't happen to you. If you're employed by a tech company you have great health insurance. Of course, it still sucks that it can happen to someone at
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AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English(blogs.microsoft.com)
1 points by thomas11 9y ago|0 comments
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by thomas11 9y ago
You can get 1.35% currently with the free online account at Ally (no affiliation). Still below inflation but much better than 0.02%. Reliable access to a computer or smartphone can be an issue for the really poor but most should be fine.
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A rare look inside the secretive world of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by thomas11 9y ago|1 comments
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by thomas11 9y ago
The actual title on microsoft.com, "MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL: more choices on Microsoft Azure", has actually less marketing spin and more information.
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by thomas11 9y ago
This looks pretty cool! What's the business model going to be? The ToU are quite far-reaching regarding user content: "By submitting User Content through the Services, you hereby do and shall grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, p
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Announcing tools for the AI-driven digital transformation(azure.microsoft.com)
113 points by thomas11 9y ago|32 comments
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by thomas11 9y ago
Do you have a recommendation for a soil-based probiotic? I've been looking recently and found them somewhat hard to research among all the lacto ones.
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by thomas11 9y ago
Right. You could always define a new type with an existing underlying type, like Celsius with the underlying type int in your example. See the spec here: https://golang.org/ref/spec#Types This would define a new, n
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by thomas11 9y ago
The Go standard library is very well written and depending on which parts you read you can learn about lots of things like file operations, HTTP, crypto, etc. It's easy to read it all on the web, the docs are here: https://g
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Txti – Fast web pages for everybody(txti.es)
46 points by thomas11 10y ago|14 comments
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Using Elm in Production at Pivotal Tracker(pivotaltracker.com)
7 points by thomas11 10y ago|0 comments
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by thomas11 10y ago
I've used both extensively and I think they are fairly different, with different strengths and weaknesses. Bash is more pragmatic and more concise on the command line. PS is more uniform in its design and nicer for scripting IMO. It al
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by thomas11 10y ago
Isn't the Chevrolet Volt what you describe in your third paragraph?
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by thomas11 10y ago
So why does it need to be Vancouver where prices are already very high? Why not buy in another city that's more reasonable?
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Txti – Fast web pages for everybody(txti.es)
5 points by thomas11 10y ago|1 comments
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Flare: automatic UIs in Purescript(david-peter.de)
2 points by thomas11 10y ago|0 comments
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by thomas11 10y ago
I wonder if they're trying to do price anchoring here. The Voyage and the Paperwhite have now moved down a step on the Kindle scale, so people might get the Paperwhite instead of the regular Kindle, or the Voyage instead of the Paperwh
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A spreadsheet for things that aren’t certain(getguesstimate.com)
2 points by thomas11 11y ago|0 comments
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by thomas11 11y ago
Azure just recently announced price reductions to be competitive with AWS. The blog post has some interesting links. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/helping-azure-custome... Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft
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by thomas11 11y ago
"By homogenizing the style across all brands, every brand sells more because the decision is easier." Every brand sells more? That would mean that the homogenized style makes people buy a car who would otherwise not have bought
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Ask HN: Is there a Houston tech scene?
1 points by thomas11 11y ago|2 comments
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by thomas11 11y ago
The end-goal of terrorism is the psychological impact, not killing a few people more or less. And there's just something about airplanes that creates a larger psychological impact when they're hit. Maybe it's the thought of b
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by thomas11 11y ago
http://www.4clojure.com/ should also be mentioned here. I had a lot of fun there.
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Edi Weitz is writing a Common Lisp book(lispblog.xach.com)
15 points by thomas11 11y ago|0 comments

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