GorgeRonde

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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
That must be dangerous. I certainly wouldn't drink a shot of sub-zero liquor. There have been occurrences of people having their stomach frozen dead by ingesting liquid nitrogen enhanced drinks.
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
First typography, and now maps. Then what ? Postage stamps ?
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
Certainly related, cause or effect ? > Mar 22 2016 > Why Stealing Legos May Be the Perfect Crime > > A recent undercover sting operation busted a Lego thief in Portland, but thanks to the toy bricks' high price and the eas
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
I did the test as well, asking someone to old coloured pens on the periphery of my vision and i wasn't able to tell them apart.
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
Would you mind explaining why you think explanations in the style of evolutionary biology are bullshit ? I find your comment very enlightening and I sense some kind of self-irony that tickles my curiosity about your views. I bet you have so
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
> In the fifth century BC, Empedocles postulated that everything was composed of four elements; fire, air, earth and water. He believed that Aphrodite made the human eye out of the four elements and that she lit the fire in the eye which
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
This paper describes the effect of Xenon on plants: "Anaesthetics stop diverse plant organ movements, affect endocytic vesicle recycling and ROS homeostasis, and block action potentials in Venus flytraps" > Xenon was effective
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
> - Photosynthesis is shown to be quantum mechanical. I'm not sure quantum mechanical behavior in plants is the best argument that quantum mechanics are responsible for consciousness. ------------------------------------------------
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
Dynamic row to column pivotation/transpose in Postgres made simple. https://github.com/hnsl/colpivot
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
What about using an iframe and refreshing it with links targeting it ? Use <link rel="preload" ...> to make it really fast. Do so for any subcomponent of your page that can be updated independently of the rest of the page. U
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
Oil also makes paper transparent. Here is why: http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/why-does-grease-make-paper-...
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
I own a Yotaphone 2 which is a a dual-screen android phone. The e-ink screen is able to display the whole OS and not just some widgets.
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
Keeping on being diplomatic, I don't think it's an ego problem per se: instead, the egos fight over pointless things such as coding style. Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against adopting a coding style nor being told I
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
We also worship simplicity. I like to think of things as quadrants. Imagine a 2x2 matrix with columns and rows titled as such: [simple, complex] [easy, complicated]. They are quite not the same since one dimension denotes the complexity of
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
> If anyone else has experience with exposing queryable (SQL or otherwise) dynamic APIs directly to customers, I'd love to hear your insights. How did you tackle this problem? This is something I've been experimenting with late
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
I still think there are brilliant aspects to Inform 7, in particular its rule system and the way it handles predicate dispatch through the S-V-O structure of (controlled) english. Add to that the fact you can define your own adjectives (adv
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
> And different researchers tend to draw different conclusions. “Most people claim that the experiment shows that their interpretation is the only one that is correct.” Exactly like in the experiment ... Edit: To be clearer, why not try
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
Interesting point of view. I've been toying with the idea of using a controlled form of SQL as a DSL for an API instead of REST routes. Since I code in Clojure, I use a lib called Korma to help me build SQL queries. It has a rather goo
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
it burns really bad now
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
You should have a look at : https://github.com/TristeFigure/shuriken/blob/ffbff58b19d555... .
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
> The problem is that your appliance/container will not be allowed to access the AISP-only APIs provided by the banks, unless your client themselves become an AISP. Makes sense, at least on a technical level. Ditto if I try to place
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
I'm actually investigating the ins and outs of building a product that interposes between e-money gateways and businesses implementing them. It has three purposes: - Data synchronization. Usually, either because you're sane, or ha
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by GorgeRonde 8y ago
Some thoughts I've had on "graphical based programming" (if UML can be deemed as such): - Don't draw the product. Draw the organization that produces it. As per Conway's law, you'll be drawing the same thing in
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Tell HN: Use WaveNet to remaster songs
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by GorgeRonde 9y ago
Meanwhile, this was posted on HN a few hours ago: "Brain Cells Share Information with Virus-Like Capsules" Discussion/Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16139798&ref=hvper.com Maybe this is how th
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by GorgeRonde 9y ago
I'm a lisper at night so I tend to have a heavy use of macros as well as rather abstract patterns you can use in any language. This works for me because a) I'm the only maintainer of my own side projects (most of the time I never
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by GorgeRonde 9y ago
Why everytime a "new OS" comes around it uses the good old fashioned command line with the GNU stack ?
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by GorgeRonde 9y ago
He would have been interested in Ed Lorenz' work (from the butterfly effect fame) I suppose. According to Tim Palmer: "Despite being known for his pioneering work on chaotic unpredictability, the key discovery at the core of meteo
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by GorgeRonde 9y ago
Here is the the original paper that caused the article on CNN that caused thid blog post: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/07/05/1704949114.full Abstract: The population extinction pulse we de
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by GorgeRonde 9y ago
We find that the rate of population loss in terrestrial vertebrates is extremely high—even in “species of low concern.” In our sample, comprising nearly half of known vertebrate species, 32% (8,851/27,600) are decreasing; that is, they

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