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by Pete_D 7y ago
> in a country that must have 50 regional terms for a bread roll. This is so controversial that some regions have propaganda music videos about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O98qd7-dAaU
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Luca, the Ancestor of All Living Things (2016)(nytimes.com)
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by Pete_D 7y ago
(disclaimer, speculation) The Times article says this has been in progress for four years, so I suspect that this is the culmination of https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/UK-US_Bilateral_Agreem... . Which was origina
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by Pete_D 7y ago
(standard disclaimers apply; I am not a dietician or otherwise formally qualified to have any opinion at all on this topic) It looks like they're using the NOVA classifications[0]; there have been a couple of other articles relating to
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Idle thought: if musicians are being slowly replaced by algorithms, the future might not look like streaming individual tracks, but like apps that generate an endless amount of music locally. I think there'd be demand for such a thing
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UK Government Design Principles(gov.uk)
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by Pete_D 7y ago
How much of this is mitigated by donor/recipient compatibility (haplotypes? is that the right word?)? Is there no such thing as a purely compatible donor?
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by Pete_D 7y ago
According to the zdnet report ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20984119 , https://www.zdnet.com/article/database-leaks-data-on-most-of... ), yes: "The bigger number comes from duplicate records
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Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006)(norvig.com)
202 points by Pete_D 7y ago|95 comments
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by Pete_D 7y ago
(disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, I just have too much time on my hands). It seems that the EU regulations distinguish between additives, enzymes, and flavourings, and that sweeteners fall under additives. Regulation on additives includes
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Averia – The Average Font(iotic.com)
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Other commenters have given the 24-60 hours figure, but it's also worth seeing the section "From animal models to the clinic": "may also mean that humans need to fast for a (much) longer period of time than mice to obtai
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C preprocessor tricks, tips, and idioms (2015)(github.com)
78 points by Pete_D 7y ago|12 comments
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Not sure if it counts as obscure, but to add to the note on xclipboard: xclip, which lets you change and inspect the primary selection/clipboard from the command line.
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by Pete_D 7y ago
For data visualizations I use gdb's Python API. For simple things that can be just adding pretty printers, for hairy things it can be a custom command that prints extra information or dumps it to a graphviz script. https://s
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by Pete_D 7y ago
> The bill would limit social-media usage to half an hour a day (users would be able to bypass the limit by adjusting their app settings). The Economist is putting it mildly. The Act is quite short and accessible, so well worth reading d
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Compactness and Orthogonality(catb.org)
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Ask HN: Do you keep an engineering notebook?
51 points by Pete_D 7y ago|21 comments
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The X Window System Trap(gnu.org)
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by Pete_D 7y ago
I daydream sometimes about having a browser where tabs behave more like buffers in vim or emacs - that is, with no tab bar or particular ordering on open pages, but with them just hidden in the background, with some kind of about:pages inte
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Eventually, people will get tired of drawing pictures of houses and shopping trolleys, the glyphs will become increasingly simplified and abstract, and we'll finally have Yingzi. https://www.zompist.com/yingzi/ying
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by Pete_D 7y ago
I've seen many distros provide a unicode-data package, containing the human-readable text files from the Unicode Character Database. These are sometimes handy to have around, but I'd be surprised if much software used them directl
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Online Etymology Dictionary claims: "The figurative one-trick pony is 1897, American English, in reference to circus acts." https://www.etymonline.com/word/pony#etymonline_v_17634
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Better Bash History (2012)(sanctum.geek.nz)
267 points by Pete_D 7y ago|83 comments
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by Pete_D 7y ago
I think it's impossible. We lost. The incentives aren't there for interoperability and support for client-side customization to meaningfully improve - big names will resist, either because it makes it easier for users to sidestep
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Thanks, I understand better now. These kinds of dataflow-OOP environments always look like magic to me.
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by Pete_D 8y ago
I don't know what the state of vi(m) emulation was the last time you used emacs, but evil-mode is very comprehensive. About the only thing I missed when I made the switch was tabs; everything else either just worked as in vim or had
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by Pete_D 8y ago
> Another thing. If you like Unix pipes, you have to love late-bound dynamically typed objects that communicate through message passing, because Unix pipes can be generalized as such. Yet I routinely see people who claim to like the form
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by Pete_D 8y ago
The portability is a very nice feature of autotools, but that distinction between developer sources and distributed sources it was designed around isn't as clear cut or widespread as it used to be. If I start a new C/C++ project t
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by Pete_D 8y ago
Same, no problems yet. A hypothesis I found while looking into it: shelf life of condiments nowadays might be less than it used to be due to manufacturers cutting sugar and salt.

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