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by Todd 6y ago
Constructor-defined properties of records are implemented using auto-implemented properties with the new init keyword, so: public int MyProp { get; init; } instead of public int MyProp { get; set; } Apparently those are im
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by Todd 6y ago
This originally aired on the PBS series Frontline in March. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/plastic-wars/ Watching this made me very sad. I feel like I've been lied to my entire life. Of cou
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Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest(nytimes.com)
622 points by Todd 6y ago|355 comments
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by Todd 6y ago
This is good news for experienced .NET developers and newcomers alike. It marks the end of the journey from legacy .NET Framework to fully open source cross-platform .NET. .NET Standard was confusing, and the ubiquitous TFMs in the early da
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Live video dating: Finding love online with an audience(bbc.com)
1 points by Todd 6y ago|0 comments
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by Todd 6y ago
This may have been to disambiguate between similar sounding phonemes. English phonetic alphabets used for radio had pronunciations like 'tree' for 3 and 'niner' for 9.
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by Todd 6y ago
Maybe we need a new unit of measure: the flip. Similar to how SN came up with the bi suffixes for binary (mebi vs. mega, etc.). The flip would be a small flop.
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by Todd 6y ago
Thank you for this. I know it's a big undertaking to make a large project available to the community like this. Please don't let the side show discourage you.
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Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome(nytimes.com)
13 points by Todd 7y ago|0 comments
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Pete Carroll Wants to Change Your Life(nytimes.com)
1 points by Todd 7y ago|0 comments
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Vaughan Oliver, celebrated 4AD graphic designer, dies aged 62(theguardian.com)
2 points by Todd 7y ago|0 comments
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by Todd 7y ago
I was recently reading the Wikipedia page about comparative neuron counts in the brains of various animals. The most notable observation to me at the time was that ravens have a similar neuron count that of to pigs and dogs--far more than c
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What Does PewDiePie Believe?(nytimes.com)
6 points by Todd 7y ago|1 comments
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by Todd 7y ago
It's not. @sivers is a long time, well respected member of the HN community.
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Horns are growing on young people’s skulls(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by Todd 7y ago|1 comments
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by Todd 7y ago
You're describing DDE. In use since Windows 2.0 and still functioning today in Windows 10, 32 years later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Data_Exchange https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/
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by Todd 7y ago
The analogy sounds good, up until the product has stickers telling you to purchase this item from Amazon . That's disingenuous. The stickers in this analogy would tell customers that they can go to the product's own web site to r
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by Todd 7y ago
I had a chance to see an F-1 at the Destination Moon exhibit which just opened at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. It is astonishingly large. If you're in the area, or near one of the other (few) locations where they are on display, I
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by Todd 7y ago
She said under Code of Conduct, "This was something I didn't always have when first organizing groups years ago, and I learned over time why it's necessary." I was curious about that and hoped that she would elaborate.
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by Todd 8y ago
I use a 43" 4k TV as a monitor and it's great. It's on the outside range of size due to the 100 ppi pitch. You're referring to chroma subsampling. Rtings does a review of 4k TVs that support 4:4:4 chroma. https:/&#
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I sold my wedding presents to set up my company(bbc.com)
1 points by Todd 8y ago|0 comments
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by Todd 8y ago
The article says: In 1970, 61 percent of Americans belonged to the middle class, said Kochhar, “a clear majority.” Using Pew’s methodology, that figure now hovers around 50 percent nationally.
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by Todd 8y ago
The Anabasis by Xenophon can be read in the original, with translations on alternating pages, as in the Loeb series. There are also interlinear translations available, such as this one: https://archive.org/details/anab
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The cost of the Bridge between two nations(bbc.com)
4 points by Todd 8y ago|0 comments
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by Todd 8y ago
As many people are pointing out, they has been used as an alternative singular pronoun for a very long time. For those who think that these things are unacceptable, one only has to look at other Indo-european languages. German has sie ,
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Why we can't give up this odd way of typing(bbc.com)
3 points by Todd 8y ago|0 comments
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Cognitive bias cheat sheet, simplified(medium.com)
1 points by Todd 8y ago|0 comments
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by Todd 9y ago
It's because that's the way English verbs are conjugated. English actually has a very simple way of conjugating (regular) verbs. Most of the complexity of the ancestral Germanic has been lost. Contrast that to other Germanic langu
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by Todd 9y ago
Comcast Business is bad near Seattle
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The great writers forgotten by history(bbc.com)
1 points by Todd 9y ago|0 comments

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