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by _greim_ 9y ago
> The LTEE is special because it allows the team to “replay” evolution and thereby probe the effects of prior history on later events. After every 75 days (500 generations), the bacteria are frozen. This serves as an organic data backup
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Doesn't the existence of alternatives mean utilities have an incentive to keep service decent? I mean, sure, there are those who can/will go solar at one end, and those who can't/won't at the other. But somewhere in
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by _greim_ 9y ago
This article exploits anti-urban-hipster sentiment in order to replicate itself across social media. It has no actual data for or against various office space designs.
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by _greim_ 9y ago
This actually sounds really great and I would actually go to such a store for certain things.
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by _greim_ 9y ago
I don't know. André Staltz is a great programmer, but I can't help but think what seems "opinionated" to him about promises boils down to the fact that they don't perfectly match certain quasi-ideological preference
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by _greim_ 9y ago
This also highlights the counter-intuitive fact that being struck by an extremely rare, corner-casey malady isn't necessarily uncommon, simply due to the sheer number of different rare, corner-casey maladies that exist in the long tail
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by _greim_ 9y ago
Is it just me, or has "definitely" become sort of subtly indefinite in modern language? Consider: A) We should throw a party for him. B) We should definitely throw a party for him. A) We should get together soon.
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by _greim_ 9y ago
Ideally, you'd be able to: * Read any developer contribution docs. * Glean what info you can from the layout and naming of the source tree. * Peruse the code and any comments and see what does what. * Read the unit tests to see how thi
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by _greim_ 9y ago
A fun way to play minesweeper is to not use marker flags. Instead, start to recognize patterns, and sense the landscape of mines mentally as you go. One nice side effect: Lots less clicking needed.
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by _greim_ 9y ago
"Better Angels"—and presumably this book—cuts against the grain of popular discourse, since claiming the world is in decline and a state of moral depredation has always been an effective way to agitate for change. Which is underst
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by _greim_ 9y ago
My children loved to invoke googol, like most children it seems. "I want to eat googol cookies!" But I always sternly warned them it was a big number—most of their invocations pretty much entail the observable universe immediately
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by _greim_ 9y ago
AFAICT, the only role your phone plays is to display a some sort of QR code to a reader when you enter the shop, after which you can literally put your phone into airplane mode and it wouldn't matter. I don't see why you couldn&#x
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by _greim_ 9y ago
My dreams are never third person. I'm swept up in a sequence of more or less bizarre events and happenings, and I don't question it, or otherwise bring my rational faculties to bear on the situation. It feels like passive particip
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by _greim_ 9y ago
> Stack Overflow Trends lets us examine how each of these technologies has been asked about over time. So what are we measuring here? It seems obvious that more popular frameworks would generate more questions, but so would: - Newer ones
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by _greim_ 9y ago
Presumably that reflects the 1.x / 2.x split. They're arguably different enough to be treated as separate frameworks.
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by _greim_ 9y ago
> the framework should do automatic code-splitting at the route level, and support dynamic import(...) for more granular manual control I disagree! Code-splitting is arguably an architectural dead-end for SPAs: 1) It adds a non-trivial l
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by _greim_ 9y ago
This seems to go against the popular notion that men tend to value visual signals of attractiveness, whereas women tend to value non-visual signals of attractiveness. It's been a long time since I took Psych 101. Does anyone know, has
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by _greim_ 9y ago
This brings to mind Louis CK's "everything's amazing and nobody's happy" routine from several years ago[1]. Sure, Apple could communicate this, and a thousand other trade-offs like it, but that would shatter the ill
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by _greim_ 9y ago
Wow, gaspunk is the perfect term for it. TIL.
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by _greim_ 9y ago
> but the smell? Yes! Well admittedly, I have somewhat of a redneck past. [cue Ben Fold's Five music.] Having grown up in small-town Midwest and worked on Farms the smell of gasoline is linked to lots of boyhood memories and male-
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by _greim_ 9y ago
> Drivers will have to shed their attachment to the sound, smell and feel of gas-powered engines. I for one will not feel the least bit sad when continuous, smooth acceleration becomes the norm, and lurchy, awkward automatic transmission
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by _greim_ 9y ago
No. wasm needs to be able to interact with the DOM and other web APIs, which I understand isn't the case currently. Then you need hooks into GC. Although I guess nothing would stop you from embedding a JS runtime in your wasm blob, oth
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by _greim_ 9y ago
I suspect that customers often really do know what they want, rationally speaking, it's just that purchasing tends to be more impulse and image-driven, divorced from peoples' rational needs. The end result of modern marketing sc
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by _greim_ 9y ago
You raise a good point. I think the net neutrality ethic can accommodate traffic shaping by application type , provided certain conditions are met: A) Traffic shaping is done in the public's best interest. B) It doesn't discrimin
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by _greim_ 9y ago
It's good odds, though. Obviously depending on the app, these would be non-logged-in users who don't get personalized content.
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by _greim_ 9y ago
> This is "bounce before document.ready()?" Since we're talking about SSR which happens before anything else, latency is going to push out all load-time metrics equally. > I'm thinking that with all the other API g
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by _greim_ 9y ago
Yes, that's exactly what React SSR + caching accomplishes!
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Correct, except that initial app load time for un-cookied users with cold browser caches is a critical metric, since it largely determines whether they'll keep using your app. Fortunately, those are the scenarios where server-side ca
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by _greim_ 9y ago
> Also note their updated Firefox on iOS I was under the impression Apple didn't allow any web rendering engines on iOS except the one mobile Safari uses, thus Chrome, Firefox, etc, on iOS are just wrappers around the Safari engine.
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by _greim_ 9y ago
Comcast is in rent-seeking mode at this point; extracting as much money as possible from existing infrastructure. By "infrastructure" I mean last-mile fiber buried/strung throughout neighborhoods and into peoples' homes.

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