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by acqq 6y ago
For those preferring a textual form, it's a video based on this article: https://www.zdnet.com/article/look-whats-inside-linus-torval...
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by acqq 6y ago
The author of both articles is the same, as far as I understand, so I don’t understand how one article can be “more original source” than another.
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by acqq 6y ago
> passed away in the winter of 1679 > “Discovery of the Bishop’s lung calcification gave us the opportunity to revisit the question of tuberculosis emergence with data from an ancient European” Their definition of "ancient"
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by acqq 6y ago
> the history of Europe in the 20th century can be summarised as "from Sarajevo to Sarajevo" ...if you live there. In the broader historical perspective, Sarajevo was both in 1914 and late in the 20th century a pretext used by
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by acqq 6y ago
> I wish we’d never sold that thing You have only 18 days left to stop wishing — a new reconstruction of the old hardware, compatible with the old, with modern ports added: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectr
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by acqq 6y ago
They do, they just often can’t make a difference between snake oil salesman from a good scientist. And that’s exactly the point.
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by acqq 6y ago
Or maybe a bit less, it seems Kickstarter changes / fixes the conversions from GBP? Whatever, at the moment it shows me £1,046,099 2,993 backers 26 days to go. Let's see what happens in the next three weeks.
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by acqq 6y ago
"Life is quite strange Life is quite weird, Life is really quite odd. Life from a star is far more bizarre, Than an old bearded bloke they call God. So gaze at the sky, and start asking why You&#
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by acqq 6y ago
If I understood the whole story correctly, the people who ordered the first version waited for 3 years(!) and anybody who heard about that first version and wanted it but haven't ordered at the start, wasn't able order later. Not
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by acqq 6y ago
> has raised nearly £900,000 That's published yesterday, today as I write this it's: £1,146,085 27 days to go
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by acqq 6y ago
> so what do they target? Traditionally, Moon, Venus, asteroids. Also: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Radiation_astronomy/Radars#A... "the round trip light time to objects beyond Saturn is longer than the
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by acqq 6y ago
As I was a kid the last thing I could have wanted to learn was “what is the main export of Bolivia.” However whatever the question is, the answer “tin” is nicely minimalistic so the drawing was surely clear.
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by acqq 6y ago
> No, really. I did. > So I lied. I didn’t invent the iPhone; I invented the iPAQ (cca. 2000) To save you the time.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/sources-mozilla-expected-to-ex... "Mozilla and Google are expected to extend their current search deal for another three years, multiple sources have told ZDNet." " Terms
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by acqq 6y ago
> the list of jobs laid off Where is it? I've seen in other posts that real developers (even "almost all Servo team") were laid off?
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by acqq 6y ago
There are two Mozillas: not-for-profit organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation, "established on August 3, 2005, to handle the revenue-related operations of the Mo
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by acqq 6y ago
> please reply to me instead of editing. Unfortunately, my account has some very, very low limits on the number of replies I can make per day, which I can't influence. Not all users have necessarily the same possibilities, and the p
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by acqq 6y ago
> aggressive, exponential expansion is a fairly valid Darwinian strategy. Earth exists for around 4.5 billion years, life on Earth for 3.5 billion years, the whole known Universe just less than 14 billion years (and we can send some smal
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by acqq 6y ago
> human race Being satisfied that some "naked apes" still living could mean a survival, as a biological species, of the probable destruction of current civilization is setting the bar really low.
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> these have low credibility Lower then low, to the point that whenever somebody mentions them, I believe there was just a "wish to be true" and then stop. When checked, it was just a "rerelase" of the old already pub
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by acqq 6y ago
There are many angles to this story, but some should not remain ignored: the story of centuries long slave trade -- note, the slave trade was fully established much before the Western nations used "the fruits" of it: https:/
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by acqq 6y ago
That's exactly what I needed, many thanks. The author there also discusses other rationales which he considers later invented excuses, not the real reason, then shows what he believes to be the original idea. Once having this I've
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by acqq 6y ago
Relevant, by Peter Norvig "Mayzner Revisited or ETAOIN SRHLDCU": https://norvig.com/mayzner.html What I haven't found is the technical reason why the most frequent letters had to be at the start in Linotype
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by acqq 6y ago
I had to search what it is about: https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/ "The typical use case for this high speed Node.js module is to convert large images in common formats to smaller, web-friendly JPEG, PNG and WebP image
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by acqq 6y ago
> The story of the 1'000 cranes Do you mean, this documentary? https://archive.org/details/motionpicture0072
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by acqq 6y ago
Yes, if you suspect your password is common maybe you shouldn‘t use that service at all, but just download some smaller list of “common passwords.” I also see problematic that, if I understood correctly, some browsers query automatically th
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> a typical query returns about 500 results If you personally want to check your password wouldn't it help to curl more queries? Probably also taking care to make not too much per some unit of time?
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by acqq 6y ago
Your link refers to the following clinical trials for BCG, running since March: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04327206 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04328441 It seems t
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> Its still good news, and it still means that herd immunity is easier and faster to achieve It is not even clear it's "good news", it doesn't "still mean" at all, read carefully under "Edit 2" of
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> In addition means we need a lower rate for herd immunity No, it actually doesn't, the math functions differently than what is naively believed. See: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/08/03/

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