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by blendo 7y ago
WTF? In _Nature_? Loved it, though.
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> Many times it's better to be a big fish in a small pond than vice versa. Yes, this is seldom considered. For example, if you plan to graduate with a BS in physics, would you rather be in the top quartile at Cal Poly, or the botto
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by blendo 7y ago
Speaking as a Californian, dams on the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers have reduced our salmon migrations to only 5% of their pre-dam-building norms. My question for Norwegians: Have you seen similar environmental impacts on their native
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Scholarly Books of the Decade(chronicle.com)
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Controversially, the Ajit Pai at the FCC would like to shut down VW's 802.11p/DSRC (as well as General Motor's efforts) in favor of Cellular V2X: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/rift-over-5-9-ghz-
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All-New Mk8 Volkswagen Golf Can Talk to Other Cars (and Objects)(thedrive.com)
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Complete title: > Droughts exposed California’s thirst for groundwater. Now, the state hopes to refill its aquifers
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Refilling California’s Aquifers(sciencemag.org)
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Mormon history helps explain today’s public-land fights(hcn.org)
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SF launches new SoMa coronavirus testing site in partnership with Verily(sfexaminer.com)
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by blendo 7y ago
Why did I leave? I retired after programming for over 40 years. I started with Fortran while in the US Air Force (yay CDC 6600 and VAXen), got my CS degree, got out, worked in C/C++ and TCP/IP in the early '90s (yay SunOS),
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Why This Recession Will Be Different (and How to Keep It Mild)(politico.com)
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What People Power Looks Like in a Pandemic Democracy(nybooks.com)
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by blendo 7y ago
Make, then Maven after moving to Java.
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Does a sea of viruses inside our body help keep us healthy? (2017)(sciencemag.org)
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Also, "The Amazing $1 Microcontroller" https://jaycarlson.net/microcontrollers/
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by blendo 7y ago
Eclipse seems to have carved out a popular niche in the field of embedded C and C++. (JetBrains, please take note.)
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by blendo 7y ago
We were a small but seemingly delighted crowd when seeing this at the AAAS Convention, Seattle, on February 14. Since overshadowed by this simultaneous local reporting on the US's first Covid patient: https://www.seattletim
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Review: The Bit Player, an Homage to Claude Shannon(physicstoday.scitation.org)
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In the US, if you have a General class ham radio license, you could do it on the 7Mhz frequency if your antenna is relatively close (less than 1/4 wavelength) to the ground. See https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=
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by blendo 7y ago
At a wavelength of 70 centimeters (432 MHz). All via the magic of extremely effective error correcting codes (and fairly rare atmospheric conditions). Related, I'm amazed that my little $70 WSPR transmitter can push a 20m/14MHz s
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Plague of Justinian(en.wikipedia.org)
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Coronavirus is changing the way the world feeds itself(latimes.com)
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by blendo 7y ago
Original: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/07/coronavirus-state-ext...
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A National Covid-19 Surveillance System: Achieving Containment [pdf](healthpolicy.duke.edu)
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On Navajo Nation, coronavirus creates worry and confusion as cases surge(latimes.com)
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Food goes to waste amid coronavirus crisis(politico.com)
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Is It O.K. To Be a Luddite? [1984 Thomas Pynchon](pynchon.pomona.edu)
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Revisiting an old treatment for infectious disease: Fresh air(bostonglobe.com)
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by blendo 7y ago
Only if April 3rd was Backup Day.

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