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Before Macro Photography, Scientist Used to Illustrate His Microscopic Findings(mymodernmet.com)
2 points by bloat 5y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 5y ago
Please define the use of the term 'grinding leetcode'. Is it: a) Having a good score on the actual leetcode website as a prerequisite for an offer/interview. b) Using the actual leetcode website to practice for a technical in
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Heaven's Gate (1997)(heavensgate.com)
2 points by bloat 5y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 5y ago
How about Lisbon to New York? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait_crossing
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by bloat 5y ago
When did TV lose? In the UK the most popular show on a non-traditional channel is in tenth place behind BBC and ITV shows. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/nov/30/squid-g...
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by bloat 5y ago
Some nice Unix synthy indie-pop: Barcelona - I Have The Password To Your Shell Account https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWVGdMPuwVo From the album "Zero, One, Infinity".
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by bloat 5y ago
See also the use of the word "now", which seems to imply "Oh God, after everything else, what are they up to now?" as in (from the Daily Mail) "Now police blame victims for being burgled!"
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by bloat 5y ago
I came across this because I read an article about people looting old shipwrecks for the steel. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/24/as-me...
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Low-Background Steel(en.wikipedia.org)
27 points by bloat 5y ago|3 comments
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by bloat 5y ago
I had a box of bird seed on a shelf in my garage, next to a box of nails. One day I go in, and see that all the nails are in a layer in the bird seed box, covering up the seed. I can only assume a squirrel did this.
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by bloat 5y ago
You don't see any benefits to garbage collection at all? Would you even prefer to do your own memory management if you had a magic GC which never paused? I'd be interested in your reasoning if so.
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by bloat 5y ago
I remember this too. First year of university in 1991, me and my friends who'd all gone to different places used to write actual letters on paper and post them to each other. I was on the internet for the first time, and was excited to
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by bloat 5y ago
There was no level playing field between schools and students this year due to different students missing different amounts of school, having different capabilities to learn at home, and many other covid related factors. It does not seem fa
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Spanish museum celebrates vaccine pioneer who used children as refrigerators(theguardian.com)
4 points by bloat 5y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 5y ago
Just a great demonstration of how much knowledge we used to not have, how much we still have to obtain, and the weird ways we'll get it!
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Pfeilstorch(en.wikipedia.org)
142 points by bloat 5y ago|20 comments
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by bloat 5y ago
From what I've seen released from 2020 onwards I've particularly liked: Black Bear, Possessor, Palm Springs, Love And Monsters, Psycho Goreman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, White Tiger, Moxie, The Mitchells Vs The Machines Goin
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by bloat 5y ago
I use Letterboxd. Its pretty easy to get started, look up a bunch of movies you know you like, read some of the reviews, follow some people who seem like they know movies and would be into interesting stuff, and then see what comes your way
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by bloat 5y ago
Well, I guess 'terraforming' is an overstatement, but hill farming in general and the sheep specifically have had a profound effect on the landscape. This link is to a polemic, but it also contains plenty of references. https:&#x
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by bloat 5y ago
True, sometimes imperative loops are easier than streams. But your code is not a suitable substitute in this case where the constraints are clear. He does want the total sum, and he does want the list, and he does only want to iterate once.
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by bloat 5y ago
I would describe it as follows, maybe a little easier to visualize. Draw six dots, draw either a red or a blue line from every dot to every other dot. You must draw either a completely red triangle or a completely blue triangle. Personally
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by bloat 5y ago
It's been a long time since I saw this usage of the word "plonk". Brought back some memories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk_(Usenet)
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by bloat 5y ago
The quick summary here is that while a person is supposed to have only one Facebook account, that account can have an unlimited number of Facebook pages, which can all be set up to look like individual users, and can all comment, like, and
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by bloat 6y ago
This moves things further forward into the non-ownership model of usage for autonomous vehicles. If you're in one of these cars, you're effectively in a taxi and its going to be up to the driver what to do if the police show up. S
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by bloat 6y ago
There have been plenty of surveys and other evidence showing that millions of Trump supporters did and still do believe those claims. Do all these people have to be proved unreasonable?
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Double bongcloud: why grandmasters are playing the worst move in chess(theguardian.com)
142 points by bloat 6y ago|48 comments
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by bloat 6y ago
I can heartily recommend this compilation of old American songs on all sorts of newsworthy topics, lots of murders, but also train crashes, fires, hurricanes, and other assorted natural disasters. https://www.discogs.com/Var
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'Too negative ': Welsh seaside images (1979)(theguardian.com)
152 points by bloat 6y ago|70 comments
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by bloat 6y ago
It sounds like they worked out the URL format, which included a sequentially increasing id for each post, and then started pulling URLs starting at 0.
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by bloat 6y ago
Note that the article is in the Opinion section of the newspaper. You shouldn't expect unbiased reporting here, it's the designated space for editorializing and well... opinions.

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