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by caterama 6y ago
Remind me again... how do we elect presidents that don't win the popular vote?
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by caterama 6y ago
> this error was due to the recent automated systems purged COVID-19 misinformation and that Podcast Addict was unfortunately caught in the crossfire. Typical Google at this point. Maybe I don't understand the scale, but wouldn&#x27
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by caterama 6y ago
On one hand, the authorities are mocked for incompetency (see recently: surveillance cameras on the open internet, 26-year-old EMT shot by police raiding the wrong home) and yet we expect them to handle cases like this? This seems like a do
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by caterama 6y ago
Do you have a feel for how this compares with other states?
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First light images from the new DKIST solar telescope(nso.edu)
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by caterama 7y ago
Prompting purely from the HN headline "Scientific Models Too Often Prove Whatever the Grant Provider Wants Proven" (to quote in case it changes), I wanted to provide two small anecdotes. Preface: science rarely claim to prove anyt
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by caterama 7y ago
Disclaimer: I own no Smart Home devices. Under the FAQ, I was not able to find an entry like "Will I be able to reach a human about my Nest devices / services?". That's a bit scary. Not sure if that was possible before t
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by caterama 8y ago
Perhaps we are inherently good, but I think we're also groupish. How can that be reconciled? There must be an "other" -- something to conflict or compete with -- in some sense. Unfortunately, that conflicting other usually ma
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by caterama 8y ago
GOES-16 and GOES-17 are supposed to be identical, barring the cooling issue. Check out these fascinating loop-of-the-days from GOES-16. I'm sure they will be adding GOES-17 soon as well. http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/
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by caterama 9y ago
Having quit Facebook some 4+ years ago, I think about these things too and have come to the conclusion that: a) I don't need to know about the project my distant friend is working on, or the food anyone is making or eating* . b) A solu
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by caterama 9y ago
Looks similar to https://system76.com/ . I got the 17" Kudu for work. Honestly, I'm now aware that a 17" screen on a laptop is just too impractically big, but the hardware has been great.
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by caterama 10y ago
Similar idea: http://academictorrents.com/
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by caterama 10y ago
> The special role of educational institutions in simultaneously sub- sidizing and rationing entry is common to all professions requiring advanced training.23 It is a striking and insufficiently remarked phe- nome
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by caterama 10y ago
Hmm... CoreOS as a name seems all around more sleek. Though the tech behind the name is the same, we are humans and we judge books by their covers - I imagine this carries into software as well.
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by caterama 10y ago
Dad taught me Vi, now I use Vim. I work in the sciences and incidentally, a number of my colleagues say they use either Vim or emacs because that's what their PhD advisor used.
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by caterama 10y ago
Bought an imac in 2011 and the keyboard that came with it was amazing. I could type like the wind, but unfortunately it was wireless. Within the last year, it started glitching so I started looking for a new one... I wanted a wired one so t
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by caterama 10y ago
ES6 React with react-router, server side rendering, and Webpack code splitting + tree shaking. It's based on the "huge-app" example from the react-router project. https://github.com/5tefan/universal-react