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by celias 7y ago
Strange. Downloading varnish-6.2.1.tgz with Safari 12.1.2 resulted in a 3,203,620 byte file that failed the shasum check on the three Macs I tried. The file does not appear to be a valid tar.gz file. Downloading with curl and Chrome on t
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by celias 7y ago
Physics Today has an article about this https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.420...
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by celias 7y ago
99% Invisible did a podcast on bees recently https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-beeing/
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by celias 7y ago
Snopes rates this as False https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/unsold-cars/
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by celias 7y ago
Canada https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/has-the-american-dream-m... Canada, Denmark, UK (2017) https://www.businessinsider.com/the-american-dream-of-social...
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by celias 7y ago
Before reading their stated function I assumed these were being used to reduce shoplifting. Are we sure they are not taking pictures of shoppers?
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by celias 7y ago
Part of Google's Project Loon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_(company) https://loon.com
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Wyze Cam Now Has Person Detection(wyze.com)
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by celias 7y ago
On The Media did a podcast series about evictions in the US https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/scarlet-e-unmasking...
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by celias 7y ago
Houston We Have a Podcast has an episode about the restoration https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/HWHAP/restoring-the-apollo-miss...
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by celias 7y ago
The latest podcast from podcast.__init__ is an interview of Meredydd about anvil https://www.pythonpodcast.com/anvil-web-application-developm...
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by celias 7y ago
NPR did a story about this recently https://www.npr.org/2019/06/08/730898366/checking-facts-in-n...
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by celias 8y ago
Behind The Curve from Planet Money talks with Duke Professor Campbell Harvey about whether or not to worry about yield curve inversion in today's economy - https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/12&#x2F
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by celias 8y ago
Planet Money did an episode on this https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/28/698763891/epis...
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by celias 8y ago
Sateen Dura-Luxe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabo_Karabekian
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by celias 8y ago
Here's a Planet Money episode on the Jones Act https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/09/27/553990861/epis...
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by celias 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_(Doctor_Who)
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Reminds me of Mr Trash Wheel in Baltimore's Inner Harbor https://www.baltimorewaterfront.com/healthy-harbor/water-whe...
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by celias 8y ago
Sad news. http://www.wordjazz.com https://vimeo.com/3088569 I remember accidentally finding the local NPR station on the radio in the 70's. Word Jazz and NPR Playhouse were my favorite programs. "
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by celias 8y ago
In June, 2003 Italian astrophysicists used radio signals from the Cassini satellite to test general relativity when the sun was between Earth and Cassini - (paywall, but nice summary in the non-paywalled abstract) https://www.nat
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Interview of Steve Dower at TalkPython podcast https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/191/python-s-journey-at-...
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by celias 8y ago
There's the ISS-CREAM cosmic ray detector on the space station that can "measure elemental spectra of Z = 1–26 nuclei over the energy range 10^12 to >10^15 eV" Given that CREAM is roughly 2x1x1m^3 and weighs 1258 kg while
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There is a discussion about Instagram's approach to migrating to python3 around the 34 minute mark in this talkpython podcast https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/155/practical-steps-for-... Lisa Guo&#x2
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The Brautigan Library for Unpublished Works(thebrautiganlibrary.org)
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How to dump 3000 pounds of confetti on Times Square(nytimes.com)
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by celias 8y ago
T. R. Pearson's books such as "The Last of How it Was" have wonderfully long, rambling sentences that remind me of how some people in the southern US I've known speak.
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by celias 8y ago
In some sense the Voyager spacecraft have been leaving the solar system since launch. :) As the Nature article points out, Voyager 2 crossed the termination shock in 2007, entering the heliosheath. The recent announcement is about Voyager
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14-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico(washingtonpost.com)
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A.G. Russell, III, acclaimed Arkansas knife builder, passes away at age 85
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The book Fluent Python is a good book that goes beyond the introduction to python books http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032519.do Here's an interview with the author in 2015 https://talkpython.fm

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