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Richard Leakey Has Died(bbc.co.uk)
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by cmsefton 5y ago
> We used to sit around in the UNIX room saying "what can we throw out? Why is there this option?" This reminded me of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's quote that "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to a
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World’s vast networks of underground fungi to be mapped for first time(theguardian.com)
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Hayao Miyazaki prepares to cast one last spell(nytimes.com)
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by cmsefton 5y ago
Agreed, it's always worth remembering Chesterton's Fence. https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
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by cmsefton 5y ago
My knowledge on it is pretty basic, but as I understand, house spiders are adapted to living indoors: climate, food supply, and so forth. It's probable that over time spiders adapted to live in caves or tree hollows probably found it q
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by cmsefton 5y ago
It's worth mentioning to check the species first before putting them back out. Some spiders are house spiders, and can't really survive outdoors. I generally put them into my garden shed or, if possible, into the loft instead, but
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by cmsefton 5y ago
I regularly re-read the opening few pages of the Pragmatic Programmer as a mantra to myself, because what you have written here is very relevant. > It is your life. You own it. You run it. You create it. > Many developers we talk to
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A lifetime with the Yanomami people of the Amazon(bbc.co.uk)
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Tim Minchin on Quitting Comedy(theguardian.com)
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by cmsefton 5y ago
The paper mentioned in the article, Killing with kindness: Does widespread generalised provisioning of wildlife help or hinder biodiversity conservation efforts?, can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science&#x2F
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Does feeding garden birds do more harm than good?(bbc.co.uk)
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This certainly was not the experience of other countries such as South Africa where the majority of transfer (roughly 80%) was via heterosexual transfer.
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by cmsefton 5y ago
Sure, we ran it over a couple of months. Generally, people did it in their spare time outside of office hours, or in 10% time. As long as it didn't impact work delivery. Everyone installed it locally using docker, and then we had a cen
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by cmsefton 5y ago
One of the best resources out there to learn about API hacking has to be OWASP Juice Shop https://owasp.org/www-project-juice-shop/ We ran it as an exercise at work to learn about security vulnerabilities, and it was g
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by cmsefton 5y ago
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27896386
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In Broad Daylight: Uyghur Forced Labour and Global Solar Supply Chains(shu.ac.uk)
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Right, so it's basically serialisation. Interesting, I always saw serialisation as releasing an already finished novel bit by bit, but just reading about the history of serialisation, it seems that was not always the case. Thanks for g
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by cmsefton 5y ago
> For fiction, however, the dream combination is probably publishing in-progress with subscriptions As someone who likes to write fiction myself, the idea of publishing in-progress feels incredibly alien. Typically, if I finish writing s
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Chinese dreams on Native American land: A tale of cannabis boom and bust(bbc.co.uk)
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The full headline feels misleading. It's not that no-one wanted to admit it could be wrong. No-one wanted to admit it was wrong. There were plenty of people involved who were well aware it was wrong, they just didn't want the
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by cmsefton 5y ago
Yeah, that's true, I would prefer tracking things separately, which is another reason I don't particularly like the proposed idea.
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The other thing I don't like about this is that it's great at tracking the switch to "true" (the timestamp value), but when you want to go back to "false", you have to wipe out the timestamp, and you then have
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by cmsefton 5y ago
Private Eye magazine (a satirical investigative news magazine) has covered this for many years, and have an excellent report for anyone interested: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justi... [
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GCHQ chief warns of tech 'moment of reckoning'(bbc.co.uk)
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Lots of love here for lichess, and it's well deserved. My son got into chess over a year ago, but when lockdown came I signed him up to Chess Kids, which is pretty good for children who are learning. However, he quickly migrated to lic
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Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why?(theguardian.com)
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These unlucky people have names that break computers(bbc.com)
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by cmsefton 6y ago
Not sure if there's something new here, but this has popped up before on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19151213 (2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15416198 (2017)
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UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by cmsefton 6y ago|1 comments

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