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by divbzero 2y ago
What an amazing exploration, from watching the sun set over moon craters in the first graphic to the simulation of how the Moon formed and the lucid explanations of tidal locking and axial precession. As with many of the author’s posts, the
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Saturn's rings could be much older than scientists first thought(space.com)
23 points by divbzero 2y ago|3 comments
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Sounds like they didn't even have perfect records of what software was deployed while they were trying to resuscitate the spacecraft? Because software deployed over the years to the same limited memory overwrote previous versions of so
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by divbzero 2y ago
Wow, just incredible. We have the Story of Mel from the 1960s, but this story of saving Voyager 1 is hard to beat and will hold a special place in programming lore.
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I’ve always found it curious that the eukaryotic nucleus also has a double membrane. Could the nucleus be part of the “symbiotic engulfing” story as well?
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> The trouble with mirror cells is that they could probably evade most of the barriers that keep ordinary organisms in check. To fight off pathogens, for example, our bodies must first detect them with molecular sensors. > Those se
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by divbzero 2y ago
This feels representative of our times: Using chatbots to power a gig economy of para-social relationships for lonely people short on real in-person interactions.
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> If you could convince me that I could implement, say, S&P 500 and be cheaper, more tax effective than holding those ETFs, that would be something interesting! The lowest-cost S&P 500 index fund currently has an expense ratio
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by divbzero 2y ago
What revenue streams, if any, are you considering in addition to the $1/month fee? (If there are no other revenue streams, what scale do you need to attain to cover operational and regulatory costs?)
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WHO sheds some light on factors possibly at play in DRC outbreak(statnews.com)
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Ubuntu Edge [1] was a Linux phone proposed in 2013 that never got built, but today we have the Purism Librem 5 [2] which becomes a full Linux desktop when plugged into a monitor. [1]: https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-edge
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One of my favorites too and immediately came to mind when I saw OP. I recommend the book highly if the subject matter of this thread interests you.
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by divbzero 2y ago
Other delightfully interactive HTML elements include… File pickers: <input type="file"> Color pickers: <input type="color"> Date/time pickers: <input type="month"> &lt
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by divbzero 2y ago
People do refer to these standalone apps as “single-file” [1] but I find “single executable” [2] to be less ambiguous. [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/sing... [2]: https:&#x
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PDX main airport terminal reopens with trees and 9-acre wood-beamed ceiling(oregonlive.com)
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Google DeepMind's new AI model is the best yet at weather forecasting(technologyreview.com)
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by divbzero 2y ago
> But is the majority of the population thriving? This is a good point. Aggregate GDP is definitely not the right measure for this, and even GDP per capita adjusted for inflation and PPP does not account for economic inequality. Median
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Who Is D.B. Cooper? New Evidence May Crack One of America's Greatest Mysteries(cowboystatedaily.com)
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They aren’t everywhere yet here in the United States. The only one I’ve seen so far was a public bus in a rural town.
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We would be remiss to leave out the 1970s classic Protein Synthesis: An Epic on a Cellular Level https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb90484996
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> “The findings suggest that life’s eventual homochirality might not be a result of chemical determinism but could have emerged through later evolutionary pressures.” Homochirality resulting from chemical determinism would be the more
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SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites on the 400th Falcon 9 rocket(spaceflightnow.com)
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s/stock/bond/
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Now they just need a bulky beige CRT to go with the PC.
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I don’t think the Forbes article is accurate when it suggests that FDA is urging consumers to “toss your butter in the trash” for this recall. According to FDA: “Recalls are actions taken by a firm to remove a product from the market. Rec
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Maori haka in NZ parliament to protest at bill to reinterpret founding treaty(bbc.com)
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On the other side of the world, mystery “balls” washing up in Australia appear to have a very different origin: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-07/what-were-black-balls...
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by divbzero 2y ago
I love the potash game! That’s hilarious.
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Notre-Dame Cathedral's bells ring out for first time in five years(lemonde.fr)
10 points by divbzero 2y ago|1 comments
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I haven’t tested myself, but according to MDN the select event on <input> elements should be supported by Safari? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLInputEl...

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