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Botswana's ruling party loses election, ending 58-year rule(reuters.com)
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Rare dime bought by Ohio family and hidden for decades sells for over $500k(cbsnews.com)
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The Voyager probes enjoyed gravity assists from all of the outer planets [1] which won’t align again until the middle of the next century [2]. [1]: https://space.stackexchange.com/a/3522 [2]: https://space.s
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by divbzero 2y ago
Cars and Trucks and Things That Go is a child favorite and What Do People Do All Day has great depictions of saw mills, flour mills, power plants, and more, but I like Richard Scarry’s I Am a Bunny the most: The pages are filled edge-
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A 12-Ounce Layer of Foam Changed the NFL(wired.com)
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I didn’t know “skiplagging” was a thing, but I actually did it once myself and almost got in trouble for it. 1. I booked roundtrip A → B → C and C → B → A. 2. I skipped B → C because I needed to spend a few days at B. 3. I booked a separate
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by divbzero 2y ago
I didn’t know that archive.org already has torrents. I guess what we would need, on top of that, is a system for assigning those torrents to new peers.
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This is pretty cool. For one of my projects, I tried something similar where I had code blocks in README.md like: Usage ----- `pip install bar` and import `foo`: ```python import foo from bar ``` Run `foo.alice` w
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by divbzero 2y ago
There have been collaborative computing projects like SETI@home [1] and Folding@Home [2] where unused computing power could be used for productive purposes. Could there be something similar for storage? Software that provides unused storage
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Library of Congress: Summary of Digital Format Preferences(loc.gov)
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I used to live in Pennsylvania across the street from a colonial era house and just a few miles from a national historic site. I love your idea of digital historic preservation but totally understand the skepticism and reluctance of those e
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by divbzero 2y ago
Is there a way you can edit HTML directly in browser devtools and have it update in your code repo?
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Social media, engineered for “engagement”, is the antithesis of the mindfulness described in OP.
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My experience was similar when I was doing a lot of cloning 15 years ago: We would routinely send tubes to a commercial sequencing service. How Plasmidsaurus competes against those other services is indeed the more interesting question.
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Certification aside, Linux and macOS are so similar that I only think about the difference in the rare instances where they differ: three that come to mind are xdg-open vs. open , systemd vs. launchd, and sed -i vs. sed -i '&#x27
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Yes, it’s a positive signal when people take it seriously enough to criticize.
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The Android Files app has always allowed access to local files, and the iOS Files app has allowed access to local files since 2019. https://www.cultofmac.com/news/files-app-makes-ipad-more-mac... However, neither of th
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Foxconn to build Taiwan's fastest AI supercomputer with Nvidia Blackwell(venturebeat.com)
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I love the order of tutorial, starting simple to deploy something first: 1. Use Notepad/TextEdit to create a plain text index.html . 2. Deploy index.html to Neocities or similar. 3. Add content with headings and images. And only the
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by divbzero 2y ago
That’s a creative use of a custom 2to3 fixer [1] to transform the calculations [2]. Too bad this will no longer work with the removal of 2to3 in Python 3.13. [1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/2to3.html#fix
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Is there a way to modify the HIBP reporting process to avoid aiding the sale of stolen data?
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As of 08:34 GMT on October 10, the Internet Archive is down again.
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David Baker’s RoseTTAFold was first released in 2021. [1]: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj8754 [2]: https://cen.acs.org/analytical-chemistry/structural-biology/...
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I agree that it’s not premature, for two reasons: First, it’s been 6 years since AlphaFold first won CASP in 2018. This is not far from the 8 years it took from CRISPR’s first paper in 2012 to its Nobel Prize in 2020. Second, AlphaFold is o
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New Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) Launches Initial Capabilities(space.commerce.gov)
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Mexico revives century-old railway in $2.8B bid to rival Panama Canal (2023)(ft.com)
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Sensors and Systems Keep Mississippi River Traffic Flowing (2018)(esri.com)
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When and where you heard that initcwnd is typically 40 for most CDNs? I was curious but the most recent data I could find was from 2017 when there was a mix of CDNs at initcwnd=10 and initcwnd>10 : https://www.cdnplanet.c
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The “Slow-Start” section [1] of Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking also has a good explanation for why 14 KB is typically the size of the initial congestion window. [1]: https://hpbn.co/building-blocks-of-
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For Michael Jordan, it got personal, and now NASCAR could be forever changed(nytimes.com)
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