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by divbzero 2y ago
> Map made using ArcGIS. Were these maps made manually using ArcGIS? Or is there a way to make them programmatically?
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That Olympic Break Dancer Everyone Laughed At? She Just Became the World No. 1(wsj.com)
7 points by divbzero 2y ago|1 comments
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The Push to Preserve Quiet(wbur.org)
1 points by divbzero 2y ago|1 comments
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by divbzero 2y ago
High throughput Fizz Buzz and similar code golf challenges definitely hit the “just for fun” spirit. https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/215216/high-thr...
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Personable Ballmer Leads College Extracurriculars, Microsoft (2002)(thecrimson.com)
4 points by divbzero 2y ago|0 comments
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by divbzero 2y ago
How about diamond smartphone screens? Beats Gorilla Glass or sapphire.
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by divbzero 2y ago
> Typically, Brotli is better than gzip, and gzip is better than nothing. gzip is so cheap everyone enables it by default, but Brotli is way slower. Note that way slower applies to speed of compression, not decompression. So Brotli i
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Tiny glass beads suggest Moon had active volcanoes when dinosaurs roamed Earth(apnews.com)
3 points by divbzero 2y ago|0 comments
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iPhone RCS encryption might be coming sooner than we thought(bgr.com)
2 points by divbzero 2y ago|0 comments
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Map reveals the world's mysterious eternal flames(metro.co.uk)
3 points by divbzero 2y ago|0 comments
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The American family who swapped Texas for Tonga to chase a World Cup dream(nytimes.com)
1 points by divbzero 2y ago|0 comments
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by divbzero 2y ago
The font displayed on GOV.UK Vue is different from the default font for the GOV.UK Design System. This makes sense given that: (a) GOV.UK Vue focuses on components, not styles; and (b) GDS Transport, the default font for the GOV.UK Design S
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by divbzero 2y ago
> There are a few wineries, hotels, and religious goods makers that are older, but quite small. Wineries, hotels, and makers of ceremonial goods are indeed common among older companies listed on Wikipedia. [3]: https://en.wi
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by divbzero 2y ago
It was originally alltexts.nyc but changed to alltext.nyc based on the suggestion above.
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GSA's Login.gov expands services into states(gsa.gov)
6 points by divbzero 2y ago|1 comments
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New Seamount and Previously Unknown Species Discovered(schmidtocean.org)
6 points by divbzero 2y ago|1 comments
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by divbzero 2y ago
I appreciate the article’s rhetorical flair: The bullet crashed through the LCD screen, giving the keypad a good slap in the teeth before wedging itself in the internal hard disk. Presumably it lay on the desert floor bleeding battery flui
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by divbzero 2y ago
I like how the Featured Specs include “Durability: Fully rugged” as if that’s an official specification. The Full Spec Sheet is a bit more specific: • MIL-STD-810H: 6’ drop, shock, bench handling, vibration, rain, dust, sand, altitude, fre
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Meta is accused of "bullying" the open-source community(economist.com)
61 points by divbzero 2y ago|50 comments
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Dinosaur Footprints on Either Side of the Atlantic Are Matching Sets(gizmodo.com)
2 points by divbzero 2y ago|0 comments
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The Origin of 'Supercalifragilistic'(merriam-webster.com)
1 points by divbzero 2y ago|0 comments
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by divbzero 2y ago
That’s a very interesting idea. Apparently, someone has actually tried this [1] and it looks pretty good [2]. [1]: https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks [2]: https://observablehq.com/@tomgp/after
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by divbzero 2y ago
> (Could there be font faces without this rendering issue?) A comment under OP suggests that the rendering issue is font-dependent. When I view a Unicode sparkline on a test page [1], the rendering issue occurs using Arial, Courier New
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by divbzero 2y ago
OP discusses the below-the-baseline issue describes it as “annoying but not a deal breaker”. If this is a deal breaker because you’re aspiring for Edward Tufte levels of visualization purity, OP also offers an alternative that omits below-t
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by divbzero 2y ago
Taking them to an Apple Store might have worked too? Though not nearly as cool.
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by divbzero 2y ago
The increase in riders might be worthwhile and part of why Caltrain can now have off-peak trains “run every 30 minutes, rather than every hour”.
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by divbzero 2y ago
Are there any Linux distributions (or packages) that apply the best network configurations by default?
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by divbzero 2y ago
“The Wrath of Khans” by Dan Carlin is an excellent four-episode series ( Hardcore History 43–47) highlighting the brutal effectiveness of Mongol tactics: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dan-carlin-hardcore-h
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by divbzero 2y ago
Linus Torvalds’ git is the perfect case in point: wonderful data structure wrapped with adequate tooling.
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Halide's 'Anti-Intelligent' Update Makes iPhone Photos Natural(petapixel.com)
20 points by divbzero 2y ago|2 comments

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