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by divbzero 2y ago
Similarly, all of the gold we have mined could form a cube measuring 22 meters on each side [1] and would fit comfortably within a baseball infield [2]. [1]: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/chart-how-much-gold-is-i.
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by divbzero 2y ago
Ganymede having an ocean surprised me given that its surface appears rocky in photos. Apparently, it’s an internal ocean hidden under the surface.
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by divbzero 2y ago
The shape and color of Steve Jobs’ frames were similar to John Lennon’s, but I believe Jobs opted for rimless lenses.
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by divbzero 2y ago
> meaningless HN and reddit threads Maybe they aren't so meaningless. Congregating in public forums to exchange ideas is something humans have done for millennia. I should hope that, amid the noise, we find value in the conversati
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by divbzero 2y ago
Interestingly from the article: “it's worth noting that Oh Ye-jin, the South Korean competitor who took Gold in the 10 Meter Air Pistol event this year, eschews the irises.”
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by divbzero 2y ago
Some of us younger folk know the song too: it’s been playing in my head as I’ve been browsing through this thread.
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by divbzero 2y ago
I still can’t quite place his digression on monads in The Baroque Cycle .
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by divbzero 2y ago
… and, for input, tapped out Morse code on the space bar while viewing man pages so it looked like the character was just paging through documentation.
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MapLab: Sleuthing for Undersea Cables(bloomberg.com)
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by divbzero 2y ago
> how literally no company other than Apple is able to deliver decent battery life Apple’s full vertical integration from chip on up gives them an advantage here. For example, the doubling of video playback battery life from iPhone 12
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What a big experiment giving money to parents reveals(vox.com)
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Ancient Technology Is Helping Millions Stay Cool(wired.com)
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Latest sunsets follow the summer solstice(earthsky.org)
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Are dusty quasars masquerading as Dyson sphere candidates?(physicsworld.com)
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by divbzero 2y ago
Yes, it is available offline if you “Add to Apple Wallet”. The ticket in Apple Wallet is still revocable if you transfer the ticket to someone else using Ticketmaster’s website, probably through an update that Ticketmaster pushes to the wal
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by divbzero 2y ago
> The weight also grows linearly with every embed—resources are not shared: two embeds weigh 2.4 MB; three embeds weigh 3.6 MB (you get the idea). Why aren’t these resources retrieved from cache? Shouldn’t the same-origin policy should
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by divbzero 2y ago
Same here: While the difference in speed is noticeable, I would be surprised if it’s much more than 100ms on this specific machine (Safari, 1 year old laptop, Apple M2, macOS Sonoma).
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One zip to rule them all: After years of dominance, YKK faces competition (2020)(thehustle.co)
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by divbzero 2y ago
Buffett has been donating regularly since 2006. The record amount donated probably reflects Berkshire Hathaway’s record high stock price which surpassed $600,000 per share this year.
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by divbzero 2y ago
> We are moving to Fastly. Sucks because we built so much around Cloudflare. Are there concerns about getting locked into Fastly’s cloud services instead of Cloudflare’s? Will you use some level of abstraction to make the deployment more
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by divbzero 2y ago
Seattle’s light rail also works this way: no ticket barriers and occasional ticket checks.
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Dali departs Baltimore for first time since bridge collapse(baltimoresun.com)
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It's Mourning in America(newyorker.com)
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by divbzero 2y ago
I knew that Mays was a legend but never saw him play or interviewed. Only today did I learn today that he was black and joined MLB just three years after Jackie Robinson.
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Is the New York Times bestseller list politically biased?(economist.com)
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by divbzero 2y ago
A novel way indeed. I love how, while difficult to build without modern computing, the clock maintains the feel of low-key ambient tech.
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by divbzero 2y ago
Startups are far more founder-friendly than they used to be (thanks in part to YC’s contributions) but we have a ways to go to make them more employee-friendly too. To call out the employee-friendly equity policies that OP has instituted at
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by divbzero 2y ago
When did you meet her at this bio conference? I’m curious what aspect of biology she was interested in and whether she dove into the subject further.
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by divbzero 2y ago
I like that Apple is still investing in the basics, e.g. “a table of contents and high-level summary” for Reader mode in Safari, “topographic maps with detailed trail networks” in Maps, and “history and unit conversions” in Calculator.
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by divbzero 2y ago
bytes might be lesser-known to younger devs, but it’s very well-known to older devs who used it as str in Python 2.

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