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by divbzero 2y ago
The top two HN posts are currently: 1. Krazam OS (krazam.tv) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40126751 2. Meta Horizon OS (meta.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115554 Both posts feature OS b
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by divbzero 2y ago
> Using just a centrifuge, water, detergent, and acid, he purified nucleic acid from his smooth strep culture. Precipitated with alcohol, it became fibrous. He added a tiny bit of it to the rough culture, and lo, that culture became smoo
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For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms merged into one organism(popsci.com)
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by divbzero 2y ago
The messaging could be more clear, but is this substantively different from how search queries are handled when DuckDuckGo forwards them to Bing? Bing doesn’t know who made the search but could log the query itself.
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by divbzero 2y ago
I always thought of Joseph Priestley as a strictly English figure and was surprised to learn that he spent his final years in Pennsylvania. Though Priestley discovered oxygen in England in 1774, a centennial gathering at his house in Pennsy
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NPR editor Uri Berliner resigns with blast at new CEO(npr.org)
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by divbzero 2y ago
Does anyone know the history of the Space Jam website? I’m curious who created it and which blessed souls have kept it up for so long. (May its existence never be relegated to the Wayback Machine…)
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Saudis Scale Back Ambition for $1.5T Desert Project Neom(bloomberg.com)
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by divbzero 2y ago
That’s not a hypothetical, is it? Given Moore’s Law, just look back a decade or so and you’ll get a sense of what software development was like when CPU speeds were 20x slower. And if you take it even further, looking back six decades or so
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Taiwan was well prepared for a big earthquake — more so than parts of US(nbcnews.com)
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What we know about H5N1 bird flu in cows — and the risk to humans(statnews.com)
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by divbzero 3y ago
With translation services so good and available nowadays, English shouldn’t be a prerequisite for collaboration with other countries, especially when English isn’t even the prevalent language of those other countries.
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by divbzero 3y ago
> Umstieg von Microsoft Office auf LibreOffice > Umstieg des Betriebssystems von Microsoft Windows auf Linux Would Google Docs/Sheets/Slides be allowed under Schleswig Holstein's open source strategy even though Goo
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by divbzero 3y ago
I’ve used “Just Walk Out” at Amazon Fresh regularly over the past few years and it has been both convenient and reliable. But the machine learning is clearly stuck at a level where the need for ML data associates is cost-prohibitive: 70% r
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by divbzero 3y ago
Gas Works Park is the Seattle city park referenced above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_Works_Park https://www.seattletimes.com/life/50-years-since-gas-works-p... The cleanup effort is still o
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Ships Have Become Supersized Since Baltimore Bridge Was Built(wsj.com)
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The Titanic may play a role in who pays for the Baltimore bridge collapse(cnn.com)
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Melting ice solves leap-second problem – for now(nature.com)
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The Frantic Calls to Halt Baltimore Bridge Traffic Before Ship Crash(wsj.com)
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WSJ marks one year of journalist's detention in Russia with blank front page(lemonde.fr)
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Marketplace Host Kai Ryssdal Interviews Jay Powell, Head of the Federal Reserve(marketplace.org)
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Oregon's New Right to Repair Law Bans 'Parts Pairing' Restrictions(macrumors.com)
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Vanished: The Plane That Disappeared (2000)(bbc.co.uk)
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by divbzero 3y ago
Glad to hear your dad made it across safely. According to current reports, the Maryland Transportation Authority Police responded to the ship’s “mayday” and stopped traffic in the minutes before the catastrophe, but 6 construction workers a
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by divbzero 3y ago
This has been confirmed by local authorities: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/26/major-bridge-in-baltimore-co... https://twitter.com/TheMDTA/status/1772524001815920876
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by divbzero 3y ago
Some Linux distros don’t have the latest Python versions in their package repos, but there are definitely other ways to install versions side-by-side.
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by divbzero 3y ago
For managing versions of Python packages, I take a similar route and keep it simple: python -m venv .venv source .venv/bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt However, pyenv addresses a different problem: managing
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by divbzero 3y ago
Bing has also included AI-powered search results since last year: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-sear...
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Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)(rogerebert.com)
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Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic? (2022)(nature.com)
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