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by divbzero 3y ago
In other words, slightly processed foods can be a good thing.
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by divbzero 3y ago
I’ve never been in the southern hemisphere and have always wondered how easy it is to find the Southern Cross.
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How is a company that sells canned water worth $1.4B?(theatlantic.com)
24 points by divbzero 3y ago|83 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
Yes, it also puts the ideal of self-reliance in perspective: While some level of self-reliance can be desirable, there is tremendous value in specialization and trade.
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by divbzero 3y ago
The answer makes sense to me, but I wish we could fix editors to properly handle the ASCII separators (1C, 1D, 1E, 1F) instead of resorting to Unicode control picture characters (241C, 241D, 241E, 241F). Maybe if editors are fixed up we cou
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by divbzero 3y ago
Given the prevalence of TLS, how much SIGINT can actually be done by tapping internet exchanges these days?
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by divbzero 3y ago
I really like the idea of serializing requests to a Git-friendly text format. But if we want a Git-friendly text format, why not mimic HTTP/1.1 request syntax as much as possible? Maybe with Jekyll-like YAML front matter for metadata t
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The Battle to Unseat the Aeron, the Most Coveted Office Chair(bloomberg.com)
3 points by divbzero 3y ago|0 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
Is there a motivation behind having a helicopter join this time? Or more just “Heck, why not?”
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by divbzero 3y ago
Are there any swaths of land on Earth where old growth forests have not been clear cut? Perhaps parts of northern Canada?
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Gusher of gas deep in mine stokes interest in natural hydrogen(science.org)
2 points by divbzero 3y ago|0 comments
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Gabriel García Márquez: Sons publish novel that late author wanted destroyed(bbc.co.uk)
157 points by divbzero 3y ago|273 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
Clear (mostly one-way) data binding is definitely one of React’s strengths. It appears that Puter handles templating with a pattern like: let h = `` h += `<div>${exampleContent}</div>` h += `<div>${moreExample
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by divbzero 3y ago
I guess “React makes sense for more complex UIs” is not hard-and-fast rule. jQuery, apparently, is more than enough for clean working frontend code.
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by divbzero 3y ago
A fun one and a dark one from the list: “Knocker-up” — when alarm clocks were neither cheap nor reliable, knocker-up's job was to rouse sleeping people so they could get to work on time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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What Would Happen If Every American Got a Heat Pump(wired.com)
2 points by divbzero 3y ago|1 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
Oh give me a Nome where the muskoxen roam…
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by divbzero 3y ago
Looks like they have staging environments set up but probably not live to the public: https://github.com/weather-gov/weather.gov/tree/main/.github...
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by divbzero 3y ago
Yes I suppose so :) That would be faster than the speed of sound at the equator: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=(Earth's+circumference+...
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by divbzero 3y ago
> Sixty years ago, timber companies began to grow Radiata Pine in countries like New Zealand and Chile. Grown for quick production, these trees produce very little heartwood and these trees have fewer growth rings per inch. So is the d
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by divbzero 3y ago
If you look in the direction of the Sun, there can also be a “green flash” just as the Sun sets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash
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by divbzero 3y ago
You’re right, it isn’t quite the same as piping. man <(curl ...) ends up working on Linux but for whatever reason still yields an error on macOS: No manual entry for /dev/fd/11
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by divbzero 3y ago
This doesn’t work because it’s equivalent to piping stdout from curl into stdin for man .
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by divbzero 3y ago
This still doesn’t work for me on macOS, perhaps a difference in how /dev/stdin is implemented? Fortunately, macOS has ZSH as the default shell so the following does work: man =(curl -sL -H "Accept: text/roff"
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by divbzero 3y ago
Now all we need is a Markdown to roff converter… which apparently already exists. https://github.com/postmodern/kramdown-man https://rtomayko.github.io/ronn/ronn.1.html https://kristaps
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by divbzero 3y ago
Reminds me of a similar write-up about hexagonal grids posted to HN 10+ years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5809724
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by divbzero 3y ago
10% interest seems like a stretch in today’s environment. 5% interest from US Treasuries would be a more reasonable baseline: yielding $50,000,000 per year total, or $40,000 per year for each of the 1,250 students.
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by divbzero 3y ago
The wealth came from David “Sandy” Gottesman’s investments, the most prominent of which was an early investment in Berkshire Hathaway. Gottesman was a friend of Warren Buffett, served on the board of Berkshire Hathaway, and also founded his
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by divbzero 3y ago
Are there still instances where you would want an Extended Validation (EV) certificate? If so, that’s one case where certificate monitoring could be relevant. Browsers today no longer provide visual indicators for EV certificates [1] so I d
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by divbzero 3y ago
Athill passed away in January 2019 at the age of 101, which means she could have received a 100th birthday card from the Queen.

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