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by divbzero 3y ago
The original blog post alleging falsified data was published by Sholto David earlier this month: https://forbetterscience.com/2024/01/02/dana-farberications-...
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Organic Syntheses (2023)(science.org)
42 points by divbzero 3y ago|4 comments
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A closer look at the IRS Direct File pilot (2023)(irs.gov)
1 points by divbzero 3y ago|0 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
Is there a connection between Sam Leffler the BSD contributor at Lucasfilm/Pixar and BSD as the basis for NeXTSTEP/OS X at NeXT/Apple? As far as I can tell, there is no direct connection. Sam Leffler contributed most to the 4
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by divbzero 3y ago
It’s quite fitting that this paper on yeast from the Guiness Brewery uses the t -test from the Guinness Brewery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student's_t-test#History
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Elemental Haiku (2017)(vis.sciencemag.org)
1 points by divbzero 3y ago|0 comments
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Preemptive Lava Barriers Proposed in Grindavík Town Hall (2022)(icelandreview.com)
1 points by divbzero 3y ago|0 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
I love the description in the draft PR: 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the code Not a core dev was merging, not even Guido; The CI was spun on the PRs with care In hopes that green check-markings soon woul
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by divbzero 3y ago
GitUI could be also named GiTUI.
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New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like(phys.org)
2 points by divbzero 3y ago|0 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
The “rotate-to-undo” gesture is so cool. It reminds me of the main character in Doctor Strange rotating his hand to turn time backward and forward.
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by divbzero 3y ago
I suspect Java is not the fastest language for this. I’d love to see unofficial contenders tackle this challenge using different languages.
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Space shuttle Endeavour's giant orange external tank begins final journey(latimes.com)
68 points by divbzero 3y ago|61 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
“The US population isn’t 100% indicative of the whole planet” is an excellent point to keep in mind. The US economy has trended towards exporting services and importing goods, and the electricity used to produce imported goods does not cont
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by divbzero 3y ago
Looking at the trend since 1950, I’m struck by two details: 1. We reached peak coal in 2007. Coal generation has declined since. 2. We reached a consumption plateau also in 2007. Electricity use has been more or less level since. https:&#x
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by divbzero 3y ago
3×3 pixels is almost certainly the smallest legible font. You need at least 6 pixels to encode 27 letters + 10 digits because: 2⁵ < 37 2⁶ > 37 But 2×3 pixels seems unlikely to be legible. From 2×3 pixels, you can increment th
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Windows 3.1: Twenty-five years later, it's still a Microsoft milestone (2017)(pcworld.com)
1 points by divbzero 3y ago|1 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
NPM doesn’t capture the full benefit of an open registry of functions because, while anyone can fork and create an alternative @christophilis/is-even or @divbzero/is-even, there is no good way for developers to pick the best versi
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by divbzero 3y ago
I did learn one new thing from browsing the is-odd source code: Number.isSafeInteger(n) checks that n falls within the [ Number.MIN_SAFE_INTEGER , Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER ] interval. ... if (!Number.isSafeInteger(n)) { throw
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by divbzero 3y ago
Amazingly, following “don’t repeat yourself” in its purest form, is-even depends on is-odd: /*! * is-even <https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-even> * * Copyright (c) 2015, 2017, Jon Schlinkert.
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by divbzero 3y ago
I ran a web search to figure out if “Ross van der Gussom” was some sort of inside joke. The top two search results were OP and the parent comment.
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by divbzero 3y ago
Boston Light can sometimes be seen from the air as you approach Logan International over Boston Harbor.
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by divbzero 3y ago
I like the tidbit about how <IMG> came to be: Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 21:09:02 -0800 From: Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu) Subject: proposed new tag: IMG I'd like to propose a new, optional HTML tag: IMG
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by divbzero 3y ago
I usually take it as suggestive code that you don’t have to use verbatim. For example, You might not need jQuery offers the following suggestions: // toggle visibility function toggle(el) { if (el.style.display == &#x2
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NY Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft for infringing copyrighted works(reuters.com)
7 points by divbzero 3y ago|1 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
You might not need jQuery ( https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ ) shows pure JS implementations of common jQuery methods. Someone should create an analogous You might not need SASS to help developers move to pure CSS.
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by divbzero 3y ago
That’s pretty amusing. Does switching the CSS selector to td[bgcolor] do the trick?
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by divbzero 3y ago
When did Hacker News start applying topcolor to the YC logo? I just noticed it today but am curious if it’s been there for awhile.
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R3DN053(flightradar24.com)
2 points by divbzero 3y ago|0 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
From the photo, the 2TB microSD card appears to be UHS Speed Class 3 (U3) and Video Speed Class 30 (V30) which correspond to a minimum of 30 MB/s transfer speed [1]. This is good but still pales in comparison with external SSDs with &g

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