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by divbzero 3y ago
… at least the halls were wide and the ceilings high.
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by divbzero 3y ago
I highly recommend listening to the Acquired interview. At age 99 he was still remarkably sharp and up-to-date.
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by divbzero 3y ago
RIP. He would have turned 100 on New Year’s Day.
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Poor Charlie's Almanack (2005)(poorcharliesalmanack.com)
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by divbzero 3y ago
This is very cool. For US inter-city rail there is also Amtrak’s official Track Your Train : https://www.amtrak.com/track-your-train.html
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by divbzero 3y ago
I bet many of us do this due to small differences between BSD and GNU coreutils. One that always gets me is: sed -i '' 's/foo/bar/g' # BSD sed sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' # GNU
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NASA's Deep Space Optical Comm Demo Sends, Receives First Data(nasa.gov)
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by divbzero 3y ago
I think they planned for Mira Murati to act as interim CEO, but were surprised when she wanted to rehire Sam Altman.
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by divbzero 3y ago
You can also easily serve *.html , *.json , and *.md as static files.
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by divbzero 3y ago
It makes perfect sense for Satya, Sam, and Greg, but I doubt many of us thought deeply enough to have predicted it in advance.
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by divbzero 3y ago
Plus continued access to OpenAI technology.
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by divbzero 3y ago
Satya Nadella must have been eager to get this news out before markets open for the week. As of 3 AM EST, MSFT was up 2% in pre-market trading.
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Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs(theverge.com)
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by divbzero 3y ago
If “everything is UTC, all the time” is enforced at the entry edges of the code, couldn’t the entry edges be refactored to always specify the UTC timezone?
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Sam Altman says he has a new venture in mind(theverge.com)
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Toyota's electric cars will adopt Tesla's charging standard(cnn.com)
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KEXP Has Winning Bid for Dark San Francisco FM Station(thetop22.com)
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by divbzero 3y ago
Your question in other words is: How far was the primordial Milky Way from these two galaxies 13 billion years ago? I don’t have the answer on hand but it might be related to comoving vs. proper distances: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by divbzero 3y ago
YouTube is developing revenue sharing for AI-generated music [1]. I wonder if they will extend revenue sharing to non-musical content like the narration in OP. [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/21/23840026&
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by divbzero 3y ago
Could we shorten the catchy name further? Call them “HTML components”.
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by divbzero 3y ago
This applies beyond date pickers too. To me, usability trumps consistency when your users access the website across a variety of platforms: mobile vs. desktop, touch vs. mouse, etc.
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by divbzero 3y ago
> not randomly placed What sort of patterns have you discovered?
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by divbzero 3y ago
Has the article been updated? I was thinking “West Papua” might refer to the province but I can’t find the term in the article at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Papua_(province)
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by divbzero 3y ago
> The echidna is embedded in the local culture, including a tradition that states conflicts are resolved by sending one party to a disagreement into the forest to search for the mammal and another to the ocean to find a marlin, accordin
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by divbzero 3y ago
The article mentions cost overruns on the ArriveCAN app, which was required for border crossings into Canada from about 2020 to 2022. The app originally aided in pandemic screening and was well-made overall being easy and fast to use. But i
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HTTP Archive Page Weight Report 2010–2023(httparchive.org)
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by divbzero 3y ago
As OP mentions, David MacKay’s Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air is available for free online: https://www.withouthotair.com/ The book provides an excellent overview of how different forms of energy production and c
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by divbzero 3y ago
Do sunflowers still track the sun’s location on cloudy days?
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by divbzero 3y ago
Cloudflare's control plane and analytics systems run primarily on servers in three data centers around Hillsboro, Oregon. The three data centers are independent of one another, each have multiple utility power feeds, and each have mul
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by divbzero 3y ago
The most adept practitioners can create pixel-perfect bitmaps by minimizing column widths and row heights and tweaking background color cell by cell.

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