dlazar

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by dlazar 6y ago
> It also opens the door to a “nightmare scenario”: That the two viruses will meet in a single person, swap their mutations, and create an even more dangerous strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. How would that even work? This is an RNA viru
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by dlazar 6y ago
I've been very happy with Binary Eye: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.markusfisch.android.binar...
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by dlazar 7y ago
Interesting, I hadn't realized pyrolysis (used to produce biochar) does not release CO2. Seeing "pyro" (Greek for "fire") I had assumed oxidation. Sounds like a good technique for making the wood "indigestibl
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by dlazar 7y ago
Also not a chemist, but here's my basic understanding. The tree absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere and combines it with water (H2O) from the soil to produce more complex chemical compounds (such as carbohydrates). This process uses sunli
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by dlazar 8y ago
Absorbing the photon would be a two-fer. Reflecting it is just starting the next two-fer. It's two-fers all the way down.
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What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)(gianlucagimini.it)
566 points by dlazar 8y ago|187 comments
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James Mickens: Computers are a Sadness, I am the Cure (humor)(vimeo.com)
2 points by dlazar 12y ago|0 comments
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by dlazar 15y ago
Only commenting on the coding style: that kind of formatting is just looking for trouble. Quick, tell me which of the functions below contains a bug? //return = strlen(target) unsigned strmcat(char *target, const char *source, unsign
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by dlazar 15y ago
Please record these sessions and upload them to YouTube, so they'll help more than just one person. Thanks for volunteering.
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by dlazar 15y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "scaling". Just because it uses a media query to serve a different style based on the screen size doesn't mean it "scales well". In particular, this reacts quite badly to zooming, either in a desktop browser (
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by dlazar 16y ago
1) Please, NEVER EVER assume you know how the fonts will look on the users device. The iPhone is not the only "mobile platform" out there, and it doesn't even have the majority. Different phones will have different fonts, different defau