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by driggs 2y ago
Wow, I really appreciate your fascinating reply, thanks!
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by driggs 2y ago
Were you allowed on base? What was your experience like and your perception of what was going on? I had the opportunity to perform a bat survey at Sugar Grove, and a poor guard had to come out to keep an eye on us until 3am because we could
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by driggs 2y ago
> Whatever such signs mean, God alone knows. Although we have seen, shortly one after another, many kinds of signs on the heaven, which are sent to us by the almighty God, to bring us to repentance, we still are, unfortunately, so ungrat
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by driggs 2y ago
> These ripples were imaged by Curiosity on Sol 3684 (Dec. 16, 2022). (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) The caption on the second image of this space.com article is misleading. This photo does not show ripples, it is showin
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by driggs 2y ago
Wow, this is excellent listening, instrumental funky jazz... at least the first 20 minutes until the cheesy "Space Oddity" cover starts. No ties to Dune necessary to enjoy it.
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by driggs 2y ago
Indeed, similar megafauna were present in North America as well. The West Virginia state fossil is Megalonyx jeffersonii , a giant ground sloth present until the end of the Pleistocene. They're estimated to have been 10 feet "tal
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by driggs 2y ago
You must be really fun at parties.
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by driggs 2y ago
An LTS server is an appliance . There is so much bedrock software out there that the younger HN crowd may have never considered, unsexy yet absolutely critical. This is targeted for those who need to prioritize longterm stability above all
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by driggs 2y ago
> I've also heard of a fun database where the user "Geoffrey" was truncated to "G". I wonder why? (Hint: End of file) Sorry, I don't buy that one. There's no way the ascii string "eof" - espe
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by driggs 2y ago
The poster you're replying to said "I never heard of NDEs" for the exact reason you are mis-correcting: to show that they were NOT simply regurgitating a cultural stereotype, but that it is in fact a real phenomenon. Here&#x2
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by driggs 2y ago
Hydrological modeling gets tricky when water flows underground, either naturally or unnaturally. A pixel surrounded entirely by higher elevation pixels is a "sink", and if you want to model the overland flow of water a preprocessi
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by driggs 2y ago
From high resolution Digital Elevation Models. They first compute the flow direction from every pixel; from flow direction, the compute flow accumulation at every pixel. They then filter based on some threshold for catchment area, and vecto
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by driggs 2y ago
I very strongly disagree. The most successful implementation of literate programming is the Jupyter Notebook, formerly called iPython Notebook. Even when you write it as raw markdown, there's no issue mixing documentation with triple-b
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by driggs 2y ago
Anyone who can't see past Python's indentation-based syntax is a person who doesn't understand Python. (Both literally and figuratively!) When "significant whitespace" is at the top of someone's complaints abou
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by driggs 2y ago
It's no coincidence that PG published this days before Trump's inauguration. This is yet another Silicon Valley elite kowtowing to their new GOP overlords.
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by driggs 2y ago
The point is that if I'm writing a library and I specify `requests == 1.2.3`, then what are you going to do in your application if you need both my library and `requests == 1.2.4`? This is why libraries should not use lockfiles,
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by driggs 2y ago
Yes, generally people already use an additional tool for managing their Python executables, like their operating system's package manager: $> sudo apt-get install python3.10 python3.11 python3.12 And then it's simple to
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by driggs 2y ago
Just because someone has a different perspective than you doesn't mean they don't "understand". Lockfiles are an anti-pattern if you're developing a library rather than an application, because you can't push
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by driggs 2y ago
I appreciate that the Ada language features baked-in pre- and post-condition invariants as a part of a function's signature. It goes beyond just runtime assertions by becoming a part of the function's contract with callers. https
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by driggs 2y ago
Did MS hire Suleyman in March 2024 because Gates liked the book?
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by driggs 2y ago
An LLM would have written a much more convincing argument that "Lua is underrated". This blog has just three posts, none with significant content. I was curious how this article even wound up on HN, until I realized that it was su
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by driggs 2y ago
Lightweight Java has always been a thing for those who appreciate Java-the-language but despise Java-the-ecosystem. You don't need to fool with Gradle or Maven or Ant if you'd like to incorporate third-party or your own custom dep
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by driggs 2y ago
You mean a language like... Python? >>> 'hello world' 'hello world'
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by driggs 2y ago
For Python source code, where indentation is significant, I'm convinced that long lines should never be broken early. It should be the IDE's job to (optionally) fold long lines dynamically to the width of a viewer's editor. I
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by driggs 2y ago
"Cane Toads: An Unnatural History" is an outstanding documentary film, and is worth watching even if the topic of invasive toads doesn't catch your immediate interest. This film's approach to presenting the interaction b
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by driggs 2y ago
Quoth the article: The USGS predictive model provides the first estimate of total lithium present in Smackover Formation brines in southern Arkansas, using machine learning, which is a type of artificial intelligence.
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by driggs 2y ago
The second paragraph of this Guardian article mentions, and links to, but doesn't expound on the biophysical pupillary response to mental visual imagery. https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbq8w/how-pupil-s
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by driggs 2y ago
But everyone knows how long a mile is, and can imagine a cube one mile long one mile wide and one mile high. Though we can't truly grasp the scale, we can at least understand the magnitude of a value of ~ten million. But quoting a valu
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by driggs 3y ago
This article is full of fluff, like too many long-form articles on the Internet, but contains some interesting questions for those of us who study bats... - Bats evolved for a night-flying niche to avoid predation by birds like hawks and ow
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by driggs 3y ago
Exactly. The fantastic song "Plug Me In" was a double entendre with a very NSFW video. A quick search shows that it's sadly lost to the modern internet. Great band!

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