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by driggs 4y ago
If you can't remember whether you've read it or not, then you've forgotten it, and having it on a list serves no purpose other than to "keep score". You may as well read it again and hope it sticks this time!
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by driggs 4y ago
Quoth the article: > The cartels “don’t just fill a void, they create a market,” Mr. Dhillon said.
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by driggs 4y ago
Paywall-bypassing archive: https://archive.ph/B0R2k
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by driggs 4y ago
Disclaimer: This is out of my area of expertise. Bats, in general, are susceptible to coronaviruses, in general, as are all mammals. But not all mammals are susceptible to all coronaviruses. The disease Covid-19 is caused by the specific co
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by driggs 4y ago
Ultrasonic deterrents have been experimented with, and have shown reduction in bat kills, but there are many challenges with respect to efficiency and reliability. Technically, ultrasound is attenuated significantly in the atmosphere, so it
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by driggs 4y ago
Ha! Ptarmigans are fat ground-dwelling birds related to grouse and chickens. They would probably collide with the broad side of a barn. I can't imagine they spend much time flying, especially not flying high or far, but apparently they
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by driggs 4y ago
No, bats do NOT carry Covid-19. We were actually prevented by the USFWS from performing winter hibernacula counts for fear that we humans might spread Covid to bats, whose immune system practically shuts down during hibernation, until it
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by driggs 4y ago
Given that wind turbines are universally(?) white, I've always assumed it is to minimize heat absorption. If so, painting 1/3 of the blades black would increase heating of the painted blade, especially in lower latitudes (this stu
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by driggs 4y ago
I worked for several years at a small company whose primary products/services involved aggregating/normalizing/warehousing/publishing listing data, which grew to handle a large percentage of all listings in the country.
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by driggs 4y ago
I have considerable experience in the Real Estate backend software industry, and so am occasionally contacted by headhunters hiring for Real Estate Investment startups. Here's a typical reply that I give to them: I am philosophical
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by driggs 4y ago
The volume of water displacement from a volcanic landslide is orders of magnitude less than that displaced by undersea fault quakes; while it could trigger a "local" tsunami that could impact the African or European coast, it woul
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by driggs 4y ago
Axios on Axios: https://www.axios.com/2022/08/08/axios-agrees-to-sell-to-cox...
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by driggs 4y ago
Please also let me use it as a type hint! `str?` would be much nicer than `Optional[str]` or (new in 3.10) `str | None`
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by driggs 4y ago
Way out in the water, see it swimmin'. - Black Francis
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by driggs 4y ago
If you have "very strong visual mental imagery", then by definition you have no personal experience with aphantasia.
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by driggs 4y ago
I believe that deficiencies in Episodic Memory can be related to Aphantasia. My hypothesis is that when people with high mental image visualization recall an event, they are re-experiencing it in a sense, and therefore reinforcing its detai
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by driggs 4y ago
I had never heard of the Wheel Harp before. It appears to be a sort of polyphonic hurdy-gurdy: one tuned string per key, and depressing the key engages that string with the wheel-bow. The wheel appears powered by electricity, and the foot p
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by driggs 4y ago
HN geek checking in to namedrop my own project (sorry it's not Rust + RISC-V!)... Autumn Equinox are a three-piece of hurdy-gurdy (the "wheel fiddle"), nyckelharpa (the Swedish "keyed fiddle"), and upright bass. W
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by driggs 4y ago
The Nerdy Gurdy is a laser CNC and 3D-printed hurdy-gurdy kit (and now also nyckelharpa kit) sold by Jaap Brand. It's the least inexpensive real hurdy-gurdy you're likely to find, and better than many cheap hurdy-gurdies. https
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by driggs 4y ago
You can often trigger this dodging reflex in moths with a simple broadband ultrasound generator: quick jingling a keychain of metal keys. A nearby moth will drop suddenly when it detects the "echolocation pulse" with its tympanic
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by driggs 4y ago
Hayabusa2 rendezvoused with the asteroid in space ("asteroid", not "meteorite"). The asteroid never entered Earth atmosphere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2
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by driggs 5y ago
There's only one reason phenylephrine is used as a substitute in the OTC decongestant products: the general public can't pronounce or spell the word "pseudoephedrine" and they're intentionally being duped. They walk
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by driggs 5y ago
> and how unusual it was to find a complex compound like a lysergide in both a fungi and a completely unrelated plant. And much has been learned in this area since 1984 as well. Hofmann's discovery was vindicated; symbiotic fungi of
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by driggs 5y ago
The standard cave survey technique is fiberglass tape measure, magnetic compass, and inclinometer, visually sighted point-to-point; passage width and height are recorded at each station in two planes, reflecting the traditional 2D cave map
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by driggs 5y ago
"Need" and "require" are synonyms.
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by driggs 5y ago
Is English your first language? Have you read Cormac McCarthy? Neither McCarthy nor anyone else in this conversation is referring to the punctuation at the end of a sentence . And, for the record, I was exclaiming that the takeaway is ex
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by driggs 5y ago
Mea culpa! I focused on reading "Cormac McCarthy's tips" and missed that they'd been regurgitated by others. Sort of diminishes the whole point of reading it! Thank you!
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by driggs 5y ago
`Blood Meridian` is a great novel in spite of , not because of his lack of punctuation. Do you not see the irony in his own use of four commas and a colon while telling us to minimize our punctuation use in this article? > While you a
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by driggs 5y ago
Punctuation is our best defense against the peculiar ambiguities of the English language. Cormac McCarthy's abhorrence to using punctuation is the worst facet of his writing, and made the dialog in `Blood Meridian` practically unfollow
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by driggs 5y ago
Does null == null ?

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