eigenhombre

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New CDC life expectancy data shows painfully slow rebound from Covid(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|1 comments
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Funeral home owners arrested following the discovery of 190 decaying bodies(text.npr.org)
2 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|0 comments
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
Increasingly (in Chicago) I've been seeing restaurants and cafes that are credit card- / debit card-only.
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
This translation was my introduction to the text, and is still my favorite. Though I've seen other translations I prefer purely on a textual basis, I find their combination of photos, handwritten calligraphy, and English text very powe
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
"The Centralia mine fire is a coal-seam fire that has been burning in the labyrinth of abandoned coal mines underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States, since at least May 27, 1962."
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Centralia Mine Fire(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|1 comments
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An open-source, locally running implementation of OpenAI's Code Interpreter(github.com)
2 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|0 comments
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
Am surprised by all the negative comments about writing code by hand. Many of the comments here speak about moving or thinking faster, but where I have always found pen and paper most helpful is when I've needed to slow down, focus,
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Former Americans Who Gave Up Their Citizenship Want Their Money Back(nytimes.com)
3 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|4 comments
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Where the Universe Began(nytimes.com)
1 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|0 comments
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The Mystery Behind ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Cover Art Is Solved(nytimes.com)
2 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|0 comments
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Humanity’s Ancestors Nearly Died Out, Genetic Study Suggests(nytimes.com)
2 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|0 comments
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A Crisis of Confidence in the Standard Model of Cosmology(nytimes.com)
2 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|0 comments
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
ShellGPT https://github.com/TheR1D/shell_gpt does pretty well for a lot of use cases. I mostly use it in REPL mode, switching topics as needed. I have wrappers around the `sgpt` command to, say, start a REPL with a p
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
> And an MRI will find something... Not my/my family's experience - in fact MRI were used to clarify CAT scan false alarms / rule out real issues.
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. I switch back and forth between two editors: Emacs for Clojure and other lisps (and Org Mode and Magit), and VSCode with Copilot for, well, most everything else. This ad hoc setup provides a little bit of
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
Not picking sides here (though disclosure: I use and like FP techniques/tools/languages/libraries). Go provides a set of nice features (fast startup, easy cross-platform building, great tooling, good package management) that
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
+1 for 50 Years. Did not expect to be pulled into the writing so much, it was like reading a novel. Had been waiting for the print version for nearly a year when the PDF version came, blazed my way through half the PDF before the book cam
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Our Galaxy Is Home to Trillions of Worlds Gone Rogue(nytimes.com)
3 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|1 comments
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
Launch the Hypno Drones.
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Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico(nytimes.com)
9 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|0 comments
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Space material found on a beach in Western Australia(nytimes.com)
66 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|21 comments
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
Well, it seems people are still posting here, so here's mine: http://johnj.com "I post things here related to programming and art..... You can also find many blog posts written during ten trips to Antarctica here.&quot
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
Same, I think this is a great idea and would like to submit mine as well -- maybe an "add" feature on the page would make sense, or re-inquire here at intervals, maybe monthly/yearly?
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Summer Is Here. Where Are the Fireflies?(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|2 comments
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Neutrinos Build a Ghostly Map of the Milky Way(nytimes.com)
1 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|1 comments
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How Easy Is It to Fool A.I.-Detection Tools?(nytimes.com)
4 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|0 comments
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
A lot depends on the size of your kids, and the layout of your neighborhood, and your local climate. In my neighborhood (south side of Chicago) a lot of people schlepp their kids around on the back of bikes (electric or otherwise), either
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Submersible Disappears in Area of Titanic Wreck(nytimes.com)
2 points by eigenhombre 3y ago|0 comments
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
The jury is still out on Chicago going extinct :-) though I see your point, and I wonder how serious the problem actually is. TIL: the danger depends on your water chemistry[1], which I expect is monitored in cities like Chicago. [1] http

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