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   by eindiran 6y ago

   Notably Mercurial and Fossil are also distributed; they differ a bit in how complex they are, what they allow you to do, which tools are bundled in, etc, but ultimately any of the DVCSes is going to be lightyears ahead of the pre-Git (pre-M
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   by eindiran 6y ago

   This is a very interesting article and I think it points to the main reason its so important to reach the winners: > If, like Saul Perlmutter (Physics, 2011), you live in California and the call comes, unanswered, in the middle of the ni
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   by eindiran 6y ago

   Yeah, it seems like this is a feature that was added for a few domains this week including Medium, GitHub and Twitter.
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   by eindiran 6y ago

   Jokes aside, why is it so important that they reach him at 2:15 AM and can't wait until the next morning?
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   by eindiran 6y ago

   Apparently the avocado is an evolutionary anachronism from the time when North America was populated by megafauna who were big enough to eat the fruit and move the pit around. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture&#x2F
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   The sad story of Korean jamo(devblogs.microsoft.com)

   16 points by eindiran 6y ago|0 comments
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   by eindiran 6y ago

   I got lost in a Wikipedia wormhole about limnic eruptions a while ago. Some interesting pages: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos#Degassing * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnic_eruption *
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   by eindiran 6y ago

   The "How to Uninstall McAfee" video is amazing; it is also pretty NSFW for anyone considering clicking on it at work. Apparently the woman giving him a lap dance/walking away with him in the end is his wife.
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   by eindiran 6y ago

   This article explains k and r0 quite well, and is fairly short: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680036/ See also: * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094981
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    I have been revisiting Charlie Kaufman's films within the wake of the "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" release, and "Synecdoche, New York" remains my favorite. If anyone here is considering watching it after see
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    You know that technology took a wrong turn a ways back when a website called "Walden Pond" displays this banner: "Looks like you've got JS turned off. Quite a lot of things won't work properly." The site does l
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    If you're looking for some new cli applications written in Rust in particular, this list is quite good and covers several: https://zaiste.net/posts/shell-commands-rust/
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    Ask HN: What RSS feeds are you subscribed to?

    5 points by eindiran 6y ago|5 comments
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    All of curl's --write-out values that begin with `time_` are given in seconds.
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    The XKCD that's linked to at the end there seems so woefully naive now ( https://xkcd.com/792/ ).
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    Having seen the cafe pre-pandemic, I am amazed to say they have survived as long as they have. IIRC they charge between 25$ and 30$ for less than an hour inside the cafe. It's a cool concept, and I get that rent in San Francisco is exp
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    There are probably other reasons people use them, but a few reasons why planter boxes can be the right choice: (1) If you live in an area with very poor soil conditions, it may take years and lots of hard work to get your soil usable for th
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    Check out The Long Now Foundation (site: https://longnow.org/ wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation ). They are a foundation that has spent some time thinking about that problem and se
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    Given that baker's percentages are given as a percentage of the flour content of an item[0], you could argue that the baker's percentage of sugar in a banana approaches infinity. Baker's percentage (foo) = 100% * weight(foo)
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    Not that this takes away from your overall point, but that article you cite states that Telegram has 400M monthly active users, not daily.
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    Thank you for the pointer to this. Searching for the paper led me to a few things. If anyone would like to read the paper mentioned in OP's post, you can find it here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24378
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    Music seems like the last non-software digital good it is possible to (mostly) avoid streaming [0]: * Movies / TV shows - completely streaming (ie direct streaming via Prime Video, Hulu, Netflix, HBO Max, etc) or DRM-laden video librar
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    What does some editors being on the spectrum have to do with anything? OP's point was that if you are going to financially reward anyone for providing you with well-written Wikipedia articles ideally it would be the people who created
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    This is very cool, thank you for the link to that. I will spend some time checking this out.
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    This is definitely better than anything else I've seen: https://examine.com/supplements/piracetam/ And it has a list of citations, which is super useful: https://examine.com/supplements/p
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    The Mentats (nootropic drugs) in the Fallout universe ( https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Mentats ) are a reference to the Mentats (human computers that take a cognitive enhancement drug) of the Dune universe ( https:&#x2F
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    I visited the page on nootropics ( http://www.ludism.org/mentat/SmartDrug ), and it seems pretty weak (for example, the basically empty table on mechanisms and effects of the major racetam drugs or the 'key resource
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    There is a related conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24565831
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    I don't know anything about Johnathan Blow, so could you explain why you have a hard time taking him seriously about PL design?
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    by eindiran 6y ago

    Very interesting, thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for.