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by finnh 3y ago
i believe the comment you are responding was talking about actual home sink in GP comment, not the LHC =)
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by finnh 3y ago
Not OP, but Altra King MT trail shoes have a great wide toe box with a pretty normal ankle width. I think the whole Altra line aims for a wide toe box - they call it "Footshape" in their marketing materials[0]. Not related to the
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by finnh 3y ago
"The You YOU Are: A spiritual biography of YOU" - Dr Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD
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by finnh 3y ago
Wow the first sentence was the most Gopnik sentence ever - even before the em dash! I don't typically check the byline before I start reading, but Gopnik always gives himself away. This one set a record.
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by finnh 3y ago
the slow-roll "send to bottom" on the chat box is so damn funny
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by finnh 3y ago
OK, thanks for that. Sounds like it's a valid comparison then.
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by finnh 3y ago
> The resulting system can manage about 640 queries per second, compared to about 0.01 queries per second for ripgrep. They are trying to make a point about indexes, but it is overshadowed by the unit mismatch (distributed system QPS vs
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by finnh 3y ago
Crawling around inside a long, low-ceiling car. Not an experience i equate with luxury.
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by finnh 3y ago
Thanks. I'm definitely a layman here, but I lived in Utah about 10 years ago and did some reading on Aspens, which is when I came across that comparison. I was hoping to find a direct citation to post here but haven't managed to d
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by finnh 3y ago
> The largest organism on Earth, says ABC, is still a huge fungal mat, a single organism spread over 2,200 acres of forest in eastern Oregon. Largest by area. By mass you need to go a bit south, to the faint grove of Aspens in Utah known
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by finnh 3y ago
Same deal in Seattle. Small parts of "the underground" remained in use for decades, including as speakeasies during Prohibition, but nowadays it's only tourist thing (but pretty cool nonetheless) https://en.wikipe
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by finnh 3y ago
in other news, "finger positioning properties evolve faster than finger genes?" Doesn't seem too surprising that spiders can change their silk for varying conditions. It's part of their body, after all - they are going t
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by finnh 3y ago
Agree! Also Göbekli Tepe overlaps with saber tooth tigers extinction (10kya).
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by finnh 4y ago
Where did I last read about high meat, again? Ah yes, the Nov 22, 2010 issue of the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/11/22/natures-spoils big h/t for "deeper circles of onlin
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by finnh 4y ago
(minor FYI - he was born in 1232, not 630. unless you are using the Islamic calendar, but i didn't get that sense from your post)
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by finnh 4y ago
Yes, burning wood may be more sustainable in that lens. Whether it is less harmful is orthogonal. Heat pumps are efficient in ways that wood fires cannot be, for example, so oil -> electricity -> heat pump may well be far better for
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by finnh 4y ago
You think? People have to keep warm; they don't have to bomb each other. Anyway Europe is trying this wood instead of coal thing right now: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/07/world/e
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by finnh 4y ago
People will deforest their surroundings and burn wood to keep warm.
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by finnh 4y ago
Will the breathing apparatus work indefinitely? No, but 30, 40 minutes sure. More than enough time
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by finnh 4y ago
name checks out
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by finnh 4y ago
floating point error. BCD guarantees you that 1/10th, 1/100th, 1/100th, etc (to some configurable level) will be perfectly accurate, without accumulating error during repeat calculations. floating point cannot do that, its p
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by finnh 4y ago
You might enjoy The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes.
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by finnh 4y ago
Funny, mine is "fivek". I bought that machine the first week it was available, I'd been waiting and waiting for a large hires screen so the name fell right out.
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by finnh 4y ago
Good luck, in all sincerity. I think that feeling of actual connection is something recognized by both parties, and hopefully you can let that fear go.
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by finnh 4y ago
early return solves so many readability problems. i structure my code in favor of it.
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by finnh 4y ago
Also today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34571282 and a couple months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33949895
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by finnh 4y ago
This reminds me of film "analysis" that shows how the director keeps creating wonderful triangles between three points of tension, and our eye naturally finds such triangles pleasing. Neglecting that any three points make a triang
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by finnh 4y ago
I think the post was sensitively written about a topic that can be touchy. It's pretty easy for someone to get on the apps and have sex with people they don't have much in common with, I don't think we need to consider that
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by finnh 4y ago
If you can do it for more than 1 minute, than it's not high intensity. Not to say it's not a good-great workout, but it's not the HI in HIIT. Also - hello fellow punishment lover! I rowed in high school & college & u
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by finnh 4y ago
After using LastPass for years, this breach led me to do something I should have done long ago: remove my bank account & email account passwords from it (and change them, of course). My wife did the same thing. At some point I'll

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