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by glompers 2y ago
Granted this photosphere [1, best on desktop, not mobile browsers] is not the view you would have whilst walking around, but it does evidence some sheep-accessible urban environs [1] https://www.bristol.ac.uk/virtual-tour&#x
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by glompers 2y ago
The wiki editor(s) who wrote the boosterish Economy subsection of the wiki page on Peterborough [1] (thirty miles away, same county) make it sound as though it is a growing area that does want to grow more. [1] https://en.wikiped
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by glompers 2y ago
Packogame [0] makes a variety of games like that; I haven't played most of them but I can recommend Nut as well as Bus. [0] https://Perplext.com
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by glompers 2y ago
The Royal Astronomical Society's piece [1] on this study mentioned, "The model suggests that a clock in the Milky Way would be about 35 per cent slower than the same one at an average position in large cosmic voids, meaning billio
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by glompers 2y ago
The T Corona Borealis supernova will be closely monitored, possibly before long https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c140exemgk7o.amp
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by glompers 2y ago
In 2019 the NBA's competition committee examined Kirk Goldsberry's proposal [1] to eliminate the shorter-range corner threes. Brad Stevens was on the committee and reportedly said, "You'll never see a slam dunk again&qu
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Study supports timescape alternative to dark energy(ras.ac.uk)
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by glompers 2y ago
However, a person's retirement investment funds that go to those equity markets in search of bigger paydays are funds that're generally never going to be available to loan for local development in thousands of communities where su
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by glompers 2y ago
Lincoln's Inn Fields was called suburban during the early modern period: "Gerard, who dates his Herbal (fol. 1597) 'From my house in Holborne, within the suburbs of London, this first of December, 1597.&#x27
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by glompers 2y ago
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt _was_ actually mentioned (featured?) in alt-weekly The Onion this month. The problem, though, was that it was in an un-funny piece about the beef dimension, and it is not worth footnoting here. I guess they should have
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by glompers 2y ago
The author may be backprojecting salient features of the postwar bedroom suburb onto early waves of low-density urbanization as though his were _the_ salient features of the whole family tree. I think he admits as much by claiming that th
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by glompers 2y ago
Perhaps the Beautiful Software effort of the Building Beauty program? https://www.buildingbeauty.org/
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by glompers 2y ago
By pushing against it they are pushing with it
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by glompers 2y ago
It already is one from Arabic to Spanish (ojalá for "I hope" or "hopefully")
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by glompers 2y ago
I think I have seen folks use rateyourmusic.com to get partway there already... > The thing I would really love is a music platform that feels like a hosting platform, not a marketplace. Where a user can simultaneously act as a listener,
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by glompers 2y ago
Not GP, but if I recall correctly, "taking money away from mismanaged companies" only occurs if the companies choose to do another issuance of shares in the future to raise equity, or stock options in the future to compensate peop
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by glompers 2y ago
New meaning to HN hug of death too
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by glompers 2y ago
I wasn't sure how MrBeast can "set viewers' expectations" so efficiently and mine so many minds with this formula until I recently witnessed a friend's children log into their YouTube Kids account and immediately be
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by glompers 2y ago
Not GP, and hoping that GP sees and answers. I hope there's some insight beyond what I've got, but just from my experience: Sometimes having it blasting at the pressure you need while trying to get drowsy makes that process uncom
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by glompers 2y ago
And will, before long, be on the rebuilt Varsity Line between Oxford and Cambridge.
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by glompers 2y ago
Many people will tell us flat rooves perform no worse under a given load or precipitation condition than pitched rooves, they both just have to be designed right for it. But if flat ones are harder to design right, then they're more li
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by glompers 2y ago
And India: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53061476 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/01/opinion/india-china-himal...
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by glompers 2y ago
DEVONthink 3 [0] (Apple only) will do most of that although I don't keep up at all with its interoperability with LLM extensions. [0] https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink
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by glompers 2y ago
Yep!
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by glompers 2y ago
Quick slightly-on-topic questions: I always read local press releases about how a major local rail or road or stormwater tunnel project "has gotten its TBM" and is assembling it in a portal dug for the initial staging. It seems t
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by glompers 2y ago
What about the non-cloud version of InDesign (CS2, maybe CS3?) that Adobe made free for download around 2013-2014? This timing was related to the Adobe Creative Cloud being released in 2013, eleven years ago this week. While I believe ot
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by glompers 2y ago
Directly related to recapture of gold -- and related to the Manhattan Project by Farm Hall [0] too -- is the tale of German objector Max von Laue's Nobel Prize medal, which was dissolved during WWII and recast out of solution afterward
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by glompers 2y ago
Here's a more official source: https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Event... Groves' deputy, Nichols, who was responsible for the loan, also told the story in more detail in 1987 memoi
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by glompers 2y ago
Another major problem occurs when mixing the first intention, to communicate for a specific audience, with a second, separate risk-management intention to control that receptivity and dial it to a resonant frequency. The first intention tr
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by glompers 2y ago
Your posted suggestion, of defining the best outcomes as immediate job success, would solidify a market practice of lowering fences between town and gown (viable during only the past 3 or 4 generations) as the only viable way forward for ed

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