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by gnat 5y ago
Absolutely correct and I apologize.
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by gnat 5y ago
No code released yet, this is announcement-ware.
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by gnat 5y ago
Researchers in the article say it's hard to get reliable data, and that South Africa had been hard hit. I wonder how well the infection rate correlates with the latitude and this average temperature. We see seasonality in USA, Europe,
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by gnat 5y ago
It's an interesting book, and a fun read. It's not hard sf, but he has done a good job of imagining plausible consequences for his one "what if". It's simultaneously a good read for the physical consequences (hot zo
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by gnat 5y ago
This is all good, but the best was last imho. > Two years after his Africa trip, an assassin shot him [Roosevelt] while he climbed a podium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The bullet went through his reading glasses cases, a thick sheet of pape
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Demoing Hot Reload by adding cats to DOOM in 1 minute(twitter.com)
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by gnat 5y ago
https://archive.md/T0FyB
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by gnat 5y ago
The author appears to be JCR Licklider's son. JCR Licklider was the ARPAnet funder whose vision and backing gave us modern computing. See Waldrop's excellent "The Dream Machine" (published on Stripe Press) for more on
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by gnat 5y ago
What is their business model around having your DNS traffic? Selling your "who looked you up and how many times" data? I am struggling to see what secondary income this enables.
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by gnat 5y ago
I don't see anything in the colophon about this being CC-licensed or similarly freely-available. (The Permissions in the Introduction strongly suggests it is not) As someone who wrote the first of these Cookbooks ("Perl Cookbook&q
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by gnat 5y ago
> Compared to prior systems that achieve strict serializable multi-shard transactions, ACCORD achieves optimal performance by utilizing real time timestamps and a message reorder buffer. Unlike Tempo, ACCORD does not rely on additional p
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by gnat 5y ago
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3446871.3469759 has the actual paper.
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by gnat 5y ago
What the heck is a vertical tab? Let's jump in the time machine and head back to when your printer has a printhead that moves horizontally across a single line, and it's slow enough to transfer data and physically move paper and p
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by gnat 5y ago
I was the conference chair (selected keynotes, MCed). When his talk finished I shook his hand, looked at him and asked something like "did you just resign from the stage?" because I couldn't believe what I'd just heard.
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by gnat 5y ago
New Zealand had a managed isolation quarantine (MIQ) program. From plane landing to hotel is carefully manages, as is time in hotel, with tests throughout the stay looking for Covid. 14 days later, assuming your tests are negative, you&#x27
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by gnat 5y ago
Do you have data or anecdata on the effect of repeating an entire year? In many modern Western schools that'd be frowned upon as punitive and as likely to provoke a "well screw YOU!" response or ingrain "I must really be
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by gnat 5y ago
Do the students bring any motivation to the classroom? Like, is there a culture of "study hard and pay attention in maths and sciences, because that's how we escape poverty" or something like that? Here in New Zealand, middle
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by gnat 5y ago
https://archive.is/dzZjv
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by gnat 5y ago
(old man shouting at the clouds) It's the Web's original source code, not the Internet's! The Internet is not the Web. I suspect that, these days, they're not given initial caps either.
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by gnat 5y ago
The TL;DR is two guys, in prison for making meth, learned how to make yogurt from prison-available ingredients, and it kept them going through the hard times in prison. Now they're out, they don't make yogurt but they are staying
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by gnat 5y ago
My urologist in Colorado was Dr Peter Standard. https://www.md.com/doctor/peter-standard-md
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by gnat 5y ago
That's the version told in the "Fall of Civilisations" podcast < https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/ > (highly recommended).
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by gnat 5y ago
Great book to read about the history of American drinking is "Drink: A Social History of America" by Andrew Barr < https://www.amazon.com/Drink-History-America-Andrew-Barr/dp/... >. It covers the his
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by gnat 5y ago
Excellent short answer. What's PRPL? (Google tells me it's a furniture company or an embedded systems foundation, neither of which make sense in this context)
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by gnat 5y ago
"We thus carried on a statistical analysis based on historical data on Popes and on male Italian artists who lived between 1200 and 1900. We choose the 13th to 19th century period because the 13th century marks the beginning of artisti
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by gnat 5y ago
New Zealand's biggest intentional biosecurity breach was in 1997, when Central Otago farmers imported the Rabbit Calicivirus (RCV) from Europe. The population dipped briefly, then returned as the naturally RCV-immune rabbits bred and r
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by gnat 5y ago
> 114. Your needs come first. Then come those of your co-workers. Both come before that of the customer and before that of your manager. You need to be healthy, learning about the task at hand, improving your mental model of the product,
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by gnat 5y ago
Thanks. Please do identify when they're open source -- I have been bitten by filling a small app of unknown longevity with my system diagrams and flowcharts, only to have it disappear.
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by gnat 6y ago
How mature is performance optimisation in Datalog? I've joined a place that uses SQL Server, and brought my open source perception of SQL Server as an expensive lumbering behemoth. I'm astonished by how fast SQL Server is, and how
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by gnat 6y ago
As I understand it, chlorine and heat treatment are how pathogens are killed in waste-water treatment plants. E.g., https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Microbiology/Book%3A_... If you're ever in Boston, th

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