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by gnatman 5y ago
Catch-22 was written by Joseph Heller. Similar in ways to Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-5 though! And the two were friends.
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I just went looking for a map to see how different coastlines would look with a 200m sea level rise. It's, unsurprisingly, significant!! https://www.floodmap.net/
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Towards the bottom: "Such scanner can be made low cost to manufacture, maintain and operate. For quantity production, we estimate hardware material costs under USD20K."
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by gnatman 5y ago
2020 M1 air here and airpods pro are waking my machine as soon as it goes to sleep. Some general bluetooth bugginess around I think.
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Just downloaded. I like how once the block has started, there's nothing you can do to remove it until the time it up!
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Ask HN: State Actor Botnet for Parallel Computing?
5 points by gnatman 5y ago|2 comments
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by gnatman 5y ago
Insects also crash into stuff constantly!
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Mad Men is a fictional TV show set in the 1950s. "Big Pharma" sending doctors to resorts is now illegal in the US under the Sunshine Act.
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by gnatman 5y ago
Never seen this before! I started asking where to find features like that but clicked around first and found "lists" at the bottom https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
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“lowbrow polynomial abuser”, gonna have to remember that one! what sort of work do you do?
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by gnatman 5y ago
Here are some threads I bookmarked on Hacker News that have a lot of good suggestions: Ask HN: How to Study Mathematics? [1] Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad through graduate level? [2] Ask HN: Are there books for ma
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by gnatman 5y ago
I've been on a similar mission over the last few years. Youtube channels mentioned like 3Blue1Brown are great for deeper understanding of a topic, channels like Numberphile and Mathologer are great for getting excited about the fun and
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I like this explanation from Numberphile as well[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuA2EAgAegE
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Related: Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers (2000) Structural MRIs of the brains of humans with extensive navigation experience, licensed London taxi drivers, were analyzed and compared with those of cont
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I was introduced to senet via the 1995 pc game "Nile: Passage to Egypt" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile:_Passage_to_Egypt
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>>There doesn't appear to be any broad social system that is geared towards supporting men Other than the current one, you mean?
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It’s a magazine typesetting / layout thing called a “pull quote”
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"Some nations have benefited from ethnic cleansing, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not" You comment and line of reasoning is nothing short of pathetic.
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by gnatman 5y ago
> Why no radical approach has been taken to fix it? And then you go on to suggest what amounts to barely obfuscated ethnic cleansing. Radical indeed.
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by gnatman 6y ago
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the el Daoud https://youtu.be/RzuyR6GeXRg
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by gnatman 6y ago
Check out the SanDisk/Sansa Clip!
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Ask HN: Best USB Hub for M1 Air?
2 points by gnatman 6y ago|1 comments
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I believe sambe was using “first” in the same way you did, i.e. first of the two
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Twice as fast as the #1 supercomputer in the world 1994-1996, the Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel.
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by gnatman 6y ago
There’s a ton of material on that site- any other lists you can recommended exploring?
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Don Delillo’s Underworld is an amazing novel with some garbology themes.
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by gnatman 6y ago
My first thought was that obviously they’d be used for detecting radioactive isotopes for gauging nuclear activity.
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by gnatman 6y ago
Can you (or anyone) comment further on these sophisticated numerical methods? I'm curious to hear an example, and how RPN factors in.
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Sales guy here- turns out programming’s easier than I thought!
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God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead

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