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by hliyan 5y ago
On a related note, the first Perovskite based solar cells are due to hit markets this year (after many years of being thought of as too impractical to leave the lab).
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by hliyan 5y ago
That's great. That way it can cater to both those who are looking to get a certification and those who just want to apply the skills (like myself). Another thought: would you be open to converting the content from HTML-in-JSON to markd
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by hliyan 5y ago
I have to agree. While the cards themselves are a useful format, I wish this had more "How do you..." rather than "What is..." questions. E.g. Q: "How do you provide temporary credentials to IAM users to access some
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Sick but Hate Hospitals? In-Home Medical Care Is a Growing Option(text.npr.org)
2 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
A small comment on wording: I think this should be called "Electrical nose stimulation". In a medical context, "digital" tends to refer to fingers. I found out the hard way that a digital anal exam involves no electronic
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by hliyan 5y ago
Now that more and more countries are getting into space exploration, I wonder how long it will be before commercial companies start developing and selling space probe platforms (just like launch platforms now).
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by hliyan 5y ago
This is the most intuitive formulation for me.
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by hliyan 5y ago
Really appreciate this perspective and the info. But I do think we shouldn't let perfection be the enemy of good here. Anything that moves the needle in the right direction should be encouraged.
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Ultraviolet Flux Decrease Under a Solar Grand Minimum (2017)(iopscience.iop.org)
1 points by hliyan 6y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 6y ago
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that mistaking safety margins for inefficiencies can be deadly.
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by hliyan 6y ago
Agree about free markets and time. Adam Smith's invisible hand moves slowly. The free market might solve all our problems (including pollution) over time, but our generation (and maybe even the next) may not be alive to see it. And the
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by hliyan 6y ago
Is this a consciously executed strategy on the part of the US, or just an emergent outcome of the economic and policy climate? I used to think the US was able to orchestrate such multi-decade strategies, but observing the country during the
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by hliyan 6y ago
What tool can I use to simply create and manage text files like these? Something that can indent and wrap using spaces rather than rich formatting. https://tldp.org/HOWTO/text/DHCP
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Computer Science from the Bottom Up(bottomupcs.com)
307 points by hliyan 6y ago|100 comments
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by hliyan 6y ago
What I really want is a reader view on the terminal -- something that cuts out all layout, formatting and images and shows me the raw article text in a fixed with font. Ditto for comments. I've already tried the "hn" [1] comm
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University of Minnesota Banned from Contributing to Linux Kernel Code(news.itsfoss.com)
2 points by hliyan 6y ago|0 comments
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Our Moral Taste Receptors(synapse.substack.com)
1 points by hliyan 6y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 6y ago
Seems like the simplest state management API to wrap one's head around that I've seen so far.
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A Wikipedia editor's campaign to discredit anti-war campaigners (2018)(wikipedia.fivefilters.org)
134 points by hliyan 6y ago|77 comments
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Problem Details for HTTP APIs(tools.ietf.org)
10 points by hliyan 6y ago|2 comments
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AstraZeneca Runs 51B Tests in 1 Day on AWS(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by hliyan 6y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 6y ago
Starting each day with 20 minutes of the type of meditation espoused here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaNO09cPS6c In terms the more scientifically-inclined will understand: everything that is outside your current, imme
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Netflix: Orchestrated Functions as a Microservice(netflixtechblog.com)
3 points by hliyan 6y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 6y ago
A long shot, but hope they could include the Wave Disk Engine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_disk_engine ). I could never wrap my head around the operating principle. Also, the research appears to be either slow go
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Chartio Is Joining Atlassian(chartio.com)
1 points by hliyan 6y ago|0 comments
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Dust from asteroid closes case on impact extinction theory(sciencealert.com)
1 points by hliyan 6y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 6y ago
In my day, we used to just insert the server into the rack, plug it into the network, terminal into it and configure it. I'm not being sarcastic here. There was a clear correspondence between what we were doing and what it meant for th
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by hliyan 6y ago
The implementation details and management tools aside, the mental model for what is basically interconnected hardware should never be this complex.
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by hliyan 6y ago
I sometimes wonder if the web would have been a better place had CSS and everything but the most basic HTML tags didn't exist.
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Entire school board resigns after accidental public livestream(bbc.com)
73 points by hliyan 6y ago|99 comments

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