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U.S. trade policies proved disastrous for Detroit, Flint(freep.com)
4 points by jdnier 11y ago|2 comments
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The Future of Wi-Fi Is 10,000 Times More Energy Efficient(wired.com)
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After Two Black Holes Collide, a Puzzling Flash(wired.com)
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A small dragonfly is found to be the world's longest-distance flyer(phys.org)
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Watch NASA TV Coverage of Kelly and Kornienko's Return(nasa.gov)
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by jdnier 11y ago
So how would I use Hug as a secure public API -- https, authentication, authorization? Would I read up on Falcon? Are there any examples you could point to of how that might be done?
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by jdnier 11y ago
I think Dr Michael Greger's short video summary of salt research argues pretty convincingly that if you reduce your salt intake to very low levels (what he calls "normal-for-our-species salt intake"), you will not suffer from
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by jdnier 11y ago
Wondering what information encoding in five dimensions is about, here's a bit from the abstract: "The two independent parameters describing birefringence, the slow axis orientation (4th dimension) and the strength of retardance (5
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by jdnier 11y ago
More here: http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/962.html
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These 360 TB Discs Will Last for 13.8B Years(twistedsifter.com)
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German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks, Too(nytimes.com)
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by jdnier 11y ago
Yes, I thought the same thing about his "Video" swipe. That's weird about the duplicate; URL looks the exactly same so I don't know why I was able to post it.
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by jdnier 11y ago
This is one of the most interesting and convincing camera reviews – a "field test" – I've read. Six months traveling all over the world, with beautiful, casual results, elegantly displayed.
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The Leica Q: A six month field test(craigmod.com)
1 points by jdnier 11y ago|4 comments
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Organic Agriculture Is Key to Helping Feed the World Sustainably(blog.ucsusa.org)
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by jdnier 11y ago
Just ask ad agencies. I worked for an old-style typesetting outfit as late as 1995 that still did lots of display type work for ad agencies. I found this kind of remarkable, considering how long desktop publishing had been around. The agenc
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The #1 Dietary Risk Factor Is Not Eating Enough Fruit(nutritionfacts.org)
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The Sound That Comes from Nowhere(theatlantic.com)
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How ‘Snowball Earth’ volcanoes altered oceans to help kickstart animal life(theconversation.com)
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Programming Fonts Tester(app.programmingfonts.org)
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What If You Bought All 292M of the Possible Powerball Combinations? (US)(theatlantic.com)
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Teaching Old-School Light Bulbs a New Trick(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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Event horizon snapshot due in 2017(bbc.com)
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We’re Probably Not Mostly Microbes(theatlantic.com)
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Are There Foods with Negative Calories?(nutritionfacts.org)
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by jdnier 11y ago
The more common case for me is to name the parameters. Especially with longer variable names, this gets tedious fast. Given >>> very_long_var_name_1 = 'spam' >>> very_long_var_name_2 = 'ham'
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by jdnier 11y ago
+1 for https://pyformat.info/ (mentioned in article), with some nice practical examples of equivalent %s and .format() formatting.
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by jdnier 11y ago
The Flickr photo stream makes for an interesting story in pictures of the packaging and shipping process.
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Shipping the James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors Cross Country (2012)(flickr.com)
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by jdnier 11y ago
I followed the last link in the article (on weak back extensors) and found a helpful exercise video to recommend to my backpack-slogging teenage son. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKD2kKa_ME0

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