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by jdnier 11y ago
And Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" makes the perfect soundtrack.
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by jdnier 11y ago
The comments are worth reading as well.
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PostgreSQL’s CTEs are optimisation fences (2014)(blog.2ndquadrant.com)
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If the Moon Were a Cube, What Would Its Phases Look Like?(wired.com)
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by jdnier 11y ago
"to allow addressing up to 32 zettabytes (ZB)" -- I think that's the first time I've seen ZB in print. Wikipedia link: "1 ZB = 10007bytes = 1021bytes = 1000000000000000000000bytes = 1000exabytes = 1billionterabytes
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"You wouldn't technically lose any information if you kept all of the ashes in one place, but you'd have a hard time looking up the capital of Minnesota."
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It's like culture shock: "Speaking of the function library, massive is not really an adequate word to describe it. The range of capabilities available is simply staggering."
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by jdnier 11y ago
That's an entertaining video that really demonstrates what it's like to drive a car from 1960.
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Full subtitle: "POTATOES: Humans evolved large brains because our ancestors ate starchy carbohydrates" Our saliva suggests improved carbohydrate digestion: "...humans possess six salivary amylase genes, while other primates j
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The secret to man's intelligence? POTATOES enabled larger brains(dailymail.co.uk)
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Curiosity: We Have a Problem (with just days to spare)(discovermagazine.com)
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“...their recommendation—and this was actually in a peer-reviewed journal—was to just lie down and start screaming, because few if any people could maintain verbal and physical coordination after getting stung by one of these things. You’re
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If This Wasp Stings You, ‘Just Lie Down and Start Screaming’(wired.com)
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"Tutte’s extraordinary achievement — breaking the complex German Lorenz code without ever seeing the machine that generated it — is said to have hastened the end of the war by about two years and saved millions of lives." "
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William Tutte, the humble math professor who cracked top Nazi code(uwaterloo.ca)
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Pluto-bound probe faces its toughest task: finding Pluto(nature.com)
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As to what it is: "Prolon™1 and 2 are proprietary, solely plant-based products, comprised of vegetable medleys, broths, energy drinks, teas, and nutrition bars." So, it's a limited, plant-based diet you follow at intervals. I
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Flee the United States as Fast as You Can(truthvoice.com)
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NSA said to increase monitoring of US 'Net traffic to catch hackers(pcworld.com)
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Saving Arabica coffee(bbc.com)
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by jdnier 11y ago
Yes, that's a very nice visual introduction to what's possible with flexbox.
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That interview reads like it's written by a character out of Gregory Benford's 1993 novel, Chiller -- only here we are in 2015; it's just like Benford wrote about then.
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In case you're wondering what Snappy is... http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/
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“It was a really hard workout,” she said, “and at the end we had to do two 400-meter intervals. I was running and I was just so happy. I don’t know what it was, it was just easy. And while I ran, I was yelling, I’m in a state of grace! I do
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But She Knows This Better Than Anyone(highline.huffingtonpost.com)
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A Guide to the DIY Espresso Extraction Tasting(baristahustle.com)
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"If we ship Python inside of Firefox, no one is going to use it because it's not available in Chrome, it's not available in Internet Explorer." Oh yeah? Try me.
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Wild bees live adjacent to cultivated fields. From the cited letter in Nature: "Our second finding was that the insecticide seed coating correlated with reduced nesting of the solitary bee O. bicornis. To investigate this we placed thr
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"Honey bees weren’t affected by the [neonicotinoid] seed treatments. But wild bees were affected, and in a big way.... In this study, no mason bees (Osmia bicornis) began brood cells in the seed treated fields. None."
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You’re Worrying About the Wrong Bees(wired.com)
5 points by jdnier 11y ago|3 comments

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