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by jdnier 7y ago
Yep, Quark has been used for page layout and typesetting since the 80s. They do web layout now also, so this js project seems to have some overlap potential.
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by jdnier 7y ago
Sounds kind of like the recent global Cloudflare outage. That outage started with a regex (WAF rule) being pushed out that immediately exhibited pathological backtracking behavior and "caused CPUs to become exhausted on every CPU core
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by jdnier 7y ago
That's remarkable and unique penmanship.
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by jdnier 7y ago
Notable quote from the article: > Harmful as it was, the nuclear accident was far less destructive to the local ecosystem than we were.
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by jdnier 7y ago
That About DACs video is fascinating. It gets to the issue of what is it audiophiles might be hearing that we just can't seem to measure. (An explanation of why "the specs are so much better" but "it still sound wrong.&q
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Shedding Light on White Dwarfs – The Future of Stars Like Our Sun(sci.esa.int)
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by jdnier 7y ago
This reminds me of "RAM Doubler" from the mid 90s on 68030/40 Macs. https://tidbits.com/1996/10/28/ram-doubler-2/ I do remember the joy have doubling 16MB of RAM to 32MB.
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Knuth: Fantasia Apocalyptica (2017)(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
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Jan Overduin Invites You to Knuth's “Fantasia Apocalyptica” (2017)(youtube.com)
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by jdnier 7y ago
Thanks. An interesting one: "Neuromodulator • A sound designed to squash down your tinnitus"
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by jdnier 7y ago
> we can decarbonize the existing vehicle fleet without replacing it. Put that way, it's a huge improvement and avoids having to electrify entire fleets first.
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Can This Breakfast Cereal Help Save the Planet?(npr.org)
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Scientists Need More Cat DNA, and Lil Bub Is Here to Help(wired.com)
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by jdnier 8y ago
As well as the link to his gist "Python module for downloading planetary data for More or Less": https://gist.github.com/olihawkins/90f53659d9a9d22384a3c1dba...
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Uh Oh, a Recent Study Suggests That Dark Energy’s Strength Is Increasing(universetoday.com)
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by jdnier 8y ago
I especially like this bit, mentioned in the FAQ ( https://pendulum.eustace.io/faq/ ): It also removes the notion of naive datetimes: each DateTime instance is timezone-aware and by default in UTC for ease of use.
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by jdnier 8y ago
I saw this library mentioned in a StackOverflow comment. I hadn't run into it before. Wondering if anyone has experience using it.
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Pendulum: Python Datetimes Made Easy(pendulum.eustace.io)
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Scientists Are Rethinking Animal Cognition(theatlantic.com)
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A Water Crisis Is Growing in a Place You'd Least Expect It(npr.org)
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by jdnier 8y ago
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Backend_flowchart#optimizer... Genetic query optimizer optimizer/path evaluates all possible ways to join the requested tables. When the number of tables becomes great, the number
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Computational and Inferential Thinking: The Foundations of Data Science(inferentialthinking.com)
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by jdnier 8y ago
I had forgotten that one. Here's another that shows some of the complexity of his voice and melody-making: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ow45kTJqhg
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by jdnier 8y ago
I remember an interesting summary posted on HN back in 2013 about nicotine and tobacco. This was before vaping became popular, but the case he made was that nicotine is actually not very addictive on it own, but seems to reinforce addiction
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by jdnier 8y ago
This is just breathtaking. The music makes it feel overly cinematic, but it's real—no CGI.
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Progress launch timelapse seen from space(youtube.com)
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A chemical so hot it destroys nerve endings – in a good way(wired.com)
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Steve Perry Walked Away from Journey. A Promise Finally Ended His Silence(nytimes.com)
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by jdnier 8y ago
Don't miss her first-hand account of her discovery (from 2009): https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jul/25/astrono...
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by jdnier 8y ago
That this was the the first thing listed did not make me very interested in reading on. Favorite browser modification: set default page to about:blank

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