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by jeffwass 8y ago
Really confused why someone felt the need to downvote that comment.
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Coincidentally just minutes ago I came out of a “parents learning session” at my synagogue about the Czech Torah scrolls, ehich I didn’t know about previously. During he Holocaust, thousands of Czech scrolls taken from scattered synagogues,
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Very cool. One idea that would be cool to see is a repeat of the video where the number of ‘harmonics’ is clipped. Eg, show the video with only the first 5 circle components. Then the first 10, the first 15, and so on. Will see the drawing
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The original hampster dance song was just a sped-up version of Whistle Stop, from the 1973 Disney animated Robin Hood. Original version and speed here, the section used starts at around 30s : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=
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Bandersnatch: Netflix's interactive Black Mirror film puts viewers in control(bbc.co.uk)
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This happened to me once on a small street in Massachusetts. I was driving at night and suddenly my heart jumped as a helicopter suddenly shined its bright spotlight straight at my car, like in the movies. It was hovering 20 feet off the gr
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Agreed, I’m surprised at the HN relative silence because there are so many other drone stories that warrant such HN attention. In this case all flights from Gatwick (the next busiest London airport after Heathrow) have been cancelled for ne
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In a nutshell, a Hamiltonian matrix (ie, the energy “Operator” matrix) must be Hermitian to have real eigenvalues. A Hermetian matrix means it’s equal to the complex conjugate of its transpose. Scott mentions in this article that his work o
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Word processor pioneer Evelyn Berezin dies aged 93(bbc.co.uk)
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“I listed the book at $35 for the paperback and $20+ for the ebook. (i.e., $20 or pay what you want above that)” Jeremy, if you’re reading this and want to share, did you find many buyers that opted to pay above the $20 baseline? Thanks any
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Damn, wish I figured that out sooner, very helpful, thanks! Btw, there are always little gems to discover like this, Which I find out out after years of frustration. Is there a good source of “here are new iOS tricks you didn’t know about?”
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Additionally, the emissions of that consolidated power plant can be better filtered (eg particulates) than the corresponding thousands of disparate engines.
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YouTube top earners: The seven-year-old making $22m(bbc.co.uk)
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Yeah, low-emissions diesel branding is a criminal oxymoron. It’s 100% the particulate and NoX emissions that are the major problems for those of us living in urban populations.
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“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. ... If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write.” - Stephen King, On Writing Btw, if anybo
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Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher novels, published his first novel at age 43, which he only started writing after being laid off as a television producer.
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This 100%. I’ve worked on several codebases over the years where a mgr said “here’s a special case, inputs of (foo, bar) should give baz2 not baz1. Coder whips up a hacky workaround to that very specific ask in the simplest place possible
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How big is that file now, out of curiosity?
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Back in the 80’s, before there was Iridium satellite, my uncle would use HAM radio to keep in touch with us while sailing his boat between Hawaii and California. Even though my household weren’t HAM’s at the time, he’d “call” us every few d
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LOL, 40 years later and some things never change : “The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.” - Brian W. Kernighan, in the paper Unix for Beginners (1979)
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It gets worse than that when your cryo equipment has a “cold” helium leak. Ie, something leaking on the dilution fridge only at helium temperatures (4.2K) and lower, but no trace of a leak at room temp. Repeated bouts of guessing where the
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How tall do you think that tabular one was in your photo?
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Seeking advice from the git masters : I joined a new small team several weeks ago. All of us are fairly new to git, coming from cvs and svn backgrounds. We use Intellij as our primary IDE, and bitbucket as our remote origin. Do y’all recom
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Oh man, I haven’t soldered anything in 10 years since my physics PhD, but damn, this thing is calling to me :-)
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FYI Nikola Tesla had similar views on eugenics as well.
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Banksy artwork shreds itself after £1m sale at Sotheby's(bbc.co.uk)
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It’s worse than the bad usenet because social media curated the content you engage with into a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop. Eg, my twitter feed shows me tweets of similar themes to those that I recently engage with. The more I e
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Reminds me of the monitor we got for my Tandy 1000 back in the 80’s. $50 for a CGA monitor at Trenton Computer Festival. A total bargain! But the case was made of styrofoam. And out of the box it only supported 8 colours, we had to build th
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A DMT trip 'feels like dying' – and scientists now agree(bbc.co.uk)
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Do people really need to take an “intro to web dev” class as part of a CS curriculum? Is intro web dev included in the list of requirements nowadays? When I was in college and grad school 10-20 yrs ago, and when web dev wasn’t as hot as it

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