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by jetrink 6y ago
The thought is that collections should be homogeneous so that for most use cases, * The number of items would be so small that search would not be necessary, e.g. a collection personal projects * The items would fall naturally into a timeli
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Thanks! Your project looks like great inspiration and BagIt might be very useful too.
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Not yet, but you can email me at the address in my profile and I'll let you know when something is available.
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I just mean that a collection has no subfolders or other structure. It is simply a list of items like an S3 bucket.
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I'm working on a utility to archive and organize old data that I want to keep forever, but I don't want cluttering up my local hard drives and Dropbox account. The initial goals of the project are: * Design for cold data only. Stu
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Indeed. I first learned about the megaranches from Edna Ferber's 1952 novel Giant and the transformation is a major theme of the book. (Incidentally, I created an account on some forum while I was reading the book and out of laziness b
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In terms of land ownership, they are outdone by billionaire Stan Kroenke who owns several large ranches in Texas, including Waggoner Ranch, which is over 500,000 acres in size and surrounded by a single fence. https://en.wikipedi
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Is it possible to do this without violating the second law of thermodynamics?
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> It is used to differentiate "non-combatants from combatants in a crowded situation," Is it typical to refer to friendly forces in a conflict as 'non-combatants'? I would describe any armed participant as a combatant
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Yes, I pay for YNAB and have for years, because otherwise I would have to rebuild it in Excel and my version would be terrible. It's well-designed, it's fun to use, it makes me less anxious about the state of my finances and it he
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It's hard to believe the process is still going on. I remember on the first day of a class in 2004, the instructor had everyone introduce ourselves. One of the students started with, "Hi, I'm from Turkey. You have probably he
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China orders Alibaba founder Jack Ma to break up fintech empire(theguardian.com)
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I really liked the episode of Reply All about tulpas. It's not easy to listen to though. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/49hr6k
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There's a link to the Nature paper in the first sentence, so this site is already doing better than 98% of local news outlets.
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It's also not binary. Even if a vaccine is not 100% effective at preventing asymptomatic disease and transmission, it's likely to have some effect.
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It also included people who had deleted their account previously and created a new account solely in order to use the device.
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"[L]ess than one in a quadrillion" given certain assumptions which likely don't include the high volume of mail-in votes due to this election taking place during a pandemic. This election is not like others and if you use mod
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Also, given the fact that one was using a video camera (a very expensive hobby back then) and one was a medical student, they were more likely to travel in the same social circles and be closely connected than the average pair of people liv
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Russ Roberts brings a conservative perspective to his interview program EconTalk. (Russ describes himself as a 'classical liberal' rather than as a Conservative.) Though originally primarily focused on economics, the show's t
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I have a separate playbook called 'provision' that, among other things, creates an unprivileged user, gives it sudo permissions, disables root login and password authentication in sshd_config and then restarts ssh. It's the o
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It was not unheard-of back in the film days. The cameras, like the Fuji GW690, were not exactly small, but you could carry them around on a neck-strap and use them without a tripod. 1. http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Fujica
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Reading the HN title, I was immediately reminded of the Oliver Sacks book Awakenings[1]. He discovered that the drug L-DOPA could temporarily awaken encephalitis patients from a coma-like state. I wonder if the article's title "Aw
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COBOL and $2,020,202.02(bigdanzblog.wordpress.com)
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> I recently deleted my last Gmail account (that I had since 2001). Wow, was GMail already being used internally in 2001?
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I learned I was tone deaf when playing the game Myst in 1993 when I was eight years old. There was a puzzle[1] in which you had to listen to a tone, cross a room and move a slider until you heard the same tone. I knew exactly what had to be
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> "in the city, anything is possible" I am reminded of this and grateful anytime I get interested in a new hobby. I started indoor rock climbing and discovered there are at least six gyms in my city that I can bike to. I got in
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Edmond Halley (the astronomer and polymath who studied Halley's Comet) made a similar observation in 1693 after compiling the first modern mortality table. > [I]t may perhaps not be an unacceptable thing to infer from the same Table
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It comes up regularly on the subreddit for tech support stories, /r/talesfromtechsupport. Just a few: https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/22ke8... https://www.reddit.co
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I remember driving in the dark through Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming, you could find Coast to Coast on three different AM frequencies at once. Turning the dial you'd hear Art Bell, static , a rebroadcast of a church service, Art Bell, s
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Dwarf Fortress has been crowd funded since before Patreon existed and now has a Patreon page. I'm not sure you'd call it a total success though as the creators lived frugal lives for a long time in order to survive off the donatio

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