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by lainga 3y ago
Woah! I had no idea they were pumping groundwater into the Capilano Reservoir. Thanks for the heads up
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by lainga 3y ago
"The Park Service no longer dredges the Platte River. As a result, sediment and sand build up, reducing the ability to get boats to Lake Michigan." I didn't get whether this was before or after the channel was dug, and whethe
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by lainga 3y ago
There is an apocryphal story from the Greek War of Independence in 1821 - when it was won, messengers were sent out to the various Aegean islands to tell them that Greece had won its independence from the Ottomans. On one small island, the
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by lainga 3y ago
There is a positive feedback loop between ice cover and Earth's overall albedo. (i.e. more shiny white ice = more sunlight reflected = colder Earth = more shiny white ice...) Model climates seem to require a LOT of added greenhouse gas
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by lainga 3y ago
Toronto is aligned to the long straight stretch of Lake Ontario's Northern shore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ontario#/media/File:ISS-3...
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by lainga 3y ago
It would be interesting to see these diagrams folded in half and into quarters. Which cities have the greatest fourfold symmetry breaking? Which cities have more streets running north than south? (the only case I can think of would be many
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by lainga 3y ago
Alas! Once it has the benediction of the CBC, it has the weight of the federal government behind it. (only half-joking...)
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by lainga 3y ago
In addition - the OP in question is a 5-time IOCCC winner, including for the eponymous nanochess! https://github.com/bormand/nanochess
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by lainga 3y ago
Funny way to express the $65 billion of FDI that China's put into Pakistan, along with joint development of the JF-17 and 47% of China's arms exports as a whole, isn't it? Or has the near-total cut in US military aid to Pakis
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by lainga 3y ago
Reminds me of the panicked woman who hit F12 while on FB, saw the log message "forcing children into a div", and concluded she had discovered evidence of child abuse. I believe this was before FB printed the big ASCII art "ST
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by lainga 3y ago
Possibly someone has just got ahold of internal poll figs and are making moves ( inter alia the said generalized comments against foreign labor) to appease swing voters
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by lainga 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
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by lainga 3y ago
Whoops! Someone who happens to be very good friends - no official association - with the C-suite of (WLOG) Stellantis NA has sent FairBusiness, LLC's CEO a bottle of Château Lafite Rothschild. He'd just like to invite you to dinne
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by lainga 3y ago
I'm not sure I'm convinced. Why do you think (of all places) the Vatican's press office has taken up using LLMs so quickly? And why wouldn't they mention it (in an official message from the Pope, no less)?
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by lainga 3y ago
Why?
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by lainga 3y ago
Well, if Wikipedia's anything to go by, it seems to be the first in-mem column-oriented DB written in Zig
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by lainga 3y ago
“We believe any deceleration of my tweeting will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the tweet that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.” (with no apology and copious reference of Arkell v. Pressdram to Mr. Andreessen)
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by lainga 3y ago
SV Pivots from Bunkers in Nauru to Calling Enemies Murderers I mean, really? "effective accelerationism"?
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by lainga 3y ago
"You will all end up shining the shoes of the Chinese!" [] [] with minimal apology to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Balbo
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by lainga 3y ago
"Iraqis are beating people, bombing and shooting. They are taking all hospital equipment, babies out of incubators. Life-support systems are turned off. ... They are even removing traffic lights." https://en.wikipedia.o
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by lainga 3y ago
In Dengist-Trotskyist synthesis, the revolutionary class must be constantly and permanently going bankrupt.
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by lainga 3y ago
3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39145728
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by lainga 3y ago
for
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by lainga 3y ago
I might put forth assegaai (a type of throwing spear)...? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/assegaai Berber -> Arabic -> Spanish -> Dutch -> English each link makes sense if you consider (in order) Caliph Al
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by lainga 3y ago
In the very ultimate limit, because it falls under the same jurisdiction as the USS Nimitz.
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by lainga 3y ago
go vet -basilisk ./...
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by lainga 3y ago
"Kirby wasn’t specific about what planes the airline could acquire instead of the Max 10, but he noted that there is only one other global manufacturer of such large planes — Boeing’s European rival Airbus." Is it just me or is ev
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by lainga 3y ago
Aha, I was about to chew the article out for not mentioning rye, but the linked paper has it :) Rye briefly shows up in the Fertile Crescent at the start of the Neolithic, and then vanishes for several centuries before reappearing in Bronze
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by lainga 3y ago
Countries can suffer Dutch disease just fine without ever seeing a single Marine.
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