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by leafmeal 3y ago
I think it’s worth pointing out that your impression of Mead might be shaped by a strong critic who worked hard to invalidate her work and erase her legacy. This section of her Wikipedia article sums it up pretty well. Essentially, more rec
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by leafmeal 3y ago
a little late now, but I wonder if https://github.com/DataBiosphere/toil might meet your requirements
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Rubber: a self-guilded polymer expedition(pslc.ws)
1 points by leafmeal 3y ago|1 comments
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by leafmeal 3y ago
The history and chemistry of rubber explained in a series of fun, interesting articles
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by leafmeal 3y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding here, but it sounds like he's claiming they invented "interfaces". The Go interfaces seem like the same thing as a Haskell typeclass which predates them by a long shot. Either way a great inven
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by leafmeal 3y ago
I feel like you might be miss the point of the parent comment. Synchronizing between databases is a notoriously difficult problem. It's really hard to do while avoiding race conditions. To be fair, I don't understand the "git
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by leafmeal 3y ago
in the video on the Kickstarter she show how you can hang pants
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by leafmeal 3y ago
Also using light mode instead of dark mode helps with visibility on a dim screen
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by leafmeal 3y ago
No comment on this actual product, but I found that turning the brightness as low as I can tolerate on my monitor significantly reduced my eye strain and discomfort. It takes a little getting used to, but I highly recommend giving it a try.
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by leafmeal 3y ago
Personally I thought the article was informative and interesting, but I'm still curious; can you share some of these videos you're talking about?
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by leafmeal 3y ago
Crazy to think about! Minor correction: 5 million reproduced, presumably more lived but died young, etc. but you point still stands
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by leafmeal 3y ago
Maybe, but it's not obvious to me what the "another prefix" should be.
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by leafmeal 3y ago
HA?
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by leafmeal 3y ago
I learned about the plight of Sicilian immigrants in New Orleans at that time from Annie Proulx's historical fiction book "Accordion Crimes". She was inspired in a large part by a lynching of Italian immigrants which was depi
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by leafmeal 3y ago
>It does suck it is free-free, because it doesn't teach the foster kid important life lessons, but there is more merit to this. What about the many countries with free university for everyone? Are those students missing out on impor
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by leafmeal 3y ago
do you have a pic of the result?
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by leafmeal 3y ago
Obviously this doesn't apply when speaking on the scale of millions of years, but I remember reading that there may not be enough easily accessible energy sources (ie fossil fuels) left to jump start another industrial civilization if
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by leafmeal 4y ago
What does IC mean? Doesn't seem to be very googleable
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Covariance and Contravariance (Computer Science)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by leafmeal 4y ago|0 comments
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by leafmeal 4y ago
Now I'm getting a different hash consistently, but not the correct hash: shasum -a 256 djngo.com 071bca4e67bf52dabcd6ec9766189c98ae536c103247549f6801d55dbc0a53ee djngo.com Does the sha256sum command return a different value? I
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by leafmeal 4y ago
I don't anyone believes that calling it Django Unchained would condone slavery. They're just saying they don't want to have to think about slavery when choosing software which seems not unreasonable to me.
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by leafmeal 4y ago
I'm getting the wrong hash when I download the file (I tried a couple times). I'm running curl -O https://djngo.com/djngo.com shasum -a 256 djngo.com and I get 6133a4f5c76af6ca6a2b2eba115783a78fc1
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Accelerate State of DevOps Report(cloud.google.com)
3 points by leafmeal 4y ago|0 comments
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by leafmeal 4y ago
A great solution is a land value tax as per Henry George https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
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by leafmeal 4y ago
I was looking for their implementation of T9, but haven't found it yet. Would that be in here? Does anyone with more context or Google-foo know where it is?
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by leafmeal 4y ago
Toil is pure Python, but I'm not sure how the feature set compares https://github.com/DataBiosphere/toil
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by leafmeal 4y ago
Check out Toil: https://github.com/DataBiosphere/toil
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by leafmeal 5y ago
Virtually all "vegetable oil" you see in stores in the US is soybean oil.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
This sounds like how I prefer to code: slow, exploring, learning, etc. Hopefully that fits someone's business requirements.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
Surely the ancient world was more common, with bandits, etc, but do you have any justification that murder was a 'personal thing'? I imagine most communities had was to prevent / punish this.

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