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> I hang a fake wasp nest in my yard, it keeps wasps away but doesn't impact honeybees. (I recently bought a nice looking wicker one, but used to just hang a brown bag that looked like a nest) Thanks! Seems like a reasonable approa
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> If you are lucky bumblebees will move in. Does this potentially attract other hole-dwelling insects like yellowjackets?
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> Instead of using the time to determine the distance as typical lidar does, it uses the phase difference, and requires a precise phase measurement. This unfortunately is not nearly as accurate, especially with such a low-powered laser.
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> Depends a lot on the specifics. For example heartbleed was a misread that led to the buffer being sent on the socket. And I think it was more than 32 bits. 32 bits of garbage into a log file that needs privileges to read sounds a tad l
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> Yes, generally we do just silently accept these things. You're typing this on a PC or phone built using slave labor using minerals extracted by warlords to fund campaigns of oppression (despite some companies paying lip service to
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> After waiting 20 years, I just watched the trilogy (extended version) with my wife last week. It's been a blast and it aged really well. If you're a fan of makings-of, you'll love the extras on these DVDs. There is some
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After 9 years as a programmer at a small polyglot dev shop, I moved to a publicly-traded industrial hardware firm as a systems engineer a few years ago. There's a bit of overlap between programming and systems engineering (requirement
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Lasers etch a 'perfect' solar energy absorber
(phys.org)
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if advantage is associated primarily with reproductive fitness it seems unlikely, at least as a direct cause.
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> Opera ended the day they deprecated their own rendering engine and became yet another Chromium wrapper, which we already have more than enough of. The real fly in the ointment for me when Opera ditched Presto was the loss of M2. I hav
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> Not really. It's true if you compare, like f(x) to (f x), but in general Lisp really does have more. In general I think this is true, but an important caveat that your post brings up is that sometimes it also has to do with how we
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> Our own experience of our consciousness is as much an illusions as our experience of the world. When we consider and attempt to discuss our own experience of redness, we are generally left with only our memory of that experience which
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> The incels claim their problem is not getting any. But we live in a golden age for porn and sex toys. They can get off if they want. This is why legalizing sex work and pornography is no solution and indeed may very well worsen the pro
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> I imagine that the later generations will just adopt an "I don't care, let people do what they want" attitude. I guess that's possible, and in fact seems like it's accelerating. But then again, what constitut
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and playmates are not playthings
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I would recommend cultivating ignorance as something of an asset. the fun problems don't have clean answers, and it's common that we have to explore areas about which we are not knowledgeable. that process is incredible once you e
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Derek Lowe's comments on the reboot were understandably a bit skeptical: > [W]hile the new larger EMERGE data do look like there’s a dose-responsive effect in the primary measurement (the CDR-SB scale) and three secondary dementia s
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> As a German, the word I'm really missing when speaking English is the simple word "doch", which more or less means "No, but yeah". As a college student I lived with a few German speakers. I felt like I had &qu
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> If most of the students did bad in the exam, the problem lies with the one factor in common: the professor. Class distributions vary significantly. I TA'd elementary computer programming for seven quarters.[1] Some classes were
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> Protobuffers are shit coz they don't support zero copy and you have to deserialize the whole thing even if you are interested in one field or an outer envelope, causing memory churn in your JVMs. Cap'n'proto and flat buf
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is there any study or experiment that goes with this story?
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out of curiosity, what about this strikes you as a quality specific to primates?
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> What do you really get out of a Java or Python REPL? For my part, a REPL helps me think about what I'm doing. There's a design process prior to writing code--sketch things out on paper, do a mind map, assemble pieces, get a
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> We’re leveraging the phones already in peoples’ pockets to be the readers per se. Nonetheless, shoot us an email at team@got-it.com and we’ll be sure to keep you in the loop. In some industrial settings, it's probably reasonable t
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aren't all children raised by groups?
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> I really wish a jury of peers is used to fire people in this age of disproportionate corporate power. You mean like a union? (Or at least how I imagine unions could work, by policing under/non-performing members.)
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in contracting this is not uncommon. one employer I worked for bid on a contract that was later revised down by 75 percent. meetings were curtailed to save money precisely because of the cost to the customer. budget sensitivity is a valuabl
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Charles Csuri
(en.wikipedia.org)
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some free tools exist for asn.1, but it may be easier to go with protobuf or something similar for new development today compared with 2005.
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Copernicium Is a Strange Element Indeed
(blogs.sciencemag.org)
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