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by mxcrossr 5y ago
Interesting read. I like rice and beans, but I go absolutely crazy with the seasoning. In that sense, the bean being bland may be no trouble for me!
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
Maybe I missed something but… did they not actually explain how his invention works?
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
You forgot BSD… oh wait I guess they’re also user hostile because they dare to ship without GNU grep
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
The trick is to find a CS professor who actually knows how to write makefiles instead of just copying and pasting his last one!
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
Perhaps if you had taken a course on ethics you might recognize the good that comes from something that doesn’t directly lead to financial gain!
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
> Fix typo in file name #12181 Tasty: set experimental to zero #12438 Ah key commits that you just know you have to bump the version up after receiving.
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
> This has even been true with aliens. The science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson reminded me that in the early 1900s it was widely but mistakenly believed that we had visual evidence of canals on Mars. I wonder how true this is. Wh
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
From the paper: > Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of serum vitamin D levels identified genetic variants that are robustly associated with serum vitamin D status in different populations and ancestries. Edit: thanks for both the re
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by mxcrossr 6y ago
Imagine dressing for the Virgin Islands and ending up in Labrador
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by mxcrossr 6y ago
I think user written, three sentence summaries for hacker news posts would be nice. I like that I can submit random interesting articles here, but sometimes a bit of context is necessary to get others engaged.
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by mxcrossr 6y ago
If people don’t like click bait I recommend not using news aggregators that only show the headline and are curated based on the votes of users who don’t read the articles!
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by mxcrossr 6y ago
That was a typo, thanks for the catch!
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by mxcrossr 6y ago
It's been interesting to me to see that despite staying at home all the time due to the corona virus, my smart phone usage hasn't really dropped off. I would have expected to be spending more time on my laptop, but it seems like t
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by mxcrossr 6y ago
I guess I just don't believe the notion that ICE made this decision to try and force universities to reopen. It just makes so little sense. I understand that this administration's is interested in returning to normalcy, but surely
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by mxcrossr 6y ago
The weather forecast for the next week is rain every day, so I might also be out of luck...
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by mxcrossr 6y ago
We really should just be making whatever accommodation is necessary to reduce travel. The last thing we need is tens of thousands of students flocking to the airport when their visas expire. If you went home, you stay home and continue from
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by mxcrossr 6y ago
They mention the case of Charles Leiber [1] which might be informative. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._Lieber#Federal_arre...
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The Birdsong That Took over North America(theatlantic.com)
1 points by mxcrossr 6y ago|0 comments
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A Cheap, Race-Neutral Way to Close the Racial Wealth Gap(theatlantic.com)
2 points by mxcrossr 6y ago|0 comments
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by mxcrossr 6y ago
They mention customer support so many times in that article, but it's a grocery list app! When is the last time I asked for support for the sticky note attached to my refrigerator? I don't doubt that there are indeed customers who
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The Great Forgetting(aeon.co)
2 points by mxcrossr 6y ago|0 comments
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by mxcrossr 6y ago
The problem is to insert something into the genetic code that survives evolutionary pressures over hundreds of millions of years. There would of course be great irony in this point; a civilization knows how to modify an animal in a way that