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by nealabq 6y ago
And Putin looked Biden in the eye, smiled, and said "So, we understand each other."
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by nealabq 6y ago
2021 will be one of the hottest years on record. Wildfires will rampage across the western US in the last half of the year. Oil prices will decline to $30/barrel. The Dow Jones industrial average will break 40K. Interest rates will rem
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by nealabq 6y ago
Maybe ping is treating 0 like 0.0.0.0 aka INADDR_ANY ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.0.0.0 ). And interpreting it as all the IPv4 addrs mapped to the local machine (including localhost).
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by nealabq 6y ago
Thanks for the pointer. A direct link (not going thru pinterest) is: https://vividmaps.com/global-rat-distribution-map/ Vividmaps.com is a great site.
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by nealabq 6y ago
One foci of the ellipse is the earth+ball center of gravity. The earth is also travelling in a much smaller ellipse around that same foci. Assuming a uniform+spherical earth. And also a uniform+spherical ball I supposed.
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by nealabq 6y ago
I think skocznymroczny is punning on the term "honey trap" with honey == HoNey == HN.
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by nealabq 6y ago
I suggest we adopt terms of venery that subtly reflect reality. At work we would speak how of the recommendations from a genius of engineers was ignored by a lunacy of managers. Online we could lament how a delusion of Redditors failed to r
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by nealabq 6y ago
Same here. When young I knew the spoken and written forms of several words without realizing they were the same. Chaos and Hyperbole come to mind (think last night's debate). You find out when you use the words-as-written (cha-ose, hyp
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by nealabq 6y ago
Remember, he didn't have a degree until 1987. And credentials mattered more back then. When I graduated with a B.S. in 1982 I had 4 offers, ranging from $22K to $28K. It was enough for the two of us -- our apt was $275/month. But
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by nealabq 6y ago
The Irish Ballad (the Rickety-Tickety-Tin song): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQfaRSeaMZQ
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by nealabq 6y ago
It's a mistake if your goal is to have the language implemented and become popular. Otherwise I like the notation. Computer languages would be different if Ascii had provided code points for ∧ ∨ ∩ ∪ ≡ ↑ etc. It's too bad so much r
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by nealabq 6y ago
Ted Codd designed the Relational Calculus as a clean relational-query language. It looks mathematical (scary?) and a little like a set-comprehension. But I think the big mistake is its use of non-ascii chars like ∃ ∈ ∀. Here's an examp
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by nealabq 6y ago
QUEL ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages ), the original query-language for Ingres, was more orthogonal and consistent than SQL. But IBM decided SQL was more business friendly. Who can argue with that.
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by nealabq 6y ago
I left. In 1982. I was shocked when my friend bought a cute little house in Berkeley for 162K. Just 10 years earlier my parents had sold their 5-bedroom Palo Alto house for 34K and bought a 4-bedroom in Sunnyvale for 42K. I was too smart to
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by nealabq 6y ago
I expect Pulsar to stay with Zookeeper. Kafka currently stores topic and partition info on ZK ( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+data... ), which can get to be a lot of data. But I thin
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by nealabq 7y ago
The US govt lost $11.2 billion on the GM bailout. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-gm-treasury-idusbre...
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by nealabq 7y ago
The article touches on many factors that influence the cost of freight traffic by road and by rail, but it doesn't mention diesel taxes that help pay for road maintenance. Presumably electric trucks will eventually also have to pay som
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by nealabq 7y ago
I once unicycled 20 miles when I was a teenager. It was painful on my inner thighs and seat-bones even though I'd added padding to the saddle. I just figured it was inevitable. But I guess it's not: https://www.reddit.c
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by nealabq 7y ago
HN actually discussed neutering hippos seven years ago in "Why It's Nearly Impossible to Castrate a Hippo": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6990822 And there's a post from 5 years ago called Pablo E
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by nealabq 7y ago
In high school I was part of a 4-man juggling troupe. Mostly club passing. I always had to be able to see each throw at the top of its arc, but only out of the very corner of my eye. I didn't have to focus my eyes or pay attention, but
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by nealabq 7y ago
Ceramics should last a very long time if they are buried. Ceramic toilets and stoneware dishes are like stone. If buried in sand or silt that collected over time they would be like other fossils. They might get crushed or broken, but I don&
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by nealabq 7y ago
Julius Mathison Turing was Alan Turing's father. Julia Mathison Turing lives in Colorado and sells Turing-related artwork on eBay. It's nice: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Alan-M-Turing-by-Julia-M-Turing-Art... I
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by nealabq 7y ago
Either there used to be a lot of iron-workers (smiths) around in English-speaking areas back then, or iron-workers were especially good at making babies (and not just horseshoes). If we were adopting surnames today, I'd pick Hacker ove
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by nealabq 7y ago
The Diary of Opal Whiteley, written around 1910 by an observant child using unusual syntax. It's poetic, simple, brilliant. I first saw it in the Multnomah (Portland Oregon) library. Available online: http://www.opalonline.o
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by nealabq 7y ago
This is a popular subject. Previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=polygons+another+world
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by nealabq 7y ago
I remember that day. I was on my way from up north to catch a flight from Oakland that morning.
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by nealabq 7y ago
Me too. My mind switched back and forth between these: ... Teamwork Repairs a Collapsed Freeway ... ... Teamwork Repairs Collapsed a Freeway ...
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by nealabq 7y ago
The authors of this regulation probably assumed that married couples would not be induced to split just to collect money, and that single moms would stay chaste in order to collect, and thus not have more out-of-wedlock children. So they se
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by nealabq 7y ago
Grumman LLV is the name for those white US-Mail trucks with the steering wheel on the wrong side. I didn't know that until now. Thanks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV
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by nealabq 7y ago
The fires aren't the only things killing Australian wildlife. Cats kill 4 times as many animals every year: https://www.livescience.com/65915-australia-cats-wildlife-ki...

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