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The epic rise and fall of the name Heather(qz.com)
85 points by nikbackm 8y ago|78 comments
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C++ Lifetime profile v1.0 posted(herbsutter.com)
91 points by nikbackm 8y ago|48 comments
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by nikbackm 8y ago
I've read somewhere that Firefox telemetry showed that hardly anyone used the bookmark descriptions. In that case, understandable they chose to remove them.
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America Soured on My Multiracial Family(theatlantic.com)
3 points by nikbackm 8y ago|0 comments
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Recycling in the United States is in serious trouble. How does it work?(mashable.com)
99 points by nikbackm 8y ago|94 comments
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The Humanities Are in Crisis(theatlantic.com)
48 points by nikbackm 8y ago|57 comments
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The Games of Windows(filfre.net)
15 points by nikbackm 8y ago|1 comments
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Mayan farming put lots of carbon in the atmosphere(arstechnica.com)
2 points by nikbackm 8y ago|0 comments
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The radical moral implications of luck in human life(vox.com)
2 points by nikbackm 8y ago|0 comments
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Doing Windows, Part 8: The Outsiders(filfre.net)
4 points by nikbackm 8y ago|0 comments
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by nikbackm 8y ago
Self-replication across interstellar distances is probably much harder than it sounds, also for strong AI.
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GRAMMAR PURITY IS ONE BIG PONZI SCHEME(lithub.com)
2 points by nikbackm 8y ago|0 comments
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Doing Windows, Part 6: Look and Feel(filfre.net)
1 points by nikbackm 8y ago|0 comments
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Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet(theguardian.com)
208 points by nikbackm 8y ago|466 comments
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Doing Windows, Part 5: A Second Try(filfre.net)
244 points by nikbackm 8y ago|59 comments
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by nikbackm 8y ago
https://www.spaceanswers.com/solar-system/what-is-the-smalle...
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Amazon Foes Walmart and Microsoft Deepen Tech Partnership(wsj.com)
2 points by nikbackm 8y ago|0 comments
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by nikbackm 8y ago
Replaces the draft version previously posted.
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Windows Command-Line: Inside the Windows Console(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
2 points by nikbackm 8y ago|1 comments
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Amazon’s Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback(nytimes.com)
2 points by nikbackm 8y ago|0 comments
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by nikbackm 8y ago
Wonder if Notepad still just wraps the standard edit-control after these changes. I imagine the latter would have pretty strict backwards compatibility requirements.
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Drawn from life: why have novelists stopped making things up?(theguardian.com)
1 points by nikbackm 8y ago|0 comments
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Windows Command-Line: The Evolution of the Windows Command-Line(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
9 points by nikbackm 8y ago|3 comments
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by nikbackm 8y ago
You can configure uBlock to use default deny as well by changing the mode [1]. It's not as fine-grained as uMatrix but works similarly. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode
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by nikbackm 8y ago
Firefox does not include Flash by default, the others do.
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Quantum computing for policymakers and philosopher-novelists(scottaaronson.com)
1 points by nikbackm 8y ago|0 comments
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Memes Are Becoming Harder to Monetize(theatlantic.com)
2 points by nikbackm 8y ago|0 comments
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by nikbackm 8y ago
Are you referring to a 25m or 50m long pool here?
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Remember the Vasa [pdf](open-std.org)
38 points by nikbackm 8y ago|10 comments
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by nikbackm 8y ago
How would that work?

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