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by nkurz 1y ago
Since I haven't seen it mentioned yet: I've been wondering how much acidity affects pasta cooking time. We've noticed that dry pasta almost always takes significantly longer to cook than the packaging suggests. I don't
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by nkurz 1y ago
There's a standard joke about a farmer who wins an award because he is "outstanding in his field". This is a variation on that: https://explainthejoke.com/2022/08/28/above-and-beyond/
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by nkurz 1y ago
The wild rice grown near the Great Lakes ( Zizania palustris ) is an entirely different species than the rice typically eaten elsewhere ( Oryza sativa ). There is no particular reason to presume that both can be grown in the same environme
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1980s Aussie innovation: the passenger car helmet (2020)(whichcar.com.au)
2 points by nkurz 1y ago|0 comments
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by nkurz 1y ago
The title needs some punctuation, but the link works fine for me.
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by nkurz 1y ago
Are you perhaps not American? Here in America, tax deductions for property donated to charity are an almost universally condoned form of white collar fraud. Instead of using the actual price you could sell for, you come up with some flims
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by nkurz 1y ago
The complaint is available free and in full here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71209929/4chan-communit...
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by nkurz 1y ago
> By the way, a pet peeve of mine right now is that reporters covering court cases (and we have so many of public interest lately) never seem to simply paste the link to the online PDF decision/ruling for us all to read, right in th
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by nkurz 1y ago
I have no idea about the burger, but for the Coke I don't think that's true. Here's one of many sources saying that he drinks 5 cans a day: https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-diet-2017-10 What&#x2
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by nkurz 1y ago
While "nespole" is apparently sometimes called "Japanese Medlar" in English, they are more usually called "Loquat" (Eriobotrya japonica): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquat They are quit
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by nkurz 1y ago
> Leclerc was able to keep in front of Piastri at his second stop as well, and both drivers were stationary for just two seconds as their crews swarmed over the cars. But that single stop of Norris' was even faster at 1.9 seconds, a
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by nkurz 1y ago
The 1989 Baird and Thieret paper referenced in the article might be my favorite research paper ever. I read it soon after it came out in the reading room of my college library. After finishing it, I genuinely was uncertain whether it was
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by nkurz 1y ago
The dresses look great, but I can't help but notice that all the dress wearers featured in the article look to be African American. Are non-AA teens also buying these dresses but just not pictured in the article? Or is the phenomenon
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by nkurz 1y ago
Essentially, wherever AC gets rolled out, heat-related death plunges. Taking Barreca’s estimate and applying it to Europe suggests that as many as 100,000 European lives — 0.013% of the population — could be saved every year if the 80% of
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by nkurz 1y ago
This article is from a month ago and based on June numbers. July numbers are now available from FINRA. Total margin debt continued to increase from June to July, but by a much smaller percentage than the May to June: Jul-25 $1,022,548
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by nkurz 1y ago
https://archive.is/T50Y3
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by nkurz 1y ago
I switched from emulator tools like valgrind to tools with hardware support like perf, pmu-tools, and VTune. I generally found them sufficient, but sometimes buggy and difficult to use. Cachegrind is occasionally inaccurate due to an inacc
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by nkurz 1y ago
As 'GeekyBear' implies in a sibling comment, valgrind works with an emulation of an ideal processor rather than directly on the actual CPU. Sometimes this gives you a good idea of how the program will actually run, and sometimes
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by nkurz 1y ago
You may have better luck emailing hn@ycombinator.com to ask. But in general, articles are flagged by users and not moderators, and they tend to trust those user flags. The obvious followup question is why the users that flagged this did so.
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by nkurz 1y ago
Sure, if we assume that the total budget for the 17 national labs is $14B, that would imply that the average lab is a bit less than $1B/year to run. Hence $40B can run an "average" lab for around 50 years. Or am I missing
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by nkurz 1y ago
I don't know anything about the industry, but I thought it would be a good test for the state of AI. I put Animats' comment and your question into DeepSeek R1 and it said (I think correctly) that the company was Gemesis and the re
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by nkurz 1y ago
I presume you are familiar with the long-time strategy among some professional photographers to put a starter pistol (technically a firearm) into their photography gear so make it less likely to go missing? https://blog.jonudell
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by nkurz 1y ago
I'll go farther. This is an abysmal article. It fails at the primary goal of clearly telling the reader how to avoid the danger. And the lone paragraph that mentions the actual solution ("Opening the packaging while thawing the
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What birdsong and back ends can teach us about magic(digitalseams.com)
39 points by nkurz 1y ago|8 comments
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by nkurz 1y ago
I know we're not supposed to complain about being voted down, but this is a case where the downvoters are simply wrong and need to be corrected. This is a fantastic educational song designed to teach children how big a billion is by us
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by nkurz 1y ago
The 80's song "One Billion is Big" by the "Fat Boys" seems very relevant here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdnLhN4SeYY
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Stalking the Statistically Improbable Restaurant with Data(ethanzuckerman.com)
84 points by nkurz 1y ago|38 comments
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by nkurz 1y ago
https://archive.is/FdOlJ
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by nkurz 1y ago
Based on your other comments, you probably already understand this correctly, but for others who might be confused, the actual policy is not that it goes on repeated vowels, but that it goes on the second vowel in a pair to make clear that
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by nkurz 1y ago
> US has very consistently pressured Ukraine from strategic strikes into Russia. This was previously true, but I thought this policy changed as of last week? May 26 2025: US, UK and allies to lift all range restrictions on weapons in Uk

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