onychomys

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by onychomys 2y ago
Middle out compression is what the guys in the TV show Silicon Valley invent.
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by onychomys 2y ago
For anybody interested in how beavers change landscapes, I can't recommend Ben Goldfarb's "Eager" highly enough. It made me a believer.
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by onychomys 2y ago
Do you have any evidence for the claim that it was disease rather than the immense slaughter?
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There's actually LESS genetic diversity in a single breeding population than in two separate ones. When you have two, they can drift in different directions or be subject to different selection pressures. With just one, all of that stu
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by onychomys 2y ago
There's a general guideline called the 50-500 rule. You need at least 50 animals to avoid immediate inbreeding (and also stochastic extinction from a fire or flood or disease etc), and about 500 to have a genetically healthy population
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by onychomys 2y ago
I'm another vote for hiding the cursor. It's pretty distracting, especially early on in a level when there's still a lot of low-level bricks.
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by onychomys 2y ago
I am 100% for letting him buy companies that lose billions of dollars per year and have no path towards profitability anytime soon. The more the merrier!
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by onychomys 2y ago
The budgets for all these agencies have congressional oversight. Additionally, there's an entire agency devoted to making sure there's a minimum of grift, the GAO. For example, here's a recent report they did on NASA's l
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Two students built an A-bomb (2003)(theguardian.com)
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A secret weapon in agriculture's climate fight: Ants(grist.org)
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by onychomys 2y ago
> Marrone said the FBI is now planning to come to the area with what he called “aerial armor” to make sure no further drones can fly in the firefighting area. Thank goodness. Maybe they have some way to track emissions back to the source
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Want to start a fight among virus experts? Ask about HIV's new name(statnews.com)
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The Vegan Hunter(altaonline.com)
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I tried to train my color vision. Here's what happened(sequencermag.com)
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Leading scientists urge ban on developing 'mirror-image' bacteria(science.org)
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by onychomys 2y ago
I've always wondered why the Japanese didn't do the same thing in reverse. There's gotta be some tiny languages from small ethnic groups on the islands. At the time, it's not like we could have gone and looked up the wor
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by onychomys 2y ago
If true crime podcasts have taught us anything, it's that police don't really need an excuse to do a shoddy investigation.
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by onychomys 2y ago
Alasdair posted this clip on bluesky, where I saw it. In the comments, Art UK had posted this article as a reply. Once I clicked through, I knew it would be exactly what HN would appreciate, and here we are.
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by onychomys 2y ago
Honestly, I knew I had to submit it when I got to the sheep. The cows aren't far off, but that sheep!
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The rectangular cows of Art UK (2018)(artuk.org)
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Rod McKuen Was the Bestselling Poet in American History. What Happened? (2022)(slate.com)
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by onychomys 2y ago
> In terms of the origins of the app, Google told me “this is not an Android platform nor Pixel vulnerability, this is an apk developed by Smith Micro for Verizon in-store demo devices and is no longer being used. Exploitation of this ap
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The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s(grist.org)
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by onychomys 2y ago
In my admittedly non-representative experience, having more managers around is definitely a now-you-have-two-problems situation.
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How Sticky Is It Outside?(eos.org)
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by onychomys 2y ago
Title of this entry needs a (2023) after it.
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Loss of India's vultures may have led to deaths of half a million people(science.org)
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The Love Letter Generator That Foretold ChatGPT(daily.jstor.org)
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by onychomys 2y ago
In related news, if you've ever wondered how good Bill Gates is at poker, he played a little with some locals from Kemmerer while there for the groundbreaking. https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/06/11/when
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Spiral Waves May Explain the Sun's Baffling Rotation(eos.org)
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