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by phillc73 5y ago
As a general comment, if you'd like to know more about what's happening and has happened to the Great Barrier Reef over the last few hundred years, I can highly recommend Iain McCalman's[1] book "The Reef: A Passionate H
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Drinking coffee may cut risk of chronic liver disease, study suggests(theguardian.com)
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Adrian Selby's book Brother Red[1] contains a race of people, the Oskoro and Ososi, who appear to undertake trepanning and then plant things in their heads. At least that's how I imagined it! [1] https://www.adrianselby
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by phillc73 5y ago
Except where they aren't.[1] Mostly or overwhelmingly programming languages are written in English, but not 100%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
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Games were in some way 99% of my use of the Apple IIc we had, which was my first computer. Original Bard's Tale in glorious green screen. Good times. However, I also spent a lot of time painstakingly copying BASIC games, line by line f
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by phillc73 5y ago
The article says, capacity for 100 passengers. The Embraer 190, a good example of a short haul jet, with capacity for between 94 and 114 passengers.[1] The blimp seems comparable. [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrae
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by phillc73 5y ago
Lack of hyphen use drives me nuts. "Cooperation" is a prime example. Without the hyphen, my internal monologue pronounces the word like "chicken coop"[1]. Whereas, "Co-Operation" makes pronunciation much cleare
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It's definitely not a complete listing, but possibly the best I know in terms of compiling many locations into one site. For example, Greenham Common is not listed[1], and I guess it's up to the users to submit it! [1] https:&#x2
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by phillc73 5y ago
Here's a reference for the same in Europe: https://www.forgottenairfields.com/
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Cicadas are the sound of summer for me. They're pretty ubiquitous in the eastern regions of Australia[1]. I remember collecting them and their shells as a kid. With names like Green Grocer, Cherry Nose and Double Drummer[2], the hunt w
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by phillc73 5y ago
I see now from up thread, this is 2.6 million individual titles, not actual book sales. To me, this still seems low. Unfortunately, the bookstat website linked in the article won't load for me, but I wonder if that is only the total nu
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by phillc73 5y ago
I was surprised by how low the reported total number of books is. Then I realised they're only reporting online book sales. However, the number still seems quite low.
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Substack: How the game-changer turned poacher(theguardian.com)
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by phillc73 5y ago
This comment jogged my memory about reading something about a NASA funded experiment in the 1960s to communicate with dolphins. Essentially a woman, Margaret Lovett, literally lived in a watery house with three dolphins for several months.
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by phillc73 5y ago
I'd like to make a book recommendation. The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina. When I read this 12 months ago, I felt it was one of the most powerful accounts of the pillages still occurring in the world's oceans, as well as the horrific
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by phillc73 5y ago
> The Inquisition was the first attempt at having a fair trial Except where it wasn't. Philip IV of France specifically sanctioned torture to obtain specific confessions of defined types of heresy, in order to support his wish to de
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by phillc73 6y ago
There's a mention and some short history on this new project's About page.[1] [1] https://lisp-stat.dev/about/
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Thank you, I didn't know that. I was also being slightly facetious given the topic.
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> and talks to the backend using JMAP (RFC 8620) FastCGI and mod_perl would have been a better choice.
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Particularly in Korea.
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I clearly wasted my time with English Lit, Modern European History, Linguistics and German in my first year at University!
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This is not always the case. I recall learning during my youth that in Victoria, Australia, the heat cycles and pregnancies of the entire herd were synchronised to that it lead to a period of 6 to 8 weeks where no milking occurred at all. T
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by phillc73 6y ago
> The manure problem is a problem at any size of farm, the amount of manure per cow is somewhat constant. So concentrating all the cows in some factory farm doesn't really make anything worse as long as the total number of cows is s
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by phillc73 6y ago
The same with R. There's already the excellent JuliaCall[1] package, for embedding Julia code in R. Listed in the README are some R packages, using Julia code through JuliaCall. [1] https://github.com/Non-Contradiction&
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by phillc73 6y ago
Pete Dalgaard's Introductory Statistics with R is a good book, but not free online as far as I know.[1] Or go to the source with An Introduction to R[2][3] I also enjoyed Norm Matloff's fasteR tutorial.[4] [1] https://w
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by phillc73 6y ago
Right. I don't even know what is a Drafthouse? And now I may never know.
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by phillc73 6y ago
Sounds like it could be an interesting comparison. I'll look into it.
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In a similar vein, I really like the LINQ style queries in the Julia package, Query.jl[1]. [1] https://www.queryverse.org/Query.jl/stable/linqquerycommands...
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Good points. That makes the larger than memory use case quite clear, and interesting.
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Yeah, I agree sqldf is quite slow. Fair point. As you've seen, duckdb registers an "R data frame as a virtual table." I'm not sure what they mean by "yet" either. Of course it is possible to write an R datafram

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