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by pweezy 7y ago
> we are seeing early indications in research of some amazing additional benefits – improved milk production, increased immunity, improved food conversion ratio (meaning you can feed cattle less and have them pack on more protein) These
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by pweezy 7y ago
Same for me. I've been conditioned in a way to expect Wikipedia posts on HN to be interesting, and I'm rarely let down. Probably my all time favorite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
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by pweezy 7y ago
> Molten salt fuels were first conceived of in the late 1940s, when people began thinking of nuclear powered airplanes! > The idea was to have very long range bombers in the air at all times I had never heard of this idea, and thought
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by pweezy 7y ago
Browsing through the screenshots of each version on this site, I was struck by how good the IE logo looked from the version 4 installer. I realized why when I got to version 10, released some 15 years later. The flat "modern" upda
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by pweezy 7y ago
Seeing the size of the chrome on the old IE versions, particularly version 3 where they upgraded to the large buttons with help text, made me think about how nice it was to have the relatively plain content on the web at that time. The info
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by pweezy 8y ago
> Food for thought: slavery is illegal in the U.S. except if it occurs as part of punishment for a crime! In case anyone reads this and thinks it's just commentary - this is literally enshrined in the U.S. Constitution (13th Amendme
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by pweezy 8y ago
Whatever the potential additions for Apple's service revenue, this seems like it will be a highly effective weapon to add to the arsenal for customer retention. Switching to an Android phone at your next phone upgrade cycle will be a l
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by pweezy 8y ago
+1 on this. To be productive in a new code base, you need to get to know your way around it. I find stepping through in the debugger to be the best and fastest way to learn my way around. If you don't have a debugging setup in place, i
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by pweezy 8y ago
I used and loved Sequel Pro for years, but interface limitations and crashes finally set me off looking for a replacement after some stressful production debugging sessions. After trying a few like MySQL Workbench and Navicat, I landed on Q