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by tejtm 3y ago
musicians/artists are the archetypal poster children for intense training with underpaid work. That a musician is calling out science work as the same, is notable as the musician would have the experience to know.
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Inbreeding fails to gaurentee genetic isolation/differentiation. Offspring may still have more in common with someone on the other side of the planet.
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Every star that is not our sun is in a different solar system. Could you have meant to say a star in a different galaxy could toast us? I think, ball park, a SN 500 light years out is considered safe e.g. Betelgeuse. Our Milky Way galaxy
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by tejtm 3y ago
As you may have noticed, say from technologyland, some words are hopelessly overloaded. "Gene" is such a word in biology. In its purest essence, a gene is "An inheritable trait." This is from when they were an idea, not
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by tejtm 3y ago
Even worse is Why pay to occasionally faintly illuminate the bottoms of airplains ever?
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by tejtm 3y ago
"those silly irrational people from the past...and then act in extremely similar ways ourselves." Aside; The which trials were not irrational, they were institution sanctioned land grabs. The theater is a distraction. https:&#x
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by tejtm 3y ago
Learning jq is great however you still need to know something about every new scrap of json you feed it. To than end I wrote a line of jq to emit every structural path from any json as a list of jq arguments. You can use it to make queries
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by tejtm 3y ago
tapes (reels) in a stationwagon ... but you got the gist of it
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of course does, it is just mostly stationary. so to view it in motion you have to move yourself from the far side to the nearside
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by tejtm 3y ago
to be fair, biology did have a 4B year headstart
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this may be a case where a sequential scan from low to high is indicated over a binary search of the gradient
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by tejtm 3y ago
yep, without knowing about `nl` I used `...| grep -n column_header` or `...|grep -n .` to replicate the 'nl' behavior. edit: I like your 'nl' better as it is using white space instead of colon as a separator.
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by tejtm 3y ago
Many non mammals have vision that includes UV (birds, reptiles, insects ... ) if any of these hunt the mammal, fluorescence may be a way of not reflecting light the predator can see. Fluorescence must emit a lower frequency and intensity o
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When "abstract content" has sufficient cover to generate indistinguishable replicates of the original is it still abstract? In contrast I could read Blinkist for years and it would never make me write like Hemingway. Note: I am ar
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I expect it is very much the entire point to copy the human intellect producing individual arts (a.k.a. patterns inherent in human-generated media) So they may be replicated by other individuals lacking the specific intellect or training to
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by tejtm 3y ago
why not both? the site pushes their features, the user filters their annoyance and we all normalize the wasted resources.
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by tejtm 3y ago
I wonder if they will find more evidence of the lunar dot motif https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cave+painting+lunar+dots+animal+fe...
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by tejtm 3y ago
Surnames via profession Black ~> iron smith, Green ~> copper smith, White ~> silver smith
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by tejtm 3y ago
The over & over is just the video looping. The tapping is an attempt to position the workpiece under the "drift" The pointy cone is a "drift" should be to enlarge a existing hole in a hot piece of metal by pushing th
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by tejtm 3y ago
Short story time https://archive.org/details/ExhalationByTedChiang
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I would hazard enough do and they will all pull together in the face of adversity and make a good time of it.
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If you exist to squeeze the margin do not be surprised when the margin squeezes back.
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It is always "horses for courses" and there may be times when the five concurrent cores with the shell pipeline will beat the single core awk script.
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Aminet! Recall it as the largest source of free software on the planet in its time. And it is still up! https://aminet.net/misc/fish thanks for all the fish, truly formative experiences.
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depending on where, that could be significant [1] which would be much better than the low effort graffiti better found elsewhere [] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube_Neutrino_Observatory
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rootless root; master foo
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Newick trees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newick_format
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In extreme cases they could be made to flip or fold to present an armored back, but you would have to be very sure it mattered enough.
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We do have those Starlight Tours ...
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The best place to get surplus huge computer monitors was the local law school they always needed to be showing off the latest and greatest shiny tech amongst themselves.

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