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by todd8 5y ago
This is a better link to the original Wired article: https://www.wired.com/story/climate-change-may-make-hurrican...
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Climate Change May Make Hurricanes Hit Sooner and Last Longer(enn.com)
10 points by todd8 5y ago|12 comments
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The U.S. Coast Guard Had a Pigeon-Powered Sensor(medium.com)
1 points by todd8 5y ago|0 comments
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by todd8 5y ago
What is Onyx? I didn’t see that mentioned.
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by todd8 5y ago
From the featured article: > The average inbreeding based on genetic analysis across 227 breeds was close to 25%, or the equivalent of sharing the same genetic material with a full sibling Full siblings would actual share approximately 5
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by todd8 5y ago
How does longer lives translate into fewer deaths per year? I understand how extending everyone’s life say 1 year starting tomorrow means fewer deaths (i.e. zero) next year, but after that it’s back to the same rate in deaths per year. Unde
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by todd8 5y ago
Yes, there seem to be many different causes and just as many random internet tips. I'm glad you figured out how to help your back. My daughter injured her back, she's a competitive power lifter; I was worried because of my own exp
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by todd8 5y ago
Sometime in 1990 I injured my back. I still remember the details. The injury was caused by a strong sneeze while I was bent over picking up a briefcase. In a single second, I couldn't stand, I couldn't get up off of my knees. It w
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New Covid variant found in South Africa, prompting new travel bans(cnet.com)
4 points by todd8 5y ago|1 comments
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by todd8 5y ago
For about $5 you can find an old (around 1960-1969) edition of the "CRC Handbook of Standard Mathematical Tables. I've owned two of the 17th edition published in 1969, because back then hand calculators didn't exist and many
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by todd8 5y ago
I read the whole article, and I don't understand. Coding theory is hard enough, but when it buried under layer after layer of analogy to make it more digestible by non-mathematicians I can't see what the author is talking about. I
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by todd8 5y ago
Yes, I'm not disagreeing with your main point. I just had first hand experience with Spivak. Your point reminds me of an experience I had in grad school. A good friend in the program was from (communist) Romania. We were both looking a
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by todd8 5y ago
I was thinking about trying EnGenius or even Cisco next, but I'd like to stay within the Unifi universe because of my investment in wifi access points and video cameras. I should definitely investigate the edgeswitch line! I sort of ig
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by todd8 5y ago
I respectively disagree. I think people are attractive, in general, and in particular I like looking at people. For me, seeing a photo that captures a memorable or unusual moment in sports, in a performance, or even in a park or on the side
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by todd8 5y ago
I have an EE degree and a CS degree. I waste an incomprehensible portion of my life fussing with the technology that runs in my home. Why is it so hard to configure VLANs for my security cameras using the fancy Unifi switches I have? Why is
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by todd8 5y ago
From the article: > Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime. Governments, world-wide, may end up emulating China, which is planning to outlaw other crypto-currenci
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by todd8 5y ago
For as long as it has existed, the USA has maintained separate categories of governance with limitations that ensure local and state control over certain areas. The constitution makes clear (to me, but I'm not a constitutional scholar)
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by todd8 5y ago
Emacs blink-matching-paren minor mode does this. It’s quite configurable, like every other thing in Emacs. Some of the alternatives can be found by starting at: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html
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by todd8 5y ago
Like many readers of HN, I've taken a lot of math over the years--at least 25 semester long courses at the university level. So I have well informed opinions about what works and what doesn't work for me ; schools, on the other h
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by todd8 5y ago
Spivak's Calculus is intended for use in a two semester course covering differential and integral calculus. It is a challenging but rewarding introduction to calculus; in my opinion, this text is appropriate for math majors while other
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by todd8 5y ago
A relevant quote from the work you cite: > The history of the educational research literature is one plagued with low quality small sample size studies that were done decades ago, with less work being done now. It can be that now researc
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by todd8 5y ago
Do you mean when specific flags are passed to the compiler? I wasn’t aware of that. C++ has defined behavior for non-exhaustive switch statements, just like a non-exhaustive if statement (that is an if statement missing an else clause).
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by todd8 5y ago
I've used macros for years, decades ago. I don't like them, and I was disappointed to see them so widely employed by Rust. I've written macros in asm, in TeX, in Lisp, and even in TRAC (a macro based programming language inve
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by todd8 5y ago
I believe that my significant success in life is due in part to Scientific American. I clearly remember being asked the what I enjoyed reading at my interview/visit to MIT in 1969. I explained that I read Scientific American every mon
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by todd8 5y ago
I'm another Todd that does the same thing, and I too have noticed that I no longer get chest colds.
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It's going on here in the USA in some male dominated occupations too. I have a friend that is on the board of directors for a number of large companies. Not surprisingly, he says that boards are all looking for women and minorities. Pu
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by todd8 5y ago
Perhaps you're thinking of Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) a case concerning affirmative action in admissions exercised by the University of Michigan Law School. The Supreme Court decided that favoring underrepresented minority groups did
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by todd8 5y ago
A co-worker of mine had a good idea: require management to seal within an envelope the cutoff value that would determine the outcome the decision that required the estimate (e.g. Estimate > X then Do A and Estimate < X then Do B). Whe
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by todd8 5y ago
This is a great discussion on ZFS. I thoroughly enjoy reading HN! For those who aren't real IT people here is how I set up my first ZFS system at home. My background includes a few years at IBM as an OS architect in charge of, among ot
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by todd8 5y ago
I was surprised the first time I saw Daniel J. Bernstein's qmail configuration. Qmail uses separate configuration files for each parameter being set. The directory /var/qmail/control contains most of these files. For ex

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