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by vaughnegut 5y ago
Canada produces something like 70-80% of the world's maple syrup, and as the article says Quebec alone produces around 70% of the world's maple syrup. I imagine our flag combined with that most maple syrup people are consuming def
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by vaughnegut 5y ago
Anyone know why it causes a crash? I cleaned up the javascript a bit by adding whitespace and more meaningful variable names: https://gist.github.com/mdesson/b87c51ff4caf7bd4d2f74b52e8d6...
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by vaughnegut 5y ago
Anyone know how the issue was resolved? The article doesn't actually say what changed about his situation to allow him to leave.
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by vaughnegut 6y ago
What could possibly go wrong with `interface{}` and reflection?
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by vaughnegut 6y ago
The river running through Cleveland used to be so polluted that it caught fire at least a dozen times.[1] [1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught...
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by vaughnegut 6y ago
In fairness, removing the context from art removes a lot its value. This would be akin to reading Animal Farm and ignoring its allegory about Communism and judging it purely on its merit as a story about some animals staging a revolution. T
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by vaughnegut 6y ago
I'm not sure if this is what you're alluding to, but that's literally the plot to an episode of Black Mirror. The robots are even clearly inspired by Boston Dyanmics
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by vaughnegut 6y ago
I think the poster is referring to Amazon
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by vaughnegut 6y ago
A friend of mine in public health mentioned to me that it's not uncommon for second waves of epidemics to be less deadly, since many of the people most vulnerable to the disease would have already passed away during the first wave.
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by vaughnegut 6y ago
I went with some Dutch Company called VNC Asia, I have no recollection of how I found them and their website doesn't even offer an English option anymore. It was 1235 Euros, which honestly was pretty good, although at the time I'd
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by vaughnegut 6y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing this link! I took the train to Pyongyang in 2009 (from Wuhan via Beijing), so the photos of the North Korean train bring back some memories, I even have a copy of a propaganda magazine in this photo I took off the tr
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by vaughnegut 6y ago
This looks great, I was looking to try something new to replace Ubuntu on my laptop and I missed the AUR. So this'll be great to try out!
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"How I Structure Go Packages"(bencane.com)
1 points by vaughnegut 6y ago|0 comments
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by vaughnegut 6y ago
Adjacent to devops/SRE, I've been actively looking for newsletters (or communities) related to Distributed Systems. I'd be interested to hear if anyone has any recommendations.
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by vaughnegut 6y ago
Last commit was in March, mind you. It looks like an interesting project though
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by vaughnegut 6y ago
I'm of the opinion that most of lodash should just be incorporated into vanilla javascript, as part of its standard library. It could be done similarly to Python (or any language, really), and just group each collection of functions by
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by vaughnegut 6y ago
Out of curiosity, why did you go with height instead of timing? Wouldn't you get equivalent results without the use of the sensor by activating the motor for a set period of time?
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by vaughnegut 6y ago
I'm sketchy on details, but in the posting the author mentions that the creator marketplace is opt in, so there's (comparatively) few people on there.
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by vaughnegut 7y ago
Does anyone have any idea what outdated technologies they're using (notably the the ones that are sixty years old)? It would be interesting to learn which software has managed to stick around for so long and what it does. Two anecdotes
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by vaughnegut 7y ago
Very wrong, unfortunately. At my school there are students halfway through their degree who can't switch a git branch without using a drop-down menu in their IDE (and even then with difficulty) or have ever used the CLI for anything. T
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by vaughnegut 7y ago
Equally anecdotal, but I am in tech and have a liberal arts degree, and have a coworker who is the same. I also know a few others. In most cases these are people who found the job market rough with a BA (or MA), and fell in love with tech.
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by vaughnegut 7y ago
Why did the language laws make you leave Montreal? It's an island of bilingualism and many people here get by with no French. Unless you own a business or are dealing with an immigration issue, this is the one place in Quebec where the
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Byzantine Faults(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by vaughnegut 7y ago|0 comments
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by vaughnegut 7y ago
Looking at North Korea's fleet was an incredibly interesting Wikipedia hole I went down earlier this year (link below). The mixture of indigenous and foreign built, looking at their age and getting an idea of when they built a lot and
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by vaughnegut 7y ago
The game strongly encourages the player to print the PDF of the data sheets, so there's nothing stopping the player from simply viewing or printing the English-language PDF. My Chinese is awful, but that actually sounds pretty fun.
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by vaughnegut 7y ago
Taiwan is an unsinkable aircraft carrier. It provides a massive platform from which to attack the mainland. Maintaining control denies this advantage to any attackers.
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by vaughnegut 8y ago
Would have a link or something to look up about Scotland's land rights being a mess? I realize I'm veering a little off topic here, but I'd be curious to learn more. I'd never heard that before
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by vaughnegut 8y ago
I went back to school for CS, and ended up taking courses starting at Grade 10 math as prereqs so that I could rebuild my math knowledge. Even the start of that was rough, since I hadn't done math in a long, long time. By the end of th
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Ask HN: What Are Your Favourite Newsletters?
2 points by vaughnegut 8y ago|1 comments
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Mars One, which offered 1-way trips to Mars, declared bankrupt(cbc.ca)
284 points by vaughnegut 8y ago|279 comments

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