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by whyenot 2y ago
The fact that this is on Rudy Rucker’s github makes it doubly cool. Reading his book “Infinity and the Mind” is what got me to go back to school (as a math major). That book changed my life for the better. https://en.wikipedia.or
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Take a pottery course at community college. Pay $65 in tuition, get your education discount, and um, relive the scene from Ghost? :)
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Kaiserlei is a suburb of Frankfurt and there are bunkers in Frankfurt (as well as elsewhere in Germany) that have been turned into art spaces. It's the kind of thing that is plausible, it may even exist under a different name, but is a
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Vegetables don't have seeds on the outside, and strawberries don't have that anyways. Each "seed" on the outside of a strawberry is actually a fruit that contains a single seed. If you look carefully with a magnifying gl
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Cool! It’s a really nice visual representation. I’m not totally convinced by the scaling of the branch lengths, but it doesn’t really matter for this. By the way, there are some fruit that branch off before the divergence between monocots a
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Whoa whoa whoa, he’s only taking responsibility for the decision .
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They are modern day robber barons.
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No, I don’t think one in every eight people on earth is going to see the catch attempt or even care about it. The launch and catch attempt is exciting but I don’t think it’s something that most of the planet is following. Even in the US, I
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I hope it is more successful than their previous launch. I also hope that it does less damage to the wildlife sanctuary near the launch pad than the previous attempt. They are going to spray huge amounts of water to try and avoid destroying
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I have read and appreciated your writings going back to the comp.lang.lisp days, but a blog post that starts with “if you haven’t read the previous post, please do before reading the rest of this one” is not what I would consider accessible
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The fact that you may not have experienced it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist :) There is actually a lot of socializing on TikTok, for example in the "BookTok" community. The format is a little different than on a mes
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> It's an ironic problem because California's public colleges already have an exclusivity problem. Can you please go into a little more detail about the irony you see, because as someone who works at a public university, it&#x2
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This is amazing. I uploaded the instruction manual for a Scholander pressure chamber (a piece of equipment for measuring plant moisture stress) and made a podcast from it. The information in the podcast was accurate, it included some light
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His sincerity and seriousness are so over the top, it comes off looking like an act, even if it is not.
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I don't remember that part, but I guess it was a good thing I was in school during work hours.
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It used to be $6/hour (adjust for inflation, would now be about $18/hr). How do I know this? Because as a teenager, my dad let me use his account to play a multiplayer game called Island of Kesmai that was available through CompuS
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Ride sharing needs to be much more heavily regulated to increase transparency and discourage games like this. Especially in Uber's case, considering their history.
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As humans, we seem to really like warm blankets. See: high school football and CTE
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When I liked in Panama, they had S i d ney's which were basically a direct copy of the D i s ney store fill with knockoff merchandise.
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"iterated" implies that there is no improvement. Why do you thing 15.1 wouldn't be an improvement over 15.0? I do agree with you that "perfected" is also not the correct word choice. I think I would have gone with &
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What is Miguel de Icaza up to these days? I saw on Wikipedia that he left MS in 2022 to take some time off, but surely he's working on something now? (if you respond, please, lets not get into his politics; HN is not the right place to
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Both this biography and his page on Wikipedia skip over the war years. I wish there were more information about this time. He grew up under Japanese rule. Was he conscripted into their armed forces? How were the people of Taiwan treated by
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I went to school with her starting in elementary school on the Stanford campus through high school at Gunn. My mom was one of her teachers and just told me “this is so sad, she was such a beautiful kid. She went on to do amazing things.” Ye
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You can take Caltrain to San Jose. I did this commute for several years when I lived in SF and worked in SJ. With electrification coming top Caltrain this fall, it should be faster than the current diesel trains. Depending on where Twitter&
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> The obvious conclusion is that household income is a predictor of both... Correlation, but of course, not causation. We need to be very careful about storytelling, especially when it comes to behavioral studies, where it's easy a
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> I repeat my original question: can anyone actually name a feature from DarkSky that isn’t present in the current Weather app? As others have already mentioned, the fact that it displayed weather information in a clear and uncluttered w
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It's crap. No offense intended if you are on the team maintaining Apple Weather, but the interface is much more busy than DarkSky was and there is a lot less clarity and simplicity in how weather information is displayed. My impression
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I wonder whether a YouTube video, a post on Instagram, or similar artifact of our modern world would ever be able to survive 350 years. This …longevity(?) seems to be something that is unique to physical objects like books, printed photogra
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The podcast 99% Invisible is doing a series of monthly episodes on The Power Broker. I don’t live in NY and I don’t pretend to really understand NY, but it’s so interesting to listen to the hosts as they work their way through Caro’s massiv
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Are we watching the same video? The people in the video I saw turned and started running almost immediately.

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