yagibear

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by yagibear 3y ago
Nature has a more detailed article https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00383-3?s=08 describing why they chose petunias, and propagation via cuttings.
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Ice core from secret US Army base reveals historical Greenland ice-sheet melting(abc.net.au)
13 points by yagibear 3y ago|1 comments
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by yagibear 4y ago
It's mentioned in an expired Internet Draft https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schwartz-add-ddr-forwa... which refers to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-app
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Looking for Interstellar Monuments(scientificamerican.com)
5 points by yagibear 5y ago|0 comments
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by yagibear 5y ago
A free Mariner’s Weather Handbook https://setsail.com/mwh.pdf
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In Defense of the Psychologically Rich Life(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by yagibear 6y ago|0 comments
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by yagibear 7y ago
ranked by check outs p.a.: rank, title, total check outs, date of publication, check outs p.a. 1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 231,022 1998 10501 2 The Snowy Day 485,583 1962 8372 3 Where the Wild Things Are 436,016 1963 7649 4
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by yagibear 7y ago
It seems that that work didn't make much impact because it sat as a tech report and wasn't published until 1987, by which time Perlman had published her algorithm that received more exposure in SIGCOMM in 1985.
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George Laurer, Who Developed the Bar Code, Is Dead at 94(nytimes.com)
2 points by yagibear 7y ago|0 comments
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by yagibear 7y ago
Never heard of since it was last discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17436591
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by yagibear 7y ago
This could be useful for design problems if they were cataloged or tagged, e.g. identifying input as rotary or rectilinear, and type of output.
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by yagibear 8y ago
Radia Perlman's books ("Interconnections" about switches/routers and "Network Security") are great at explaining why with a sense of humour.
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You don’t need confidence, just contribution(sivers.org)
2 points by yagibear 8y ago|0 comments
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Radio jet blasts seen as supermassive black hole rips star apart over 10 years(abc.net.au)
1 points by yagibear 8y ago|0 comments
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A history of big-headedness – How humans got their brains(economist.com)
2 points by yagibear 8y ago|0 comments
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Pluto's dunes snapped by NASA's New Horizons are made from frozen methane(abc.net.au)
2 points by yagibear 8y ago|0 comments
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The best time of day – and year – to work most effectively(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by yagibear 9y ago|0 comments
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by yagibear 9y ago
Archived at https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20170417232443/https://jour... or use the Google cache version from the web link at the top of the thread
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by yagibear 9y ago
Thanks
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by yagibear 9y ago
Could you please name some? There seems to be an even bigger bunch of apps that do plain drawing, and it can be hard to find the needle (apps that convert rough sketches to clean line art) in the haystack (many apps for sketching; most jus
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Jay W. Forrester Dies at 98; a Pioneer in Computer Models(nytimes.com)
10 points by yagibear 10y ago|2 comments
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Power of positive thinking skews mindfulness studies(nature.com)
1 points by yagibear 10y ago|0 comments
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by yagibear 11y ago
Why is it that so many people (such as this author) use participation rates as an indicator of equity? I understand gender equity to refer to equal TREATMENT of different genders, which is quite different from having equal NUMBERS of both
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by yagibear 11y ago
"doesn't require complete concentration" is key. Many people new to watching cricket expect continuous stimulation, which it is not. It is more a meditative repetitive cycle of spaced intense activity. And it's amazin
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by yagibear 11y ago
Domain-Specific Languages, not Digital Subscriber Line
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Early Retirement in the N.F.L. and at Google, and the Paradox of Success(nytimes.com)
91 points by yagibear 12y ago|56 comments
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by yagibear 12y ago
TLDR, anyone?
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by yagibear 12y ago
Traditionally the smarts that determine how the network is used (e.g. optimising routes) were provided by the network devices, bundling hardware and software. SDN allows the control to be separated from the hardware, rendering the hardware
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by yagibear 12y ago
For discussion see later submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8004244
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A Billionaire Mathematician’s Life of Ferocious Curiosity(nytimes.com)
3 points by yagibear 12y ago|1 comments

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