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> "Bakker suggests that flowering plants invented beaked dinosaurs." I'd say it's quite possible that it's at least one of the factors. Hummingbirds became experts at reaching nectar in flowering plants and in tu
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> "Why would a large dinosaur evolve a beak and lose the efficiency of teeth?" That's a good question. I'm just an amateur, but I can guess at a few reasons. 1) Diet was not hampered by having either beak or teeth and
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> "It was not a bird, but a dinosaur that was a close relative of birds." I know it would lead to confusion in the article, but birds are classified as dinosaurs. However, there are many groups of dinosaurs and each classified
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> "I'd like to also point out that, from an artistic perspective, the game had a coherent atmosphere and story. It was the first game I've seen where you could see the beginnings of games borrowing a little from movies. Vi
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Perhaps someone should start such a site? I fear if you let that kind of discussion on HN without any curation, it will just become like every other site that allows full scale political discussion. Pretty much a fire hose. You might be rig
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I only flag abusive comments, so it won't be flagged or downvoted by me at least.
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I think there's a group of users on HN, including myself that wishes politics were not on the site. One can go almost anywhere to find political discussions because the threshold to join them is so low. Sometimes tech related politics
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You can force an Android device to only use LTE, but it's generally hidden from users[1] because it can have side effects some users won't understand. Problem with using LTE only is networks that haven't rolled out VoLTE yet-
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Prun is derived from the Latin word for plum. At one time, it also referred to the fresh fruit, not just the dried one.
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If you're going to link that, I would suggest also reading the stickied reply by a moderator of that subreddit[1] that refutes many of the points made by the OP. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments&#x2
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If I get something semi usable, I'll probably post it on "show hn". I have a twitter, but I stopped actively using it a while ago[1]. If you're interested, I'll try to post updates there when I have something to upd
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I've been working on matching recorded bird audio from a device to known matches and it's not an easy problem (personal hobby project). Unlike music, birds have dialects within the same species and that can make it harder to match
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Your comment made me wonder how common it is with birds and it seems to be trait shared with all of them[1]. Pretty interesting. I asked my friend if her bird does that and it only seems to when it's not in a deep sleep yet, but eventu
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Ducks do that while sleeping. If you observe ducks sleeping near a pond you'll typically see them sleeping with one eye open and one shut. That way they can still stay alert enough to watch for predators.
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Seconded. Sadly, our tech stack at work still includes some webforms cruft and I have a few friends at other companies that also still have to deal with them. Could be worse I guess...I know someone that still has to put up with classic ASP
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> "All the hidden view state and POST backs to re-render the UI... terribly difficult to troubleshoot and support in my experience." You're confusing webforms (with viewstates) and .net MVC, which is stateless. http:&#x2F
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One example of that I have run into at work is mismatched versions of json.net in dependencies. It becomes a mess when you realize one requires an older/newer version and you don't have the source to modify it or will take some ti
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Pigeons only account for one of those 200+ species the OP mentioned though (unless they live in one of those regions with the native Band-Tailed Pigeons). That particular kind of pigeon that everyone loathes (European Rock Pigeons) aren&#x2
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I was referring to species in general, not specific humans. The encephalization quotient[1] doesn't work quite as well for comparing primates to other primates either. The encephalization quotient is a fairly reliable way predict gener
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The relative mass of the brain to the body is what really matters. The brain:body mass ratio for a crow is roughly the same as a chimp.
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Yeah, I would agree with that being the primary reason. I left out my reasoning for why it dropped since I didn't want to go looking up citations earlier this afternoon.
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> "Current emissions are more than 25% below 1990 levels - can you say such thing about America, China or India?" Between 1990 and 2013, CO2 emissions in the United states fell from 19.6 tons per capita to 16.6. That's aro
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Dublin Ireland or Dublin Ohio? I live Ohio and know there's an Audi dealer in our Dublin. I have an Audi and would like to avoid that dealer if possible.
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I was always fond of the "how to GET a cup of coffee" article on REST and APIs. I know it's been posted here in the past (how I found it), but for ease of access: https://www.infoq.com/articles/webber-res
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Yeah, we weren't allowed to use graphing calculators in university Math Department courses either. However, Physics and Computer Science & Engineering courses it was okay to use them. It was sort of strange though, you could take t
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After going through 7 or 8 advanced level math courses in college, I noticed there was a dissociation of interests between the teachers and many of their students (90% STEM). Mathematicians might be interested in math because they enjoy mat
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Surface Book perhaps? If you want similar build quality to Apple in a laptop, I can't think of much else comparable. I bought one a few months ago, been pretty happy with it so far. With two batteries in it (tablet and base) the batter
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Async/await started with F# and was added to C# later.
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> "Carmakers, please find a way to separate the 'infotainment' part of the car's computer from the embedded computer that's actually required for the car to run" They have, sorta (but it's still rather
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