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This history is also discussed in an essay by Garrett[0]. And there's been a few previous HN posts about it[1]. (I'm not suggesting the parent post is a dupe, but people might be interested …
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> I'm 21 now but I wish I had known about this when I was younger and getting into programming, I would have been all over this. Unfortunately Heathkit didn't really make kits from 1992 u…
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I think they mean that they turned off the motors to let the drone drop into the net.
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> Nobody is going to pick up the hobbyist VMS license and then decide to adopt VMS at work. I bet it doesn't lead to a single extra commercial sale. It's nice that they're offering i…
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> Are there job descriptions anywhere? Not seeing them. No, and their reasoning is given in the link FAQ.
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There are screenshots for IRIX 6.5 too: http://toastytech.com/guis/irix.html
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This was a nice, deeper dive into this topic. I'd recently come across the idea the the pack structure with an "alpha" wolf wasn't scientifically accurate while reading "Insid…
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> Don't plant things too close to each other or to fences. This issue was drilled into my head with the tracts of new homes in Boise; that 5-10 years later had plant beds were overgrown and to…
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That makes sense. I guess it's all about time spent exposed to it. I do okay with geologic features (from being a backpacker and climber) except, oddly, types of rocks. But I have never been grea…
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A wonderful book about such things (and other "place words") is "Landmarks" by Robert Macfarlane. There does seem to be a richness that we're losing, in terms of our ability t…
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Just to add that that only works for specific types of stars that have regular pulsations. It can be used to infer distances to other types of stars if you have good cause to think that the pulsating …
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This is a duplicated discussion of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34813141
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> As a pragmatist (?), I suspect answering from 3) on down is near impossible* unless you actually release it into the world. People are clever in a way I don't think any of us can anticipate…
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> recalling the night Trump won in 2015 This doesn't really impact the point you're trying to make, but the election was in 2016, not 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#…