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Blue Whale is the world largest (30m/100ft) and also the second loudest (189 underwater dB) animal, has been reported to communicate for about 1600 miles or 2600 km away. This distance is approxi…
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Very nicely written article. Kudos to the Shipreq team for having close to 100% offline or local-first feature, is Shipreq utilizing automerge library to do that? It's mentioned in the article th…
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Strangely there is no current books for the state of the art Linux networking. Here are a few and far between books on Linux networking but they are seriously outdated [1][2]. I think it's about …
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Nice one Nuand, the BladeRF v2 looks like a very interesting alternative SDR modem to the cheaper Adalm Pluto educational kit by Analog Devices, the manufacturer of the transceiver chip being used by …
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Probably we should have declassified human as animal since we're closer to fungi than to bacteria? [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11718906/ [2] https://ucjeps.…
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Don't count your chickens just yet, the jury is still out on this one. If history has any say on this, communication solution based on proprietary technology will meet their death sooner rather t…
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This is a very good intiative from Tesla despite the fact that Elon has been in denial and insisted for a long time that stereo vision is all we need for autonomous driving since human can perform aut…
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What it is probably not obvious to most people is that D has supports for D as better C, so it can have seamless interaction with C library and vice versa [1]. With betterC, D supports for C interfaci…
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It is not entirely true, please check D as a Better C [1]. You can have your cake and eat it too with D. [1] https://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/ …
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Not really sure why the original HN poster left "D" from its title, is there any conspiracy going on to silence D :-) Actually unlike C++ and Rust you can have a lean D and most probably it …
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Please check this video on Vegetable Oils: The Unknown Story by the author of the book "The Big Fat Surprise" [1][2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2UnOryQiIY [2] http…
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I have selected my books and went to shopping cart for payment. Strangely when trying to pay using credit card the books' prices seems to be reverted back to the original prices. Are the sales ha…
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I can agree that it is an amazing device indeed. You can use any Wacom compatible stylus to replace the existing stylus and the third party stylus will probably perform better than the original based …
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Wow, do you really believe that the Great Library of Alexandria is empty when the burning and the demolition happened? Its last recorded director was a scholar and mathematician Theon, father of famed…
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There were two biggest centers of ancient books and scriptures after the demolition of the Great Library of Alexandria, namely Baghdad and Toledo. The Library of Alexandria is said to house about 100,…
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This is probably where the bad cliche "rules are meant to be broken" came from. Perhaps St Benedict had missed the note of "Rules Making 101", never make up any rules that cannot a…
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Yes I'm no a scholar in Greek and Latin manuscript but I doubt that you are more of a scholar than Dr. Columba Stewart the author of the allegedly "pop-science article" that I have refe…
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Please check this article on the Benedict abbot or Peter the Venerable who was during his time in charged of more than 600 monasteries [1]. In the article it's mentioned that he summoned the monk…