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To nit 1: "totally unrelated" could reasonably mean "not in the same genus", but even relaxing that to "not in the same family" holds true for the word "cedars". The author's point…

I had the same thought, but then I realized that everyone on my team actually _does_ have experience with JavaScript async, so I just rolled with it. Not sure what that's about

I'm not familiar with Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, but I am aware that Rosalind Franklin [1] was extremely important for our understanding of DNA, comparable to Watson/Crick, with whom…

Could really use a post-mortem to set the story straight. The apparently-hallucinated support response copied-pasted by the submitter showing up in the github issue thread is very …

That assumption feeds into the moral of the post and its followup

Specifically this type of modifier is called a "noun adjunct"

Really great book (and series). Though it's not "hard sci-fi" by any means, the technology feels real enough to keep my brain from focusing on the holes and enjoy the fun philosoph…

The other side to the localizers is the communication / mesh networking, and the extremely effective security partitioning. Even Anne couldn't crack them! It's certainly a lot to p…

Well, Deepness is set a few thousand years in the future, so we've got some time to work on it.

Yes, and in fact the extinction event associated with this high-velocity change is termed the "Holocene Extinction" [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

This "find the latest row for each " query is kind of a poster-child for seemingly-simple but actually difficult to get right/performant sql. E.g. see: https://stackoverflow.com/qu…

I'm from the area, so I feel I might be qualified to give you an answer. The short story is that some people here do still speak dialects of French [1]. The number of native speake…

Strange seeing not just my state, but my hometown, rising on HN. Sad, too. Related: For those interested in point-and-click / text-based games, check out the game NORCO, which is a…

Obviously, we should try to figure it out and learn from our mistakes, increase security, etc., but what accountability can we really expect from knowing that the pandemic started …

>We removed 1.5 million plants at 21 events in seven state parks this year. I have been involved in Ardisia and Tallow removal efforts here in the US south. When the infestation is…

And be prepared to interact with many other animals. This includes the ones we all seem to love, like birds and bees and fireflies, but also those that are typically considered ver…

The article indicates that the bulk of the extinction of large mammals happened during the Quaternary Extinction[1], between 52kya and 9kya, so 100 years ago the damage was already…

I really like this version of the joke, but it's impossible to tell during regular face-to-face conversation

Accidents on bikes happen, which is a generally accepted risk among parents. I think they'll have more luck with the helmet manufacturer lawsuit, given that the girl died of a head…

We do get a lot of rain and there are a lot of low areas. It was mostly "bottomland" before the woods were cleared out. Back in 2016, it basically rained for 15 straight days and f…

From the article: >Arrest warrants can “go stale” due to the passage of time and changing circumstances, and one from 1955 almost certainly wouldn’t pass muster before a court, eve…

The article mentions planting natives and leaving leaf litter for the insects to nest in. Anecdotally, that works extremely well. My neighbor always leaves his leaves under the tre…

Ever since I was a kid, whenever I would read things like this or stuff about animals doing human-like things, I always wind up thinking "what would it be like to be for a day?", a…

There we go, thank you, that's the mental model I needed to bring it together

I was confused at first because the article mentions that "a spacecraft bound for the center of the solar system would need to slow itself down" and "engineers must take Parker pas…