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As far as I know, Furnace Creek is an oasis, and its golf course is irrigated by non-potable groundwater from local springs. Water Conservation at The Oasis: https://www.oasisatdea…

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-04-28/coronav... > “It is possible that this was partially due to reduced emissions, but meteorology likely played a much larger role…

Somewhat related, from my .bashrc for a in $(git var -l | sed -nE 's/^alias\.([^=]*)=.*/\1/p') ; do if ! command -v g$a >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then alias g$a="git $a" fi done Which crea…

ML for the Working Programmer is my favorite programming book! It's fantastic because it is serious and goes into great detail about practical matters in working with SML. Its trea…

I don't know if this is helpful for you, but I map to run the open buffer in Vim in the buffer's filetype's interpreter (or compile and run, etc.). For GNU APL, this is: nnoremap :…

Highly recommend https://github.com/othree/yajs.vim

Either way, mapping the arrow keys to seems wasteful. In normal mode I map up/down to :cprevious/:cnext and left/right to :colder/:cnewer, which makes error list navigation effortl…

Obligatory warning about running `strings` on untrusted files: https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/10/psa-dont-run-strings-on...

The Salton Sea is fascinating. Its bed is as low as Badwater Basin in Death Valley, and were it not inundated, it might be the hottest place in the US. A little while ago I submitt…

Unfortunately, this is the only source I could find referring to plants marked as "cursed" by the church for the reason that they didn't "bow before [God]." Most primary sources ar…

Apparently as recently as the 19th century, coffee was forbidden in Ethiopia (the birthplace of coffee, where its cultural importance is tremendous) by the Orthodox Church. Coffee,…

This is a real problem with ML. There's competing tooling from SML/NJ and MLton, not to mention interesting, useful projects like MoscowML or PolyML. So finding reusable libraries …

Not a pun, just what this immediately reminded me of :) I've always found it astonishing that people would live on an island with such a low maximum elevation.

Tuvalu is in similar straits.

Also here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reston,_Virginia