Correction: "Quanta Magazine article does NOT mention the original post findings"
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* Quanta Magazine article: 17 Dec 2019
* Arxiv preprint: 10 Dec 2019 [1]
CMB and BAO are mentioned in the original post too:
> Other cosmological probes, such as the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO), are also known to provide some indirect and "circumstantial" evidence for dark energy, but it was recently suggested that CMB from Planck mission no longer supports the concordance cosmological model which may require new physics (Di Valentino, Melchiorri, & Silk 2019). Some investigators have also shown that BAO and other low-redshift cosmological probes can be consistent with a non-accelerating universe without dark energy (see, for example, Tutusaus et al. 2017). In this respect, the present result showing the luminosity evolution mimicking dark energy in SN cosmology is crucial and very timely.
2. Fusion research breakthrough.
3. Software is more complex, slower and buggier.
4. Nothing major is done about climate change. Countries that try to do something, suffer economically.
5. Sea level rise continues the same trend as in the last 200 years. [1]
[1]: According to NOAA, only about 10 tide gauges in the world indicate sea level rise more than 5mm / year. I predict the situation will stay approximately the same. https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html
http://www.scottkim.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com/viewpoint...
As far I understand the following:
print(f"your name is {name}")
print(f"your name is " + format(name))
https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data...
None of us has ever worked with microcontrollers before. It was my first ever job out of school. I don't think we would be able to deliver the product if the chip datasheet was not awesome. It had everything. Memory organization, registers, peripherals, board layout and grounding recommendations, ADC driving, etc.
Thank you, Analog Devices engineers.
Wow. That's a lot of figurines.
> The ice covers of each of the 5 sectors of Fig. 1 and of the Southern Ocean as a whole have experienced considerable interannual variability over the past 40 y (Figs. 2–7). In fact, the Southern Ocean and 4 of the 5 sectors (all except the Ross Sea) have each experienced at least one period since 1999 when the yearly average ice extents decreased for 3 or more straight years only to rebound again afterward and eventually reach levels exceeding the extent preceding the 3 y of decreases (Figs. 2–7). This illustrates that the ice decreases since 2014 (Fig. 2) are no assurance that the 1979–2014 overall positive trend in Southern Ocean ice extents has reversed to a long-term negative trend. Only time and an extended observational record will reveal whether the small increase in yearly average ice extents from 2017 to 2018 (Fig. 2C) is a blip in a long-term downward trend or the start of a rebound.
And:
> I hope that the 40-y record discussed in this paper will encourage further studies into the atmospheric and oceanic conditions that could have led to the extremely rapid 2014–2017 decline of the Antarctic sea ice cover, the comparably rapid decline in the mid-1970s, and the uneven but overall gradual increases in Antarctic sea ice coverage in the intervening decades.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812979494
(Curiously, Google search for "James Talbot Blind Descent" points to this very Hacker News thread.)
Patent model requirement was abolished in 1880, not 50 years ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_model
(I don't know when the "scope of patentable ideas" was widened.)
For those interested, some history about Amsterdam cycling and "Stop the child murder" protests:
"How the Dutch got their cycling infrastructure": https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/how-the-dutch-...
"How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world": https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bic...
I think this warning should be more prominent. Lot's of CI builds would mysteriously fail after 30+ days.
* To overcome government censorship and surveillance.
* To stop internet providers from injecting ads and tracking scripts.
http://www.realworlddivorce.com
As far as I remember from reading the book, the law favors the spouse with the lower income among the two; and the spouse with child custody.
http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
[1]: Senior vs junior pilots gap is also the incentive for the airline owner to go bancrupt and start a new airline. So that there'll no senior pilots in the airline.
NOTE: ISO 8601 defines date and time separated by "T".
Applications using this syntax may choose, for the sake of
readability, to specify a full-date and full-time separated by
(say) a space character.
2017-04-27T09:43:04ZThere's Tgres, that stores time series in Postgres, efficiently (using Postgres arrays and views):
https://github.com/tgres/tgres
https://grisha.org/blog/2017/01/21/storing-time-seris-in-pos...
1. Add `| null` or `?` for things that could be null/undefined.
2. Start handling "is this thing null?" cases. In some occasions it could be annoying. E.g. when you are absolutely sure it's not null. E.g. in tests. TypeScript provides `!` operator for that:
interface Baz {
foo?: string;
}
let bar = (t: Baz) =>
// yes, I'm sure
t.foo!.length;
Could you elaborate on that please? Is it impossible to skip Babel when using React Native?
> Not at all. Installation is very fast and easy.
(Last time I checked Flow npm package gives you binaries.)
I'm sure Flow installs fine in "standard" environments, like an OSX laptop. I was thinking about more weird places, like CI servers where you can't fully control the environment. I was burned enough about stuff like that in the past.