Readit Newsdzuc commented on Cormac McCarthy's personal library smithsonianmag.com/arts-c... · Posted by u/bigflern
dzuc commented on When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order” sebastiano.tronto.net/blo... · Posted by u/sebtron
I don't know why I was surprised to learn this but there is a standard for alphabetical order. The NISO Guidelines for Alphabetical Arrangement of Letters and Sorting of Numerals and Other Symbols: https://www.niso.org/sites/default/files/2017-08/tr03.pdf
Here's a map I put together https://northerngesture.com
> The notion that north should always be up and east at the right was established by the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy (90-168 AD). "Perhaps this was because the better-known places in his world were in the northern hemisphere, and on a flat map these were most convenient for study if they were in the upper right-hand corner," historian Daniel Boorstin opines. Mapmakers haven't always followed Ptolemy; during the Middle Ages, Boorstin notes, maps often had east on top--whence the expression "to orient."
Here's a map I put together https://northerngesture.com
dzuc commented on A queasy selling of the family heirlooms commonreader.wustl.edu/a-... · Posted by u/ilamont
A similar piece with an opposite take away: https://thespectator.com/life/home-for-the-holidays-rediscov... (https://archive.is/uBQMW)
Does anyone know if are.na supports private sharing of content within groups? I’ve looked and I cannot see if this simple thing is possible, or not.
Then I could use it share moodboards and screenshots with my team: I somewhat dislike Miro and all those similarly over-engineered services.
private groups yes. also can generate shareable links to private channels
dzuc commented on Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature herecomesthemoon.net/2025... · Posted by u/Mond_
The author keeps calling it "pipelining", but I think the right term is "method chaining".
Compare with a simple pipeline in bash:
grep needle < haystack.txt | sed 's/foo/bar/g' | xargs wc -l
Compare Ruby:
data = File.readlines("haystack.txt")
.map(&:strip)
.grep(/needle/)
.map { |i| i.gsub('foo', 'bar') }
.map { |i| File.readlines(i).count }
Despite being clean and readable, I don't tend to do it any more, because it's harder to debug. More often these days, I write things like this:
data = File.readlines("haystack.txt")
data = data.map(&:strip)
data = data.grep(/needle/)
data = data.map { |i| i.gsub('foo', 'bar') }
data = data.map { |i| File.readlines(i).count }
For debugging method chains you can just use `tap`
As and outdoor-hobbies type person I've had it 3 out of 4 previous years and have begun sourcing antibiotics from agricultural suppliers, or directly from India. Contrast this to my childhood in the same region, when tick-borne diseases were never even a blip on the radar. Supposedly this is because of climate change and much warmer winters allow deer ticks to spread rapidly.
From my own anecdotes and research, none of the traditional guidance is accurate:
-Never had a bullseye rash
-Never had a tick attached more than 24 hours
-When a tick was attached around 24 hours, infection rate was close to 50% and symptoms appeared within 10 days. Contrast to ~3% infection rate per cdc average.
...I suppose the sad irony here is that lyme is not getting attention because well... current generations never touch grass and the outbreak never appears as bad as it actually is.