AprilArcus

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by AprilArcus 5y ago
So you're opposed to dividends as well?
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
> Maybe Tim Cook will do his Tim Cook thing and reuse the mini form factor as the next SE for the next half decade I live in hope
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
The ingredients for fusion reactors (deuterium, tritium and helium-3) are rare, not fully reacted intermediate byproducts of the proton-proton cycle that powers the sun. The likeliest case for a Dyson Sphere civilization would be some sort
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
Good point! ISO 8601 dates should support timezones. Then a 24-hour "date" could only be in one of standard time or daylight time.
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
My intuition is that a "date" is a bounded range of times 24 hours long. So we should speak about dates containing times, or dates subsetting, supersetting, or intersecting other time ranges.
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
FE can tolerate 10-20 ms of timer slosh, unlike e.g. audio synthesis.
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
> the second group has managed to compile more-and-more of it's langs to JS and WASM The second group is incentivized to do so, because they still have value to bring. JavaScript 2022 has sucked all the air out of the room in terms
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
Don't expose your CSS classes to spooky action at a distance. Use a build system or CSS in JS library to hash your class names and keep them private. It's a terrible shame that CSS relies so heavily on globals (I'm looking at
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
If you're troubled by the ambiguity of singular "they", I would like to invite you to share in the use of my boutique third person plural neopronoun, "th'all" (objective "all'em"; possessive dete
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
Most programmable home LED lighting (e.g. Hue) provides a one dimensional color temperature color space.
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
I don't see why you couldn't handle images with base64 data urls...
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
You might be interested to learn that DNA is not actually read-only. Besides viruses like HIV and transposable elements which permanently splice themselves in to the host's DNA, antibodies gain specificity through irreversible self-edi
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
TypeScript is great and everything, but Microsoft owns the standard and the single functioning checker, and haven't published a specification or even a grammar.
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
They did. It's called Chrome.
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
Shorter lines are easier for the eye to visually scan without accidentally skipping up or down during the leftward return saccade.[1] 80 characters happens to be just a little longer than the supposedly ideal measure for continuous text pro
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
That line is calling Heidegger a Nazi apologist, not Arendt.
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
React doesn't load modules, you need a bundler for that. It just supports a component type that blocks rendering until a promise containing a component resolves.
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
Amused that your apocryphal "easily name"d scientist "Hawkins" appears to be a confused jumbling of popular science writers Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins.
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
an articulate and well-argued position
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
I find that even the most vacuous syntax highlighting helps me read code by creating smaller chunks and calling attention to repeated patterns.
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
right? does it do something other than e.g. ` [ctrl-v]3jI ` ?
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
I used to TA undergraduates in Molecular Bio. It was demoralizing to see how many answers to midterm and final exams were just regurgitated babble-stage nonsense. A hidden Markov model could have outscored half my students.
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
So part of my job is maintaining a complex webpack build system, and I do get that it's not a small amount of work. However, the changes I see aren't wonton. They're typically aimed toward a world that's more interoperab
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
I sincerely do not understand this complaint. Do you dislike bug fixes and new features? Would you be happier with a stagnant tooling ecosystem?
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
I think in our lifetimes, we'll know enough about the preconditions for abiogenesis to perform experiments replicating portions of the process in vitro.
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
I love this animation because it's beautiful, but I hate that it gives the impression of deliberate one-foot-in-front-of-the-other movement. In reality, when the "foot" of the motor protein is unbound, it is oscillating to an
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
could it be fabbed around a lattice of thermally conductive elements, like a menger sponge?
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
asm.js already existed when this was written with AOT compilation support in Firefox
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
honestly ridiculous that cellular modems weren't already ubiquitous on laptops ten years ago
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
The long-awaited sequel to 2007's unforgettable "why phones are turning into miniature PCs"

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