AprilArcus

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by AprilArcus 5y ago
I wonder if this could be accomplished in a more general way with a fourth standard file descriptor for structured data. stdjson basically.
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The only interesting citation in this paper is (3) Segreto & Deigin "The genetic structure of SARS-CoV-2 does not rule out alaboratory origin" (DOI: 10.1002/bies.202000240). The other citations are political and unscientf
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
> A cloverleaf exchange is interesting. It's not something that just happens, and its shape is not random. A river is boring. Also full of insects that try to feast on your blood. The universe of knowledge one could obtain from stud
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by AprilArcus 5y ago
More beautiful than the stars and galaxies they're blotting out? I hear this and it's like someone admiring the engineering of a cloverleaf exchange running over a buried river.
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The "fungus like" organism in a mutualistic relationship with bacteria is evocative of the structure and life style of the pre- or proto-eukaryotic Lokiarchaeota recently cultured and imaged by Hiroyuki Imachi et al. "Isolati
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by AprilArcus 6y ago
GNUstep existes but it never really took off.
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> Throwing an exception is an example of a “non local exit” which Rust also implements (in terms of “Return”). They are not isomorphic. Return always hands control back to the caller; you can emerge from an exception inside any arbitrari
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by AprilArcus 6y ago
> you will eventually have C++ -> Rust -> C++ where the "inner" C++ throwing would be expected to cause the "outer" C++ to catch? Look I hate to be that girl with the strong opinions on the orange website, but &
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by AprilArcus 6y ago
Result<T> -> throw/catch seems surprising and hard to walk back later. Why not use std::expected or a work-alike, and let the caller decide whether to throw an exception?
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by AprilArcus 6y ago
No, it doesn't help. Brown dwarfs as dark matter was a somewhat mainstream theory in the late 90s under the name MACHOs ("MAssive Compact Halo Objects"), but a seminal 2006 study of colliding galaxy dynamics in the "Bull
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by AprilArcus 6y ago
This is a very reasonable point, and even somewhat understated, since even when ignited hydrocarbon fuel burns more safely than ammonia. Nitrogenous compounds don't ignite and gradually burn off; they detonate.
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by AprilArcus 6y ago
It's technologically trivial to make renewable hydrogen from clean electricity and non-potable water, under the right economic incentives (Carbon tax)
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by AprilArcus 6y ago
Sunlight shifts reddish as the sun sets and its blue light is Raleigh-scattered away by a thicker slice of atmosphere. This also makes it dim enough to look at directly. At its zenith, when the sun is whitest, it can't be naked eye obs
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by AprilArcus 6y ago
Other way around. Smart playlists (iTunes 3; July 17, 2002) came long before smart folders (MacOS X 10.4 "Tiger"; April 29, 2005), and solve a simpler problem due to dealing with a single file type and a pre-existing existing cent
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by AprilArcus 6y ago
There are a few possibilities in my mind. * T Cell mediated inflammatory cascade (Cytokine storm) caused by off-target cross-reactivity with IL-11: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7092895/ * Auto
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by AprilArcus 6y ago
I'm very nervous about the safety of any vaccine based on a complete spike protein, and worried that if one is rushed to market it will have such disastrous side effects that it will be an antivaxxer talking point for the next century.
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by AprilArcus 6y ago
I owned that machine - the original MacBook Pro from 2006, with a Core Duo - and it lasted five years and could have gone longer. I only replaced it after the aluminum bezel succumbed to mechanical fatigue. Of all the Macs I've ever ow
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by AprilArcus 6y ago
if it makes the difference between fitting the whole binary in L1 cache or not, then the wins on memory latency could beat the losses on branch misprediction
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by AprilArcus 7y ago
New iPhones always ship in September with an incremented A series chip. The single exception was the A5, which shipped with the iPad 2 six months before the iPhone 4S. Apart from the iPad 2, new top-of-the-line iPads have almost always ship
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by AprilArcus 7y ago
I've been on hormones for nine years. None of the reported changes strike me as implausible. My skin became gradually softer, and my hairs finer and less pigmented over the first couple years of hormone therapy, and by about six and a
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by AprilArcus 7y ago
And the Myths Retold version, aka "The Jam Session that Creates the Universe"! http://bettermyths.com/the-jam-session-that-created-the-univ...
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by AprilArcus 7y ago
Thanks for sharing; I hadn't seen this before and I loved it. The link to the mentioned podcast conversation with the artist was broken; I tracked it down and wanted to share: https://overcast.fm/+EIubFP3G8
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by AprilArcus 7y ago
Remember when he literally sued to block the launch of the Cassini probe?
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by AprilArcus 7y ago
Nobody with any sense really believed Apples protestations during the 1999-2007 time period that Carbon was going to be a long term solution, but Apple really tried to sell folks on the idea that it would be, until they suddenly low-key g
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by AprilArcus 7y ago
This is true in hindsight and seemed obvious at the time, but in fact Apple insisted that Carbon was a long-term solution and treated it as an open-ended commitment. They dogfooded it internally, using it to write the Finder and iTunes, tw
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by AprilArcus 7y ago
Minnis, Patrick, J. Kirk Ayers, Rabindra Palikonda, and Dung Phan, 2004. "Contrails, Cirrus Trends, and Climate". Journal of Climate Vol. 17, No 8, pp. 1671-1685, April 15, 2004 doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1671:cctac&gt
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by AprilArcus 7y ago
The Azolla Event ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event ) was a cyclical bloom of duckweed-like ferns in the Arctic Ocean about 49 million years ago which drew down atmospheric CO2 by an order of magnitude, from 35
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by AprilArcus 7y ago
[Not trying to argue against Esperanto's Slavic influence, just having fun and being pedantic] Yes, the fact that English has a tense/lax vowel distinction rather than long/short is very unusual. My English dialect (Providenc
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by AprilArcus 7y ago
I think you're just saying that because of the palatal affricates, which English very notably also has. The phonemic inventory of Esperanto looks like English minus its weirdest features, i.e. the interdental fricatives and tense/
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by AprilArcus 7y ago
I'd love to see EB Garamond on your serif list! It's my favorite open source garalde by a good measure.

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