Pepe1vo

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by Pepe1vo 4y ago
Too easy to blame the apps IMO, although they're certainly making things worse. I went to college just before dating apps became ubiquitous and from my experience hookup culture was as much a thing as it is now, only people would first
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by Pepe1vo 4y ago
Yeah, I really wish I could get excited about this but you just know this is going to be another ecological disaster and/or privacy scandal waiting too happen. Something I'm much more hopeful about is the possibility of growing or
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by Pepe1vo 4y ago
Being very much a kid (at heart at least), I'll wager the question: what's the case against declaring variables as you need them? Also, at the top of which scope are you supposed to declare variables, function scope, class scope,
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by Pepe1vo 4y ago
A few months back this article[0] was posted here (Why I no longer recommend Julia). Does anyone following the Julia community know if the situation is getting better? [0] https://yuri.is/not-julia/
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by Pepe1vo 4y ago
Discord has done its fair share of RIIR though[0][1] ;) [0] https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to... [1] https://discord.com/blog/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-m...
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by Pepe1vo 5y ago
Depends what you're looking for, but I found most of Michael Lewis' books to be quite information dense and highly entertaining. The Big Short in particular takes goes very deep down the rabbit hole of finance.
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by Pepe1vo 5y ago
Calories is an extremely reductive measure and isn't really good for much more than a general rule of thumb for evaluating food. The problem with calories comes from how the caloric value of food is determined: quite literally incinera
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by Pepe1vo 5y ago
To be fair, the reason the lab is in that place is precisely because it's close to a place where zoonoses has occurred multiple times. Kind of like how we don't blame lighthouses for shipwrecks. That being said, from what I'v
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by Pepe1vo 5y ago
From the OP, it appears that scientists knew exactly where to insert a furin cleavage site: >“Since 1992 the virology community has known that the one sure way to make a virus deadlier is to give it a furin cleavage site at the S1/S
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by Pepe1vo 6y ago
This is empirically false. It's at least 25% worse than the 2018 flu season, which was the worst flu season in decades, and that's with unprecedented mitigation measures in place. https://www.rivm.nl/monitoring-ste
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by Pepe1vo 7y ago
You would (among other techniques) use something like Stormpot to maintain Object pools to release and acquire instances from. Object pools typically can't match the GC on latency and throughput, however they do provide a lot more pred
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by Pepe1vo 7y ago
It's correct that the memory cells in your body will last a long time. However, (I think) what the parent is getting at is that within a relatively short amount of time the virus will have mutated just enough to evade detection by thos
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by Pepe1vo 7y ago
I immensely enjoyed Children of Time by Tchaikovsky, coincidentally winner of the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke award :)
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by Pepe1vo 7y ago
If you enjoyed those books, I'd recommend Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky as well! It explores the concept of a race of spiders evolving into sentience and how wildly different it's civilization and technology would be.
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by Pepe1vo 7y ago
I get the sentiment against Electron, there are horribly bloated applications out there which are a direct consequence of how (badly) Electron was built and designed. However, this particular application appears to work exactly as intended
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by Pepe1vo 7y ago
This study seems to base its conclusions for the most part on a study from 2016[0] and a study limited to Norway[1]. Both of these studies base their findings on data from 1995-2005 (with the exception of the Netherlands and Britain which b
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by Pepe1vo 9y ago
>“During the metabolic stresses of flight, some of the bat DNA is released into cells, where it doesn’t belong, and normally this would trigger a powerful immune response, however [the researchers] have shown that during evolution bats h
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by Pepe1vo 13y ago
Doesn't this make for a massive security risk on rooted phones? With other apps being able to inject code into any app without the user noticing. Seems risky to me.