Qem

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Shell Languages and the Linearization of Syntax(xahlee.info)
2 points by Qem 10d ago|0 comments
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by Qem 11d ago
Is it just my impression, or programming language posts took a hit. I think I don't see them as often as before.
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by Qem 22d ago
Nice. Suggestion: Add PyPy too.
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Fedora 46 Proposal Wants to Provide Official Support for Crystal Language(phoronix.com)
4 points by Qem 23d ago|0 comments
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by Qem 27d ago
Did they already test how the proposed jit fares on RISC-V?
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by Qem 27d ago
Szilard is an underrated genius. Also was an early formulator of the nuclear chain reaction concept, to tap into nuclear energy, but did not zero in uranium right at the outset as the element to make it feasible.
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by Qem 1mo ago
Microstrokes, that affect capillary vessels in the brain, don't cause short term acute loss of function, but have a cummulative impact over time?
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by Qem 2mo ago
> How so? You can just... refuse? It would be like doping in some elite sports, say road race cycling in Lance Armstrong era. Nobody would be coerced by force, but some people would start taking it, making less sleep time the new normal.
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by Qem 2mo ago
> What is surprising to me is the knee-jerk reaction I see whenever the idea of looking into this is brought up. It's because if it were achieved, likely result would be employers forcing people to take the drug and increasing daily
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by Qem 2mo ago
Now I'm puzzled if whatever made Mars lose its primordial water oceans and dense atmosphere could be involved in Mars Bar losing 20g.
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by Qem 2mo ago
Also SNOBOL/Icon.
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by Qem 2mo ago
This looks like Gilad Bracha's Newspeak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak_(programming_language...
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by Qem 2mo ago
Not if it's just microbial life. Anyway it's just one case or another. We knowing what's the case doesn't change it. If the news never break it would be just as bad, perhaps even slightly worse, as we would not have earl
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by Qem 2mo ago
Likely we don't need to replicate. We just need to get a sample of life with completely independent origin to our kind of life here on Earth, to study. This way we would be able to separate what are universal properties for any life fr
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by Qem 2mo ago
> Or perhaps there is a risk that the wearer will absorb harmful chemicals secreted by the mycelium via contact with the wearer's skin? Or just getting a bad itch.
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Review: Mageia 10(distrowatch.com)
2 points by Qem 2mo ago|0 comments
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by Qem 2mo ago
Reminds me of this comic: https://badspacecomics.com/scour-copy-copy
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by Qem 2mo ago
> There is also a layer of friction between doing the computations and then analysing the logs that comp chemistry programs spit out. If you want to visualise orbitals or look at the outputs of your simulations, it's really awkward
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by Qem 2mo ago
Echoes of the bicameral mind[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality
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by Qem 2mo ago
Related: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/brazilian-cour...
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by Qem 3mo ago
> Courts elsewhere have gone the other way. Chinese courts have recognized game accounts as inheritable property, while U.S. rulings generally treat games as revocable licenses Pretty ironic a communist country has stronger assertion of
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Microsoft loses Brazilian case after telling hacked user to re-purchase games(tomshardware.com)
6 points by Qem 3mo ago|2 comments
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by Qem 3mo ago
> The researchers took account of factors such as people’s age, sex and education, but cautioned that they could not rule out the potential influence of other factors that may have an impact on the brain, such as lifestyle and social eng
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Woman's hip replacement disintegrates, causing metal poisoning(arstechnica.com)
53 points by Qem 3mo ago|22 comments
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by Qem 3mo ago
I wonder if lost productivity from sick leave days is offset by preserved productivity of all coworkers that were not infected by people that felt obliged to show up sick with flu or other communicable disease.
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by Qem 3mo ago
That's scary if confirmed. It took 500 million years for complex life to find the right mix of atmospheric O2/CO2 to foster intelligent lifeforms. Then we are undoing it in mere centuries.
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by Qem 3mo ago
> At least within the precision limits of the Perseverance’s instruments, the material roughly matches terrestrial kerogen. Using the word “kerogen,” though, was a no-go, the researchers decided. On Earth, kerogen is made almost exclusiv
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by Qem 3mo ago
> Actually raising a child costs more than $1.2M - just $20K/year invested in S&P500 over the last 20 years would have grown to more than $1.2M. The future markets of a shrinking world, with consumer and worker cohorts dwindling
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by Qem 3mo ago
> If you don't have children to inherit your fortune to, you can retire with full exhaustion of capital - that will yield way more than 4k$/month. As a lone elderly person you're likely to be scammed and lose a lot of that
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by Qem 3mo ago
> ppl are now having better options than raising a baby. It gets me beffudled people actually think addiction to the virtual crack of social media is a better option.

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