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Why PHP and JavaScript Are Great(xahlee.info)
11 points by Qem 1y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
Also on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/63263/codefrau
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by Qem 1y ago
RIP. Her work on SqueakJS was impressive. Big loss for the Smalltalk community.
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by Qem 1y ago
My hypothesis is a bit different. Instead of logarithimic time perception, informational time perception. Children have brains with high plasticity and huge new information acquisition (learning) rates. Those rates drop as plasticity decrea
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by Qem 1y ago
That lung 2×100m^2 are enough for sustaining energy intensive human aerobic activities, like running a marathon. Perhaps 40m^2 is all is needed to sustain someone in low energy mode, bedridden.
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by Qem 1y ago
> Free divers who can go deeper Makes me wonder if free divers could possibly already cheat by swallowing air, perhaps even pure O2, before dives, to slightly increase maximum time submerged through gut gas exchange. Althought this proba
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by Qem 1y ago
The proof of concept by sea cucumbers probably predate us by several hundred million years[1]. I wonder how .any more people could be saved from COVID with this deployed. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cucumber
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by Qem 1y ago
> The purpose is being understandable by a person of average intellect and no specialized training. The purpose probably is keeping human speech understandable through the often noise-filled channel of ambient sound. Human speech with no
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by Qem 1y ago
The Pharo site has a section with several free books on the language: https://books.pharo.org/
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by Qem 1y ago
That makes me wonder if all those vector extensions pilling on top of each other were really that necessary, or if they are mostly a means of keep churning out patents to delay expiration. Is it possible to just improve the original SSE ext
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by Qem 1y ago
SSE2 was released circa 2000[1]. Assuming a patent lasts for 20 years, it should be expired for several years now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2
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by Qem 1y ago
It's nice mint developers have an insurance policy against upstream woes. Makes me sleep better at night, even if I didn't switch for the Debian based version yet, knowing it's harder for the project to suffer some rug pull s
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by Qem 1y ago
There are others too. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_x86_manufacturers
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by Qem 1y ago
> WHY wouldn't Microsoft just run it in the local interpreter on the machine? Probably to tighten vendor lock-in.
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by Qem 1y ago
> Just because some people misuse it as database or it doesn't scale well beyond a couple of 10k rows does not make it a bad product. It's not just that making it a bad product. Those are minor annoyances when compared with it
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by Qem 1y ago
Pivot tables are available on LibreOffice as well: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/guide/d...
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'Surveillance pricing': Why you might be paying more than your neighbour(aljazeera.com)
6 points by Qem 1y ago|3 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
Fortunately I ditched it for QGIS years ago.
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Is your beef linked to Amazon deforestation? A report highlights loopholes(aljazeera.com)
1 points by Qem 1y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
> How does gravity tell you the charge of a particle? Perhaps you can just assume a radius where the electron self-repulsion energy equals its own mass, by m = E/(c^2).
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by Qem 1y ago
Such a system would make easy[1] for any civilization living nearby to launch spaceships at a large fraction of the speed of light. But the tricky part would be braking at the destination, unless your destination is a similar and suitably a
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by Qem 1y ago
If the ~2000 Elo rating is running under CPython, I wonder how much would it achieve running under PyPy.
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by Qem 1y ago
> I would love to have an air conditioning / cooling solution that is directly linked to solar panels with no batteries involved. I think that would be very viable with fridges, that represent a large share of electricity consumptio
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by Qem 1y ago
FirefoxOS
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by Qem 1y ago
20 years behind get us back to Windows XP, that had a better experience than Windows 11 anyway.
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by Qem 1y ago
> The United Nations (UN) believes there are 4B buildings on Earth. This week, a dataset called "GlobalBuildingAtlas" (GBA) was published by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) that attempts to estimate this
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by Qem 1y ago
IIRC ElementaryOS had the distinction of using mostly Vala/Genie for development of distro specific software. Is that still the case?
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by Qem 1y ago
> guess teams that are clever enough to avoid Copilot are also clever enough to write a script to call it on repeat in the background Perhaps this and also filling onedrive free space with random noise, to waste MS some storage in addit
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by Qem 1y ago
What were the reasons given, if any? Are they publicly known?
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by Qem 1y ago
Or Whatsapp is an op run by Mossad: https://www.business-humanrights.org/de/neuste-meldungen/opt...

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