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by Qem 1y ago
> Even 7-8 years ago people we're still having Python vs R debates. They still have to this day.
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by Qem 1y ago
> Nobody has capacity to read the works of a miriad of nameless scientists It gets condensed over time. Take for example Continental Drift/Plate Tectonics theory. One day Alfred Wegener saw the coasts of West Africa and East South A
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> Newton - predicts that most advances are made by standing on the shoulders of giants. Leibniz did the same, in the same timeframe. I think this lends credence to the Ortega hypothesis. We see the people that connect the dots as great s
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Study finds US asthma inhalers produce same emissions as 500k cars(aljazeera.com)
4 points by Qem 1y ago|1 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
Meat spoils fast. So your society would need no record keeping(writing) because without refrigeration or salt mining you can't store meat like grain. Animals move around, so taking tons of meat kilometers back to the village takes time
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by Qem 1y ago
I wonder if the extinction of most megafauna happening just before the advent of agriculture and the first civilizations is not just coincidence but direct causation. We spent ~200kyr with a lot of "easy" calories roaming around.
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by Qem 1y ago
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930_Curu%C3%A7%C3%A1_River_ev...
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by Qem 1y ago
> ...when we drain the planet dry of easily-accessible fossil fuels we’ve deprived any successor civilization of its opportunity to escape the planet. On the flip side, that could also be plausibly a blessing, avoiding them to fall into
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by Qem 1y ago
Maybe they didn't produce an intelligent species just because they had not the luck of living in the unprecended time in the history of Earth with both high atmospheric O2 and very low atmospheric CO2 we enjoyed for a while, before we
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by Qem 1y ago
> Not to mention destroying all the farmland in Gaza too. There's a report by forensic-architecture on that: https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/ecocide-in-g...
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by Qem 1y ago
Is there some way to prevent cataracts, or is that just another unavoidable fact of ageing, like graying hair.
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by Qem 1y ago
At least with BigInts, CPython implementation is quite fast. See https://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2014/10/20/the-fastest-bigint...
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by Qem 1y ago
China is just overtaking. Who is actually dragging America behind like a anchor is Big Oil, sabotaging clean energy efforts.
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Linux 6.18 Landing Patch for Old AMD Bulldozer CPUs with XOP Instruction Set(phoronix.com)
4 points by Qem 1y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
> Any flaws with Excel haven't been due to the actual program or data, but just how the files are managed within projects. Not sure of that. Examples: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/
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by Qem 1y ago
Wait until you discover if they run people over abroad diplomatic immunity can be claimed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Dunn
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by Qem 1y ago
I really wish FirefoxOS had suceeded.
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by Qem 1y ago
In US. But there are places with proper socialized health systems, where one must not be afraid of bankruptcy by calling an ambulance.
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by Qem 1y ago
I bet any change in mortality due to increased isolation is offset by decreased deaths due to traffic acidents.
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Role of CO2 in the Evolution of Intelligence: Solving the Dinosauroid Question(qeios.com)
1 points by Qem 1y ago|1 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
> Hence, it is possible to propose that large brains can be developed by natural selection only for atmospheric compositions that allow a high tissue oxygenation, that is high O2/CO2 ratios or, equivalently, low CO2 concentrations w
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by Qem 1y ago
> Knowledge transfer worked in both ways: I learned a lot about the internal details of CPython's JIT, and conversely I shared with them some of the experience, pain points and gut feelings which I got by working many years on PyPy.
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by Qem 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicko
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GNU Coreutils 9.8 Released with New Features(phoronix.com)
11 points by Qem 1y ago|1 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
> I think the microbes are still trying to figure this one out. They mostly figured it out a couple billion years ago. Cyanobacteria oxidized Earth's surface until the atmosphere was flooded with molecular oxigen, that gets turned
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by Qem 1y ago
> I was horrified by what I saw; just how broken the infrastructure was, how poor and destitute the people were. Yet they manage to have better healthcare overall.
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by Qem 1y ago
I wonder how close R was to also take over the scientific computing/machine learning space, instead of Python's numpy/scipy ecosystem.
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Python 3.14-Rc3 Released Ahead of Next Month's Official Release(phoronix.com)
1 points by Qem 1y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
> how did they manage to average less than one dead per bomb dropped in urban/suburban environments? By targeting first responders, jornalists, paramedics, and any professionals able to properly rescue wounded, dead and count the ca
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Did Apartheid South Africa becoming unviable condemned white south africans to death?

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