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by Qem 3mo ago
Reminds me of this: https://badspacecomics.com/in-the-flesh-copy
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Mageia 10 keeps the 32-bit Linux flame alive(theregister.com)
3 points by Qem 3mo ago|1 comments
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by Qem 3mo ago
> Or, indeed, WhatsApp and Signal. You can use Shelter from FDroid to create a separate work profile in the phone, with separate accounts, and then pause it after office hours.
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by Qem 3mo ago
> We should be wary of bringing Martian microbes back to Earth, because they may find our environment too hospitable and end up invasive species. They could even already have invaded in the past, and we descended of them[1]. Earth as Ma
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by Qem 4mo ago
Lots of tech companies involved in this genocide[1]. Unfortunately tech has bad antecedents, as IBM also supported genocide in WWII[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_... [2] https:&#x
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by Qem 4mo ago
> highest entity that could apply leverage What is the lowest entity that can apply leverage? Regardless of what US or UN does or doesn't, you can start boycotting today.
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by Qem 4mo ago
> when a world power seems to be supportive of actions that an international body considers negative, what structure can help resolve these? Apply the Apartheid South Africa treatament. Gather the larger number possible of complying memb
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by Qem 4mo ago
And does it quite fast too: https://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2014/10/20/the-fastest-bigint...
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A New Interpretation of the Rise of Intelligence: Falling CO2 Levels Was Key(senecaeffect.substack.com)
4 points by Qem 4mo ago|2 comments
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by Qem 4mo ago
Paper: https://www.qeios.com/read/NYZWD5
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by Qem 4mo ago
I wonder if such cases are a gift from our Neanderthal forebears, from the few % of Neanderthal DNA that still lingers in most humans alive today. They spent hundreds of thousands of years amidst ice age glaciers, what are the odds they dev
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by Qem 4mo ago
> He’s doing nothing wrong spending his own money the way he wants to. Except stealing credit for work done by his employees. Read about his lawsuit against Matthew Cook.
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by Qem 4mo ago
Not practical in research. Doesn't solve the blackbox reproducibility problem. Also it makes the act of publishing a paper under your name practically a crime confession, as it's easy for companies to comb the literature to seek p
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by Qem 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang
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by Qem 4mo ago
When industry pushes this kind of reform I wonder how much unpublished data they already have on the ill effects caused by their products.
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by Qem 4mo ago
> If you are going to be super-strict with type-checking, wouldn’t it be best to switch to a statically typed language and get the performance gains as well? You can use type-checking to get better performance already, without leaving Py
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by Qem 4mo ago
People from the 70s are in their 50s today. Approaching retirement age, but most still able and employed. Things will get interesting in those countries as they hit old age and quit the workforce in a large wave.
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by Qem 4mo ago
> Unlike the metric system that actually has a clear logic behind it and makes handling scientific numbers more easy The clear logic behind soccer is low barrier of entry. A vacant lot, some friends and a makeshift ball gets any child st
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by Qem 4mo ago
> It’s just that Brazil currently doesn’t care about baseball that much and baseball first has to become popular Baseball is a hardware-intensive sport. It's hard to get popular in poorer countries. Soccer on the other side demands
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by Qem 4mo ago
> The US has also strangely invented a lot of sports (Americans football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, lacrosse, skateboarding, snowboarding, and so on). It appears the sports industry in US skewed local preferences toward hardware-
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by Qem 4mo ago
15% faster on top of a base interpreter that itself got 40%-50% faster on the same timeframe.
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by Qem 4mo ago
> What a shame it will receive a halt when they where starting to make progress I know that after submitting the pep it will go back to development. To be fair, the apparent lack of progress of the JIT before was in part due to the same
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by Qem 4mo ago
> For that reason, the Steering Council is formally requesting a Standards Track PEP be authored that the community can discuss and the Steering Council can formally accept (or reject), making the case for the JIT as a supported, non-exp
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by Qem 4mo ago
> Assets and productivity, on the other hand, can grow a lot more than the population. Source? In a growing market, one can spread their investiments to get safe returns that approach the overall economic growth. In a shrinking market, t
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by Qem 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon > The pigeon migrated in enormous flocks, constantly searching for food, shelter, and breeding grounds, and was once the most abundant bird in North America, numbering
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by Qem 4mo ago
> Is it necessary to have a growing population in order to have a growing economy? Soon we will discover. I suspect the answer will be no, at least not for long. Markets are made of people. Can the economy grow despite a shrinking market
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by Qem 4mo ago
> Total economic stagnation, spiraling population numbers, loss of anything anchored to manual labor, and an aging population. And this was in a developed country well resourced to take the hit.
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by Qem 4mo ago
> I don't think hardly any super villains exist. We have billionaries and LLCs, supervillains whose superpowers are based on being rich, don't worrying about the future much beyond the next quarter, and pretending personhood to
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by Qem 4mo ago
> Abundant resources (especially housing) and insufficient humans to run a tight bureaucracy will probably lead back to people having babies If well managed I think this is possible. But it's not given. Another scenario is houses in
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by Qem 4mo ago
> because teen pregnancy happens out of wedlock with the fathers usually disappearing Usually disappeared. Once DNA tests were invented, it became straighforward to go after them. Underrated breakthrough to support children and single mo

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