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by Qem 1y ago
> “That would be the most boneheaded rookie mistake you can imagine (pun intended),” he writes. Calderhead suspects the work was “farmed out to a run-of-the-mill tombstone company.” Perhaps it was handed to somebody with no formal traini
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With song and seed, Brazil's Indigenous Maxakali confront climate change(aljazeera.com)
1 points by Qem 1y ago|0 comments
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Wishing for Collapse: The Unintended Path of Depletionism(senecaeffect.substack.com)
1 points by Qem 1y ago|0 comments
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US students 'race' sperm in reproductive health stunt(phys.org)
3 points by Qem 1y ago|1 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
This whole treating spermatozoa as race cars stunt got me curious about how many horsepower their engines pack. I've found a paper[1] where optical tweezers[2] were used to determine they produce 44 ± 20 pN of force. A figure often quo
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by Qem 1y ago
> We are very far from having a full single user graphics workstation in CPython, even if those JITs aren't perfect. Some years ago there was an attempt to create a linux distribution including a Python userspace, called Snakeware.
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by Qem 1y ago
> The primary reason, in my opinion, is the vast majority of Python libraries lack type annotations (this includes the standard library). When type annotations are available, it's already possible to compile Python to improve perfor
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by Qem 1y ago
Check Nuitka: https://nuitka.net/
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by Qem 2y ago
Also the intakes for trachea and esophagus being close to each other, causing chokes.
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by Qem 2y ago
Before. Now people are delaying childbearing. Anedacta, past year one of my work colleagues had its first child, at 62.
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by Qem 2y ago
We engineered it culturally already. Lots of people delaying childbirth until late 30s, early 40s today, often resorting to expensive treatments.
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by Qem 2y ago
> Ruby has the best syntax with regards to blocks/lambdas/closures. A bit of Smalltalk shining through Ruby.
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by Qem 2y ago
Pedro Pascal sister shares this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux_Pascal https://github.com/LuxLang/lux
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by Qem 2y ago
Sometimes you don't even need to be a stuntman for it to be bad. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Lee
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by Qem 2y ago
Nice find. I had no idea South America was a likely cradle for ants. Perhaps that explains why the anteater evolved in South America as well. If there's a lot of individuals from a given species in some area, something is likely to evo
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by Qem 2y ago
People actually managed to channel the APL hidden under numpy into a full array language implemented on top of it: https://github.com/briangu/klongpy
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by Qem 2y ago
> It's not as extreme but I feel similarly every time I write dense numpy code. https://analyzethedatanotthedrivel.org/2018/03/31/numpy-anot...
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by Qem 2y ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...
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by Qem 2y ago
Also flying cars are just around the corner, since the 1950s.
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by Qem 2y ago
> humanity is almost certainly immune to extinction, there are too many of us See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon > The pigeon migrated in enormous flocks, constantly searching for food, shelter,
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Vestigial Trigonometry Functions(datagenetics.com)
2 points by Qem 2y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
Probability/Statistics is a good excuse to learn mathematics, because paying a little attention one finds lots of day-to-day situations where is possible to apply it. For example, see the secretary problem[1]. [1] https://en
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by Qem 2y ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
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by Qem 2y ago
> Results also suggested lower prevalence (p = 0.03) and concentration (p = 0.06) of male microchimerism in the brains of women with Alzheimer’s disease than the brains of women without neurologic disease. It appears it may even be prote
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by Qem 2y ago
This reminds me of horror fiction like Lovecraft's Color Out of Space[1] and Neill Blomkamp's short Zygote (2017)[2][3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colour_Out_of_Space [2] https://www.imd
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by Qem 2y ago
Also infant mortality rate.
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by Qem 2y ago
> Doesn't work out if your "investment" is underwater. With climate change it will be literally what will happen to many homeowners in low lying coastal areas some decades from now.
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by Qem 2y ago
Assuming unchanged density of tissues, mass is proportional to volume and strength is proportional to muscle/bone cross section. According to the square-cube law[1], to keep the same weight to strength ratio under ≃20% higher gravity,
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by Qem 2y ago
And before that it was possibly purple. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Earth_hypothesis
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Eugenics Isn't Dead–It's Thriving in Tech(motherjones.com)
18 points by Qem 2y ago|11 comments

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