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by Qem 2y ago
Nice article. I'd like to also know PyPy developers thoughts on the copy-and-patch approach chosen to implement the new JIT under development for CPython.
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by Qem 2y ago
Nice, I didn't know about this book. Did you try the Keisler book too, "Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach"? See https://people.math.wisc.edu/~hkeisler/calc.html
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by Qem 2y ago
Can they cheat death this way? Say, an senescent individual fusing with another younger than itself, instead of dying?
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Virtual reality: Providing injured Gazans an alternative space to heal(middleeastmonitor.com)
1 points by Qem 2y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
It's nice its whole environment can be installed from the web and works offline as a WebApp. The setup is frictionless, even in machines where you lack administrator privileges. It inherits a lot from Smalltalk, another positive point
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What climate records were broken in 2024?(aljazeera.com)
4 points by Qem 2y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
Same number of tabs open and add-ons installed on each?
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by Qem 2y ago
Euthanasia.
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by Qem 2y ago
I think password storage is covered by Firefox sync.
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by Qem 2y ago
Perhaps we should have a EndlessOS distribution flavor targeting programming learners. See https://www.endlessos.org/os-direct-download
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by Qem 2y ago
> What can we learn from this today? The article doesn't talk about it, but one of the lessons is that breastfeeding is important. Did Victorian women breastfeed up to when children were about one year old? Or did they try to wean o
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by Qem 2y ago
Just a few days ago it bombed a media van and killed 5 journalists: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/12/26/israel-kills-fi... Perhaps it should save the money, stop conducting an genocide and end i
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by Qem 2y ago
Some days ago I tried to install from the PPA repository, but it appears Ubuntu jammy derivatives are not supported yet. Is there a PPA update estimate? I read Python stole its generators from Icon. Being an enthusiastic user of the itertoo
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Financially, Saudi Arabia is flying by the seat of its pants. But how longer?(middleeasteye.net)
3 points by Qem 2y ago|1 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
Perhaps because those go on autopilot most of the time?
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by Qem 2y ago
Copyleft solves this. The problem is permissive licenses that lack copyleft, allowing privatization of codebases.
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by Qem 2y ago
> The refusal of "FOSS" communities to use a direct non-commercial clause is an entirely self-inflicted wound. The self-inflicted wound is non-copyleft licenses. Under copyleft you pay for free code with more code, by making fr
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by Qem 2y ago
> This happens everywhere, just the other day an American F-18 was shot down by an American destroyer in the Red Sea, and an F-18 carries additional econfliction equipment that an airliner doesn't have. The Houthis claim the F-18 w
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by Qem 2y ago
That was Pangaea. Not very hospitable. Most of it were deserts, receiving little humidity because it was too far from the ocean.
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by Qem 2y ago
That reminds me of that infamous Vietnam War era quote: "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it." See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_B%E1%BA%BFn_Tre The taiwanese must be pissed at the
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by Qem 2y ago
It's an Embraer E190: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_E-Jet_family
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by Qem 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
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by Qem 2y ago
> There was this idea that humans arrived and killed everything off very quickly—what's called 'Pleistocene overkill,'" said Daniel Odess, an archaeologist at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. But new discoveri
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by Qem 2y ago
Pizarro = Pi + Bizarro. Also there was an evil person that beared this name, Francisco Pizarro, the conquistador that kickstarted the genocide against the Incas. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Pizarro
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by Qem 2y ago
I think the paper referred by GP is this one: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00035...
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by Qem 2y ago
Maybe some European fairy-tales have much deeper roots in history than we think? Perhaps the original sleeping beauty was a Neanderthal lady kidnapped as a bride while in torpor, by an invading Sapiens group. Things like that happening back
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by Qem 2y ago
I wonder if adaptation to cold in Neanderthals included torpor during the winter. That could at least provide an alternative explanation for their eradication/dilution by Sapiens, despite the evidence they had greater physical strength
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by Qem 2y ago
Low hanging fruit probably would be smaller body sizes, and early onset baldness in both sexes.
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by Qem 2y ago
Meanwhile: https://www.givesendgo.com/legalfund-ceo-shooting-suspect
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by Qem 2y ago
Now two questions popped in my head: 1 - Some non-statin antichilesterol drugs work by preventing reabsorption of bile acids, causing them to pass through the bowels. Can this have the positive side-effect of making lithocholic acid precurs

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