Qem

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by Qem 2y ago
I was thinking about Adagio in D Minor, because of Sunshine (2007).
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by Qem 2y ago
Autoguideles.
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by Qem 2y ago
> Having seen these things live in action, it creeped me out to see an empty drivers seat. I wonder if the safety gains could be just due to people being creeped out around them, and behaving more cautiously. Perhaps results would be dif
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by Qem 2y ago
I suspect the advent of self driving cars will just help get the streets even more clogged with cars.
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by Qem 2y ago
> New technology enables hatcheries to quickly peer into millions of fertilized eggs and spot male embryos, then grind them up before they mature into chicks. I think the title is quite misleading. They would still end killed, just earli
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by Qem 2y ago
There was actually attempts to recreate Awk inside Python. See https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk
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Historic operation returns almost 1k trafficked animals to Madagascar(aljazeera.com)
1 points by Qem 2y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
I wonder how long would Mandarin take to replace English as default second language worldwide, if they adopted a phonetic alphabet as standard to ease people onboarding.
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by Qem 2y ago
Thought the same. Survivorship bias: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by Qem 2y ago
> Also interesting how Trump says this is “a sickness” Indeed this was caused by sickness. Spondylolisthesis was the cause of his back pain. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondylolisthesis
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by Qem 2y ago
> To defend against terrorism charges he'd need to admit to a non-political motive. Like getting mad from untreated searing pain? https://www.medpagetoday.com/painmanagement/backpain/113435
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by Qem 2y ago
Civilian population already raised over 140k to fund his defense, so it appears no intimidating/coercing here either: https://www.givesendgo.com/legalfund-ceo-shooting-suspect
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by Qem 2y ago
I suspect being fully surrounded by earth most of the time helps shielding against radiation a lot.
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by Qem 2y ago
His defense fundraiser is already north of 140k: https://www.givesendgo.com/legalfund-ceo-shooting-suspect
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Mangione charged with 'act of terrorism' in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing(aljazeera.com)
6 points by Qem 2y ago|7 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
Keisler book is excellent.
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by Qem 2y ago
> I honestly don't know why infitesimals aren't widespread. It can basically have the same basis/justification can't it? But with the bonus of being more intuitive. Indeed they are more intuitive, people like Newton a
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by Qem 2y ago
Clarke warned us, in "2061: Odissey 3" (Beware: spoilers): > The doctor seemed to be struggling for words. 'What, dammit?' 'Something came up out, of the water, Like a parrot beak, but about a hundred times bigge
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by Qem 2y ago
Mirror life would have no interoperability with normal life, in biochemical terms. Say, if a predator attacked a mirror bacteria, and ate it, it would be just like eating an inedible microplastic particle. A technological analogue would be
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by Qem 2y ago
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403886
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by Qem 2y ago
Now we have another candidate to explain the Fermi paradox. Mirror Biology Armageddon. Even if life outside runs on alternative biochemistry, the odds are that some of its building blocks are chiral too, and subjected to the same risks in c
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Trans Fats Are Worse Than You Think: A New Threat Beyond Cholesterol(scitechdaily.com)
1 points by Qem 2y ago|1 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
Study page (no OA): https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131(24)...
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by Qem 2y ago
Is it ported to Raku already?
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Timber Sycamore(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Qem 2y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
C-Suite became the new nobility.
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by Qem 2y ago
Meanwhile his defense funding campaign is north of 30k: https://www.givesendgo.com/legalfund-ceo-shooting-suspect
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by Qem 2y ago
> One doesn't act right towards people because they deserve it in some cosmic sense, but because it's the moral thing to do. Corporations are not people.
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> Most things that people assume are malicious often are usually prioritization issue Monopolists shouldn't have the benefit of doubt. If it acts in a way that seems like dominant market position abuse, the default position should b
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by Qem 2y ago
> There is a wolfram blog post comparing python vs wolfram from 2021 Now the view from someone who quit Mathematica walled garden to embrace the Python ecosystem (2018): https://paulromer.net/jupyter-mathematica-and-the-f

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