Qem

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Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, US prosecutors argue(aljazeera.com)
2 points by Qem 2y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
It's a bit bothersome they nudge you to install and use aws tools to download the data, instead of providing a plain CSV or JSON downloadable dump instead.
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by Qem 2y ago
Can it be installed and run offline as a WebApp?
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by Qem 2y ago
This is a reminder X got blocked in Brazil because it was obstructing investigations on this coup attempt. Rogue military had plans to actually kill people and thrash elections.
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OCaml Syntax Sucks (2016)(xahlee.info)
121 points by Qem 2y ago|136 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
When referring to dinosaurs, most people are thinking about non-avian, teethed dinosaurs anyway.
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by Qem 2y ago
The Smalltalk world has great support for this, through coding in the debugger. You should try Pharo.
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by Qem 2y ago
*the frog
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by Qem 2y ago
> Since chemical reactions happen in the freezer just slower. Can't the gross just be kept at artificially lie temperatures to lengthen the stasis time? Say, -100C or even lower?
820.
by Qem 2y ago
Archived version: https://archive.is/P0Epk
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How Adil Abbuthalha's 'Boycat' App is revolutionising ethical shopping(middleeastmonitor.com)
3 points by Qem 2y ago|1 comments
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'Dastardly deeds': Family of Malcolm X sues US agencies over assassination(aljazeera.com)
5 points by Qem 2y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
SqueakJS is an awesome project. Hope eventually it gets optimized enough so current images run with speed closer to native, not only the historical ones.
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by Qem 2y ago
NK sold a lot of its artillery supplies to Russia, probably because they aren't that important anymore, after they got nukes. See https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/nkorean-artillery-... SK probably wouldn&
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by Qem 2y ago
One can argue they are faring better than Iraq, Libya, Ukraine or Lebanon.
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by Qem 2y ago
Sometimes I wonder if the Bigfoot myth had its origins in ancient paleoindian accounts of the giant sloths they encountered when humans first set foot in Americas, transmitted with a lot of noise through word of mouth for about ~400-500 gen
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by Qem 2y ago
> Not sure that's how it works. I think the river/streams while changing it's course exposes the fossils. That gives me another hypothesis, about how they died together. Some of those critters dug burrows, we still find th
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by Qem 2y ago
Perhaps not car-sized but car-massed? Cars have lots of internal voids, like the passenger compartments. Most land animals not. A VW beetle weights about 800kg, IIRC. An animal with similar weight probably has smaller total volume.
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by Qem 2y ago
Good question. Given they were found in a dried riverbed, my guess is they were caught in a flash flood. The armour made them move slowly and they couldn't run fast enough.
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by Qem 2y ago
Also while there was a lot of megafauna around, probably there was little incentive to settle and care for crops. It was better to chase the beasts.
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by Qem 2y ago
Initial setup is less beginner-friendly in Ruby case when compared to Python. See for example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16042945/rubys-irb-with-...
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by Qem 2y ago
I wonder if after the standing desk fad now we'll have a squatting desk fad.
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by Qem 2y ago
IIRC, mortality rates for human pedestrians hit by cars skyrocket for speeds above 30km/h. Wonder what the numbers are for bees.
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by Qem 2y ago
How long real state prices can keep climbing before people are forced to start colonizing seas or lakes like this?
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by Qem 2y ago
Archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20241107090749/https://www.middle...
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by Qem 2y ago
Archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20241105230933/https://www.wired....
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by Qem 2y ago
> All senior Israeli officials (president, prime minister, defense minister, finance minister, and others) have said that they intend to punish the people of Gaza for October 7th (collective punishment is a form of genocide). I can find
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by Qem 2y ago
> The virus is also responsible for a large share of other cancers, including anal cancer, penile cancer, vulval cancer, vaginal cancer, and some head and neck cancers. It would greatly reduce other types of cancer too. Men also benefit
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Battle of Cuito Cuanavale(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Qem 2y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
If you're going the pure Python route, don't forget to try PyPy[1], an alternative JITed implementation of the language. A seriously underrated project, IMHO. Most time it speeds up execution by a factor of 2x-4x, but improvements

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