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by Qem 6mo ago
I get a bit of this looming feeling every time there is discussion about the Awk programming language, because it reminds me we already got the closest thing to a penguin in the nothern hemisphere extinct by the XIX century: https:/&#
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by Qem 6mo ago
Appears like the twin pines cooperativism symbol.
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In the current publish or perish system institutions benefit from inflated citation counts.
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Soon I think people will learn to work around it backwards, retrospectively writing the non-existent papers. This way you get a brand new paper in your CV with a citation count already above zero.
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by Qem 6mo ago
I suspect one tool governments across the world will resort to when they get desperate about sub-replacement fertility is changing mandatory conscription from males to the childless. Quite strong incentive, not be sent to the meatgrinder.
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Wouldn't make more sense instead of make conscription mandatory only for men, to make it mandatory for all childless people then?
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It's on NYT site now.
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Ubuntu Mate Leader Stepping Down, Seeking New Contributors(phoronix.com)
16 points by Qem 6mo ago|1 comments
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by Qem 7mo ago
The second option. The military dictatorship had an official censorship bureau in place. Proposed news articles had to be run through it before publishing. When some story was barred, it was usual for journal staff to fill its empty slot wi
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E-waste from rich nations floods local markets in Nigeria(aljazeera.com)
4 points by Qem 7mo ago|0 comments
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Predictably, a victim of AI is Wikipedia(twitter.com)
4 points by Qem 7mo ago|2 comments
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by Qem 7mo ago
Another school was attacked[1] because it had "Shahed" in the name, like the drones. This is the First Slop War: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/6/elementary-school-in...
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by Qem 7mo ago
Prop up the friendly apartheid regime.
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by Qem 7mo ago
Also: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/30/carbon-footpri...
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by Qem 7mo ago
Of course we shouldn't expect a couple of years of shutdown to significantly reverse 200 years of man-made atmospheric CO2 accumulation, but surely it would help stop the problem to get worse if the widespread WFH effort were sustained
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...and increasing valuation of office real state.
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by Qem 7mo ago
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-...
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I hope they have their Cuito Cuanavale[1] moment and follow the steps of South Africa in replacing their own version of the apartheid regime with democracy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cuito_Cuanavale
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by Qem 7mo ago
> Israel has also used cluster munitions against the Hezbollahs. Estimated around 4 million of them against south Lebanon: https://imeu.org/resources/key-issues/quick-facts-israels-il... https://www.
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by Qem 7mo ago
Power demand. Volume pumped each cycle * (systolic pressure - diastolic pressure) / time.
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by Qem 7mo ago
Wall thickness increasing by x increases cross section/power by x^2, but also increases chamber volume/workload by x^3. So workload outruns available power. It's because of this people abusing steroids get heart failure event
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by Qem 7mo ago
> Where is the quadratic part of the equation that limits the maximum size of a whale? Muscle power output increases with cross section area, ~L^2, not with volume. The heart have no separate power unit. It relies on the same muscle wall
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by Qem 7mo ago
> Just eat your damn vegetables! At least if you can find some not previously doused in poison.
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> Do you want issues of Nature and cell to be replication studies? There are journals dedicated to replication, like ReScience C[1]. But they are niche. Perhaps we should have more of these. [1] http://rescience.github.io&#x2F
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by Qem 7mo ago
To be fair, they suffered a bit from scope creep, as mid project it was started a second major effort to remove the gil. So the codebase was undergoing two major surgeries at the same time. Hard to believe they could stick to the original s
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by Qem 7mo ago
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/14/un-peacekeepers-sa...
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by Qem 7mo ago
> And places being in a state of internal conflict, conflict which is itself often backed and fomented by US intelligence agencies and backed proxy forces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore
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by Qem 8mo ago
> Anthropic will betray you for a multi-year government contract worth tens of billions of dollars. What are the odds they will rebrand Misanthropic by then?
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by Qem 8mo ago
Also Python generators for the lulz. They help one to write extremely memory-efficient programs. Perhaps the memory shortage further helps cement Python in the language popularity charts, vis-à-vis languages that tend to load whole data in
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by Qem 8mo ago
> On the other side there was the famous "hospital bombing" news event early in the war where it was claimed that 500 people were killed, and then within a couple of hours it became obvious that the explosion was caused by a mi

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