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by acqq 6y ago
There are the viruses which can exploit the DNA involved mechanisms, but a mRNA vaccine is not using these, it uses the processes "downstream."
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The researchers joke that "animals lie", in the sense that animals can have different reactions compared to humans, in spite of the researchers trying as much as possible to get something useful in the experiments. Having said tha
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by acqq 6y ago
Maybe "zig std is a wrapper rather than a rewrite" was the slip and what's written is the opposite of the idea? I wouldn't call zig's std "a wrapper" in this case where it implements the functionality wit
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It's very easy and fast to try: using 0.7.0+51d7c14ce from https://ziglang.org/download/ and: const std = @import("std"); pub fn main() void { std.debug.print("Hello, world!\n",
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I refer to July 31, 2020: https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-shoots-down-flawed-hydroxychlor... Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.): "it was peer reviewed" Fauci: "It doesn't matter. You can peer review something
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> He's both right and wrong That's my main impression from a lot of texts written by Wells about the "modern" world. Reading them, it's easy not only to recognize that he had wrong predictions, but even that he d
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Italy had to do a quite hard lockdown in the Spring and then it had very low number of cases and deaths in the Summer. In the US, New York had also to respond hard to the first wave. Italy and US compared in deaths per million due to Covid-
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Combining that fact and the previous observation by hanniabu: "many of the people that are against shutdowns (that don't have an ulterior motive) are against them because people are out of work and creates issues with poverty. The
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As Anthony Fauci already pointed, one study can be both peer reviewed and be wrong.
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In this case, reading first the end of the page helps understanding the position of the authors: "Clarification added after publication: the authors have collaborated in the past with both John Ioannidis and Vinay Prasad , who are dis
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Whichever your favorite language is, try researching its dependencies used in the cryptographic primitives, especially in the use cases where performance matters. More often than not, what at the end “does the job” is some library written i
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> it's a 80x12 bits, not character rows Never said anything else. The rows I've mentioned were clearly the rows of bits (represented by presence or absence of a hole). From a pure theoretical point of view it still appears to
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Yes, it predates CRT displays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card “A 12-row/80-column IBM punched card from the mid-twentieth century” The hardware was produced to match the fixed limitations. Note: even w
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Am I missing something or the existing tests in the repositories both in age and rage aren’t covering the specification? The other languages could be used for the "proof of concept" implementation or with which the additional comp
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Luckily people who designed programming languages had a better idea: introducing some begin and end markers can allow nesting without escaping them. Here I have two blocks nested inside of the outer block but I don't have to escape any
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The biggest problem for me (note: others may not care or consider that an advantage): implemented in go. I'm however interested in something as small as possible, with minimal number of dependencies and implemented in C. Yes I know it&
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> misrepresent some microarchitectural details Have you maybe also heard which details could have been misrepresented?
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Also almost two years ago on HN, 20 comments, many with links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20596299
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The most informative post at the moment for me, with more detailed technical information for those who are interested in what's actually making Apple's M1 CPU fast, based on the article by Anandtech, is much lower on this page, by
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> let's say, the US, where there's now been 3 peaks and the number of daily cases doubled each peak, but the daily deaths was highest in the first peak. If one tries comparing the US data with the data from other developed cou
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Haven't seen, but thanks. Lived and worked while following some of the ideas mentioned. E.g. at the whole bottom of the page in some comment is a link to: "Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (part II)" https:&#x2
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I'm more interested what happened when some letters were falsely translated. How did they handle copy and transmission errors? The redundancy in our languages is an important characteristics which reduces the chance of false understand
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It was surely not a given that any already compiled non-trivial code must run as is on Apple's M1. Here the whole Linux kernel and the CLI parts of the distribution are apparently running virtual just using a small number of the API ca
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To those who miss the point, nobody is here denying that C++ has something to bring, it's just that what it brings isn't what those who promote some fashion would claim that is to be universally used, and, honestly, there&#x
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I write C++ for now almost 30 years, and always for the workloads where the cost of allocations was plainly visible, especially in the critical parts of the applications. So I have never stopped writing "non idiomatic" C++, at lea
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> C compiler source Not included in this distribution. Also not included : the source of boot and the source of compiler used to compile that. See my other post here for the references.
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For those who are interested in which sources aren't included: https://www.nordier.com/v7x86/files/RELNOTES "The following limitations apply to the distribution: - The source to the C compiler is not
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If I read this correctly Obeidi hid that parts from Saddam, not for him, from the article above: “Had the secret cache been discovered by Saddam’s security elements, Obeidi and his family might have been eliminated.” And those were the
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Sure, the web sites are blocked, but radio waves couldn't be. And traditionally there were always enough radio stations carefully built and sufficiently financed to cover the target areas. RFA: https://www.rfa.org/about
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"7. Conclusions It took approximately 4.5 billion years for a series of evolutionary transitions resulting in intelligent life to unfold on Earth. In another billion years, the increasing luminosity of the Sun will make Earth uninhabit

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