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by avocad 1y ago
Thanks for noticing!
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by avocad 4y ago
I suppose they sell ads with the promise that personalization does work.
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by avocad 5y ago
...a member of a key CIA advisory panel has said. Surely it can be prevented by giving the CIA more power and money?!
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by avocad 5y ago
"What we need is scientists who have backbone, who have an unwaivering unaltering desire to get to the truth at all costs. " Well, they also need to eat. So you'll have to pay them for it, as directly as possible.
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by avocad 5y ago
But the people saying it was like a flu, were vilified.
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by avocad 5y ago
That's a relief! If they teach them to replicate themselves, many more people could be rescued.
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by avocad 5y ago
In the morning to you too!
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by avocad 5y ago
There seems to be more investigative work: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44111476
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by avocad 5y ago
I always saw the hormones that regulate our emotions as primitive forms of memory, older than neurons. So an organism can remain in a certain state for a while. There is also the possibility that RNA is used for memory: https://w
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by avocad 6y ago
Does anyone know how they manage to produce complex microstructures like that, RNA inside a lipid capsule, on such a large scale? Does these vaccines need an adjuvant to work, or is the change to the affected cells large enough to trigger a
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by avocad 6y ago
That was a great article! The last paragraph, however: "By the way, Knuth is interested in these algorithms mainly for the interesting mathematical problems (...) not because they’re in any way efficient algorithms! " Made me wond
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by avocad 6y ago
Here, in the Netherlands, towns get more similar. Mostly because all the shops are part of the same big chains, with the same cheap building style, and the same ways roads are upgraded. Cities all have their own history, so there is more v
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by avocad 8y ago
No, but most of them used to ride a bicycle at some point in their lives, and know of the dangers that cars pose to them. Also Dutchman here.
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by avocad 8y ago
Indeed. People tend to forget that the Middle Ages lasted for a thousand years. When all the conflicts are put together it seems there were only murderous barbarians out there trying to murder and/or rape you. But most areas were war-f
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by avocad 9y ago
I think the skull and bones will be a good symbol for millions of years, unless evolution takes a really weird turn.
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by avocad 9y ago
This reminded me of the famous lecture by Ken Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp... Basically you have to trust the compiler because it compi
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by avocad 9y ago
This is the book i give as a present to the most geeky of my friends.
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by avocad 9y ago
I also like the idea, but isn't it already tried with the transputer computer? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer And since programming is still mostly just chaining actions together, maybe we are just not v
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by avocad 9y ago
It seems to me that being part of the CSM gives players a huge advantage in a game where economics are so important.
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by avocad 10y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if RS-232 will still be around long after USB falls out of use. Does anyone know the reasons why USB was not made backward compatible with RS-232? It would only take a very short negotiation to determine if both
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Last two days of the QuickLisp fundraiser(payments.common-lisp.net)
2 points by avocad 10y ago|0 comments
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by avocad 10y ago
Thanks! This AND trick is great. Actually makes me want to go back to assembly-level programming.
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by avocad 10y ago
He allowed himself to have other women, he didn't allow her to have other man.
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by avocad 10y ago
There were mentions of open, public humiliations with sexual suggestions. You don't have to accept that talk in a meeting that you attend even when it is completely consensual.
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by avocad 10y ago
Chivalry has nothing to do with gender roles, or holding doors for pretty women. The way I have learned it is about doing the right thing while avoiding reward or recognition.
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by avocad 10y ago
If your chivalry is killed that easily, it was not worth much to begin with.
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by avocad 10y ago
I agree with you, and before reading yours I wanted to write a less theatrical comment in the same line. I figure people like Appelbaum are making tech a hostile environment for women to work in, like a vicious circle. The thing that drew
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The State of the Art of Programming Languages(infoq.com)
3 points by avocad 10y ago|0 comments
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by avocad 11y ago
Same experience here, also from AA. Most of the countryside has also good 3G. Some websites are unreachable though. I am not inclined to comment on the political situation.