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by burfog 6y ago
There are a couple solutions, with tradeoffs of course. It's important to remember that this isn't merely a technical problem. Some choices can be judged by human reviewers to be violating policy. The obvious solution is to use is
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by burfog 6y ago
Yes. It's the short-wavelength receptors that are missing from the fovea. Informally, they are blue receptors, but the ranges overlap in a much more complicated way. Terrible color combinations for text: blue/black, magenta/r
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by burfog 6y ago
From the ls replacement: "Why spend your time squinting at black and white text?" Uh, because squinting at blue-on-black text is much more difficult. Human eyes focus best at yellow-green, they see that as brightest, and they don&
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by burfog 6y ago
It would be fine if all people were reasonable and uninterested in causing political commotion to score a win. Of course, in that case there would be no conduct issues to deal with. So when you read it, don't think "Of course it w
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by burfog 6y ago
Possible projects that might keep you occupied for the entire year: Make a Rust front-end for the GNU Compiler Collection. Emulate something. Write a hypervisor.
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by burfog 6y ago
There are other choices: #script javascript // put your script here, have it change the parse tree, etc. #endscript Microsoft compilers could support VBscript. High-performance options include webassembly, the JVM, and
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by burfog 6y ago
Well, minus the pulse, which would be great for air-breathing engines too. If you made a ring of pulse-detonation engines that fired one after another in sequence, you'd almost have such a thing. Connect the tubes side-to-side if you c
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by burfog 6y ago
How exactly is it "so easy to get huge loans" for college? My kid needs that, but we see only $5500 available for the first year. Did you instead mean loans that the parent takes on, perhaps as cosigner? I'm seeing nothing be
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by burfog 6y ago
I'm surprised that it isn't normal to provide a pragma for that. Something like this: #pragma push intsizes 1 2 2 4 0 #include <yimage.h> // old 16-bit header #pragma pop #pragma push intsizes 1 2 4 8 16
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by burfog 6y ago
You can get that experience today with the C compiler for the EZ80 chip. The short is 16-bit, and the long is 32-bit, so logically the int is 24-bit. You can use it as int24_t if you prefer. An EZ80 is used in some of the TI graphing calcul
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by burfog 6y ago
In these cases, no. There is no substantial difference. It's the same situation, with people of an incompatible culture showing up in large numbers and then expecting to control society. It never goes well for the population already th
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by burfog 6y ago
The native Americans had numerous little nations. Those nations were mostly destroyed by immigration. There was lots of fighting and death, and a hostile cultural change, and property seizure. Individual immigrants could be brilliant and ha
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by burfog 6y ago
That sounds a lot like picking cotton. If the immigrants don't become Americans (who supposedly "won't do this type of work") then what are they? It sounds an awful lot like keeping slaves. They even arrive crammed in th
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by burfog 6y ago
Those numbers are really damning for public transportation. If just one of the many diseases being spread around on the NYC subway system kills 5x as many as an entire nation of cars, it clearly isn't acceptable to operate public trans
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by burfog 6y ago
You seem to have found life, liberty, and peaceful pursuit of happiness. It just isn't in the USA. To avoid tax and banking trouble, you'll want to ditch the US citizenship. Avoiding the trouble is probably well worth the fee and
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by burfog 6y ago
At that point, just use Morse code. For small buildings, the cuckoo clock method works too.
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by burfog 6y ago
Pelosi blocked that. The workaround is to cheaply rent out the reserve as storage space, with the hope that someday a better congress will allow purchasing the oil.
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by burfog 6y ago
We lost an herb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium
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by burfog 7y ago
It's not OK to be actively trying to make those edits, especially after a history of lab containment failures. After the USA banned this research because of the danger, some of it moved out of the country. At least one of the researche
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by burfog 7y ago
OK. Here is China making a coronavirus like the one causing the pandemic, even acting on the ACE2 receptor and testing it in human cells, publishing it in early 2008: https://jvi.asm.org/content/82/4/1899 Her
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by burfog 7y ago
Research papers, posted in comments on HN just days ago, show that the lab made hybrid bat-human cells in which to grow viruses. This was BSL-4. Both HIV and coronaviruses were grown. The idea was to breed the viruses until they would repli
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by burfog 7y ago
Calling it Chinese Virus is not racist either. China is not a race. I never head anybody calling it "Chinese Virus" until right after Chinese officials were found to be spreading rumors that the virus came from a US military opera
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by burfog 7y ago
That is how the real world works. If you are told to deliver your TPS reports to Jeffery, it would be bad to have more than one Jeffery. You couldn't reliably deliver your TPS reports. Therefore, only one Jeffery can be hired.
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by burfog 7y ago
Here, because somebody else asked the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22875438
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by burfog 7y ago
Here is China making a coronavirus like the one causing the pandemic, even acting on the ACE2 receptor and testing it in human cells, publishing it in early 2008: https://jvi.asm.org/content/82/4/1899 Here th
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by burfog 7y ago
The PC contains my valuable data and is needed for important non-game uses. With the PC, reliability and security for those other tasks must not be compromised for a mere game. Game consoles are toys. Even if the game screwed up the game co
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by burfog 7y ago
The story is that "they made a mistake in a lab"... 1. while doing research that has been banned in other nations due to the extreme hazard 2. despite having a history of lab virus escapes that killed people 3. and then they cover
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by burfog 7y ago
Not that I think the lab escape was deliberate, but: shutting down pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong has been a result of the virus. I don't really think the leaders would take that risk, considering all the unpredictable side effect
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by burfog 7y ago
Neither extreme seems likely. We know that the lab was adding functionality to bat coronaviruses, making them able to infect human cells. This can be done without gene editing technology. We've been doing that in the opposite direction
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by burfog 7y ago
A shot glass of pure virus is an interesting concept. No matter how well vaccinated you might be, drinking it would overwhelm any possible response. Better yet, snort a line of it.

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