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by cdirkx 6y ago
Because at the start of the pandemic, when the virus was just starting to spread outside of China, the prase "the Chinese virus" negatively impacted people in other countries who "looked Chinese" (although in practice th
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by cdirkx 6y ago
> Over 68 percent of the fresh water on Earth is found in icecaps and glaciers, and just over 30 percent is found in ground water. Only about 0.3 percent of our fresh water is found in the surface water of lakes, rivers, and swamps [1].
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by cdirkx 6y ago
Th right to breathe seems like something worth dying for.
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by cdirkx 6y ago
It might be bad if their main source of incomes becomes not the transaction fees, but hidden fees or selling data about you. However, that argument requires them not doing this already :)
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by cdirkx 6y ago
From my understanding it was mostly useful for understanding new sequences in medical and genetic engineering; questions like can we modify this part of the protein and keep the overall structure the same.
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by cdirkx 6y ago
Oops, my bad, I was working with an outdated understanding of the situation. Thanks for correcting me.
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by cdirkx 6y ago
They are the same: asm! was replaced by llvm_asm! because it currently only supports llvm asm and the name might suggest otherwise [1]. A backend independant syntax for asm! was recently specified [2], but that will take some time to implem
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by cdirkx 6y ago
In the settings on search they currently only have the option "hide explicit results"; that could be expanded to give users control over the filters used.
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by cdirkx 6y ago
Better wear a thick coat too. "The pentagon has a laser that identifies people by their heartbeat" https://www.engadget.com/2019-06-27-the-pentagon-has-a-laser...
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by cdirkx 6y ago
Basically, yeah. They get refilled multiple times a day, and it's continually stirred, but only completely emptied during maintenance.
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by cdirkx 6y ago
The machines still get taken apart and washed by hand, along with some maintenance, every 14 days. So every machine will additionally be off for an afternoon every two weeks.
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by cdirkx 6y ago
Why not? I have loads of different accounts from gaming services with friend lists and chat: Steam, Epic Games Store, Blizzard's Batte.net, etc. It would be nice if those were interoperable.
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by cdirkx 6y ago
I always see "being sweaty" being mentioned here when talking about commuting via bike, why? Is it the hills? I live in a flat area and this has never been a problem for me.
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by cdirkx 6y ago
What would you expect those values to be?
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by cdirkx 6y ago
A few years ago I was working with JetBrain's MPS [1] and got excited about it's projectional editor, which allows for different "projections" of your code, not just linear text. One of the things this enables is using d
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by cdirkx 6y ago
They are free to reduce tracking user data globally, they don't have to apply it only to the EU.
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by cdirkx 6y ago
But journalists do not typically have that power. What stories reach readers and how it is presented is power of the editors and board, like the parent pointed out. If your bosses don't want a story covered (in a specific way), it&#x27
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by cdirkx 6y ago
In my history classes we were never quized directly on things as dates. However, you were expected to be able to use those in context. Example of a question: "Some historians consider the Cold War to be an ideological conflict that alr
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by cdirkx 6y ago
> although it seems unlikely that there would be an emergency so urgent that ICMBs would need to be converted into satellite launch vehicles, but not so urgent that the ICMBs wouldn't be used for the intended purpose Maybe an extrem
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by cdirkx 6y ago
Rust also has 'union' types [1] that work similar to the union types in C, C++. Recently there has also been a lot of discussion [2] about possibly adding anonymous enums to the language, and whether these should have sum or union
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by cdirkx 6y ago
Mostly, yes. It's a simple but neat game. There is however some strategy involved in planning ahead. In the early game you might want to place buildings less optimally, to leave room for later game buildings that are worth more points,
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by cdirkx 6y ago
I am a man and worked in fastfood during my studies. I was offered a permanent contract immediatly after my first month, while there were also a lot of women with kids working there who had been on temp contracts for years. Probably because
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by cdirkx 6y ago
Because you can get out of them again. A sink, to me, has the connotation of something being removed from a system.
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by cdirkx 6y ago
Steam has an interesting approach to review bombs, it keeps the negative reviews visible but excludes them from the aggregated rating. The rating has a big asterisk with info that this game has had a "period of off-topic review activit
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by cdirkx 7y ago
Yes it would probably produce a lot of unidiomatic code (see for example c2rust [1], which generates semantically equivalent Rust code, but with raw pointers and unsafe everywhere). In the worst case you could even just emulate the origin l
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by cdirkx 7y ago
I did something similar as in my Bachelors end project. A manufacturer of industrial printers wanted to generate API bindings in multiple languages from a single source of truth. We started with just transpiling data definitions based on Ap
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by cdirkx 7y ago
Spoken languages have the problem of ambiguity, context, changing meaning over time to different people. Programming languages are pretty structured and well defined.
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by cdirkx 7y ago
I just encountered this last week. I had to explain to my fellow non-IT students why I was making loud gasps of confusion.
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by cdirkx 7y ago
I think the "old religious beliefs" have more to do with it than any connotation of forced sex (at least I have never recognized this in the way people use the word). "making love" is something partners do as a healthy a
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by cdirkx 7y ago
Yes, the Unicode Technical standard identifies the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic (most of IPA characters) scripts as confusable, and recommends against mixing them in identifiers. Use in general text is fine though.

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