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by chr1 9y ago
For aquatic life of mediterranean this will mean an end since salinity of the see would keep growing. More realistic approach is restoring lakes of Sahara [1] by combination of desalination plants, solar towers, and huge solar battery insta
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Mozilla might revoke trust for Dutch CA because of “local dystopian law”(bleepingcomputer.com)
54 points by chr1 9y ago|3 comments
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One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks(arxiv.org)
3 points by chr1 9y ago|1 comments
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by chr1 9y ago
True, sound changes like dvesti÷trista÷semsot make learning harder, but i'd say that's not really the property of the number system but of a language as a whole, since similar shifts are present in other places too. For me Russian
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by chr1 9y ago
Russian numbers are ten based and rather straightforward; odin dva tri ... desyat (10) odinnadtsat dvenadtsat trinadtsat ... dvadtsat (20) there is no irregularity other than 40 which is sorok instead of chetiredesyat
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The JavaScript Modules Limbo(codeburst.io)
2 points by chr1 9y ago|0 comments
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Records of 1900s air pollution saved in feathers of stuffed birds(nytimes.com)
1 points by chr1 9y ago|0 comments
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by chr1 9y ago
This is like using web rendering engine to implement a browser, which is not ridiculous at all. The difference from chromium is that the browser ui is implemented using the web tech, instead of native, which is not unusual either. Firefox
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by chr1 9y ago
When using languages with static typing amount of refactoring of that type is disproportionately large, so people notice how much the ide helps, without noticing that most of the help wouldn't be even necessary without the complexity a
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Using array of solar chimneys along the coast to weaken hurricanes(solar-tower.org.uk)
1 points by chr1 9y ago|0 comments
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by chr1 9y ago
Another interesting way of making speed bumps smarter is changing their form: two long smooth triangles so that the slope is fairly small. Amsterdam has many speed bumps of this type, and they are fairly smooth at slow speeds.
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Smarter speed bump using non-Newtonian liquid(badennova.es)
244 points by chr1 9y ago|162 comments
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by chr1 9y ago
Somewhy climate engineering as a whole gets very negative responses from people who care about environment. But the climate we had in 1800s was not particularly great either. 1/3 of the land surface was still desert, hurricanes and dro
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by chr1 9y ago
one of firefox engineers is working on https://janitor.technology , which allows to build firefox in an online ide
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by chr1 9y ago
The question is not about "XUL functionality" specifically, XUL is just an implementation detail, and html could work in its place just as well. The question is how much the extensions can do, in the old model they could do anythi
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by chr1 9y ago
XUL is the same XUL both in extensions and in browser ui. XPCOM is another independent technology https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM . They are disabling the direct access from ex
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by chr1 9y ago
Why should i use language X that i don't like, instead of nice dynamic language, without compilation step that i like, and which only misses this tiny feature?
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by chr1 9y ago
do you have a mapping of jl to esc?
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by chr1 9y ago
We are doing both, see webassembly, it's just that web tech is simpler and there are more people who enjoy it, so it is used more often if performance requirements allow.
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by chr1 9y ago
Mathematica has several representations for the code the main one is the inputForm, the thing that users type in, and there is a fullForm which is the full ast, and there is a way to manipulate it to create new functions on the fly (or real
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by chr1 9y ago
Does this mean that an entry in /etc/hosts assigning ip to localhost will be ignored?
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by chr1 9y ago
the main usefulness of this is to make places like sahara livable, electricity generation is just a nice side effect.
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A tall chimney to facilitate heat exchange in the atmosphere(superchimney.org)
286 points by chr1 9y ago|190 comments
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by chr1 9y ago
Vi support is same in both Ace used in ShareLaTex and CodeMirror used in Overleaf
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by chr1 9y ago
Which code editor are you going to keep? ShareLaTeX and Overleaf use different technology and look quite different.
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by chr1 9y ago
Now browsers support most of ES6, so you only need build step for deployments, and can have fast reloads without a build step when developing.
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by chr1 9y ago
Well, here he says that kotlin is better than java, not that statycal typing is better, so it's not an argument in favor of one of those "all frog legs and calf brains and truffled snails" languages;)
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by chr1 10y ago
Most of the teritory of turkey was a part of Byzantine empire with Greek being the main language there. Large part on the east was Armenia, and there were many other nations with their own languages, Assyrians, Lazi, Kurds, Yezidis. Turkey
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by chr1 10y ago
People use math, but they use it with Latex not MathML, MathML is too verbose, so even if browsers implemented it people would need libraries like MathJax.
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by chr1 10y ago
It's not only about CO2, burning plastics produces other harmful compounds, and without burning they stay for very long.

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