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by coldnose 8y ago
Does anyone else find spicing up ordinary words with new cognates amusing? Super-researchers are ultraconcerned about hyperalarming insect megaloss.
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by coldnose 8y ago
After spending about a month of concerted effort pouring through the zlib sources, looking for vulnerabilities, I can say that zlib is the most astonishingly bug-free code I've ever seen. But in the conventional understanding of &quot
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by coldnose 8y ago
I make this same argument all the time. I switched to Dvorak 15 years ago, and though it did vastly improve my typing speed by teaching me to touch-type, I don't know whether it's intrinsically faster. Mostly it's just an i
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Is Martin Shkreli blogging from prison?(endpts.com)
2 points by coldnose 8y ago|0 comments
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Open-Source group announces jJava (2008)(codetojoy.blogspot.com)
1 points by coldnose 8y ago|0 comments
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RNA Polymerase Ribozyme Evolved In-Vitro Can Replicate tRNAs(pnas.org)
2 points by coldnose 8y ago|1 comments
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by coldnose 8y ago
Another example of arbitrary pointer comparison I'm familiar with is for resolving lock ordering problems. If I have a big set of locks that I need to take to complete a particular operation, a simple way to prevent deadlocking is to a
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by coldnose 8y ago
>> "We mapped out the social network, if you will, of which genes the viruses are friends with and who they're talking to inside the brain," Dudley says. In essence, he says, they wanted to know: "If the viruses ar
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by coldnose 8y ago
I concede it's possible that saboteurs are operating within Tesla, but lashing out at invisible enemies sends a strong "crazy" signal. Elon has been sending a lot of crazy signals lately...
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by coldnose 9y ago
I was also reminded of one: http://codetojoy.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-source-group-anno... ... didn't know this was an April 1st tradition though
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by coldnose 9y ago
ALGOL and Simula 67 are also great languages for this. In those languages, code can be simply copied from one program into another, thereby imbuing the second program with functionality from the first. I'm personally fond of Malbolge w
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by coldnose 9y ago
And don't forget Cyberdog!
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by coldnose 9y ago
Here's the actual Nature letter, for anyone interested. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25791
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by coldnose 9y ago
I'm glad globe-making is still being practiced. For my money, there's nothing quite as cool as an artisanal globe!
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Researchers Confront an Epidemic of Loneliness(nytimes.com)
2 points by coldnose 9y ago|0 comments
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Depression as a Social Disease(psychologytoday.com)
3 points by coldnose 9y ago|0 comments
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by coldnose 9y ago
As of the time of writing, the headline was, "Australia could become first country to eradicate cervical cancer" not, "... eradicate HPV". I'm skeptical a form of cancer can ever really be "eradicated".
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by coldnose 9y ago
That's a pretty clickbaity title. It's really an article about increasing HPV vaccination and plummeting cervical cancer rates. But I'm skeptical that you can ever "eradicate" cancer as a form of disease, even a par
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by coldnose 9y ago
This sounds like moonshot-level complexity. It invokes solar sails, laser communication at 550 AU, as well as "advanced propulsion, lightweight telescopes, membrane mirrors, inflatable/rigidizeable structures, and novel coronagrap
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by coldnose 9y ago
~6 hours after launch
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by coldnose 10y ago
I think the real problem is the battery was itself sealed with an airtight plastic wrapping. If consumers could just pull out the lithium plates, patch new electrolytic material over wherever they were shorting, then zip the battery back up
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by coldnose 10y ago
I'm uncomfortable around (and supremely irritated by) human babies, but it's pretty common to let people bring their awful babies into an office. Those babies don't work here, and they have no business being here, but I guess
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by coldnose 10y ago
You may want to check out hypertalk, algol, prolog, and simula 67 too.
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by coldnose 15y ago
Only the WakeMate and all other non-UP devices are covered by patents. Evil, baby-raping patents. The good people at Jawbone respect the integrity of babies' orifices, and would never dare to file a patent.
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by coldnose 15y ago
And today is the day /usr/bin/gcc changes from "deprecated" to "deleted". I'm glad something finally pushed me over that hump. http://clang.llvm.org/
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by coldnose 15y ago
* If you're appending data to a string, and the variable-length increases by a byte, will you have to memmove() the entire existing string down 1 byte? * Is every programmer responsible for detecting this condition? * (This will make manual
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by coldnose 15y ago
Am I mistaken, or is this a whole-cloth Lisa screenshot? http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/xerox-star-8...
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by coldnose 16y ago
You broke my record 191 bytes! http://coldnose-sloth.livejournal.com/1024.html
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by coldnose 17y ago
Kudos, Scientific American!
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by coldnose 17y ago
I performed a little experiment on my MacBook (Core 2 Duo, no hardware acceleration). With flash, rendering 720p h264 routinely eats 100% of the cycles on one of my cores. That same video eats 10-20% in QuickTime. This isn't very scientif

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