correct_horse

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by correct_horse 6y ago
I can suggest "The Selfish Gene". It is about evolutionary biology, not molecular biology. I'm not really sure what you're looking for.
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by correct_horse 6y ago
> Biology is non-toxic Except for the toxic organisms (poison frogs, newts, fish, etc.). The best you can say on this line of thinking is that biology is biodegradable, except even that isn't true. Modern diatoms don't biodegra
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by correct_horse 6y ago
I did not realize how inconsistent python versioning is, or that compatible release (`~=`) doesn't use the semver way. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#compatible-release
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by correct_horse 6y ago
LLVM had a C backend which went unmaintained until the Julia folks picked it up and updated it for LLVM 10. I'm not sure about its current state.
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by correct_horse 6y ago
pyca/cryptography replaced C code with Rust code without bumping the major semver. This broke people's CI because it removed support for certain platforms which Rust barely supports or doesn't support at all. People are argui
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by correct_horse 6y ago
The authors of that article pulled off a motte and bailey fallacy[1]. The motte is "There should be message forwarding limits and group size limits on encrypted messaging platforms". > It’s interesting to note that WhatsApp has
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by correct_horse 6y ago
Hm. I didn't consider that interpretation.
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by correct_horse 6y ago
Slight correction - temperatures are not higher than ever before. The eocene (60 million years ago) was 10-14 degrees hotter than now. That level of warming would be bad to say the least, but it has easily been this hot before. Also relevan
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by correct_horse 6y ago
The bitcoin folks correctly point out that if cash were invented today it would be made illegal. I suspect that if unmoderated conversation with strangers were invented today it would face a similar fate.
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by correct_horse 6y ago
I probably shouldn't have said newly C++, but my frame of mind was relative to the lifespan of the language. > Rewriting the Rust std lib to use RefCell everywhere would be possible, but would make it almost entirely useless. Maybe
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by correct_horse 6y ago
This article compares the hierarchical nature of the type system of OOP languages (think Java) with the hierarchical nature of ownership in languages with Ownership/Move semantics (Rust and newly C++). The author notes that "compo
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by correct_horse 6y ago
I'm not sure if this is a joke, but I'll humor you. Yes - it's called git.
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by correct_horse 6y ago
Python is a bad example. Cython and pypy are very widely used. IronPython, Jython, etc. also exist. Go is a better example, but even Go has a gcc backend, although it is rarely used in production as I understand.
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by correct_horse 6y ago
mmap is more general than memory mapping files. It "establish[es] a mapping between an address space of a process and a memory object". In particular, many allocators (malloc and friends) use mmap to get a block of memory from the
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by correct_horse 6y ago
Call me pedantic, but mmap is a syscall. The title would have been better as "Why memory mapped files are faster". The author does address this with "Mmap stands for memory-mapped files." It does? I thought mmap stands
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by correct_horse 6y ago
Nuclear fusion happens in man-made thermonuclear bombs. I believe it also happens in research reactors that require more energy than they produce due to various inefficiencies.
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by correct_horse 6y ago
It won't sublimate if it is always in the shade/in a cold region. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phase_diagram_of_water.... . At martian surface pressures (close to 0) it needs to be warmer than ~ -6
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by correct_horse 6y ago
gson uses reflection to serialize types, including standard library types, which are not guaranteed to have the same fields from one release to another. Presumably the people who write the jdk realized this potential source of bugs and trie
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by correct_horse 6y ago
Blinn's law says: As technology advances, rendering time remains constant. Usually applied to computer (i.e. 3D) graphics, but seems applicable here too.
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by correct_horse 6y ago
This is generally accurate, but I want to highlight the awesomeness of opaque structs. In C you can declare a struct in a header file, but not its fields ie struct point;. Then in the corresponding c file you can write out the whole definit
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by correct_horse 6y ago
In addition to these excellent points, the "1 ms" pixel response time is measured grey to grey i.e. favourable to the display and not real-world. The bigger problem with advertised pixel response times is there is no industry stan
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by correct_horse 6y ago
I was going to ask how you plan to prevent fake reviews, but this mostly answers that. Curious to see where you'll go after being stretched too thin.
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by correct_horse 6y ago
Shoutout to the lovely pyo3 library for letting you incrementally rewrite small parts of your Python in Rust.
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by correct_horse 6y ago
I'm a bit uninformed as well. Obviously it must use assembly in some places, it has makefiles for building and some scripts in perl. Here's what a cloc clone has to say. tokei ============================================
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by correct_horse 6y ago
The banned channel apparently contained mostly "vintage audio repair", not exactly Google's bread and butter. Also they allow numerous other creators doing repair (ifixit, louis rossman, even the channel that posted this vide
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by correct_horse 6y ago
Upon first reading, I thought this meant baggage claim carousels
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by correct_horse 6y ago
All the examples are for validating JSON, and the documentation repeatedly mentions JSON, but I can't tell if this project is usable with non-JSON serialization formats. It never explicitly mentions that it is JSON-only.
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by correct_horse 6y ago
Tl;dr React Native communicates with native threads over json, which can be slow. Soon the JS will call native (UI) methods directly.
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by correct_horse 6y ago
I'm not sure that facebook does it for the "promoted" text, but they have been known to mess with layout to make text difficult to detect. For example each character of a word might be in a separate <div> and be strange
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by correct_horse 6y ago
This is a fair concern, and I hope Signal Addresses it at some point, but Telegram is no replacement. From Telegram's Wikipedia page "The default messages and media use client-server encryption during transit.[19] This data is als

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