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by eggy 4y ago
<< it may be the first example of a new fungal disease emerging from climate change, with the caveat that many other factors may have contributed.>> Significant or not? <<many other factors may have contributed>> &lt
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by eggy 4y ago
Having worked on safety-critical, custom circuitry and programming, particularly in the entertainment engineering field, I find the prolific use of Arduinos, RPis, and ESPs, to be concerning. You pay more for an equivalent industrial board,
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by eggy 4y ago
Yes, climate change is the culprit for all ills, or at least that's what you read everywhere ;) Climate change was mentioned on "The Last of Us" episode 1, at the start. Aside from fictional references, there are fungi that c
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by eggy 4y ago
Well played. I do find HN to be full of "expert" commentators on any subject matter even if they aren't ;) Remember David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum in Independence Day) figured out how to defeat the alien invaders by uploading
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by eggy 4y ago
I read Hoyle and Wikiramasingh's books back in the late 70s and 80s. Fun reads and thought-provoking no matter what side you fall on the Panspermia argument. To those who downplay it as not really being RNA, this is one mission to a ne
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by eggy 4y ago
My first thought is that the distractions on your smartphone are more vapid and and they keep you from noticing the real world around you. The equivalent I can recall was reading books on the NYC subway on the way to High School or home. Th
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by eggy 4y ago
A giant ice cream cone in the desert, no less!
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Extempore is quite cool and touches upon many aspects of audio and sound processing, specifically generative music or livecoding. https://github.com/extemporelang
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by eggy 4y ago
My original comment was more concerned about losing financial opportunity in the U.S., so S. Korea being good doesn't figure in that argument for me.
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by eggy 4y ago
I used min. wage as a Fermi solution - back of the envelope - since I am not an industry expert or insider and the product was an HN comment. The article about the Ohio plant was quoted for the 50,000 jobs figure. I am interested in manufac
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by eggy 4y ago
Or Ada/SPARK2014?
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by eggy 4y ago
Calling Zig from Haskell is a nice variant, and adds something over C. https://luctielen.com/posts/calling_zig_from_haskell/
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by eggy 4y ago
So that's about 2.3x more money in 20 years than the U.S. plans to spend on the plant in Ohio that will supposedly create 50,000 jobs. The minimum wage is $10.10 in Ohio vs. $7.28 with the latest increase in South Korea for 2023. That&
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by eggy 4y ago
The Intel ME chip runs Minix, so I guess Minix runs a lot more than it would seem![1] [1] https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064/minix-the-most-...
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by eggy 4y ago
I meant they were special compared to Western market models, but there are usually large, famous ones in any Chinese city compared to any small, limited 'wet market'. In Macau it was Hung Kai Sie (Red Market), which takes up an e
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by eggy 4y ago
Check out APL and Futhark. There are some nice examples of ANNs implemented in J and APL[1]. I am currently studying hardware efforts for neuromorhic systems. The array model is great, but when running on von Neumann architectures you lose
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by eggy 4y ago
On my second round of children, and I track these things. The article is distracting if you are used to reading well-written text. You need to watch a bunch of one-liners with swiping graphics to get to the 'meat' of the argument.
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by eggy 4y ago
I believe it was an accidental leak of a modified coronavirus in order to study possible epidemiology even if from the lab, and not a bio weapon. Spring Festival? If it started in Oct-Dec 2019, it would be around Golden Week. Chinese Spring
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by eggy 4y ago
I'll have to check this book out. I was learning J 12 years ago, and I happened upon this book, "Network Performance Analysis Using the J Programming Language" from 2008.[1] J is very mathy, and this was a great way to learn
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by eggy 4y ago
I don't think it is just 'evil' China here. I think this is the US, China, and other world researchers who with NIMBY were doing research on coronaviruses and modifying them. Let's not use racism to mask the military-ind
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by eggy 4y ago
I lived in Macau for 6 years, and I went to Wuhan more than a few times. How is "several miles away from the virology lab, and across the river.", a virology lab that specifically studies coronaviruses, be so much more unlikely th
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by eggy 4y ago
A quick syntax question: std.debug.print("{} ", .{n}); What is the '.' before '{n}' for? Thanks!
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by eggy 4y ago
I was a Minix fan before Linux, and Linus studied Minix to write Linux. I thought a microkernel was better than a monolithic kernel for security, reliability, portability, and simplicity reasons. But then again, Betamax was the better video
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by eggy 4y ago
What about Clasp or ABCL?
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by eggy 4y ago
It is for a three-day return-to-office, not full time. Given the state of the economy, I'd be worried about just quitting. It seems during the pandemic tech workers went for broke and took car leases and moved away banking on being abl
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by eggy 4y ago
The same for me. I love Rhino, and Rhino8 will have RhinoCode that I can use with F# instead of C# or Python. I was one of about 50 to 100 people who gave money back in early 2000s to take Blender opensource, and I used it to create wood ca
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by eggy 4y ago
Whenever there are large paradigm shifts in culture, business, or technology, there is a shift in winners and losers, so I agree this is wishful thinking.
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by eggy 4y ago
Quite the opposite. Learning a Lisp or an Array language will build your skills and make you a better programmer. Syntax should fade as a criteria as you become proficient in various PLs. For example, the sum of a list (not running or cumul
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by eggy 4y ago
It all comes down to printing costs and what percent they pay on the profit. Lulu seems to offer a higher percentage to the author as a metric to your question. Interestingly, Amazon has like 2.4 billion site visits vs. Lulu's 2 millio
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by eggy 4y ago
Andrew Ilachinski's book, "Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe" is phenomenol and broad and covers a lot. Highly recommended if you are into CA.

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