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by est31 5y ago
> I can't find a good reference for neuron count https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059090 DNA labelling and analyses of confocal z-series reveal that the brain of Macrobiotus cf. harmsworthi contains
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by est31 5y ago
Another example for a 10x developer would be fabrice bellard. I've participated in this year's advent of code and usually needed dozens of minutes if not hours to solve examples. Then you see some of the videos from streamers on t
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by est31 5y ago
Git is the subject of the linked e-mail. Mercurial is the big contender to git that is not written in a C language. Their response to Hg's performance issues was not to use or create some Python feature that allows them to speed up s
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by est31 5y ago
> C# always had value types with configurable in memory layout. It also has a very good mmap solution. It also allows for hand optimize things using unsafe blocks. And C has inline assembly. Doesn't mean that most C code will use in
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by est31 5y ago
Yeah, a ponzi scheme bases on exponential growth and if you know the fake dividend size as well as the size of your economy, you can create upper limits for its lifetime, while speculative asset bubbles are different. They don't give g
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by est31 5y ago
Gattaca shows a society in which eugenics, in hopes of creating a shortcut for people who have supposedly the better genes, devolved into a society where someone who did not have genetic augmentation could outcompete a whole bunch of gene
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by est31 5y ago
Software is eating the world and it's mostly through proprietary licensing models. But this doesn't mean that the fight is lost. In fact quite the opposite: it means that FLOSS is more needed than ever. Generally, when a new area
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by est31 5y ago
Yeah the manual is why I, a millenial who is way too young to see such technology, could make such a comment in the first place.
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by est31 5y ago
PDP-6's Type 360 CRT had a reachable resolution of 1024x1024 pixels, with 3 bit per pixel for intensity level. I was a vector based screen so was operating a bit differently compared to modern framebuffer based screens. Works for text
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by est31 5y ago
> https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-dir-onions-seen.html Your link shows that there were about 170k v2 onion addresses in September 2020, while there were about 550k v3 onion addresses at that same date. The trends
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by est31 5y ago
That's a fair point. What GP said came across a bit wrongly though, almost sounding like a covid denier just for STDs. STDs are a real thing, and they have profoundly negative impacts upon society. As to those teaching practices, they
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by est31 5y ago
> stop dramatizing and fear-mongering over the impact of STDs 36 million people have died from AIDS related illnesses since the start of the pandemic: https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet HIV has affe
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by est31 5y ago
I think the main issue about automatted unit/integration testing is not the language, but the area you are writing code in. Yes, C++ not having good unit test support hurts. But it hugely depends on the problem domain and whether the o
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by est31 5y ago
Yeah I remember that in the past, maybe so 5+ years ago, I used to phrase things in a certain way to please their algorithm. This is not needed any more. Sometimes it doesn't grasp concepts and returns false results. But this has becom
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by est31 5y ago
Apple, and most other companies in the industry, are still writing code in languages that don't have implicit bounds checking. Let alone all the code that they have written years ago that they still keep deploying. Nobody is going to
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by est31 5y ago
Yeah you can basically arbitrarily expand or restrict the circle of people. If I don't use the internet otherwise but I go to a machine to buy myself a train ticket. The machine is internally connected with the train company's ser
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by est31 5y ago
If you want to go into management, then why do you waste 10+ years going from junior to senior to principal and so on until you finally get to manage your first small team? The people who went for management from the start would be way ahea
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by est31 5y ago
It's not about strong vs weak governance. It's just that the US government represents the 401ks invested in the FAANGs, as well as the FAANG employees, and the european governments represent the people that the FAANGs offer servic
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by est31 5y ago
Hah, reminds me of this issue where 90% of the content is spam: https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/issues/499
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by est31 5y ago
Why is Kubernetes up there? Webkit and Swift I get, they are two major projects started and maintained by Apple people. But I can't find Apple mentioned a single time if I ctrl+f in the the Kubernetes Wikipedia article. Nor has it appa
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by est31 5y ago
And the implant will also disable your vocal cords for the sharing of bad or good opinions about the movie. Whether it's the good or bad ones that are being blocked depends whether the publisher runs ad campaigns through Neuralink or n
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by est31 5y ago
Quoting the critical parts of those opinions: > Sildenafil is more often prescribed to wealthy people and low socioeconomic status is associated with higher risk of Alzheimer’s. > There are other possible explanations for these findin
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by est31 5y ago
Programs running natively on a computer have some security measures in place that wasm binaries lack, while wasm has other security measures in place that native programs lack. Quoting the "Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security
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by est31 5y ago
Think of some online banking application written in C++ and compiled to the web. With js, they only have to worry about css exploits and similar. If they use C++, suddenly they also have to worry about all the C++ bugs, too.
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by est31 5y ago
One Plus, using a number and a sign, is lazily named as opposed to what? A company that's named after a misspelled number? A company named after the first two greek letters? A company named after a river in south america? A company nam
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by est31 5y ago
> No wonder why normal people like walled gardens, the UI is more streamlined and (mostly) more respectful. Oh wow that's actually a good point, never thought about it that way. You are spot on I think, besides some heavy attempts b
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To your first point, regardless of which class of people you consider for UBI inclusion, even if you only consider citizens of the USA, it will have a tremendously attractive effect for billions of people around the globe. Even now quite ma
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by est31 5y ago
I'm in favour of UBI, but note that it'd require extremely strict immigration policy as well as good enforcement of it, which is generally something the left very much dislikes. As already seen with covid aid, people wouldn't
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Note that German infrastructure is at its limits in terms of how many tests can be done or whether the health office can track down the people a known covid case has been in contact with. Due to the sheer size of the wave, the percentage of
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by est31 5y ago
The greatest works of past times are "shitty fan works". In the eras before copyright, people were taking each other's works all the time, and improving upon it.

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