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by est31 1y ago
It is comparatively easy for a mathematician to relocate, given that, like most scientists, they already have world spanning international networks, and unlike other sciences there is no need for expensive lab equipment. Stuff like LIGO is
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by est31 1y ago
Initial infection and persistence are different things, and the reservoir for HIV builds up early on, but not immediately. There is definitely at least one reproductive cycle in between the first infected cells and the creation of a reservo
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by est31 1y ago
It's everywhere. One example is probably blacksmiths. Before, each larger village used to have one. Nowadays, this is not the case any more as people order replacement parts for whatever metal piece that broke in your car, house, etc.
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by est31 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu8ClwrTpbA
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by est31 1y ago
It's hard to overstate how much southern Germany, Switzerland, France, and northern Italy are profiting from the new alpine tunnels being bored: Basis Brenner tunnel, Lyon-Turin tunnel, and the Gotthard base tunnel. Last one already op
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by est31 1y ago
Tech companies love to show off that they are using AI, how they are embracing it, etc. Among engineers, there is also a growing community of folks who embrace tools like Cursor, Chat GPT, Gemini, v0, etc. When it comes to artists, I have l
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by est31 1y ago
How is the size defined for a gas planet? The gas density just keeps dropping, where do you draw the line (isosurface, rather)? Earth's radius is always the one without earth's atmosphere.
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by est31 1y ago
I wonder how the energy requirements are distributed between training and inference. Training should be extremely flexible, so one can only train when the sun shines and nobody uses the huge amount of solar power, or only when the wind turb
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by est31 1y ago
There is some light at the end of the tunnel. I suppose the patent runs out early next year, as the drug was released in 2005 and the generic which is already available but volume limited also has that volume limitation until January 31, 20
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by est31 1y ago
> All objects within our universe rotate, including planets, stars, solar systems, galaxies, and galaxy clusters. Moreover, black holes, spherically symmetric objects with horizons, display near maximal rotation as presented by Daly (201
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by est31 1y ago
> without risking/gambling your own capital by exercising them. Many companies offer early exercise, so you can reduce the amount you gamble by a lot. Also, you already "pay" in terms of opportunity costs by being at that
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by est31 1y ago
Even with 1x preferences, the company might have raised $2 billion but sells for $1 billion because the investors don't want to get any further losses. The general rule of thumb is that acquisitions are bad for employees, and IPOs are
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by est31 2y ago
Also this meme: https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html AI diplomats talking to each other, while humans stick to communicating via bullet points.
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by est31 2y ago
Miri is the closest to a UB specification for Rust that there is, coming in the form of a tool so you can run it. It's really cool but Valgrind, which is a C tool that also supports Rust, also supports Rust code that calls to C and tha
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by est31 2y ago
It has also way less tooling available than C to analyze its safety.
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by est31 2y ago
There is alternatives for now. But if Google has to sell off Chrome, they will also be less motivated to pay as much for Firefox as they do now. Then what is remaining for Linux if the Chromium reskins are gone? Webkit builds?
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by est31 2y ago
I agree. If Chrome is sold off, the new owners might think its uneconomic to maintain a (desktop) Linux port, keep it open source, or they might make it even less standards based than it is now.
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by est31 2y ago
hn thread about this (with some interesting comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43046631
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by est31 2y ago
Companies like Uber live off solely from the "we have a large war chest of money to kill competition" moat model where any competition in some area can be killed easily as long as you are much larger than them and can afford to lo
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by est31 2y ago
I would classify ITER as basic research instead of a commercial nuclear power plant. I didn't know that Enel operates nuclear power plants, that's interesting, but they seem to come from an acquisition of Endesa and have been cons
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by est31 2y ago
Russia's large market share is rather in uranium enrichment than uranium mining. That's what I meant when I wrote "nuclear fuel".
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by est31 2y ago
Indeed rooftop solar is something that rich people benefit from the most: it's a fun gimmick that people who own houses can use to dodge taxes and network fees. The most cost effective solar deployments are larger industrial setups due
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by est31 2y ago
Italy is one of the best countries in the EU to do solar in. https://solargis.com/resources/free-maps-and-gis-data?locali...
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by est31 2y ago
Italy neither has the engineers to build a nuclear power plant, they would have to ask another nation, like Russia, Canada or France, to build it for them. And where does the nuclear fuel come from? Russia.
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by est31 2y ago
ios is capabilities based, no? Edit, to explain: in ios, everything revolves around mach ports, which are capabilities. https://docs.darlinghq.org/internals/macos-specifics/mach-po...
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by est31 2y ago
It's still possible that drivers might be so buggy that a newer OS version might interact with them in a slightly different way which is still legal by the API definition but it still makes them crash or stop working.
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by est31 2y ago
She tried to enter the USA from Tijuana. From what I read, they are extra strict at the land border to Mexico. General advice to tourists that I read is to not to enter the USA from there. Environments always determine how law enforcement t
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by est31 2y ago
It depends really which compiler you are testing and whether the version you are testing has just been released or has been around for some time. If the compiler is for a niche language, then it's possible to find bugs. If the compiler
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by est31 2y ago
Note that NixOS's "build" step often actually doesn't do any compilation. Often it's just downloading a binary from github releases and runs NixOS's specific binary tools on it to make it look for libraries in
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by est31 2y ago
Customers use currencies if it lets them buy stuff. Shops accept currencies if people come and want to buy stuff with that currency. In touristy places, it's common to see people list their prices using currencies from common originati

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