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811.
‘Broadband’ Networks of Viruses May Help Bacteria Evolve Faster(quantamagazine.org)
3 points by fpoling 7y ago|0 comments
812.
by fpoling 7y ago
To avoid that I use readlink in my scripts to read the previous value of the link and call ln -s only when the value is not what is expected.
813.
by fpoling 7y ago
That does not imply that evolution has not tried. Human ancestors had much shorter life span and even millions of years can be not enough to fully adapt the vision for a longer lifespan especially when things works good enough. Witness flat
814.
by fpoling 7y ago
It is only ability to focus that goes down so for a person without myopia only near vision is affected. This is still bad as it affects the gatherer part of hunter-gazerer society, but it does not imply that evolution has not tried to optim
815.
A Prime Breakthrough(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
2 points by fpoling 7y ago|0 comments
816.
Boston startup developing a nuclear fusion reactor just got a roughly $50M boost(techcrunch.com)
4 points by fpoling 7y ago|0 comments
817.
by fpoling 7y ago
The article mentioned that one of the problems is too verbatim taking of notes on laptops. A friend who works as a translator mentioned that when she translated a conversation, she could not remember any details of what she translated after
818.
by fpoling 7y ago
Enterprise and data centers must consider the risk of a supplier not been able to fulfill their contracts. AMD is inherently more risky in the long term than Intel as AMD does not produce chips themselves. So they must offer cheaper product
819.
by fpoling 7y ago
Besides already mentioned benefits the new bytecode is serializable so it is very easy to cache it. Serializable format of AST is a hard problem. WASM was supposed to be like that, but in the final design it became a stack machine.
820.
by fpoling 7y ago
Many people cannot imagine live without phones. Computers at home on the other hand are not perceived as a necessity. And at work typically there is a spare PC or some other way to survive while the computer is under repair.
821.
by fpoling 7y ago
The problem is that market reaction can be too slow. In such case introducing new rules can be good as they destabilize the slow status quo and makes things to move in the desired direction quicker. Berlin government hopes that by restricti
822.
by fpoling 7y ago
On a city level socialist policies are OK and can be even good. This is similar how communism works on a family level. In Soviet Union the problems came from central planning for the whole country with essentially no feedback loops for bure
823.
by fpoling 7y ago
The dependency discussion is wrong. Changing code of a function does not lead to recompilation of callers in most static languages. So if one change circlePerimeter, only that has to be recompiled. But if one changes data structure, then th
824.
Black Hole Starship(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by fpoling 7y ago|0 comments
825.
by fpoling 7y ago
Absence of evidence for free will can be another illusion. If one does not believe in free will, the discussion about justice system is pointless. In this case judges and this discussion are just parts of the puppet show and follow the same
826.
by fpoling 7y ago
One does not need to refer to the brain research. According to physics everything is predetermined and follows from the initial conditions. So free will is an illusion. Also according to physics time flow is another illusion as time-space i
827.
How to build something that lasts 10k years(bbc.com)
4 points by fpoling 7y ago|0 comments
828.
by fpoling 7y ago
I have never experienced positive sides of alcohol consumption. So I am very welcome this trend of having option to go out with friends and have a choice of drinks besides coffee.
829.
by fpoling 7y ago
The is good evidence to suggest that human ancestors started to use fire to cook meat and/or starchy vegetables more than million of years ago. It is enough for evolutionary adaptation. There are even suggestions that it was cooking by
830.
by fpoling 7y ago
Switch from horses to cars where rather abrupt, like within 10-15 years.
831.
BMW helped design this hydrogen-powered flying thing(topgear.com)
2 points by fpoling 7y ago|0 comments
832.
by fpoling 7y ago
Friend of mine said that before moving to US he always thought that scenes in Hollywood movies about guys and girls punching and kicking through the walls were totally ridiculous. After living in Seattle for a while he no longer thinks so.
833.
by fpoling 7y ago
I use containers on my development machine to limit the damage that can be done when I fall victim to malware stuffed into development package. Surely it will not stop a targeted attack. But a generic malware does not bother yet to try to e
834.
by fpoling 7y ago
Instead of hiring two developers to pursue our ideas we should have hired one developer and one sale/marketing person.
835.
by fpoling 7y ago
Typical React code does not know which updates to make. It always builds the Virtual DOM from scratch as is was the first time. It is the diff algorithm then figures out the set of changes. If code knows which updates to make, it essentiall
836.
by fpoling 7y ago
Direct manipulations of DOM are expensive. It is vastly more cheaper to create or update JS object than create or manipulate DOM node. So the claim that VirtualDom is always an overhead is not true. The diff algorithm can give a set of DOM
837.
by fpoling 7y ago
I was told about similar experience in Moscow. To still a small bag from a man at least three thieves were involved. One distracted, one “accidentally” pushed, one picked up the dropped bag.
838.
by fpoling 7y ago
With a good architecture and right tools to detect cycles due to bugs the reference counting works even for complex applications. Essentially this is a trade off between development time versus headache at deployment.
839.
by fpoling 7y ago
Most of the weight of Apollo package at the low earth orbit was fuel. Fueling in space was not considered I suppose as this was too difficult with technologies from sixties. These days it is considered possible, so launching Apollo-size pac
840.
by fpoling 7y ago
Interfaces or bases classes where all methods are pure or empty are often used to implement messages in awkward ways in mainstream OOP languages as the languages lack proper union types.

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