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by grondilu 9y ago
Is there any effort towards a webassembly port?
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by grondilu 9y ago
I want to believe there are very smart people studying these "strategic" issues, with mathematical models and stuff. That is : beyond the technical aspects, the implementation strategies, science return/cost ratios and whatn
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by grondilu 9y ago
> He sees children as a way to perpetuate his genes and ensure his existence beyond death. “It’s an atheist’s way to achieve immortality,” he said. This desire is futile and I hope it's not really anchored in the atheist mindset.
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by grondilu 9y ago
Though now that I think about it, if 7% of the human-specific genome was changed, then it must mean that 7% of the rest was changed too. I mean it's not like cosmic particles specifically target human genes, is it?
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by grondilu 9y ago
> I mean.. people can't do math in their head. Who cares? I kind of agree. I guess I can answer to the first question : "If you bought four packs of tea: chamomile ($4.60), green ($4.15), black ($3.35) and lemon ($1.80) with
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by grondilu 9y ago
> According to my memory, and now looked it up: Chimps and bonobos in particular take pride of place as our nearest living relatives, sharing approximately 99 percent of our DNA, with gorillas trailing at 98 percent. I thought of that as
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by grondilu 9y ago
So, what's the catch?
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by grondilu 9y ago
It's not exactly obsolete, but really nobody uses this word casually. I also guaranty you that if you say "étreins-moi" (embrace me) to someone, he will understand it in a sexual way (not "hug me"). The closest may
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by grondilu 9y ago
Well, yeah. There is indeed the kiss on the cheek, called "la bise", which is a fairly common greeting, even between adult males. I've always found it awkward myself, but that may just be me.
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by grondilu 9y ago
Etymologically, yes. "bras" means "arm". "em-bras-ser" this means "take in arms". Strictly speaking, that's still what it means, but if you ask anyone what "embrasser" means, he will
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by grondilu 9y ago
Isn't hugging a very American thing, though? I'm French and I'm pretty sure there's not even a word for that. I don't remember hugging anyone apart from my niece when she was like 5. And now only two years later w
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by grondilu 9y ago
> But if you have something that could just go away naturally, isn't that the case for most diseases?
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by grondilu 9y ago
I wonder if it's somehow related to the French "fou" which means "crazy".
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by grondilu 9y ago
It is indeed not ideal, so there is a drawback, but imho it's worth it.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I'm genuinely starting to think people should just lay down when working with a computer. That's what I do all day long anyway.
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by grondilu 9y ago
It so happens that I was interested in increasing my flexibility anyway. So yeah, I'll definitely look into this.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I'm forty and I can't do it. Like at all. I don't remember ever being able to do it. The main problem is that my ankles are not flexible enough. When I try to squat, my heels inevitably raise above the ground so that I fin
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by grondilu 9y ago
IP is fairly high in the TCP/IP layer stack[1], isn't it? So it shouldn't be too surprising that a transport layer (or link layer? Not quite sure) does not use it, should it? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by grondilu 9y ago
It's a bit paradoxical that homeless people can be a problem in a specific geographic area. By definition, it should be easy to relocate them.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I personally envision quantum computers and machine learning working together to "solve" biology. QC would solve difficult molecular dynamics problems (like protein foldings, enzymatic reactions...) and ML would learn those resul
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by grondilu 9y ago
Ray tracing is typically the kind of things you want to do as fast as possible, ideally in real time. Quantum computers will never work fast. Also if I'm not mistaken ray tracing scales well with conventional computers : the quality o
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by grondilu 9y ago
Very impressive. Any chance the author would be interested in porting Oolite[1] to the web? I started to work on it[2] but gave up eventually[3]. 1. http://www.oolite.org/ 2. http://grondilu.github.io/ooli
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by grondilu 9y ago
The frontier I was talking about is impassable. It's "infinitely in the future", aka "never". That's a whole different level of frontier, imho. Granted, there is a bit of tree falling[1] conundrum here, but th
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by grondilu 9y ago
I think most of what he said is just an interpretation of what the math of classical black-holes says (basically the Schwartzschild equation). This math is uncontroversial and there is no better theory of a black hole, at least at this lev
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by grondilu 9y ago
Yes, but the mass does not have to cross the event horizon for that, does it? At that point we probably can't tell more without diving into the math, and it's beyond my abilities. Yet the gross idea does not seem absurd to me.
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by grondilu 9y ago
> has an infinite number of different stupid questions I think teachers often welcome any question. On coursera for instance teachers are usually available to answer students (via a mail-like interface though, don't expect to chat
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by grondilu 9y ago
> So how do black holes gain any mass then? Well, from our point of view all incoming mass gets stuck very close to the event horizon. That's not too surprising considering the amount of information of a black hole is proportional
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by grondilu 9y ago
It's not "privileging" any thing in the sense that it does not claim one point of view is more valid than the other. It's just that one of these point of view is ours, and from this point of view, the other point of view
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by grondilu 9y ago
A traveler can reach it all right, but only from his own point of view. From the point of view of almost everyone else in the Universe, including us on Earth, it will never ever reach it. It's like the traveler has jumped into an oth
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by grondilu 9y ago
There is a fascinating PBS Space Time video[1] about black holes that questions the very existence of whatever is "inside" a black hole. They point out that as you approach a black hole, your proper time is advancing slower and sl

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