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by inkyoto 1y ago
… yet you have contracted «artificial intelligence» to «AI», have not you? The case for abbreviated keywords will always exist as some will prefer contractions whereas some will have a preference for fully spelled out words. At the opposite
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Vegan leather made out of fungi has been a thing for a while. Next stop is the self-repairing vegan leather also made of the mycelium: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vegan-leather-fungi-repa...
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> The bouncer doesn't photocopy my ID and store it […] It simply means that it has not arrived in your vicinity yet . In Sydney (Australia, not Canada), whilst most venues are satisfied with quick visual checks of one's face &
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Personal experience might not be representative of the actual situation across the board, but it is the experience I have gone through, and it is most assuredly not lying. If you choose to call that lying, that is entirely the choice of you
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by inkyoto 1y ago
I am also of the opinion that we are heading towards the convergence, although it is not very clear yet what the designs are going to converge on. Pretty much every modern CPU is a hybrid design (either modified Harvard or von Neumann), and
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by inkyoto 1y ago
The separation into RAM and external storage (floppy disks, magnetic tapes, hard drives and later SSD etc) is the sole consequence of technology not being advanced enough at the time to store all of the data in memory. Virtual memory subsys
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by inkyoto 1y ago
In skincare, propylene glycol is used as the solvent for ethyl ascorbic acid, not water.
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> The problem is commercialization. Vitamin C is very, very reactive. … hence it oxidises easily. There has recently been a novel development, ethyl ascorbic acid, that is much more stable due to being more inert. It resists the oxidatio
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Can you explain and cite a study reference? I'm not following it. Taking vitamin C by grams will give one a diarrhoea, and a pretty violent one. One of the common strategies to prolong the circulation of vitamin C is to recycle it by c
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by inkyoto 1y ago
… coffee is good for you, coffee is bad for you. Table salt is bad for you, table salt is good for you. Red wine is good for you, red wine is bad for you. We have gone a full circle on each of those so many times. Linus Pauling used IV inje
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Ah, so you are actually talking about the liposome encased ascorbic acid. I have seen a number of products that misrepresented ascorbyl palmitate as liposomal vitamin C, hence the enquiry. Taking any form of vitamin C orally still confers s
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Ascorbyl palmitate («liposomal C»), when taken orally, is absorbed by the same active‐transport and passive‐diffusion mechanisms as plain vitamin C, with the same saturation thresholds. And it has the same problem as ascorbic acid, sodium a
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by inkyoto 1y ago
That is indeed correct.
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Let's not engage in quakery and resort to knowledge instead. Oral and transdermal (topical) application of Vitamin C (and other molecules in general) follow completely different routes with different absorption rates and accompanying n
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by inkyoto 1y ago
There is no need to respond if you can't hold a civilised discourse and choose to descend into directed insults instead. One can't install a Ford made shock absorber on a Honda Civic and vice versa. The time of interchangeable spa
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Let's consider cars (or vehicles in general) as another mainstream example of completely vertically integrated products which comprise hardware and – now – software. Toyota Motor Corp., Volkswagen Group (multiple brands), Hyundai Motor
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by inkyoto 1y ago
PowerPC is a trimmed down subset of the POWER architecture. The latter has a higher number of instructions, and a POWER CPU can execute the generic PowerPC code but not vice versa (unless compiled for the common set of instructions).
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by inkyoto 1y ago
At this point, it is a historical artefact that will cease to exist soon enough. Electric vehicles do not have gearboxes as there are no converters, so there is nothing to shift up or down. A few performance EV's that have been announc
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by inkyoto 1y ago
I think the licence is only valid for the most recent version of Java (I can't remember whether it applies to the JDK only or to the JRE as well), which forces users either to keep on upgrading the Java version (not easily possible for
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Universities do not need Java per se, leave alone Oracle Java. Other than uninformed, spurious Oracle JDK downloads, what usually happens is an academic or a faculty have purchased an app or a software product in the past that performs feat
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Instead of shifting the goalposts, please do yourself a favour and read up on the Untermenschen and the convoluted hierarchy of the sub-humans in the Nazi racial ideology. As an example, since the Nazis harboured particular hatred towards t
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> But if you happened to be in East Europe, WW2 was primarily a war between nazism and communism. WWII in Eastern Europe was a war for the survival of the Slavic peoples whom the Nazis declared to be the Untermensch[0] (Belorussians, Cze
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Nope, not until now. It seems to be a much more modern take on the idea of an object oriented CPU architecture. Yet, there is something about object oriented ISA's that has made CPU designers eschew them consistently. Ranging from the
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Personally, I have a soft spot for VLIW/EPIC architectures, and I really wish they were more successful in the mainstream computing. I didn't consider GPU's precisely for the reason you mentioned – because of their unsuitabil
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by inkyoto 1y ago
That FORTH cannot muster the decency to include a simple «U» in its name rather scuppers any hope of an aesthetic parley before the tea’s even been poured. Joking aside, FORTH’s reliance on the stack as virtually its only data structure – a
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by inkyoto 1y ago
It has been catching up but is still inadequate, at least from the compiler optimisation perspective. The lack of high-performance RISC-V designs means that C/C++ compilers produce all-around good but generic code that can run on most
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by inkyoto 1y ago
There are not really any newer instruction sets as we are locked into the von Neumann architecture and, until we move away from it, we will continue to move data between memory and CPU registers, or registers ↭ registers etc, which means
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Or, if one considers that Icelandic is/was the «orginal» Old West Norwegian language, Norway has ended up with •three* languages.
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The need for regular re-spelling and problems it introduces are precisely my point. Consider three English words that have survived over the multiple centuries and their respective pronunciation in Old English (OE), Middle English around th
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> A phonetic respelling would destroy the languages, because there are too many dialects without matching pronunciations. Not only that, but since pronunciation tends to diverge over time, it will create a never-ending spelling-pronuncia

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