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by jbandela1 3y ago
> Grusch last year about intact alien vehicles and non-human “biologics”, or biological matter, stored at a remote facility. I have heard from military friends that they have seen and interacted with non-human creatures on US military ba
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> transporting a passenger in a life or death emergency For a medical emergency, you are better off calling 911. First responders such as EMTs, fire fighters have significant training as well as immediately life saving medications and eq
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by jbandela1 3y ago
If you want a compiled language with strong types, Swift actually is a very nice language for learning. It has very nice ergonomics, and the Swift Playgrounds iPad apps are really nice and engaging.
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Also don’t forget Anna Komnene. She was the oldest daughter of Alexios I (who unwittingly kicked off the Crusades). After unsuccessfully trying to overthrow her younger brother, she was exiled to a monastery where she ended up writing the A
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People don’t really care about of telling the time with those expensive mechanical watches. A quartz watch with a digital display is much easier to tell the time as well as more accurate.
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> It was through the Mongol Empire, Harl writes, that papermaking, block printing, and gunpowder moved from the East to the West, hastening the spread of knowledge and catalyzing Europe’s conquest of the seas. What is interesting is that
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by jbandela1 3y ago
> The cerebellum has a repeated, almost crystal-like neural structure: As a software engineer who did neurosurgery residency, my intuition/guess is that the cerebellum is kind of like the FPGA of the brain. The cerebrum is great for
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I think what is also interesting is what LLMs help us learn about ourselves. I think we understand human intelligence a bit better because of LLMs, and I think people have been surprised how far you could get just by processing text. I thin
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Thanks for the kind words and suggestions. > And make CSV upload for questions possible? (Could be done as text string even with a max length) If you type “7777777” on the game code, a text box where you can bulk enter the questions come
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Show HN: TriviaRex – Trivia combined with find the word(triviarex.com)
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If you are looking for a simple solution for inbox zero for gmail - quickly classify emails as archive, follow-up, read through, take a look at my hacky attempt. https://github.com/google/cpp-from-the-sky-down/blob
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Nice write up. Just to flesh out the third class using C++11. std::atomic<std::atomic<bool>*> lock; // Code that uses lock std::atomic<bool> my_flag = false; auto* other_flag = lock.exchange(&
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> Deployment with Rust backend programs in general can be less than ideal due to having to use Dockerfiles, Actually, in my experience, Rust is one of the best languages for ease of deployment (for much the same reason as Go). Rust/
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The governor should convince Google to build a data center there and paint it blue. Then it can be the Google Azure Amazon data center.
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For an N^2 sorting algorithm, I think insertion sort is superior to bubble sort when you want something simple: http://warp.povusers.org/grrr/bubblesort_misconceptions.html
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> There’s just one catch: No component of the vector describing the system’s state can ever drop below zero. Maybe, this is why we need debt in an economic system, otherwise, certain transactions become intractable.
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> I used to think that way, too, but I don’t any longer. You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about
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Discrete mathematics and calculus. Also, likely Java. I bet there will still be Java code running in 2070.
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> Tanner Greer uses Oswald Spengler, the original chronicler of the decline of genius back in 1914, to point out our current genius downturn. The author has a recency bias. I think the real burst of genius was from 800BC to 300BC. During
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Why do Linux/Unix/Mac developers write shell scripts, when there are so many better languages out there? A large part is it integrates well with the shell and it is ubiquitous. VBA is basically the scripting language of Office. It
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by jbandela1 3y ago
This video of the Apollo 8 launch along with commentary from the astronauts always gives me goosebumps: https://youtu.be/Syf_uLrBAJU?si=Wx-OF1HgtgM5sKaF
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> It is sad that in modern times it never managed to gain at least some basic stability, It is not just about modern times: It was fought over by: * Akkadians * Hittites * Egyptians * Assyrians * Babylonians * Achmenid Persians * Greeks
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by jbandela1 3y ago
Von Neumann described a very elegant way to get fair results from a biased coin. 1. Flip the coin twice 2. If you get the same result both times, goto 1 3. Now that you have different results for your pair of flips, use the first element of
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While I have not read the book, I have listened to and watched Harl's "Barbarian Empire's of the Steppes" on Audible and Wondrium. https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Barbarian-Empires-of-the-Step... It
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This would be a great plot opener for a thriller book: The testing reveals that none of initial batch of warheads tested work. Worry spreads throughout the scientists as they broaden the testing none of the warheads work. There is full on p
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by jbandela1 3y ago
Don't forget one of the most important new utilities in DOS 6: Memmaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DOS_commands#MEMMAKER It would help you change your configuration so that you maximized the amount of c
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What technology has brought is choice and options: A woman can choose to decouple having sex with getting pregnant. A person can choose to live hundreds of miles away from their family yet still visit them every weekend. A person can choose
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Here are the original lists: How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse? - https://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-03-30.html What If I Don't Actually Like My Users? - https://ozlabs.org/~ru
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I wonder how much we can learn from the mainframe era of computing? Instead of each application managing distributed computing and networking, what if the operating system could handle that transparently?
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Visual C++ 1.0 had AppStudio https://ia800108.us.archive.org/5/items/MicrosoftVisualStudi...

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