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> When people say "violating section 230," rather than correcting them it's more instructive to understand what they're trying to communicate. I think the first priority is to ensure that the poster's misinforma
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Python has a perfectly useful CFFI. There's no need to write an extension module.
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You find Emacs to have a faster startup time than Python?
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If you want to improve startup for a script that you use frequently consider using one of the app builders such as PyOxidizer[1]. They do work to improve startup by embedding all the modules in the binary and then loading them from memory.
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I've expanded on my objections a bit in a sibling comment, but to address "/s": it doesn't have many of the emoji drawbacks. It is literal shorthand for a well-defined word whose definition can be found. It is vis
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I appreciate the response, and the emphasis on adding emotional context in a shorthand. However: - There are over 3,000 emojis defined in unicode, which is a very large vocabulary in which to become expert. - There is no well-defined meani
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I think a reply that simply dismisses phone number outing as something unimportant is fairly offensive, and does not advance the case you are making.
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> The Signal group has an uncompromising commitment to user privacy Would you say that outing people who are signal users and putting them in signal contact lists without their permission is 'uncompromising commitment to user priv
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I am astounded that anyone thinks that adding emojis can solve anything related to clarity of communication. We might as well be interpreting Egyptian cartoushes, for the lack of clarity involved.
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> Remember, if the info platform monopolies help the democrats today, they can help the republicans tomorrow. Facebook has had its thumb on the 'balance' scale in favor of ultra-right-wing sites for half a decade, at least. -
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Influenza and coronaviruses have native (animal) reservoirs that keep pumping out new / novel variants, which makes extinction highly unlikely.
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Yah, that's a railgun, but it's not what everyone around CEM called the railgun. The difference being one between a .50 caliber machine gun and something that can sink a ship from 100km away. I worked across the street from CE
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There is a paper [1] published that documents one of the early 1980's designs they used. [1] https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/30...
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The flywheels GP refers to were homopolar generators [1]. They created an impressive current pulse, and extracted almost all the kinetic energy in less than one revolution. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homopolar
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> And why were the other coronaviruses that infect humans left out of the study Because one of them, SARS-1 went extinct in just over a year due to a heroic international response, and the other, MERS, has about a 35% fatality rate and i
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Anyone who describes the Energiewende nuclear draw down as having caused coal consumption to rise is propagating misinformation. While there may be some small, tightly qualified way in which the statement can be twisted to be true the impre
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Let’s use German industry data[1] Fuel 2010 2019 (TWH) Lignite 145.9 113.9 Hard Coal 117.0 57.3 Nuclear 140.6 75.1 Renewables 105.2 244.3 Natural Gas 89.3 91.0 That’s as of 9 months ago. Sinc
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> There was also software to make the image of the page appear flat, rather than curved as most books appear when laying open Yes, they projected a grid (using red light, I believe) on the page so they could compute the curvature to re-p
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It is amazing to me that this concept, syndication of subscribers, is completely unexplored at this late date and after such carnage in the industry. There have been dozens or hundreds of content syndication efforts, all failures, but no on
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We can build a lot more carbon free generation, much quicker, and reduce the carbon load of the atmosphere quicker by never ever building anther nuclear plant and instead use that money for renewables, transmission, and storage. It is simpl
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Um, are you sure about that? I can think of at least two.
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Germany has cut coal use in half since the wind-down of the nuclear fleet began. Please do not repeat misinformation.
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Betteridge's law of headlines always applies. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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There certainly is if you're talking about knowing the difference between lanes, or between an elevated section or the surface street below, or any number of other things that affect the speed designation of the roadway.
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The correct answer to that is "build a frictionless transition feature so that when they cancel the product we can pick up all their paying customers with no acquisition costs." Also, "send them flowers every product birthday
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In a situation where you want to rapidly ramp a generator's output up or down, Xenon poisoning narrows the window of reactor control system authority. This prevents the reactor from achieving full power on a reasonable time scale.
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and higher precision.
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I think that your original comment is the one that risks over-generalization. The "software gets slower" perception is in a very narrow technical niche: user interface/user experience for consumer applications. And it has a
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> If you're mentoring a 25 year old you'll have to prove yourself to them every day. No, you won't. If they don't want to listen to you, they don't have to. As a mentor it's my job to listen to them and gu
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I think a better answer than I could give can be found at [1]. One pull quote they highlight: But the White House advisory report cited research, including a study of progress over a 15-year span on a benchmark production-planning task. O

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