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by jnxx 6y ago
This is perhaps a misunderstanding. Lisp macros are a part of the language. Of course you can use them to make your code unreadable. But what they are used for is to evolve and add definitions for things such as iteration, which in other la
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by jnxx 6y ago
What I am often wondering is why these subsets are not named, while it would increase clearness of communication and what is wanted and needed.
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by jnxx 6y ago
> There isn't any point of using C++ to count words in a text file. Any high-level language like Python will beat you to it. Well, I think that Python will probably do that in the shortest code but it is also more or less the slowes
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by jnxx 6y ago
> This slightly over 100 page book on move semantics https://leanpub.com/cppmove shows some of the iceberg like complexities dotted all over the place. Some developers probably never use and have never even heard of move
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by jnxx 6y ago
> How are smartphones and tablets different from laptops and regular phones in this regard? Smartphone location tracking data is extremely high-dimensional and sensitive. It is capable of revealing a lot of things which you might not eve
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by jnxx 6y ago
> but if the CCP were to strategically release a virus into the world, what better way to give them a competitive advantage than to give a non-negligible percentage of their global competitors chronic fatigue? Viewed through that lens, i
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by jnxx 6y ago
> We still barely understand Covid. We do not even understand well what it does to the brain of children. It definitively has neurological effects in some people and there could be really undesirable long-term effects we still do not kno
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by jnxx 6y ago
The interesting thing is that the herd immunity threshold, be it from vaccinations or from countless people becoming infected, depends on the R0. (I guess the herd immunity threshold is just 1/R0, because R0 times this threshold would
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by jnxx 6y ago
> One way to break out of the prisoner's dilemma is to place an outside cost on 'defecting' from the socially optimal choice; There might exist additional effective measures: 1. requiring by law that companies, hospitals a
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by jnxx 6y ago
> which enter a blanket So, what is that blanket made of? It needs to be a material which: - can withstand high temperatures and radiation - does not becomes radioactive itself - facilitates production of Tritium by breeding - operates i
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by jnxx 6y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monju_Nuclear_Power_Plant Yep. And anything touched by the neutron flux would become radioactive if it captures neutrons. For example steel, normal steel contains carbon, carbon captu
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by jnxx 6y ago
> Unlimited, non-radioactive fuel Nuclear fusion in the existing designs absolutely needs Tritium as one component of fuel, and Tritium can so far only be produced in Uranium reactors, in very small quantities and at an extremely high
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by jnxx 6y ago
It is a total show-stopper because you don't have the amount of Tritium to power such a reactor.
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by jnxx 6y ago
Applied physicist here. The other thing is: Existing fusion concepts need to use a reaction between Deuterium and Tritium, otherwise it's just infeasible. Deuterium exists in nature and can be produced with some form of isotope separat
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by jnxx 6y ago
It is 2% of mostly completely needless carbon emissions which are produced exclusively by the richest 1% of Earths population. Considering the distribution of benefits for very few and costs for all, it is an entirely predatory technology.
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by jnxx 6y ago
> Cutting one's emissions by half is most likely not easy at all It is very easy if you travel by plane several times per year, even on short distances, and you just stop to do that. In fact, it is probably the most effective thing
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by jnxx 6y ago
And, what also needs to be pointed out: It is, functionally, a user name. Not a password.
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by jnxx 6y ago
Said the Japanese monk to the hot dog vendor: "Make me one with everything" :)
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Like suddenly demanding you register a credit card with them when you have perfectly fine working other payment methods.
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by jnxx 6y ago
This is an important aspect. People are not aware how big the difference of this is to the usual account name and password. If you want to start over and register a new account, you can have that. Not with this technology. And with the amou
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Chernobyl’s Bugs: The Art and Science of Life After Nuclear Fallout(smithsonianmag.com)
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by jnxx 6y ago
There are many things we do not understand about radiation. The traditional models on radiation dosis and health effects are probably too simple. There is a strain of research on epigenetic effects of ionizing radiation: https://
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by jnxx 6y ago
Fascinating. From page 8, §11, in the section on "Unterpläne", it looks also as if it used a kind of function calls and subroutines. "Plan" seems to mean "program", so "Unterplan" is literally subprog
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by jnxx 6y ago
It is not only e-commerce. A digital information network like the Internet is without doubts of great usefulness, be it commerce, business, science, or keeping personal relations. However, a communications network where trustworthiness, int
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by jnxx 6y ago
One thing is that the prevalence of infection with subsequent immunity which has "herd immunity" without mass vaccination as a result, depends on the R factor. This is because immunity lowers the number of people which the infecti
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by jnxx 6y ago
> benchmarks of C++20 modules in GCC both show about 3x speedup compared to what? The worst possible case? Code in weakly coupled modules? Using PIMPL idiom? Unity builds? Using ccache in incremental builds? Especially ccache is a releva
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by jnxx 6y ago
> It's designed first and foremost to work with vendored dependencies in a monorepo So how is that suitable for distributed open source projects? I understand this is how Google works, but open source?
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by jnxx 6y ago
And compare that to a few hundred bytes to bootstrap the whole Guix system.
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by jnxx 6y ago
> you need: > > - a previous version of Bazel Why do all these systems seem to need to prove Goedel's theorem? What is wrong with providing a tool that builds portably with a simple C compiler?
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by jnxx 6y ago
And would it not be much easier to use apenwarrs redo?

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