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by mtsr 3y ago
I think the effects of noise on sea mammals is a fairly recent area of research. I know of a researcher who has been working on this as part of research into offshore wind environmental impact. But they were already researching porpoises an
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by mtsr 3y ago
Are they still covered by the patents that made them unattractive initially? Patent expiry could very well be the reason for their increased popularity.
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by mtsr 3y ago
And maybe not being the start of another MS embrace-extend-extinguish ploy.
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by mtsr 3y ago
Too much CO2 is known to lower IQ scores significantly, for the duration of exposure.
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by mtsr 3y ago
> Cyclic references can be dealt with runtime safety checks too - like Rc and Weak. Indeed. Starting out with code sprinkled with Rc, Weak, RefCell, etc is perfectly fine and performance will probably not be worse than in any other safe
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by mtsr 3y ago
Or maybe the commercial misuse of the word free should be challenged? Generally “included (in the price)”, complimentary (costless but usually limited) or another word better fits the situation. But everyday language around this has gotten
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by mtsr 3y ago
And the penalty for non-compliance, another 0.5% fine? So long as repercussions aren’t more serious (see EU fines) or more personal (hold C-suite personally responsible for contempt of court or similar), nothing will change.
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by mtsr 3y ago
Indeed, this is my preferred solution too. Unfortunately this doesn’t protect one from snooping by network intermediaries, although that’s much less of an issue in the EU due to privacy regulations. At least in principle, but it’s hard to b
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by mtsr 3y ago
There’s also doubling the environmental impact of already pretty nasty dishwasher detergent.
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by mtsr 3y ago
You can’t turn off undefined behavior in C++ either. Lifetimes exist whether the language acknowledges them or not. Except if you go to a GC language, but then you’re prototyping other types of stuff than you’d probably pick Rust for.
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by mtsr 3y ago
I run pihole, my own DNS resolver and some other stuff and I get the cloud flare checking your browser page on every single site using cloud flare. Fortunately I haven’t seen the longer blocking you mention.
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by mtsr 3y ago
Competitive salaries with the US isn’t really a thing in countries with socialized healthcare, welfare, etc. With these institutions in place life looks qualitatively different at any salary. Problems start when these institutions get syste
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by mtsr 3y ago
Hex keycaps are definitely less common, but can still be found ( https://www.littlekeyboards.com/products/hex-keycaps ). Or you could get 3d prints of the exact profile you want. Edit: Interestingly, above were also the
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by mtsr 3y ago
But since you can't get much use out of music theory without going through some user interface (a particular instrument or notation), you also need to learn how it's laid out (how one maps onto the other, really). But maybe someth
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by mtsr 3y ago
It'd be interesting to see a fantasy layout: say you were to let go of the computer keyboard layout, how would you set it up? Thumb keys, foot keys, toggles, etc, go wild. Edit: There are decent guides to designing and hand-wiring keyb
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by mtsr 3y ago
This. Patents (excepting those describing otherwise unreproducible inventions) have no real downsides.
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by mtsr 3y ago
I’m sorry if I phrased my comment in a way that offends you. I did not intend it as such and wanted instead to offer such a more fluid view of autism. Not only the definition, like you say, but also how different facets affect each person w
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by mtsr 3y ago
Fair point. But once you start comparing regions that differ in one way (say food between Western European countries), they most likely differ in so many other ways that the analysis becomes very very hard.
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by mtsr 3y ago
Have you got any citations for this? I’d be interested to learn about any more definitive results in this area.
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by mtsr 3y ago
I think it’s worth looking at what different facets are part of being autistic. It might be possible to differentiate between personality characteristics that are important to you (that you associate with your sense of self) and those that
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by mtsr 3y ago
Kind of like ascribing someone’s talents to a handicap (blind musicians, creative people with ADHD, supremely skilled people with autism). If somebody is good at something, they probably put in the hours.
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by mtsr 3y ago
Indeed. Raw pointers are mostly when either crossing FFI barriers (say, calling or being called by C) or when what you want to do can’t be expressed within Rust’s ownership rules without taking on overhead (Rc, cloning, indirections, etc) t
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by mtsr 3y ago
I think some of the snideness is probably due to different senses of what amount of unsafe is actually needed. There’s so much premature optimization in many cases that wouldn’t even come up if the language were Java, Go or whatever. It’s t
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by mtsr 3y ago
I wonder how tractable it would be for the compiler to suggest when your API needs Rc or boxing without being just as wrong in other cases. I think now that too many lists is part of the book, maybe the compiler can link to that in some cas
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by mtsr 3y ago
It’s just the compiler assuming you know what you’re doing. You’re building this data structure on the stack, so it’ll point out where you’re not sufficiently explaining to it how the lifetimes of your code are safe. And even if you build i
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by mtsr 3y ago
It didn’t even need to trickle up, it was exclusively handed out to the top on the assumption of “trickle down economy” being a real thing.
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by mtsr 3y ago
I’ve read one needs to be careful with that because the resulting oxalate isn’t healthy (increases kidney stone risk, for example).
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by mtsr 3y ago
There’s not much you can do since adding chalk (which used to be common for both spinach and rhubarb) just creates the oxalate in the pan instead of your body and you can’t remove it. But cooking with lots of water (very short in the case o
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by mtsr 3y ago
Indeed. Many laws and regulations around government agencies (not US specific, as I’m in the EU) specify what the agency is allowed to do, rather than what it isn’t. This is much easier to enforce, although it does require more regular revi
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by mtsr 3y ago
That depends. Climate change might very well (seasonally) increase cloud cover, vastly decreasing the power produced.

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