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by nequo 4y ago
This interview mentions that Starlink’s user agreement includes a clause that says that Mars is “a free planet” and “that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.” This is actually true. Once on Mars,
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by nequo 4y ago
Not debating that it would be good to see more tech start-ups succeed in Europe. But there are a couple clear differences between Europe and the US. 1. Europe is more linguistically fragmented than the US. For example, the EU has 24 officia
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by nequo 4y ago
Google Earth in the browser uses WASM too: https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/webassembly-brings-google-...
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by nequo 4y ago
That wouldn't sound unusual to me at all. Inventors and researchers who break new ground are often from a non-mainstream subculture or from another culture altogether. People from such backgrounds see and approach problems differently.
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by nequo 4y ago
“I simply found it impossible to believe that the mother of the greatest Italian genius would be a non-Italian slave,” he told me Why is this impossible to believe?
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by nequo 4y ago
Eliminating tenure only increases the pressure to chase grants. Tenure is what affords academics the time to pursue research that pays off in 10 years instead of 2.
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by nequo 4y ago
EU West is UTC+2.
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by nequo 4y ago
You and I are alike. I absolutely hate those cookie banners. I always click the reject button just to get rid of the damn thing.
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by nequo 4y ago
Then we could finally live the dream and run Emacs in kernel mode sandboxed inside QEMU.
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by nequo 4y ago
It does: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
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by nequo 4y ago
You write parents in plural at the beginning of your comment but your specific example is about one parent. Have you experienced this with multiple working parents?
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Smalltalk-76 demo on the Xerox Alto (2017) [video](youtube.com)
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Demonstrating GUI text editing on the 1970s Xerox Alto (2017) [video](youtube.com)
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by nequo 4y ago
It's incredible how much of the software development space is owned by Microsoft now. I wonder if they will also buy JetBrains in the foreseeable future?
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by nequo 4y ago
Emacs is not terrible for accessibility. This is Parham Doustdar talking about how he uses Emacs as a blind developer: https://emacsconf.org/2019/talks/08/
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Oxide and Friends – Rust Trademark: Argle-Bargle or Foofaraw? [audio](youtube.com)
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Functional Programming in Lean (final pre-release)(leanprover.github.io)
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by nequo 4y ago
I think that’s what your parent is saying too. The last non-Apache-2-licensed version of the Apache HTTP server was version 1.3.x, and because the OpenBSD project did not accept the Apache 2 license, they forked the Apache HTTP server’s 1.3
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by nequo 4y ago
They don’t want the Rust trademark to be associated with bullets. Is that a bad thing?
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by nequo 4y ago
> Of course, this theory is very unpopular with sufferers of ME such as yourself. This is an unnecessary ad hominem. > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3643988 Unlike your first source, this one
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by nequo 4y ago
Even if that's the case, the source that you have cited does not say that ME is caused only by the patients' psychology. From the abstract of your source: Personality scores explained 36.3% and 41% of the variance in scores on
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by nequo 4y ago
What is the “pollution” by WebGPU that he was referring to?
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by nequo 4y ago
Are you saying that if neuroticism is a cause then neuroticism is the only cause? I’m not an expert but it seems that the causes are pretty much unknown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome#Cause
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by nequo 4y ago
What makes lobbying to regulate your competitors out of existence neoliberal?
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by nequo 4y ago
To me, “computation expression” is significantly more vague than “function” is in Haskell. “Seq” as was suggested by someone else here seems clearer. But I would genuinely be happy to understand the F# point of view on this better.
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by nequo 4y ago
I'm in similar shoes. I was just curious to understand the Canadian situation better. I am not an expert on immigration, nor on crime. From what I have heard, in the US, immigrants have a lower crime rate than US-born citizens. This 20
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by nequo 4y ago
> I'm not necessarily saying that recent immigrants are committing a disproportionate share of crimes I see. The reason I thought that is that you wrote that immigrants haven’t been culturally integrated which seemed in this context
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by nequo 4y ago
Is the excess violent crime committed by recent immigrants? The article says that the spike in violence has even affected First Nations: In Saskatchewan, First Nations leaders are sounding the alarm on a “crisis” of on-reserve violence.
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by nequo 4y ago
The published study (open access!) that the post writes about: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-15245-z
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by nequo 4y ago
What were the thinking patterns that you changed? What did you do to fake it in the beginning?

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