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by nine_k 4mo ago
Maybe not many, but some rather large. Say, Congo, or Sudan. But more often that would be not outright warlords but rather corrupt peacetime officials, who would try to extract or extort some additional personal / clan gain from someth
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> Why post it now? Apparently a explanatory document has been extended in a recent commit [1]. Maybe the project is waking up. [1]: https://github.com/rochus-keller/BUSY/commit/d92677084114619...
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Existing PLs are often excessively powerful and complex in some aspects, and not powerful or ergonomic enough in other aspects, pertaining to a particular subject area. A good DSL makes certain things easy, and deliberately does not support
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by nine_k 4mo ago
Failed social institutions are the source of all poverty in the world. The world produces enough of every basic necessity already. It's the distribution, not availability, where the source of hunger and depravity is.
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It sort of worked with malaria mosquitoes.
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Ungulates very often gather in large, close groups in nature, in order to defend themselves from predators, and to conserve heat during night time.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
Why copper? Heavy, thick, expensive, attractive for thieves. Lay fiber: thin, lightweight, less expensive per Gbps, future-proof, corrosion-resistant, lighting-resistant, worthless for thieves.
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Imprisonment? deportation? these are petty things. The serious danger is polarization and radicalization, turning people against each other, suppressing voices of reason. The ensuing chaos could help pull off another January 6th, only succe
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by nine_k 4mo ago
> could buy the entire nation some new rights It's important to remember that rights cannot be received, or bought. Privileges can. Equally easily privileges can be taken away again. But rights can only be won in a fight. Sadly, t
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by nine_k 4mo ago
Indeed. In NYC I do 98% of my shopping by walking. I can reach my doctor by walking. My daughter used to walk to school because it was a 10 minutes walk (and an excellent school). That would be impossible in a suburban setting; at best, on
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by nine_k 4mo ago
This is hilarious! Also corroborates my own experience (also as a father of two). Small kids are actually rather smart, but their very limited experience and thus the sensory and emotional overload (compared to adults) influence their view
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by nine_k 4mo ago
Is this still the case? I was able to find only one fresh comparison, and in it they show approximate parity, with Hanami being slightly faster. https://web-frameworks-benchmark.netlify.app/result?asc=0&f=...
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> mitochondria, which process energy within cells, showed a significantly decreased capacity to burn both sugar and fat in healthy individuals who get less than the recommended 150 minutes of exercise a week. 150 minutes a week is abou
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by nine_k 4mo ago
In short: a bunch of people who like old (as in around year 2000) tech periodically try to achieve something using the tech of the time. Many post on Gemini, a few on Gopher (which already was ancient in 2000).
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Vaccines is homeopathy working, in a way :)
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I remember how google.stanford.edu was a project by two guys, with a lot of makeshift bits. Its search quality was so much higher than of then-incumbents though, it wasn't even funny. Hence the market share growth. I wonder if this pro
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by nine_k 4mo ago
Same effect for me. As a child, I was prone to fall asleep even during live events! The racing cars or motorbikes were interesting, but the drone of the motors brought an overwhelming drowsiness.
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Zero install and locally stored, as one HTML file, or as a web bundle.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
I remember how IE5 used to be the bottom rung to test a design against. (The site renders perfectly for me in Firefox on Linux. I never owned an iPhone. I suppose whatever AI model was working on it also used a single desktop browser.)
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...and a field is just a value that behaves in a particular way. An example outside QFT: phonons [1] behave like particles, but there is no "palpable" sound field, there's only local distribution of implulses of the molecules
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by nine_k 4mo ago
The point, AFAICT, is not in using all capabilities of all the target languages. Rather, it's about expressing some narrower class of computations and grafting them seamlessly into the target languages. Think of data formats, parsers,
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I suppose you can write various algorithms in it, and have that code natively trsnspiled to different languages, for ease of native interoperability. It's unlikely to produce the absolutely most optimized code, but the lack of the inte
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by nine_k 4mo ago
Apparently Haxe cannot target OpenCL. It can target PHP and Lua instead.
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Crime and Punishment is a bona fide detective story / crime novel, and can be enjoyed as such.
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Worse, I see C (as in ! or &&), and Perl (as in manifestly more than one way to do it). There are real improvements though, such as ?. and ??= that help with default-nullable everything. Ternary is very useful, but it I'd rathe
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by nine_k 4mo ago
Rather, let the AI search the web for an idea. If the idea hasn't been published widely in the last 3-4 years, it's a safe topic for a blog post today :) (Next level: unleash the AI to find such under-posted topics, check them aga
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A moderate-size queue is already a problem that Postgres struggles to handle %) But fortunately such problems are rare, and relatively well-known, like, say, doubly-linked lists in Rust. For most other problems, Postgres works well, or at l
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Did you see that implementation of Quake in CSS? Or Tetris in awk? You can do a similar thing with Postgres, and it will be much less insane. Should you run your entire app stack in Postgres? Likely not. Can you? Likely you can.
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In very crude terms, AFAICT , if you have a bunch of matrix multiplications, but one of matrices (the one with model weights) doesn't change, you can seriously speed up the computation. One thing is that you don't need to re-fetc
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> shit It's just a commercial license with very mild terms.

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