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901.
by ordu 5y ago
I mean, that it doesn't matter how many axons are there, because no one is going to lay them one-by-one.
902.
by ordu 5y ago
Just grow nerves to the stem of the brain. Axons could do it, they did for everyone who was born with healthy eyes. It would be quite an achievement though, because axons navigate their way by a gradients of some chemicals, which probably d
903.
by ordu 5y ago
It is an old idea. In a 1875 the first EEG showed waves. Then, naturally, theories like "alpha-rhythm is a consciousness" sprung into existence. Only at the end of XX century they became deprecated.
904.
by ordu 5y ago
> astronomically low costs =) It seems Musk had changed the meaning of "astronomically".
905.
by ordu 5y ago
Couldn't salty conductive water protect electronics in the ocean from a solar storm?
906.
by ordu 5y ago
All the UI code. It is a legacy created for text-terminal. It works in a graphic environments due to hacks, but it is sad. If emacs was built on top of a decent ui-toolkit, with nice widgets, like checkboxes, buttons, menus, scrollbars (i d
907.
by ordu 5y ago
> How prevalent is Nazism in Russia? There were Nazi groups in 1990s and 2010s, then government policies stopped them mostly. It all started with forbidding nazis, then were atheists insulting religious people, now it came to forbiddin
908.
by ordu 5y ago
This way allow you to hide. A tight group of obstacles will give away your position and it will be demolished with a bazooka. Though an attacker might calculate the possible location of your body and use a grenade. But it might be unsafe fo
909.
by ordu 5y ago
They would be deterministic. But they are unpredictable. Minuscule fluctuations (coming from influence of some much smaller bodies, that are not in the model, or approximations in calculations) can lead to dramatic differences in the outcom
910.
by ordu 5y ago
> ... but c'mon... I have read this literally. Honestly. And I have really imagined big footprints and a scientist tracing them with a hand lens. My mind was blown away. I've read then comments here, and now I see, that it is
911.
by ordu 5y ago
They didn't retrace steps , they analyzed isotopes concentrations in different parts of tusks, which were constantly growing through the lifetime of the mammoth.
912.
by ordu 5y ago
One of aphorisms of Kozma Prutkov[1] was this: "Throwing pebbles into the water, look at the ripples they form on the surface. Otherwise this activity will be an empty amusement." I believe, that throwing pebbles into black hole,
913.
by ordu 5y ago
No. I even believe that non-builtin types behaving like numbers might use operators. But lists, arrays, strings behave not like numbers. They allocate memory, they reuse memory for values, they have operations of non O(1) complexity, and so
914.
by ordu 5y ago
> a + is way more readable. I believe it works much like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Language designers think that it is more readable, so they do it. Language users use it and became habituated to it. So it becomes more readable becau
915.
by ordu 5y ago
I think, divisions by zero would happen.
916.
by ordu 5y ago
> The original Charmin roll of toilet paper, he says, had 650 sheets. In Soviet Russia... (it is a kind of legend, I would not vouch for its truth value) A roll of toilet paper was of 52 meters length. It was because the standard calib
917.
by ordu 5y ago
As I see it, it is more nuanced. When engineer designs a bridge she does a very similar work to a programmer. Programing it is like designing a very complex bridge without constructing it really, because when you finished your design it had
918.
by ordu 5y ago
It would be fun watching headlines about a ship being stuck in Suez, if Ever Given was a nuclear powered ship. And what to do about terrorists capturing ships and threatening to blow them up.
919.
by ordu 5y ago
> Be useful to end users. Differentiate on that. What does it mean today? Most people want a browser that is invisible. They use sites, not browser.
920.
by ordu 5y ago
All the later history of Russia was written in a narrative like "Pyotr the Great was the first sensible tzar". Even communists bought it. It says maybe more about who was paying historians for their work, than about Pyotr, but in
921.
by ordu 5y ago
Yeah! This article not just explains how async works, the author show research methods to learn how async works. How something works is transient knowledge, how to learn how something works is timeless priceless knowledge. The methods inclu
922.
by ordu 5y ago
Yes, we need to study this. "Obviously" is not good enough. People want to find the best use for their time, to get maximum profits. An optimization can be done for some extent by relying on "obvious", but if really you
923.
by ordu 5y ago
Firstly you do not need A functions. They are there only for old programs. For really old programs from win9x era. Secondly: if there are worse places than Unix, it doesn't mean that Unix is good. I mean, I love Unix, but Unix sometime
924.
by ordu 5y ago
> I've also written a text editor with a complicated text rope data structure in it. Do you think I should have made a different text rope for each different text encoding the editor should deal with? No, I'd think that you s
925.
by ordu 5y ago
Not so easy. String processing library might want to iterate over chars, to do it a code needs to decode UTF8 string, if string is invalid-UTF8, then you'll get UTF8-error while trying to find a substring in a string. Or when trying to
926.
by ordu 5y ago
>> Built-in strings: hopefully UTF-8! > Hopefully just bytes, which trivially allows storage of UTF-8. Yes, it trivially allows, but then you'd need to deal with utf8-errors all over the program at runtime. Any method for stri
927.
by ordu 5y ago
Tomes of Pushkin have a natural order ascending from left to right. It may be a cultural thing, but it would be obvious for any Russian child 5 years old or older. No tricks here. But, yeah, even knowing about the natural order of Pushkin o
928.
by ordu 5y ago
The problem #13, mentioned in the introduction, is said to be really tough for academicians, but I'm not! Probably I'm just plain stupid.
929.
by ordu 5y ago
> The PCU supplies a steady voltage supply to the payload computer and either it was supplying voltage outside the normal range or the sensor that detects the voltage was giving an erroneous reading. Swollen capacitors? =)
930.
by ordu 5y ago
According to the link above they do. Full-flow means to have two pre-burners one going fuel rich while other going oxygen rich. Though I'm not a rocket scientist and I'd be grateful if proven wrong.

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