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by pygy_ 10y ago
I don't know the history of all Belgian territories, but the Prince-Bishopric of Liège was part of Germany, also known at the time the "Holy Roman Empire".
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by pygy_ 10y ago
The spleen is a lymphatic organ (full of white blood cells), the kidney is a mechanical filter coupled with molecular transport to pick back the good stuff and the water from the filtrated serum. Beside being solid organs with a roundish sh
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Good job on detecting CSS loading failures. The little-loader also has a section to detect JS loading and errors in IE8/9 (with a dedicated sub-section for the former), I didn't see anything like this in LoadJS... Did you find a t
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by pygy_ 10y ago
https://github.com/walmartlabs/little-loader is smaller (519 bytes min+gzipped), supports IE8, and fires either on script load or on error synchronoulsy (so that globals won't be overwritten by code that runs betw
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Promises are actually bad for that use case because you want the completion callback to run synchronously on load, otherwise, foreign code may trample a global between the time the script loads and the time the 'loaded' function r
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by pygy_ 10y ago
I think you're overly optimistic. Our technology does and will explore space at large. Humans in space (beside the few scientific missions and maybe a Mars trip) make about as much sense as motorized fishbowls on highways. Humans won&#
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Edit, yes, v5.2 supports the NaN trick (see the comments above http://www.lua.org/source/5.2/lobject.h.html#NNMARK ), but only on x86. I suppose the Lua authors wanted to avoid the memory limitations of LuaJIT on 6
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by pygy_ 10y ago
We should all embrace nihilarianism. To save life, let's all starve to death :-) It's easier to empathize with mammals, but you're right, at this point, humans cannot survive without destroying (some) life. Edit: I'm fin
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by pygy_ 10y ago
IIRC, Lua 5.2 uses NaN tagging as LuaJIT does, and has 64bits values.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Even from the Lua C API standpoint? I'm not very familiar with it.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
It stayed at v5.1 (with some v5.2 features that don't break 5.1 code) because Mike Pall disagreed with some v5.2 features: swapping `setfenv` for `_ENV`, and some details of the bundled bitlib. He also criticized 128 bits interpreter
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by pygy_ 10y ago
It's almost poetical, but we're talking here about a species whose activity keeps on growing while the rest of the ecosystem dies. We're in the middle of a human-driven mass extinction, a third of arable land has been destroy
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by pygy_ 10y ago
I didn't know about Jackson, thanks for the tip :-)
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by pygy_ 10y ago
I wish we could find a way to get an economy that strives at equilibrium rather than mandating growth for prosperity as we do now.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
You can't be more than 100% energy efficient, so, while there may be some headroom in that direction, there's a hard limit as well. Edit: Also, while there seems to be a positive correlation between GDP per capita and energy effic
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by pygy_ 10y ago
The constant supply solar of energy (and finite supply of mineral energy sources) also means that we won't be able to grow the economy indefinitely and need to find a way to transition to a system that thrives at equilibrium.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Maybe "Red China" realised it was on the same planet as the rest of us, and needed it in good health for its own survival?
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Oh my bad, I mixed things up...
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by pygy_ 10y ago
They needed to revamp the plugin architecture in order to support multithreading. The current FF extension API relies on the fact that the browser UI and the Web content share the same OS thread. Google Chrome was built with multithreading
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Many points are fishy. After reading the start of part 2 (which is supposed to present objective information about the impact) - Quibbling over whether building them consumes oil or natural gas. - Badly reporting other reports (5% of bags a
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by pygy_ 10y ago
That link is dead here... this works: http://kzone.winosx.com/posts/links-awakening-rendering-the-... Edit: after reading said post, it's a great explanation of the techniques used in Link's Awakening's
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Indeed, and you can add mutton( mouton )/sheep and (to a lesser extent in modern English) poultry( poulet )/chicken to that list.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Bread remains fresh longer if you slice it on demand rather than in advance. Keep it resting on the sliced side for maximal freshness.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
The bibi-binary notation is somewhat similar (16 === 2^2^2). It was patented in 1968 by Bobby Lapointe, a French variety singer, but didn't get much traction AFAICT. Bibi-binary also has a custom pronunciation for hex digits. The artic
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by pygy_ 10y ago
I had to read that sentence twice, it wasn't very clear. I think the journalist meant that "double entendre" doesn't mean anything in French, not that French speaking people don't use double entendre.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
It depends on the timescale you want to operate with. Also, you'd need to reverse the topsoil destruction and the spread of agricultural exploitation, which is not going to be easy when the population keeps on growing.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Mostly, yes... You don't necessarilly need to turn CO2 back to hydrocarbon, there may be less expensive ways to capture and store that carbon. Still, you're correct that the costs will be gigantic.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
You may want to read this Mike Pall post about the shortcomings of high level language compilers regarding interpreters: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/75426
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Turing completeness requires infinite discrete time steps and memory.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
The YAML spec is huge, too large IMO for config files (you can use it while knowing only a subset, but you'll be lost as soon as someone uses a feature you don't know). I think TOML strikes a good ballance between simplicity and f

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