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by retrac 3y ago
It does. The English I was taught in school, includes the diaeresis as part of the writing system. Words like coördinate, reëngage, Boötes, are spelled as I just spelled them. I don't adhere to it. It is old-fashioned, even a bit ar
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The main reason for RTL (and then DTL) at the time was conserving transistors. Discrete ones were quite expensive. In the mid-1960s roughly speaking, in modern dollars, a discrete transistor was about $10, while a semiconductor diode was
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by retrac 3y ago
> The only good thing is the signal clarity I recently spoke with someone, and the voice came through with sharpness, depth, and almost no distortion. Like you might hear from a good radio over a clear AM radio station. I had headphone
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Some of the code in the libre software I use every day is 30+ years old. And if you're on a BSD you have code in your kernel copyright 1979. The modern software environment works, I think, just from the sheer quantity of useful buildi
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by retrac 3y ago
For some int'l comparison, here in Ontario, Canada, the norm has long been what is being proposed in these various laws. Only medical doctors, members of a College of Physicians, are doctors. If you present yourself as a doctor witho
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by retrac 3y ago
38% apparently in Canada. https://news.westernu.ca/2021/07/tattoo-ink-chemistry/ I think around here with my demographic, I might be in the minority with no tattoos. Makes me feel rather countercultural.
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> a lot of wrongs they want to address (but that’s not a devil) Isn't it? The wrongs can end up portrayed as devilishly apocalyptic. American capitalism is consuming everything and might cause the extinction of life on the planet.
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> At one point it was supposed to be a single movie. It could have deviated completely from the books, it could have been super cheaply made. The problem, if you will, with a great but imperfect work of art is that no one else will attem
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by retrac 3y ago
Many hydroelectric plants with a reservoir are already energy storage systems. They can adjust their power output up and down. They can, for short periods, drain the reservoir faster than it is being filled. The seasonal patterns of rain
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by retrac 3y ago
Most here probably won't need this but: the Watt is a unit of power. Power is the rate of energy consumption. An amount of energy, over an amount of time. 1 Watt is 1 Joule per second. The "over time" is literal: 1 W = 1
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by retrac 3y ago
Original article captured as images here: https://imgur.com/a/fg8mxgy I don't usually surf with adblock disabled. Wow. Clickbait, clickbait, clickbait. And now it's just fake clickbait. There's abs
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by retrac 3y ago
This claim has always been very odd to me. My own thinking is, rather obviously, both . I have an inner monologue but it's not entirely word-based. There are mental visual images, and I often gesture with my hands reorganizing imag
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by retrac 3y ago
That may work relatively well with consumables like food. But it extends in many directions. I have fans and a space heater and extra blankets and etc. All of them are available for a houseguest to use. Many of them are stored in the gu
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by retrac 3y ago
Some crude snippets from a Pascal-C (I never could decide) self-educational compiler/toy I wrote a while ago (in Haskell): -- a parser function that matches on { ... } returning ... -- can be combined with other parsers
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by retrac 3y ago
Getting banned in multiple western countries (this won't be the last case like this I suspect) for refusal to comply with their democratically-valid laws is a great way to end up a corporate pariah. Facebook is in a similar showdown ri
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Yes. Not quite the appearance one gets from aging, exactly, so much as a weathering. Sometimes literally. Sun exposure is pretty bad for the skin. The effects of certain kinds of heavy manual labour on the body are debilitating, too. Y
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by retrac 3y ago
> Oxalic acid has an oral LDLo (lowest published lethal dose) of 600 mg/kg.[62] It has been reported that the lethal oral dose is 15 to 30 grams. and > Frozen commercially available spinach in New Zealand contains 736.6 ± 20.4 mg
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by retrac 3y ago
> Idris is primarily a research project, led by Edwin Brady at the University of St Andrews, and has benefited from SICSA ( https://www.sicsa.ac.uk ) and EPSRC ( https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ ) funding. This does infl
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It's currently used as a back-end for the Idris language. (Which is primarily a research language, admittedly.) It's a fairly popular target for languages to compile to, for similar reasons that C is -- small, well-defined, mini
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by retrac 3y ago
Vision presumably came about from a biological system that was somewhat affected by photochemical interactions, which then evolved to be useful. That is to say, a living thing must have existed at some point that didn't have vision, b
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I continue to remain skeptical, honestly, of any effect beyond thermal heating. But I've never totally written it off. Very small amounts of EMR can create cascade effects in biological systems. Our vision system is perhaps an exa
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by retrac 3y ago
Symbolic AI is human-understandable. It's programmed in human terms. The reasoning chain is transparent. An engineer can point at the graph and tell you exactly what factored into the AI's decision and how it was made. That (p
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What gets me is how it has made all my intuitions about how to program incorrect with time. And I'm no dinosaur. I started with an old obsolete machine with 128 KB. I remember getting a hand-me-down PC with a 486 (virtual memory at
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> It's perfectly normal to wonder how can one administrate something when one doesn't understand it. Especially when there can be such debilitating effects. A theoretical/principled understanding of how a drug works has ne
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The right analogy is not to literature, but schematics of the architectural or mechanical kind. Those can also be beautiful, works of art, and objects of study. Sometimes a clever blueprint will allow seeing some aspect of construction th
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by retrac 3y ago
The userland is quite GNU. Think bash, gawk and coreutils (ls, etc.) as well as the libraries the userland depends on -- including the C and C++ standard libraries, pthreads, readline, etc. Very little of it is irreplaceable these days.
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by retrac 3y ago
Multiple IRs can get verbose, but it also helps compartmentalize complexity. In a toy C compiler I wrote, I had a pass that did a transform of structs and arrays, turning everything into pointer arithmetic -- only thing that pass did. Afte
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by retrac 3y ago
Not a lawyer and not legal advice, but isn't labelling something malware -- that isn't malware -- libel? I'm wondering if you could sue them for defamation.
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The issue is not the forcing people to wear clothes, really. If Islamic societies applied this rule equally to men we'd all wear hats in Iran without thinking and no one would discuss it other than as a cultural oddity. It's ill
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Indeed it's probably good to practice coding without Copilot or Stack Exchange completing all your thoughts for you. Actually, I would recommend, once in a while, trying to code the traditional way -- with pen and paper. That still ha

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