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by sampo 1y ago
> Does anyone know how to buy them in Europe? Given the strong anti-science anti-GMO sentiment in Europe, the company probably will not even bother to try to apply for a permit from the European regulatory agencies.
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The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety(theregister.com)
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by sampo 1y ago
> AnduinOS, a one-man project from a Chinese Microsoft engineer, is quite a new Ubuntu remix that reshapes GNOME in the image of Windows 11. > it modifies Canonical's current version of GNOME to look strikingly like Windows 11, u
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by sampo 1y ago
If driverless tractors can be made lighter in weight, they could also help in reducing how much the heavy machines cause soil compaction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_compaction_(agriculture)#...
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by sampo 1y ago
> The Parliament acts as a co-legislator with equal legislative power in this process The EU Parliament doesn't have equal legislative power. EU Commission proposes legislation, and the parliament can only accept or reject. Of cours
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by sampo 1y ago
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, only the Council can propose legislation, while the Parliament can only accept or reject the Council's proposals [1]. EU Council (Meeting of EU countries' head of states):
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by sampo 1y ago
For posterity: If counting by full months, this 12-month span was a close one: There was a traffic death in early July in 2024. And now on August 1, 2025, there was another traffic death (a collision of two bicyclists, one 80-year old on an
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Britain's MPs charge VPNs to expenses as minister urges caution(politico.eu)
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Physicists should revel in the diversity of ways to understand quantum mechanics(nature.com)
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Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved(theregister.com)
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by sampo 1y ago
> Housing crisis is observed in almost all what is called "first world" (europe, japan, usa). You mentioning Japan gives out that you maybe don't know what you are talking about. > I believe that 90% of the issue is mor
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Physicists disagree on what quantum mechanics says about reality(nature.com)
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by sampo 1y ago
Plants have chloroplasts that produce oxygen and sugar. But plants also have mitochondria that consume oxygen and sugar and run many of the same metabolic functions as in animals.
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> Yes, but why? Scientific writing style is not always very good at highlighting the unknowns. "We don't know this" doesn't make very convincingly looking text, so people tend to avoid admitting it up front. But you a
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by sampo 1y ago
Not-so-many years ago, this kind of work developing optimization algorithms would have been called optimization algorithms, not AI. > We develop Urania, a highly parallelized hybrid local-global optimization algorithm, sketched in Fig. 2
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by sampo 1y ago
> and they can place me doing it with this DNA Probably easier to place you with your cell phone location data, or surveillance cameras and face recognition.
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by sampo 1y ago
How is their competitor Impossible Foods doing? It's a private company, so we can't as easily look at stock prices.
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by sampo 1y ago
There is no new foundational physics. The standard model of particle physics is from the 1970s, and the lambda-cmd model of cosmology is from late 1990s. Of course there is lots of new speculative ideas being produced, but it's really
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by sampo 1y ago
This is what prof Andrew S. Tanenbaum was working on when he made the famous "LINUX is obsolete" post in 1992. At the end of his post: P.S. Just as a random aside, Amoeba has a UNIX emulator (running in user space), but
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> I don't understand how she's using Meta glasses to read print. The glasses have a camera, and small speakers near your ears. They also have a microphone, so you can give them voice commands. Like Amazon Alexa, but in the glas
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by sampo 1y ago
> no new language/framework/library will ever be able to emerge? Here is a Youtube video that makes the same argument. React is / will be the last Javascript framework, because it is the dominant one right now. Even of peo
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by sampo 1y ago
> 4. The phone has a cellular connection, so I'm not tied to wifi. Do American phone companies block sharing wifi from your phone, or why would someone with a phone feel they are tied to a wifi when needing to use a laptop?
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by sampo 1y ago
Adaptive time step RKF algorithm is explained in section 5: https://alvinng4.github.io/grav_sim/5_steps_to_n_body_simula...
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> By and large, what is being withheld are funds for research. I don't know precisely, but I would assume the universities take about 50% to 60% of the granted research funding as administrative overhead, and only what remains goes
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by sampo 1y ago
> It all depends on No it doesn't.
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Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment(fastcompany.com)
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by sampo 2y ago
A lot of things in Mercurial kind of geared you towards using it more like Subversion was used. You pretty much could use Mercurial just like git was, and is, used, but the defaults didn't guide you to that direction. One bigger differ
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by sampo 2y ago
I think the best, and also most popular, textbook for a Quantum Mechanics 1 course is "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics" by David J. Griffiths. This is also what Claude says. But you also need some math: Complex numbers, linear a
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> That's the first time I've heard that phrased that way from a non-Russian source. We don't know if this was from a non-Russian source.
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Finland tried a project, drilling two 6km deep holes. The temperature at 6km depth is 120C. The idea was to pump water down one hole, and get heated water up from the second hole. But the rock wasn't porous enough, they could not get e

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