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by samus 2y ago
Indeed, that's the reason why they can afford to reduce the fees. Index managers are not charities after all.
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by samus 2y ago
According to TA, this also affects lots of other papers even if they are not central to the topic. The intention is to combat "woke" research, but it creates pure chaos and uncertainty across the whole field. There is no official
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by samus 2y ago
Jabber/XMMP? I know it doesn't fulfill the same purpose, but since TA is comparing it with instant messaging services I guess it's still relevant.
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by samus 2y ago
The major feature of email, federation, is also it's biggest weakness. Rhese days, most emails travel between Microsoft, Gmail, Yahoo, and a few others, and they are in an arms race with spammers. Smaller providers have increasingly tr
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by samus 2y ago
The sequences they found are already in various databases and are not linked to any organisms we know. It's like discovering an interesting new insect in a national park. That's as different as it can be from psychological researc
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by samus 2y ago
The claim is not over-the-top at all though. They did a survey of funny RNA sequences in gut samples and didn't find anything that links them to known sequence from other organisms. Nothing spectacular was claimed.
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by samus 2y ago
That's fine - but then it's no surprise if deep skills stay out of reach. Skills that take more than a few hours of watching a YouTube video or reading a book or two to acquire. Skills that one arguably should care about if one
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by samus 2y ago
I'm aware of the need for regeneration. Fortunately (?) I am not actually disciplined enough yet to do it every day; more like three days in a row and then a rest day. And other exercises in between sets to make use of that rest time.
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by samus 2y ago
I fully agree that these simple exercises can get you quite far. I have made similarly good experiences by aiming for 50 cleanly executed push-ups per day. But you will soon have to diversify them, though that requires simple equipment only
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by samus 2y ago
The mass of the actual meatsacks inside the spaceship is barely anything compared to the rest of it. A true step forward would be to rengineer ourselves to be way smaller. Santi-like.
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by samus 2y ago
People not having time to train their bodies higher up the scale is also just due to economics.
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by samus 2y ago
Scientists have to get good at marketing because they will not get funding otherwise. They have to pitch their research towards an interested panel though, whose members have background knowledge. This means that they can merely bend the tr
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by samus 2y ago
Then you by definition don't care enough about quantum computing. The same could be said about learning programming or any other deep skill.
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by samus 2y ago
Filing a bug report is only half of the work. The bug then has to be reproduced, fixed, tested, documented, and rolled out. Sometimes with a deadline. If that sounds fun to you, I really cannot argue against it. Usually, that is part of a s
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by samus 2y ago
If you put in work only to the extend that it's fun, then it is probably something with very clearly delineated scope (kudos for sticking to that!) or not really one of the projects that are so critical that companies should be expecte
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by samus 2y ago
Their use doesn't, but from time to time they send in bug reports and feature requests, don't they? Where do you draw the line between extending your project and providing free labor to a for-profit company? Fixing bugs is less co
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by samus 2y ago
Many complaints are about the choice of YAML as a config file format. It is being used for nearly everything, and in many cases fine details of its syntax matter, especially around multiline strings and text blocks[0]. In theory, one can al
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by samus 2y ago
You might want to check out Dhall[0], which is a configuration file format that allows a safe-ish subset of functional programming language idioms. Needless to say that it requires a full compiler :) [0]: https://dhall-lang.org&#
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by samus 2y ago
I can imagine she was glad it took only some gentle massaging to make it work. If she had encountered road blocks there, she would have had to dig in for real. The code is quite low on comments and doesn't really explain the math there
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by samus 2y ago
It's really not such a big deal since everything on LWN becomes public after some weeks. Rather the opposite, it ensures that the site remains well-known.
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by samus 2y ago
A lot of it is software, but not necessarily in the driver. Nouveau folks pretty much gave up and use NVidia's firmware blob going forward. While that's mostly due to NVidia not cooperating in making crucial capabilities of the GP
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by samus 2y ago
It could be viable to generate biofuels using solar energy and use these for heating. One would get the best of both worlds - carbon neutrality and the possibility to use existing infrastructure. But it requires that the price for biofuels
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by samus 2y ago
Depending on the location, there could be sources of geothermal energy, like Iceland. There are also various prototypical approaches at storing solar energy for the winter months, like molten salt (obviously a bit too spicy outside of indus
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by samus 2y ago
Isotope ratios are very easy and reliable signals compared to impurities. Impurities can be all over the place depending on where the materials were mined. Impurities could have also been added inadvertently during the casting as well.
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by samus 2y ago
Ecosystems eventually adapt to the newcomers. And it's not like the species already part of the ecosystem wouldn't ever evolve to something detrimental to the whole.
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by samus 2y ago
Cross-platform languages have existed for decades, no?
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by samus 2y ago
Taiwan is sitting on the Pacific Ring of Fire. Surely there are resources of geothermal energy that could be tapped?
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by samus 2y ago
These are examine scripts for a REST API that gives access to internals of GnuCash.
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by samus 2y ago
Internally, it uses Guile. I'm afraid there might not be a good user interface to edit the Guile source files, but at least Guile is much more pleasant to work with than C and offers way less paper cuts. I think it's mostly used f
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by samus 2y ago
A typical multinational social media operator has datacenters around the globe. The question is rather whether these can really function independently should the central ones go offline.

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