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by servytor 5y ago
Javascript is actually quite fast, on par with Java[0], but it is DOM manipulation that makes it seem so slow. [0]: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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Did you know that the "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" from the Declaration of Independence is said to be inspired from John Locke, who said that "life, liberty, and estate" are the essentials a political bo
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Eh. I remember reading the furor about the Linux scheduler[0], and that was by the hands of man, my man. [0]: https://people.ece.ubc.ca/sasha/papers/eurosys16-final29.pdf
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I highly recommend anyone who doesn't know anything about how the IMF interacts with poor countries to watch this documentary called "Life and Debt"[0] which is about how the IMF basically destroyed Jamaica's economy. Ba
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I recommend Falcon[0][1], I wish Firefox had an equivalent. It basically does full-text search of any website visited. I discovered it via HN[2]. [0]: https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon [1]: https://chrome.
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At one point I started worrying about oil, after watching some documentary about it, and my friend made two really good points in about 2014. 1). Peak oil will never happen, and in fact OPEC is scared of high oil prices, because it will aut
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There is a great video on plastic injection molding by 'engineerguy' on YouTube. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMjtmsr3CqA
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I was imagining a Monty Python scene where someone was using two halves of lead, like coconuts, and slamming them repeatedly over the radioactive material.
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And RMS and the invention of copyleft created a magnitude more.
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Hsqldb – 100% Java SQL Database(hsqldb.org)
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My favorite person in regards to time travel is Professor Ronald Mallett[0] who wrote an amazing book called "Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality"[1]. [0]: https://en.wikiped
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by servytor 5y ago
Tim Sweeney did a presentation[0] at MIT's CSAIL on programming languages that I thought was really interesting (it mentions Haskell quite a bit), titled "The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer’s Perspective.&q
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In 2020, we gave more foreign aid to Egypt + Jordan than we did to Israel[0], for the others that are going to bring up foreign aid. [0]: https://foreignassistance.gov/cd
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This documentary on Seattle's homeless problem[0] says that homelessness and drug addiction are the same thing. It claims that almost every homeless person is addicted, and that society as a whole is ignoring the connection for some re
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At night all helicopters are black.
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Febreze actually does trap 'odorous' molecules though[0]. [0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
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Cybersecurity leaders give startups 1 key piece of advice (2018)(venturebeat.com)
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Triple-A: Open Source Axis and Allies(triplea-game.org)
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But if you read the thread, you realize he is testing on a 2011 laptop, and the older architecture may be causing the issues. He reported a 3x speedup running the benchmark on a Raspberry Pi 4 in the same thread[0] Someone claimed that you