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by skywal_l 5y ago
Keep in mind that microwaves have lower frequencies than visible light or even infrared. Radio -> Microwaves -> Infrared -> Visible light -> UV -> X rays -> Gamma rays.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
But .NET is still way more popular (by popular I mean used) than Ocaml, Haskell or even Rust no? (I could be completely wrong, just my impression).
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by skywal_l 5y ago
https://nitter.net/timberners_lee/status/1502594846044954630
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by skywal_l 5y ago
I am a complete noob regarding these subjects so pardon my ignorance but does it mean they intent to compile C++ to SPIR-V (or something that's GPUs can understand)? Does it mean short circuiting CUDA?
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by skywal_l 5y ago
And if you look to their page you will find an even more complete list: curl-to-Go curl-to-PHP HAR-to-curl http-translator (Python, JS and JSON) uncurl (to Python) hrbrmstr/curlconverter (to R) curl-to-pos
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by skywal_l 5y ago
"Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure"* -- Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu. * For a long time, I would go to bed early.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
"Crystal has a wonderful and extremely ergonomic macro system that Rust could learn from, one that doesn’t require ad-hoc reinterpretation of language tokens and that integrates seamlessly with syntax highlighting in editors". Wha
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by skywal_l 5y ago
One example of this from a while ago: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-past... TLDR: A guy in Japan who worked on a solution to identify different types of pastries ended up creating a compu
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Webkit based browser for MacOS, for those wondering.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
You can always disable hardware acceleration in your browser.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
One benefits is that web browsers have to respect a standard set of APIs which abstract the hardware and makes them all inter-operable (except the usual incompatibilities obviously). Now POSIX was arguably successful, but it was limited in
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by skywal_l 5y ago
It's already the case. Any web page can use WebGL1/2 for general computation. As the author said: > Using GPUs for calculations of any kind is often called General-Purpose GPU or GPGPU, and WebGL 1 is not great at this. If you
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Scratch A Pixel is really comprehensive and very "talk to me like I am 5 years old" kind of tutorial: https://www.scratchapixel.com/
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by skywal_l 5y ago
> the tech space is becoming terribly sad, with a growing portion of energy expenditure spent outside engineering work. But this is not inevitable. You can work for a small/medium sized company where the objective is to get things d
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Call it Ping then.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Ubuntu works like a charm on an HP Envy x360 13.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Gilbert Strang's Introduction to Linear Algebra[0] and the associated online course[1]. [0] https://math.mit.edu/~gs/linearalgebra/ [1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Could they be deploying nukes? Chernobyl would be the perfect cover.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
https://www.standard.co.uk/video/international-news/resident...
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by skywal_l 5y ago
That map is not up to date. They are already shelling Dnipro.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
The fact that someone can ask you for your salary before renting you an apartment is not equivalent to what you point to. I would prefer this system to the Equifax's panopticon to be honest. The best system would be to have a third par
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Exactly like any lawyer firm.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
> So that means once you do something in a CLI tool, and copyright it, it's game over for everyone else using said tool? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design . Works in the case of copyright. Not pate
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by skywal_l 5y ago
You make an interesting point and I am myself absolutely not knowledgeable in that field but there are some obvious points that you elude in your response. Fission (will?) have the advantage of being able to produce energy whenever we need
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by skywal_l 5y ago
To be clear, this article is triggered by the fact that Safari, the only major browser that did not support WebGL2, has landed support a few months ago. This was the major roadblock for WebGL2 acceptance of developpers looking to support al
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Yes indeed. Note that you can always run your own nominatim service :) https://hub.docker.com/r/mediagis/nominatim/
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by skywal_l 5y ago
The nominatim service will provide you with a lat/lon: $ curl -s 'https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=36%20Quai%20des%20Orfevres%20Paris&format=json' | jq . [ { "place_
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by skywal_l 5y ago
"Office Space" reference for anyone wondering[0]. Another Mike Judge's gift to us. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNuu9CpdjIo
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by skywal_l 5y ago
So I read that this is good news for ITER. Sorry for the noob question but there is something I do not understand. I thought ITER design was more or less decided now as they are building it. Should I understand that they started building IT
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by skywal_l 5y ago
It was lost because, during the storm, it was flying too low. If the jet had been flying at a higher altitude, the storm would have still happen and the jet would have been fine. So the storm is not the direct and only cause of the crash. I

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