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Parallel garbage collection for SBCL [pdf](applied-langua.ge)
159 points by slyrus 3y ago|45 comments
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by slyrus 3y ago
Was it the repeated use of “Malthusian” that gave it away?
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by slyrus 3y ago
You mean a 1.7815-ton behemoth.
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Programming inactive RNA-binding small molecules into bioactive degraders(nature.com)
1 points by slyrus 3y ago|0 comments
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Appeals Court Overturns Varsity Blues Scandal Fraud and Conspiracy Convictions(nytimes.com)
2 points by slyrus 3y ago|0 comments
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by slyrus 3y ago
Any HN users out there with experience with Firefly III ( https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii )? Sounds interesting.
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by slyrus 3y ago
And it wasn't quite dead back then. '89 maybe? Dying, but not yet dead.
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by slyrus 3y ago
quite possible! It was a long time ago :)
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by slyrus 3y ago
I took this so many years ago I can't remember who taught it. Paul Hilfinger maybe? Microvax assembly language was a big part of the course, IIRC.
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The PetscSF Scalable Communication Layer(arxiv.org)
1 points by slyrus 4y ago|0 comments
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by slyrus 4y ago
All my daydreams are disasters.
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Large language models generate functional protein sequences across diverse fams(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3 points by slyrus 4y ago|0 comments
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by slyrus 4y ago
And, either way, this maneuver seems like it generated CO2 emissions roughly equal to those that would be saved by 10 people line drying their clothes for a year. Which 10 people are we gonna pick?
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by slyrus 4y ago
Or 15.52 tons according to worldometer. Not sure who's right here. https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/us-co2-emissions...
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by slyrus 4y ago
Or the average annual carbon footprint for one person in the US.
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by slyrus 4y ago
Ah, the good old days when your then-future CS professors wrote the fonts you might use (Clancy and Harvey). Pretty sure most soon-to-be CS profs aren't designing fonts these days.
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by slyrus 4y ago
Adderall is a hell of a drug.
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by slyrus 4y ago
"chalk full"? The horror...
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by slyrus 4y ago
org mode with paredit for the lisp source blocks is a life changer! but it does highlight the deficiencies of other languages (and their editors) when one has to write/edit R, python, etc... Then again, being able to do so in the same
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by slyrus 4y ago
A slightly modified version of this would be super handy for OTB chess games!
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by slyrus 4y ago
I'd argue that our future retrospective view of chemotherapy will be more of how we view hunting with a club rather than, say, a bow and arrow. Not optimal but, at least in many cases, proven to be better than nothing by multiple rando
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by slyrus 4y ago
Nice! Very minor nit: Half-diminished chord should be written as m7b5 - not M7b5.
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De novo design of orally bioavailable macrocycles(cell.com)
2 points by slyrus 4y ago|0 comments
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by slyrus 4y ago
So you're saying there's a chance for ice-nine?
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by slyrus 4y ago
ISTR SkipLists being used by the NCBI toolkit for DNA/AA sequence data way back in the day. Of course now I can't find any reference to it, but did find this paper on SkipLists in multiple alignments from 2003: https://
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by slyrus 4y ago
That's great! Thanks for the pointer. And after he watches the class I can dust off my copy of AMOP that's sitting on the shelf in my office and try to teach the kid about metaclasses :)
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by slyrus 4y ago
Interesting. I'm scarred from spending years learning how to sharpen axes and shave yaks. Maybe the kids today don't need to do nearly as much of that anymore.
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by slyrus 4y ago
Yeah, that's a good idea. He's pretty handy with blender and those skills might come in handy here.
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Ask HN: It's 2022. Where should I direct the youths to learn about programming?
203 points by slyrus 4y ago|189 comments
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Ubuntu 22.10: Kinetic Kudu(omgubuntu.co.uk)
1 points by slyrus 4y ago|0 comments

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