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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Kind of defeats the point of having separate operating systems. I think the best environment an OS creates where apps are deigned around that OS is the value an OS brings to the table.
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Why wasn't the steam engine invented in China?(erikexamines.substack.com)
4 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|4 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
I have discussed what I think are the primary reasons in this story and criticized some other theories I often see such as Mongols stopping industrialization or China not being capitalist enough.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Some shameless self-promotion here: https://www.manning.com/books/julia-as-a-second-language It is not exactly a K&R style book but I did write it to appeal more to regular programmers than academics. The Julia wor
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
For me it solved many reoccurring problems. One issue that popping up for me was the need for a clunky visitor pattern. Say you do collision detection between multiple shapes of different type, or you want to transform a serialized represen
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Do Civilizations Prosper and Evolve Due to Ideas or Material Conditions?(erikexamines.substack.com)
2 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|0 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
It is a variant of the US system, rather than the rich picking the candidates who can run, the priests do. Sorry, I am teasing but I want to highlight that the problem with pre-selected candidates is a widespread problem undermining democra
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
“Iranians have agency” is a crappy argument to excuse American meddling and overthrow of democratic societies. That gives the US a blank check to do whatever they please and later blame the victim for the outcome. A revolution is not about
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
How do we verify the claims here. Ultimately anybody can post screenshots. To be believable, we need multiple parties with some credentials to get behind this. If a major news organization, well known journalist or representative from unive
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
That sucks, but the US lacks moral authority to point fingers as the US has such long history of manipulating elections all over the world, overthrowing democratic leaders. The US even actively spied on European citizens through PRISM at a
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
I don’t like the CCP, but in practice the US conservative movement is probably the biggest threat to democracy in the West today. They are spreading the idea that elections need not be respected and spread conspiracy theories people are eat
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
I just have an issue with the CCP and their apologists. That is primarily who people refer to when they say China. It is pretty common speech. Same when talking about America doing something, we refer to the US government primarily, not its
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
I used to be a huge Ruby fan but I got to say Julia had proven to be a much nicer language than Python or Ruby ever was. It gives stronger typing so it feels a bit more like a statically typed language in terms of safeguarding you, but with
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
No, they are great for cars. For infrastructure iron batteries are much better. Iron batteries are not suitable for cars though.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Stationary storage will more like be taken over by iron batteries which are much cheaper. Sodium batteries will happen in cars because not everyone needs really long range.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
You can sign up for a free trial and cancel before any payment is required. I know that can be annoying, but as a writer you have to have some way of getting people interested in trying a subscription. Not easy to find a good balance for bo
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Agree, while I prefer the Go model from a usability perspective, I don't think that is the way to go for a language such as Zig. Zig seems to have done a really good job within the boundaries set by a language which aims for minimal le
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
I am actually the author, and I didn't start this thread. People have to decide for themselves whether it is worth reading or not. Lots of people subscribe to Substack to read experiences, opinions on various subjects. Nobody will put
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1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world(youtube.com)
2 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|1 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Interesting video of how the Swiss created a tank simulator in the 1970s without computer generated images, but by using a camera in a miniature landscape.
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SpaceX becomes NASA’s second-largest vendor, surpassing Boeing(arstechnica.com)
23 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|6 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
While not sexy this technology could help deal with the fact that it is unrealistic for us to be able to convert all ICE cars to EVs in time.
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Breakthrough Twin-Fuel Hydrogen Engine Could Cause a Revolution(medium.com)
3 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|3 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
I have seen several others remark that when you really need to squeeze performance Zig does better. Currently writing a small Zig project, I can totally see that. Although frankly I will probably stick to Go. Zig is a lot more work in my vi
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
They claim 90% efficiency, so I doubt you can compare this to heating a container and them driving a stream engine afterwards. I suspect they are here also utilizing geothermal heat and heatpumps which allows you to increase efficiency. If
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Yeah… I seem to remember scratching my head because of a variation of this problem. It was kind of driving me nuts. Yet the number of moments like this has been low for me in Go compared to C++.
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What Makes Julia Programming Language Unique?(erikexplores.substack.com)
2 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|0 comments
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TAE’s Mad Fusion Reactor Might Just Work(medium.com)
1 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|0 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
So you can create a distributable executable without any of the Lua code? Or will the exe contain a Lua interpreter?
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
I considered writing about Terra as ab examples of a similar language but I felt the fact that Terra did this at JIT time made it too different to compare. In that regard it is not all that different from Julia. That Zig does this AOT is si

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