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HN thread Fast Vue SSR with Rust and QuickJS (2 months old) makes it clear that QuickJS is an alternative to V8. QuickJS is small and easy to embed but it lacks V8's JIT for fast JavaScript execution. It seems that the comparative ad
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The jackfruit [1] of South Asia and South East Asia are from domesticated tropical trees closely related to the breadfruit [2] which was part of the Austronesian expansion: > Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is a species of flowering tree
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Go-Diagrams is a Golang port of diagrams [1], an Internal DSL for Python. Diagrams (the name of a software project) models cloud IaaS resources as network graphs and exports DOT [2] files that can be processed by Graphviz compatible too
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TL;DR: The W3C Redesign Project has selected Craft CMS over Wordpress. From the CMS strategy and requirements document [1]: > At a minimum, it’s expected W3C will have 10-30 people editing content on a new CMS, though this may be more
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Truffle is an integration layer for interpreted languages in GraalVM. The canonical Truffle language included in the Graal distribution is GraalJS, a replacement for the now deprecated Nashorn JavaScript engine for the JVM. Similarly, Truff
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The paper Profound anterograde amnesia following routine anesthetic and dental procedure [1] > Anterograde amnesia caused by bilateral hippocampal or diencephalon damage manifests in characteristic symptoms of preserved intellect and i
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It was the first time that I encountered the word "endophasic" so I looked it up before my first reply. It isn't included in my local dictionary but the first Google search result defines it as: > Being or pertaining to en
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Maud consists of template literals that can be embedded directly in Rust code. It is similar to lit-html and JSX but uses a syntax compatible with Rust rather than using XML style <element attribute=""> syntax. It looks simi
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From the article: > Yet we know that language can also be present in the absence of sound, when we read... or when we use words while thinking — in technical terms, when we engage in endophasic activity. > This simple fact immediately
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Marine Isotope Stage 5 [1] was a high sea level interglacial: > Thus, the present interglacial, the Holocene, is compared with MIS 5 or the interglacials of Marine Isotope Stage 11. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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The landing page for the paper Microbial biomarkers reveal a hydrothermally active landscape at Olduvai Gorge at the dawn of the Acheulean, 1.7 Ma [1] states: > The geothermal activity described here may have influenced the use of the
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From the paper Discovery of the world’s highest-dwelling mammal [1] > Upper altitudinal limits of wild mammals in the Himalayas and Andes are generally thought to fall in the range 5200-5800 m above sea level. Such limits are surely di
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3-month old HN thread [1] with good information from the authors and others. “An embeddable column store for data science” (Pandas and dbplyer) would have been a good description at that time but the addition of JDBC/Java support expan
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> what we call the Red Sea today was at time likely an estuary The Red Sea Rift is quite recent [1] in geological time but not 120 kya recent. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_Rift#Spreading_model
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The paper Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior [1]: > Diatom paleoecology and sedimentary analysis indicate that Alathar was an oligotrophic (nutrient-poor) and shallow freshwater lake
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A walk to the pharmacy (or any outdoor activity) with some skin exposed to the midday UVB rich sunlight might be a better approach than oral supplementation [1]: > Adequate amounts of vitamin D can be produced with moderate sun exposure
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The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection was 12.5%, 8.1%, and 5.9% for patients with deficient, adequate, and high levels of serum Vitamin D, respectively. This study clearly demonstrates correlation but further studies are needed to establis
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The Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) [1] are based on the empirically derived LR04 Benthic Stack. We don't (yet) know how to model the termination triggers nor the precise magnitude of each glacial cycle but what this means in practice is t
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Julia is a fine platform for data science but so are Python/NumPY, R, and Matlab. Few of us have the luxury of building greenfield projects that are independent of our previous choices and real-world constraints. Understanding NumPY wi
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Indeed, FORTRAN has traditionally been used for vector and matrix math and NumPY adds the equivalent functionality to Python. The simple linear algebra abstractions for manipulating these structures are fundamental to each of the popular d
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> ... a gradual and linear melting rate is not what we should expect to see going forward. This article seems to combine the lost civilization pseudo-science of Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock with the myopia of catastrophic climate c
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At 5 MW, these MMR (Micro Modular Reactor) look like a specialized alternative to diesel generators servicing remote locations unserviced by the regular power grid. 20 year lifetime without refuelling is an attractive proposition if the cap
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I found this series of tweets a very succinct way of describing the failure. Ultimately the key evidence is contained in the images and we only need a few additional words to provide the context. A tweet storm built around a handful of key
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In addition to Matt Ridley, Stephen Johnson has written several popular books on innovation and "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by Randall Stross is a wonderful book on Thomas Edison. What I find missing in the original Steven Novella
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> Microsoft’s Project Natick team deployed the Northern Isles datacenter 117 feet deep to the seafloor in June 2018. For the next two years, team members tested and monitored the performance of the datacenter’s servers. [1] [1] https:&#
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TL;DR: social book metadata site Goodreads has stagnated since being bought by Amazon. This pattern has occurred repeatedly with metadata associated with digital media; CDDB vs. iTunes, IMDB vs. Amazon DVD listings, Goodreads vs. Amazon boo
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HN thread Common Accessibility Problems, and How to Fix Them [1] is relevant and suggests using Google Lighthouse to fix low-contrast text. Semantic HTML5 together with alt= image attribute covers the majority of problems with aria-label*
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A well written update on the SARS-CoV-2 D614G spike mutation. The D614G mutation has become the dominant form in Europe and North America. In the lab, D614G seems to attach to cells more readily than the original non-mutated spike. The domi
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Perhaps a general compromise is to generate a rel=canonical link [1] that only includes directly supported query parameters. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_link_element
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Agreed, network errors are very common but the partial failure scenario, with a fully functional client-server connection but failed server-server replication connection, seems rare. Maybe I don't read the network failure post-mortems

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