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by twic 3y ago
The only reference point i have is that the millennium was very roughly around 1000000000. And that's only because of an agonising C/Prince pun in NTK [1]: "Tonight I'm gonna party like it's (time_t) 1E9" [1]
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by twic 3y ago
It's Nestle in the UK, and they don't sell the Japanese bonus snacks here either.
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by twic 3y ago
I still use Mercurial for personal projects! I do think it's superior to Git in many ways, and simpler than Git in many ways, but now i've got used to Git, i increasingly find myself getting stuck in Mercurial. For example, recent
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by twic 3y ago
I'm not sure i would agree that the JVM and its ilk do LTO. They compile code to machine code at runtime, after loading the code it calls, and often after spending some time interpreting it. That means they can do interprocedural optim
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by twic 3y ago
> This heavily obscured quasar with a bolometric luminosity of ~5 × 10^45 erg s−1 Aka ~5 × 10^38 W. Why do astronomers use ergs?
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by twic 3y ago
If your chip is fabricated on a flat rectangular piece of silicon, that would involve links running from each edge, across the chip, to the other edge, in both orientations. I can imagine that would be very demanding of chip resources, slow
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by twic 3y ago
As the article says: > Beyond the automotive, Ferrocene can also be used in electronic programmable systems in the industrial sector. Here the focus is on developing products or applications that carry out safety functions. Like the auto
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by twic 3y ago
> Unfortunately, the company was picking 4 random employee developers from across the organization each week. Oh god. I worked at Pivotal, and i saw something like this happen on one project. Four Pivotal Labs devs, four client devs; eac
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by twic 3y ago
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself. -- Francis Jeffery
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by twic 3y ago
Oh, so it's a Samsung?
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> - Corbyn rejected the internationally accepted definition of anti-Semitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance[4]. > [4] Politics | The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/politics . Sorry, is your
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by twic 3y ago
Same. I remember reading one copy of the Edmund Scientific catalog from cover to cover over and over again. Solar cells! Magnets! Fibre optics! Kites! Jumping discs disguised as quarters!
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by twic 3y ago
> But there is a closely-related question, which is to ask: how much does Remy depend on the way the simulator works? Will it work on real networks? We have some confidence that the results don't depend on fine details of the simula
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by twic 3y ago
> Pass everyone fast in the left lane, get to within 50 yards of the target exit (where they are are all also going) and then hit your brakes to cut back in, sending a peristaltic wave of stoppage backward in the fast lane. Interesting.
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by twic 3y ago
The Richat Structure is the fool's Atlantis. It's just a load of circles guys, that doesn't make it Atlantis. Atlantis was in Tunisia: https://medcraveonline.com/IJH/IJH-05-00275.pdf
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by twic 3y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/artist-vs-normal-people
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by twic 3y ago
Words only have meanings in context. It might now be that in the context of developmental biology, starfish have heads. It is surely the case that in the context of millinery, they do not. But no particular context is canonical, and so you
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by twic 3y ago
To me, the two big things about ripgrep are (1) it's much more oriented towards the use case of searching a directory hierarchy full of code, eg by default it's recursive and respects .gitignore, it has a --type flag which knows v
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by twic 3y ago
True Names, 1981. Which, IMHO, is a far better story than Neuromancer, but also much less stylish, and hence less influential.
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by twic 3y ago
A more recent echo of this is Greg Egan's Incandescence, in which space caterpillars discover general relativity without being able to see the sky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescence_(novel)
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by twic 3y ago
The only flambéed dishes that spring to mind are "volcano chicken", a staple at a Thai restaurant near me (not where this film was shot): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSjJFOgBFNY And the "cobra coffee&quot
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by twic 3y ago
My dad also did this when we had christmas at his. The brandy does burn with a pale flame, but if you have the traditional sprig of holly on top of the pudding, and that spring is dry rather than fresh, that will go up like a rocket, with a
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by twic 3y ago
Also, don't do it with your head bent over the pan, it will singe your eyebrows off and give you what looks like mild sunburn.
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by twic 3y ago
The Conversation is/was an attempt at this: https://theconversation.com/global Initially, it was good. Then, it went downhill due to a relaxation of rigour; for every expert giving a scholarly overview, there was a jun
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by twic 3y ago
The weirdest thing about this thread is that nobody has yet suggested replacing public intellectuals with GPT-4.
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by twic 3y ago
> Intelligent people can give more insight on a variety of topics without having expert level knowledge just because they are smart and can put the puzzle together differently. Citation needed. This sounds like a Rationalist power fantas
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by twic 3y ago
It does feel like something like that. Maybe not that exactly, but many people have some sort of need for external authorities to tell them what to do, what to think, who to be, etc. Some lack of confidence in their own judgement? Insecurit
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by twic 3y ago
Thing is, none of the people i followed for COVID takes did that. They've carried on posting about infectious diseases. So i think it is possible to distinguish between these barbecue-level fake public intellectuals, and real experts,
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> I could never understand why would I follow some individual on twitter - why would I care? Because if someone puts out good tweets at a reasonable frequency, then following them means you will have good tweets in your feed at a reasona
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by twic 3y ago
As i understand it, the fame industry always has been.

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