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by twic 3y ago
WITNESSING THE CACOPHONIC LORDS OF NECROTIC IRON'S UNHOLY DESECRATION OF THE INNOCENT SAXON TONGUE. EDIT: mild Baader-Meinhof at the word chronocration, since I only came across the term "the great chronocrator" a couple of w
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by twic 3y ago
I have the idea that at is more widespread than batch, and since you can say 'at now' (or 'at $(date)'), at is a better bet. As far as I know, cron doesn't pay attention to load average, but I would love to be corre
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by twic 3y ago
Easy enough to implement on top of a token bucket filter - just adjust the rate at which tokens are added.
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by twic 3y ago
You could also hand all the invocations of run_intensive_process to at, and let it take care of running them when the load average permits: https://linux.die.net/man/1/at I don't think at is very heavily used
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by twic 3y ago
So what is it? How is it made? If it's the same as this biotumen [1], then it's "a fraction extracted from pyrolysis oils", specifically "the lignitic fraction". I had never heard of fast pyrolysis before, have
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by twic 3y ago
So not what i described at all then. The whole idea is to have a low-level language you can generate with high-level code written in a real programming language.
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by twic 3y ago
I've never used Terraform. So HCL is the low-level language i talk about; what does a human write to generate it?
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by twic 3y ago
> Sorry, but if it's doesn't have abstraction it's not readable. This is why i very carefully wrote "legible" instead of "readable". > You get smothered in details. No forest, just trees. People will
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by twic 3y ago
I once took a sheet off an A0 flip-chart at my dad's job, and tried to make the biggest paper plane i'd ever seen. It didn't work at all - it was too flimsy, and just collapsed. The paper would have needed to be thicker as we
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by twic 3y ago
What i think we really need: 1. A low-level, open-ended language for describing infrastructure; it should have absolutely no facilities for abstraction, should be human-legible and machine-readable (so based on JSON, probably), and should b
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by twic 3y ago
Did that guy just suggest that to make infrastructure-as-code easier to understand we should make it more like CSS ?
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by twic 3y ago
Thinking about it, i suppose what i actually did to avoid working on my thesis (and pay the bills) was get a part-time programming job, and then that job became full-time, and i never finished the thesis. So, in a sense, fifteen years later
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by twic 3y ago
When I was trying to avoid writing my thesis I just played video games
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by twic 3y ago
Ah! Well. Nevertheless.
885.
by twic 3y ago
That's another of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I give confidential press briefings; you leak; he's being charged under section 2A of the Official Secrets Act. -- Bernard Woolley, Yes, Minister
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by twic 3y ago
> The preference could also be because a lot of Michelangelo’s work was created for a completely-male audience ... (specifically one which liked muscular male physiques) > ... The Libyan Sibyl, for example, was created for the Sistine
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by twic 3y ago
> Wait, you're telling me I can just download these 3-5 source files, type `make`, and it will _just build_? No. You need make and a C toolchain installed. If you have those installed, you almost certainly also have Python, Perl, a
888.
by twic 3y ago
Oh, that's a very nice use of ChatGPT. This sort of question is usually impossibly hard to find by searching, and requires consulting the sages.
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by twic 3y ago
What if you kept the envelope "inflated" using an electric field? Make it out of something conducting, insulate the outside, then charge it up. Self-repulsion will stop it collapsing. I leave the calculations as an exercise for th
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by twic 3y ago
I'm curious about this popcorn polymer. I went looking, and found some papers on how it forms, but no pictures of what it looks like, or videos of it forming. EDIT I looked again and found some tiny pictures: https://www.shi
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by twic 3y ago
I read them at the time. The gist was basically "it has been empirically established that async is the right way to do concurrency" - ie, it was because of Node.
892.
by twic 3y ago
Although there are secret patents: https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-thousands-of-secret...
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by twic 3y ago
Lo and behold, the patent [1] says: > [0038] In preparing the xenograft for use, the tendon is surgically dissected and removed from the paratenon (tendon sheath). The tendon is composed mostly of an extra-cellular collagen matrix, which
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by twic 3y ago
> They have also developed a way of ensuring the kangaroo xenografts are not rejected after transplant. The key to this is what he describes as “the special sauce”, and it is a closely guarded secret that has already been patented. PATEN
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by twic 3y ago
It is. Python, Java, etc have built-in ways to interface with native code. SWIG is a framework which sits on top of those, and aims to make it easy to do that interfacing across multiple languages.
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by twic 3y ago
That may be a reference to this classic Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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by twic 3y ago
That's actually mentioned in the article, which is quite good and worth reading: > In 2016, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), an influential body that sets policy for many major medical titles, had prop
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by twic 3y ago
That's literally the point he's making! The terms "flawed" and "zombie" reflect positive identification of dodgy data, so of course when the data isn't available, they are less likely to apply, hence why:
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by twic 3y ago
No, not really. The headline says "plagued with", the subhead says "in some fields, at least one-quarter of clinical trials might be problematic or even entirely made up", and the article substantiates that. One quarter
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by twic 3y ago
Which prison? As the article says: > Ultimately, a lingering question is — as with paper mills — why so many suspect RCTs are being produced in the first place. Mol, from his experiences investigating the Egyptian studies, blames lack of

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