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by ufo 5y ago
Lua 5.4 now includes a short utf8 library in the standard library. It has ways ways to get the utf8 string length and regex patterns for utf8 codepoints. However, it doesn't include any functionality that would require large tables of
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by ufo 5y ago
Recently I ported a xlib game to SDL. Another option to add to that list.
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by ufo 5y ago
My gut instinct is that these CSS tricks may be bad for accessibility. Does anyone know how well a screen reader would deal with it?
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by ufo 5y ago
Another way to say it is that if a book says to not do something, it must be because there are people out there doing the opposite...
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by ufo 5y ago
But is HCoV-OC43 harmless because the virus became less deadly, or because everyone has immunity from being infected by it when they were still children?
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by ufo 5y ago
And that theory about viruses becoming less deadly isn't an universal rule in the first place. For example, smallpox and measles never got less deadly. In many cases, the virus becoming less deadly is because the population acquired im
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by ufo 5y ago
The most fun I had with cookie clicker was after I learned that it's easy to write bots using the Javascript developer console.
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Just a smidge, or a bridge too far? Slang use in the ICU(bmj.com)
2 points by ufo 5y ago|0 comments
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by ufo 5y ago
"in silico" doesn't mean that is actually real. We are almost getting into 2022 now and there is ample evidence from prospective double-blind studies proving that Ivermectin doesn't work against covid. And here in Brazil
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by ufo 5y ago
Ivermectin acts on glutamate chloride ion channels. It is not a protease inhibitor. And even if it were (which it is not), something that inhibits one protease doesn't work on other proteases. We can't use HIV protease inhibitors
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by ufo 5y ago
The article does address this question.
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by ufo 5y ago
A deeper issue is what happens if you sell the name NFT on two blockchains. Which one should count?
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by ufo 5y ago
I think the most interesting part is from 16:45 to 18:00
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by ufo 5y ago
One of the theories is that the booster raises the levels of neutralizing antibodies. While the antibodies against the original strain don't work as well against Omicron, having more of them does help.
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by ufo 5y ago
If only it were that easy. Twitter displays a complex mix of follow up tweets and replies from other people, so the follow up can be burried and hard to find. It also may require clicking to load more tweets and there is little indication w
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by ufo 5y ago
I don't understant what you mean here. Why would the passwords be less random?
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by ufo 5y ago
Arguably the term "ahead of time" also suffers from the same problem. Among compiler people, "ahead of time" vs "just in time" sometimes has to do with whether the compiler uses run-time information when compil
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by ufo 5y ago
To be a bit less pedantic, this is an area that is kind of ambiguous... From one point of view it's still fair to call this "just in time". I wish there was terminology to differentiate between kind of "on demand AOT co
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by ufo 5y ago
Apparently there are some variants of Omicron that can't be detected with current PCR tests. We may need to update the list of primers at some point. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/07/sc
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by ufo 5y ago
The title is misleading. It is possible that Omicron is just as severe and that the effect in the study is because a large percentage of the population had some immunity from a previous infection or vaccine. > South Africa has a quite hi
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by ufo 5y ago
The issue with the default underlining of links sounds like something that the browser ought to be able to do correctly by default. Does anyone know why it doesn't? Is there a reason for it or is it just one of those backwards compatib
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by ufo 5y ago
What's the deal with Icelandic and Norse?
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by ufo 5y ago
For me, one of the saddest things about the El-Salvador Bitcoin saga is seeing people here turn a blind eye to Bukele's power grabbing, because he plays into the narrative of their crypto greed.
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by ufo 5y ago
I do agree that the privacy invading stuff is a more urgent problem. But I want to add a counterpoint about the physical ads. I remember when they banned all the billboards in São Paulo and the city ended up looking much better after it. Th
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by ufo 5y ago
However, if there's part of the software that is useful outside the EU, there would be the option of reusing just that part.
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by ufo 5y ago
I wish the order of the arguments of ln were easier to get right. One time I did an ln --force with the arguments in the wrong order and ended up ruining all the files. Had to restore from backup.
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by ufo 5y ago
For game engines, point #3 is the most important. JIT compilers tend to do better when the entire codebase is in the same language, because they can't optimize code that is written in C/C++, and have a harder time optimizing code
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by ufo 5y ago
Maybe my brain cells are slow today but even after reading a bunch of times I can't understand what's the point of the returns_ helper function. Could someone kindly give an explanation for dummies?
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by ufo 5y ago
The whole problem is that there isn't a single correct definition. For example: https://evolution.berkeley.edu/biological-species-concept/ https://evolution.berkeley.edu/other-species-concepts&#x2F
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by ufo 5y ago
Of course not! Please don't suggest that I would say such a heartless thing! We're talking about someone who had to be sick for months, probably inside a hospital already. The important thing to do is get everyone vaccinated, incl

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