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by voldacar 6y ago
Well sulfates in general tend to be highly insoluble in water, and therefore biologically inert, so I think this is still kind of a cherry-picked example
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by voldacar 6y ago
If we posit that the graviton does exist and suspend all disbelief, is the rest of the patent logically sound? If the theoretical basis of this device is correct, would it actually do what it claims to?
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by voldacar 6y ago
> Whatever people find unacceptable about Java could've been fixed. yeah by making it common lisp instead of java
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by voldacar 6y ago
> public thing Thing = new Thing(); can we please please please stop making programming languages like this
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by voldacar 6y ago
traces of plasticzers, which can act as endocrine disruptors, are found basically everywhere in modern civilization
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by voldacar 6y ago
hasn't this been known or at least suspected since the 90s/00s? I recall seeing similar studies from that period
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by voldacar 6y ago
Couldn't you just stop receiving keypresses when a UI transition begins and then re-enable input once the new UI state has been established?
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by voldacar 6y ago
> it's absolutely crucial to have it if we want most of the online communications tools we've become accustomed to to exist do we?
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by voldacar 6y ago
Some of these were really lovely. The suspended helical staircase was super cool, and the dodecahedral torus thing reminded me of a diatom or some kind of symmetrical microorganism
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by voldacar 6y ago
Yeah but thats not the parent's point. The problem isn't a lack of ability to play .swf files, it's about the user's control over his machine
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by voldacar 6y ago
> Unless you depend on no code written by other people. Yeah that is me. I can certainly see how a program that uses a lot of libraries would have issues with pure though. Not sure what the solution to that would be other than going full
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by voldacar 6y ago
D has a "pure" keyword and it works quite nicely. Agreed about the standards committee lol
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by voldacar 6y ago
Super interesting - is a perfectly smooth cylinder most desirable? or should it be a little rough in order to better tug on the air as it spins?
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by voldacar 6y ago
Where do you find such maps? I've looked before and it seems like a lot of the useful information isn't public
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by voldacar 6y ago
gcc usually produces slightly faster O3 binaries
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by voldacar 6y ago
All creatures die regardless of how reckless they were when they were alive the question is why males seem to become fossilized more often than females. Uneven distributions of recklessness while alive are irrelevant
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by voldacar 6y ago
i don't think walter is an ancap
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by voldacar 6y ago
If anything, technological progress could mask moral or social decay. Survival bias is a thing of course, but reading literature and philosophy from ancient cultures gives me a general sense that they put much more effort than we do into de
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by voldacar 6y ago
I haven't read a ton of Tolstoy but that looks super interesting, thanks
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by voldacar 6y ago
>it is like living in 12th century, how this is happening in 21st century because human nature hasn't appreciably changed between the 12th century and today
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by voldacar 6y ago
Is the AI messing up the newline? or is that just HN formatting quite impressive. now ask it to solve the K&R exercises ;)
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by voldacar 6y ago
Yeah same
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by voldacar 6y ago
>Finally, Heroin - by peculiar mechanism - robs the addict of his metaphysical vitality - I am being quite serious. People in the throes of addiction are no longer fully human - in the sense that their capacity to feel, to value LIFE its
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by voldacar 6y ago
Yeah at the time I read the English translation, I was just starting to learn Latin and had only the most basic proficiency.
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by voldacar 6y ago
Ugh I have had nothing but poor experiences with Loebs, at least for Roman authors. It is quite a feat to make Tacitus sound like some flowery and long-winded 19th century academic, but they pulled it off somehow. Reading it in the original
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by voldacar 6y ago
The painting for "cure" is some burning cars, a bunch of people standing in a long line, and some people pulling down a statue of a man on horseback? not sure i get it
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by voldacar 6y ago
a quantum computer could do it in O(n^.5) with grover's algorithm
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by voldacar 6y ago
> Sitting still and listening carefully is a dying practice. I would challenge anyone reading this to seriously ponder, "when was the last time I sat in silence and intently listened to a long-form musical work?" It's inte
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by voldacar 6y ago
This is super fascinating - I was always told that cleaning wounds with H2O2 could if anything, make the scars worse.
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by voldacar 6y ago
>The correlation between 'mystique' and practical utility is inverse. lol tell that to the banks and trading firms that pay Arthur Whitney millions for his APL interpreter that looks like something out of the IOCCC

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