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by xvilka 4y ago
Just do it like any big Asian city: 1) build high-rises 2) build more metro lines Look at Tokio or Shanghai, as an example.
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by xvilka 4y ago
Then it's time to stop calling these times as Renaissance and Enlightenment.
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by xvilka 4y ago
Savages. Dark Ages, indeed.
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by xvilka 4y ago
Some of the antibiotics have also proven antiviral and/or immunomodulatory effect, e.g. azithromycin [1] or levofloxacin [2]. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34015317/ [2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.n
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by xvilka 4y ago
It's not a bias, 99.999999999% of things in the Universe could have been better.
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by xvilka 4y ago
> It is is unlikely anything you do will “matter”. Out of ~117 billion people to have ever lived over countless millennia, the lives of note throughout history are what? 10k? 100k? Even if it’s 1b meaningful lives that weren’t just an ag
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by xvilka 4y ago
Beating death is good. I think it will not happen any time soon though. In a few centuries, maybe. Certainly not in my lifetime.
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by xvilka 4y ago
Uploaded to heavens.
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by xvilka 4y ago
> it always convert all the text to image on server side before serving. It probably easy to recover to absolute precision with OpenAI-like models. I bet using AI could help a lot with recovering books in the future.
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by xvilka 4y ago
Are there any plans to mainstream this in QEMU?
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by xvilka 4y ago
I should note, that OpenWatcom 2.0[1] is far better for supporting more recent C and C++ code, modern hosts and tooling, but still able to compile into 16 bit code. It is also actively maintained. Instead of MASM I recommend JWasm[2] + Jwli
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by xvilka 4y ago
> Supporting these drivers required the addition of an “OpenBSD compatibility layer”, which builds on top of the existing FreeBSD compatibility layer. This doesn't look very good, in my opinion. While having working WiFi is importan
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by xvilka 4y ago
As a chemist I am not sure it's even possible to create matching alternatives. The stronger links inside molecules and outside, the more they are "alien" to life and environment. While reducing their usage is a good strategy,
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by xvilka 4y ago
> We probably will not follow up on this study at 6 months and 1 year, since the average weight loss was so small. It seems unlikely that 0.89 lbs of weight loss will be statistically detectable several months later. Don't waste you
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by xvilka 4y ago
The current discussion is at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19679
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by xvilka 4y ago
It will never gain significant popularity with UX failures like this.
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by xvilka 4y ago
There was an attempt to make a complete FOSS OS on top of that - PureDarwin[1][2]. It looks dead now though. [1] http://www.puredarwin.org/ [2] https://github.com/puredarwin
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Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (2019)(resilience.org)
32 points by xvilka 4y ago|56 comments
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OCaml 5.0 Multicore is out(github.com)
420 points by xvilka 4y ago|6 comments
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by xvilka 4y ago
Questionable book. While he might be right about overall direction it's a bit shallow and delivers skewed picture.
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by xvilka 4y ago
We are fleas of the planet, a malign infestation, a disease.
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by xvilka 4y ago
Indeed, just look at the ongoing wars today - exactly the same level of brutalism and violence like hundreds years ago, if not more due to the improvements in weapons technology.
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by xvilka 4y ago
Should have invested into rewriting Firefox into Rust instead of doubling down on unrelated to browser activities (who needs them anyway?). Accessibility is important though, I have nothing against it.
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by xvilka 4y ago
> I realized that I've desperately been trying to make money my whole life so that people will like me Money themselves have zero value and certainly shouldn't be viewed from that perspective. Their only value as a tool to get
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MorphOS: AmigaOS-like computer operating system for PowerPC(morphos-team.net)
1 points by xvilka 4y ago|0 comments
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by xvilka 4y ago
What best (and biggest) alternatives to Patreon are?
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by xvilka 4y ago
You can[1]. [1] https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-08-23-how-does-our-consultan...
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by xvilka 4y ago
DOCX is not an open standard, there are many articles[1][2] why it isn't - even in Wikipedia article [3]. ISO standards committee were just a rubber stamp Microsoft puppets to ensure vendor lock for decades. [1] https://ossw
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by xvilka 4y ago
It's completely unrelated. LibreOffice can open most completely binary DOC or XLS as well, they were just reverse engineered. It has nothing to do with openness.
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by xvilka 4y ago
It is open only on paper - at least half of it MSO-specific compatibility cruft, plus real documents often contain binary blobs that aren't described in the standard. Name "open" is a lie in this case. Moreover, it's mad

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