ekaryotic

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by ekaryotic 3mo ago
I am a terrible hobby c programmer that doesn't understand pointers but surely a symmetric approach doesn't have the overhead or the bug. that is to say that if the language was designed to work in single bit pairs of a string ch
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by ekaryotic 3mo ago
have to shoot the elevator buttons in this, in the original you could move into them.
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by ekaryotic 4mo ago
the earth is old though, i'd think that the sun will have expanded and made the planet uninhabitable before all the crust is recycled. i've heard there's only 500million years left, assuming we don't destroy it before th
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by ekaryotic 4mo ago
southpaws are more common where at least one parent has schizophrenia. i believe it to be caused by an epigenetic change, where damage to the brain in a parent leads to the parent rewiring their brain to use the opposite hemisphere. In shor
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by ekaryotic 4mo ago
James "Whitey" Bulger was given LSD in exchange for a reduced prison sentence after some low level crime. He went on to work as a professional hitman, taking out politicians and trafficking drugs. LSD does work for things such as
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by ekaryotic 5mo ago
also, if you are blind from birth or go blind within a year of birth you won't develop schizophrenia. those folk are completely absent in the population.
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by ekaryotic 5mo ago
could you recompile a c program in fil-c and then decompile it to c and recompile it in c to have the high performance.
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by ekaryotic 5mo ago
Do you happen to know the reason the term for english is sasanach in irish language. i.e. is there a connection between sasanach and sassanian.
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by ekaryotic 5mo ago
iirc it was bmw who was selling their electric seats as a service. It maybe the only way to avoid this exploitation is a socialist model, nationalize industries and/or pay the workers for their time inside of for their product. That wo
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by ekaryotic 5mo ago
or run without an OS like an arcade or console.
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by ekaryotic 5mo ago
could have been a pressure to decrease wages, decreasing quality in exchange for increased quantity of code.
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by ekaryotic 6mo ago
speedrunning super mario world with neural nets is weirdly effective though. i guess you need a genetic algorithm to refine different approaches rather than a neural net.
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by ekaryotic 6mo ago
not the commenter but I bake my own soda bread and found that i was getting heartburn from the salt that was in the recipe. once i eliminated that i could eat as much as i wanted. I also cannot eat salt preserved potato chips on consecutive
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by ekaryotic 7mo ago
great comment. actually reminds me of how intel screwed up with developing the first 64 bit processor, then amd came along with theirs and managed to force intel into compatibility. All these big companies think they're too big to fail
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by ekaryotic 7mo ago
> An Tróid leis na 'Cráidmí' = The war with the Craidmi The battle/fight with the Craidmi. troid is singular whereas war is plural.
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by ekaryotic 7mo ago
neat. not something i´d hanker for. i saw a 16 core z80 laptop years ago and i often think about it because it can multitask. https://hackaday.com/2019/12/10/laptop-like-its-1979-with-a-...
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by ekaryotic 8mo ago
software is a bad example since all the coding is done in english. the translation tools are inexpensive nowadays. bilingual persons have lower rates of dementia so it's not even sure that standardising on one language would be a net b
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by ekaryotic 8mo ago
many of the older analog low impedance multimeters drew so much current that they affected the circuits they were trying to test, requiring a high impedance digital multimeter instead. it's a similar problem, and i'm sure the phys
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by ekaryotic 9mo ago
could you cut russias undersea cables in a tit for tat?
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by ekaryotic 11mo ago
there are physical laws that cannot be broken, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. therefore attempting to restrain a higher power only ends in self restraint. have you considered that the best approach is to go on strike, depr
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by ekaryotic 1y ago
actually there was a chinese serial killer that used a technique like this. He had a septic tank and threw his victims in along with the dead bodies of his previous victims and would only let them out if they brought more victims from a tra
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by ekaryotic 1y ago
the school to prison pipeline is talked about a lot.
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by ekaryotic 1y ago
or that the leaders of our society have consistently elected to increase the birthrate in the hope that attrition will prop up the status quo rather than making a social contract with their populace to achieve what they mutually want from l
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by ekaryotic 1y ago
If you had requested your code be rolled back to an earlier stable version as an alternative way of fixing the bug rather than merging unstable code you may have come to a compromise.
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by ekaryotic 1y ago
most lathes have a hole in the chuck to feed the work through. so if the material is ground down by hand to a diameter small enough to fit in the hole then to be turned and then removed and flipped over it's possible.
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by ekaryotic 1y ago
or "The Summer of code in Pyonyang"
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by ekaryotic 1y ago
most commerce sites allow you to buy a product and ship it to a different address than the billing. it's an ok way to buy stuff if they agree to barter.
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by ekaryotic 1y ago
i dare say archaeologists have multiple depictions of the lighthouse, considering how famous it was.
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by ekaryotic 1y ago
the actor that played gandalf ian mckellen? had a minor breakdown on set after he was made to stand on a greenscreen for multiple days.
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by ekaryotic 1y ago
theodore kacsynski started teaching at 22. a damn bright spark before he was victimised by the mind control experiment.

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