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by funcDropShadow 26d ago
Interesting, but I've read for a long time, that our humanoid predecessors at some point figured out how to get to bone marrow with tools. That provided the energy dense food as well an evolutionary impetus to develop larger brains to
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by funcDropShadow 26d ago
How do we know that? Any sources?
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by funcDropShadow 26d ago
But the Inca lived to late for this discussion. They already had advanced agriculture. For evolutionary terms, the time before agriculture and the time of the predecessors of homo sapiens are more relevant, because that time span was larger
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by funcDropShadow 2mo ago
source?
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by funcDropShadow 3mo ago
You could manage those VMs with https://microvm-nix.github.io/microvm.nix/ that helps with mounting the nix store read only from the host into the vm. That should save more space than trying to reduce the dependencies
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by funcDropShadow 4mo ago
STM is seldom used in modern Clojure projects, it is certainly not the dominant model. Most projects I am aware of use a few or even exactly one atoms with immutable data structures.
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by funcDropShadow 4mo ago
No other mammal eats cooked or baked food. Raw meat or raw plant contain more water than our food.
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by funcDropShadow 5mo ago
When you are administrating so many Java applications, you should investigate an hour or ask your favorite AI how to configure the logging library used in your application of interest. They allow you to remove stack traces and lots more.
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by funcDropShadow 6mo ago
They wouldn't have to, if the file format accepted floats in proper exponential format.
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by funcDropShadow 6mo ago
If companies are allowed to change the meaning of terms in legislation we are in even more trouble.
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by funcDropShadow 6mo ago
> Garbage collection, by definition, trashes locality. No, it doesn't necessarily. It is correct if you are thinking about mark and sweep GC. But that is 50 years old. Generational GC has much better locality. And GC can even improv
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by funcDropShadow 7mo ago
OMG no. Politician have no business making technological decisions. They make it harder to innovate, i.e. to invent the next generation of ECC with a different name.
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by funcDropShadow 7mo ago
The same panel produces much more electricity in space than at the bottom of the atmosphere, because the atmosphere already reflects most of the light. Additionally, the panel needs less glass or no glass in space, which makes it lighter an
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by funcDropShadow 8mo ago
Self-cataloging can be become a method of procrastination. But that doesn't mean that there is no value to be found in methods like Zettelkasten. The activity of looking through your own Zettelkasten has the potential of creating assoc
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by funcDropShadow 11mo ago
So, in order to avoid the negative consequences of a European monopoly, we make sure that a Chinese monopoly prevails? That doesn't seem like a wining strategy for Europe.
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by funcDropShadow 11mo ago
Even if we assume that JSON numbers are JavaScript numbers. There is the problem that some large natural numbers cannot be represented in double or float although some even larger numbers can be represented. This is very bad if you use thes
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by funcDropShadow 1y ago
Because, Truffle is reused in multiple language VMs their overall attack surface is smaller than it would be with classical language VM architectures.
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by funcDropShadow 1y ago
But with a visible scrollbar you would have a visible indication which behavior you triggered. If the scrollbar is invisible you get a changed viewport in both cases but you have to infer which gesture triggers which behavior.
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by funcDropShadow 1y ago
And still there are more modern idioms and language features that ML had in the 70s but are missing from Go. But, these have the fatal flaw of Not being Invented Here.
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by funcDropShadow 1y ago
The goal of teaching binary trees is not that you can write binary trees in your sleep, the goal is that you train your ability to derive algorithms and data structures. If you look at what a world class soccer player does during training,
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by funcDropShadow 1y ago
Do you have source for this? Because as you write I've always read to derive protein intake from the overall weight. That would indeed be a very important distance.
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by funcDropShadow 1y ago
In every trade or art you start as an apprentice. That is the time when you learn the basics, the rules, the best-practices. When you have mastered the state of the art, you are a master. You know when to apply which rule and tactic to crea
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by funcDropShadow 1y ago
I've tried perhaps one third of the samples. All of them ran in 120 fps in 3840x2160 px in Firefox on Linux on my machine. Perhaps it is a configuration problem. My screen has a 120 fps refresh rate, so it probably is capped there.
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by funcDropShadow 1y ago
Do you have a link to that patched version?
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by funcDropShadow 1y ago
You mean such readable and understandable names like car, cdr, cadr, .... ? For the uninitiated, car is not about vehicles.
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by funcDropShadow 1y ago
I really loved it for a virtual conference
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by funcDropShadow 1y ago
Yes, nixpkgs is definitely missing the self-documenting part, or even the documenting part for most of it.
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by funcDropShadow 1y ago
Don't forget the self-documenting aspect. The manual is included, the api documentation is included, you can ask emacs which command is executed when you click somewhere or when you press a button. I recently tried to do the same thing
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by funcDropShadow 1y ago
Dynamic scoping is a feature in the Emacs ecosystem. It plays a similar role to dependency injection in other languages. It is what allows you to change global state for some function call. Dynamic scoping together with buffer-local, file-l
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by funcDropShadow 1y ago
In practice it is difficult enough, to do the right date arithmetic using the datetime library in the right timezone.

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