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by pitdicker 11mo ago
To add something similar: I am now at the point where maybe a few times a day I can visualize a glimpse of a memory, but otherwise it is blank and I have no visual dreams. But it does not hinder the ability to think about complex systems in
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by pitdicker 11mo ago
There is an interesting reddit community 'CureAphantasia' with resources to develop your ability to visualize mental images. Together there are ca. 25 posts that offer a complete guide that might as well have been a book. This see
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by pitdicker 1y ago
To give an example from my software at work, structural engineering: You make a 3D-model (BIM, Building Information Model) of the steel skeleton of some project. The software can than generate 2D drawings, the blueprints. All beams, colums
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by pitdicker 1y ago
Software engineering takes surprisingly little responsibility compared to other engineering disciplines. This seems like a good development to me. Of course you can't expect someone who just put something online as a hobby project to t
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by pitdicker 2y ago
As it was explained to me warts are caused by a virus, which at some point the local skin tissue no longer attacks. Any treatment that provokes the immune system in the area without damaging the tissue too much has a change of waking up the
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by pitdicker 2y ago
On average man burns ca. 2500 kcal per day, mostly in rest. One hour of reasonably intensive cardio burns 500~600 kcal. If you have two such workouts a week it comes down to an increased energy use of 2*600/(7*2500) = 7%. Or a large me
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by pitdicker 3y ago
When it comes to economics it never ceases to amaze me that we build an entire system on the basic assumption that everyone acts primarily in their own self-interest, and that that system somewhat manages to function. Luckily when it comes
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by pitdicker 3y ago
Or something changed in the environment that made younger fish less healthy.
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by pitdicker 3y ago
Paper that discusses similarities between the envelope glycoprotein of retroviruses and syncytin: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758191/ This field is called paleovirology, and the paper also d
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by pitdicker 3y ago
> The syncytiotrophoblast is the outermost layer of the placenta, the part that is pressed against the uterus. It’s literally a layer of cells that have fused together, forming a wall. ... There’s no other structure like this anywhere el
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by pitdicker 3y ago
Prince has been doing this for 20 years and is in my opinion the gold standard, with good support for footnotes, endnotes, page headers and other little extensions that are only relevant for printing. https://www.princexml.com&#x
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by pitdicker 3y ago
If wish we could merge this comment with the thread where people are defending Youtubes right to show ads. I am so glad there is technology available to choose what I want to read and see without being forced too much other content.
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by pitdicker 3y ago
If a CC2 building collapses, the expectation is that in only about 3% of the cases this leads to someone dying. I don't know the complete reasoning, but can imagine some factors of why this number is far below 100%: a building is not a
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by pitdicker 3y ago
It may be nice to know the safety factors used for structural engineering of homes, offices and other regular buildings in the EU. The Eurocode defines 3 consequence classes: CC1, CC2 and CC3. CC1 has the lowest consequence and is used for
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by pitdicker 3y ago
Animation of a turbo roundabout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkmelZhvlPk (or search for 'turbo rotonde', there is a lot of material in Dutch available). There are over 2000 of these turbo roundabouts in the Ne
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by pitdicker 3y ago
That is before my time, I only ever owned a serial A3 XY-plotter. Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter#History ) suggest it was possible on a roll: > Early pen plotters, e.g., the Calcomp 565 of 1959, wor
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by pitdicker 3y ago
For construction plans the A0 and A1 paper sizes are standard. But those paper sizes don't come as sheets, they are printed on a roll of ca. 900mm wide and cut by the printer. So if the drawing doesn't fit on a standard paper pape
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by pitdicker 3y ago
Corridor Crew: https://www.youtube.com/@CorridorCrew If you want to learn more about visual effects, stunts, CGi in popular movies.
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by pitdicker 3y ago
From http://prize.hutter1.net/ : Being able to compress well is closely related to intelligence as explained below. While intelligence is a slippery concept, file sizes are hard numbers. Wikipedia is an extensive snapshot of
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by pitdicker 3y ago
I wondered what makes these 'molecular jackhammers' attack only cancer cells. The trick is that they are dye molecules, which can be engineered to attach to a specific biomolecule.
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by pitdicker 3y ago
What was the reason Firefox for Android did not have a large repertoire of extensions from the start? Was it because of different multiprocess support?
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by pitdicker 3y ago
My Brother HL2240D (ca. €100) started to see some wear on the wheel that picks up pages after ca 80.000 prints. I combined some parts with another HL2250 that had some wear, and was good to go for a few more years. Rock-solid devices! I fin
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by pitdicker 3y ago
There was a lot of talk about Firefox having poor performance, but I have never experienced any of it. For daily use Firefox has always been one of the more responsive applications on my PC. If you experienced poor performance the common ex
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by pitdicker 3y ago
Unless the environment is also touched by a part of the program written in Go, Julia, I don't know... The lock is not shared across languages.
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by pitdicker 3y ago
You are right. POSIX specifies one thing, the standard library in Rust and some other libraries specifies something different. 'Safe to use unless there are other threads' is not really something you can or want to encode in a typ
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by pitdicker 3y ago
My respects for your work on Chrono! And you are right about time-rs (or I think you are). Version 0.1 was never fixed, and version 0.3 does the OS and thread count checks. It does have some advantage for chrono to do everything in Rust: it
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by pitdicker 3y ago
This also caused a lot of trouble for time libraries in Rust. The two foundational libraries, chrono and time, rely on localtime_r to get the local time instead of the clock value in UTC. localtime_r reads the TZ environment variable (and o
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by pitdicker 3y ago
Good look to whomever is going to formalize that! Does anyone have an idea of the amount of effort it would take? Would the effort be comparable with the original proof by Andrew Wiles?
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by pitdicker 3y ago
Around 2010 I started playing with Adblock Plus, and provided a translation for a while. Wladimir Palant was a friendly, responsive, and as I understand it respected developer. There were not countless adblockers, just Adblock and Adblock P
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by pitdicker 3y ago
Better link: https://neurosciencenews.com/ammonium-sixth-taste-25922/

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