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by twic 8d ago
Can I interest you in Jesus also being Emperor Andronikos I? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_chronology_(Fomenko)
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by twic 22d ago
Is there a dataset for this? Maybe a Bloomberg ticker?
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by twic 24d ago
The terminology is all a bit loose. Proteins are peptides, but we don't usually call them that. But when a hormone is a protein, rather than a small molecule, then we call it a "peptide hormone". I suppose because we're
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by twic 25d ago
Logs and metrics are both derived from events. A log takes the whole event and records it somewhere. A metric takes some numeric value from the event, aggregates it over time, and records it periodically. You can reconstruct a metric from l
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by twic 25d ago
Pretty sure you've been able to interrupt a thread blocked on IO in a normal InputStream since 1.0.2 in 1996. There is a significant caveat to this, which is that if the underlying blocking IO operation isn't natively cancellable
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by twic 25d ago
> IOException and InterruptedException are both checked and unrelated https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/25/docs/api/java.base...
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by twic 29d ago
Grimsey was boss of Iceland, but also, Grimsey is in Iceland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%ADmsey
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by twic 1mo ago
Mild counterpoint: a friend of mine, a professional woman, started on GLP-1 drugs some time ago. She has lost weight, but she also says she's had significant cognitive improvements, more focus, better sleep, etc. It would be great to h
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by twic 1mo ago
> A well done monorepo is a huge force multiplier on a large organization How so? I work at a company which uses a monorepo, and I haven't seen any upside to it yet. We have a tools team that's invested a vast amount of work in
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by twic 2mo ago
Frustrating that these aren't labelled! What's this NASA-ish one from? https://64.media.tumblr.com/75c79a0906e422a7072b9148b52d9501... I didn't spot any of the weirdpunk machinery from Wings of Honneamise: h
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by twic 2mo ago
An Italian friend was excited to visit a castle, and on arrival disappointedly exclaimed "but this is a " fortezza !".
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by twic 2mo ago
See? Immortality through memes!
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by twic 2mo ago
It's not just that they aren't free of bias. They appear to incubate truly wacky stuff - Leverage Research [1], the Zizians, all the AI/x-risk stuff. I am not the only person to have noticed this [2]. There's something a
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by twic 2mo ago
> Timecube was an incoherent stream-of-consciousness website filled with bizarre cosmological claims. Was? Timecube.net will outlive any and all faddy Silicon Valley cults.
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by twic 2mo ago
Reviving? I'm still running a 2007 EeePC 1001HA on Fedora.
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by twic 3mo ago
Terrible, the cytoskeleton is the best bit of the cell! (not just grumpy because that's what I did my PhD research on)
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by twic 4mo ago
Reminds me more remotely of scoops used in coal mining, in very low-ceilinged seams: https://www.komatsu.com/en-us/products/equipment/room-and-pi...
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by twic 4mo ago
> The worst part, by far, was the emptying / prepping. As described in one of the great modern tales of legend: https://singletrackworld.com/2009/02/the-picolax-thread-retu...
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by twic 4mo ago
Where does that come from though? I don't see any flow control or anything else compute-y in the bytecode itself. I know unpickling can run Python code, but i wouldn't say that makes the bytecode itself Turing-complete.
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by twic 4mo ago
The Python pickle format is a bytecode [1], although not a Turing-complete one, I think. [1] https://formats.kaitai.io/python_pickle/
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by twic 4mo ago
If a tool had been replaced by a better tool, wouldn't it be natural to discuss that?
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by twic 4mo ago
Perl is what I've spent the last thirty years running away from.
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by twic 4mo ago
Not bad, but the subprocess invocation is too verbose given this is a staple of shell script type work, and the string mangling is a bit painful.
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by twic 4mo ago
Not sure if this is related, but i'd love to see more scripting languages (mostly Python) offer facilities which let them take over from shell script for more scripts and one-liners. Think about what it would take to write this in Pyth
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by twic 4mo ago
Swatch Internet Time! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
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by twic 4mo ago
The article mentions: > the German and Japanese point is 0.250 mm It's probably the sanest adaptation of the point to the metric system. A traditional point is close to a third of a millimetre, but that's too weird. Since the Q
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by twic 4mo ago
This is pretty much what GL.iNet does. A nice slick interface for normal people, full OpenWRT nerd power a couple of clicks away for HN readers.
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by twic 4mo ago
If anyone is curious and near South Kensington, there is now a little exhibition on urushi at the V&A [1], which includes a film of a guy who harvests his own sap, processes it into lacquer, and then makes things with it. That video is
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by twic 4mo ago
What is going on with Japanese lacquer at the moment? There's this. There's the MSI Prestige 13 AI+ Ukiyo-e Edition [1]. The V&A opened an exhibition on it last weekend [2]. The Times had a puff piece on it a few months ago [3
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by twic 4mo ago
That was a long and dark time in history. We're still in the shadow of it. But these days a much better world is available - a more powerful language, good libraries, and much, much simpler frameworks. To be clear, all the annotation a

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