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Largely but not entirely a data problem; specifically poor captioning. High quality captioning makes such a big difference.

The buffer pool and CoW are honestly really nice patterns for this type of canvas heavy setup with React where it's not a good fit for a custom reconciler.

For hydrocarbon synthesis, hydrogen production from electrolysis dominates the energy usage, along with driving the Sabatier process. DAC might be like 5-10%. Higher CO2 concentrat…

Difficult engineering problem but working from first principles suggests that the energy requirememts are not insurmountable. The roundtrip efficiency is worse than batteries but m…

My wife has been working on a pixel accurate recreation of MacPaint on the web, and one of the things that I've learned from on-and-off helping with it was just how much of the mag…

The energy densities are generally at least an order of magnitude lower and the cost is at least an order of magnitude higher. They serve different purposes.

My understanding is that fluoridation of municipal water supplies serves a different purpose than fluoride in toothpaste. The fluoride in the water supply is low concentration and …

Unavailable at the moment (HN hug of death?), Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20240204131916/https://esoteric....

I remember looking into a similar problem and learned that on desktop it was just an encrypted SQLite DB. It was readable with the standard SQLite library. Not sure of the situatio…

They really aren't the same. Crypto didn't and still doesn't have the same immediate utility. The value proposition just wasn't there to justify the money and attention it was gett…

Haskell is purely functional, but if you make ample use of do-notation it's very easy to write in a familiar imperative(ish) style for day-to-day tasks. Most learning materials won…

It depends on what you eat. A person eating a lot of tomatoes, legumes, potatoes, and squash would hit it pretty easily, which is common for a lot of traditional diets (south asia,…

> For instance, using the features of the language to describe a nested structure of components, each of which has different dependencies that are a subset of its parents dependenc…

No mention of E4X? https://blog.vjeux.com/2013/javascript/jsx-e4x-the-good-part...

I took this course with Hug many years ago. He's a truly gifted educator and I learned so much from the projects.

They are, up to $1M with sweep IIRC.

Most of the time an application built using web technologies is slow, it's not because the web's UI layer (HTML/CSS) is intrinsically slow. A desktop app written in Tauri that punt…

Is it actually standard practice to use nitrogen fertilizers with soybeans? Soy is a nitrogen fixer and I've read that nitrogen fertilizers often reduce yields for soybeans because…

This is a long standing debate in evolutionary biology, I wrote about it if anyone's interested in more context: https://www.maltinsky.net/blog/giraffe-evolution .

I don't mean to detract from your more general point, but given the associations that sleep apnea has with obesity (and even just non-obese elevated BMIs) I think that is very plau…

I'm another Mercury employee. When I joined there wasn't much of a specific onboarding process at all, beyond being given a few simple tickets to work on and pointed to some docume…

It's interesting to see companies showing up in this space (e.g., https://hash.ai/ ), many of them based out of London. I'd consider applying if I was based in the UK, but I'm curi…

Packaging gtk for systems other than Linux can be a bit of a nightmare, and the experience on platforms other than Linux and desktop BSD leaves a lot to be desired.