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Maybe ridiculous, but not totally unprecedented. Aga Khan IV is generally considered to be royalty despite the fact that his family hasn't held secular power (outside of the occasi…

One possibility is that they have fewer regions than something like AWS, so they can put their data centers somewhere where they get favorable electricity/cooling costs.

> If you try to simply cook wheat grains, you will end up with a rather nasty porridge Maybe nasty to modern eaters, but wheat porridge was a staple in Europe, N. Africa, and the M…

Did you read the article? All the proposal does is allow the javascript engine to accept typescript-style syntax, while erasing all the annotations at runtime. From the browser's p…

bindgen[1] already exists to autogenerate a rust API from c headers. It's inherently unsafe because C code is inherently unsafe. In particular, there is no language constructs like…

This article is about Australian magpies, which aren't related to European Magpies and other corvids. They're known more for their extreme territoriality than for their intelligenc…

But that means it's almost impossible to get heart cancer, so at least we've got that going for us

DRF was about as good as it got for automatic schema generation and data validation before python static type hints made things like pydantic possible. It also sets up good default…

How does Guix compare to Nix? It seems like by using a scheme-based DSL instead of an ad-hoc configuration language, it solves one of the main complaints the author has about Nix.

They'd fare poorly, but for different reasons. Digital cameras can be vulnerable to IR lasers because their sensors are sensitive to infrared light. Human retinas aren't sensitive …

Python does have real threading. The `threading` module provides os-level threads and synchronization primitives. The only difference between this and multithreading in C or Java i…

Also office scanners. Basically, it's still a 2D image, but instead of two spatial dimensions, it has a spacial dimension and a time dimension.

> once you’ve taken your picture, you need to: 1) remove remaining silver halide that wasn’t exposed to light, 2) “fix” the remaining silver so it’s stable Isn't that somewhat back…

It's not owned by the bank until you foreclose, after which it's most certainly owned by the bank. As an aside, how often is it for the manufacturer/dealer to own the bank that iss…

Fluent-bit/fluentd are written in C and ruby :)

Yeah, one of the major uses of http/3 is that it can gracefully handle connection interruptions and changes, like when you switch from wifi to mobile, without having to wait for th…

The solar cycle is extremely important for premodern agricultural societies, since it allows predicting growing and harvesting seasons. If you're going by the Julian calendar and t…

Inspired by Michel Foucault's Pypi and Punish

"spaz" is indeed short for "spastic", but it's not typically seen as an ableist slur like it is in the UK. Presumably, the word had been out of use as a term for people with cerebr…

It depended on the climate and society. Pastoralists living on the steppes almost exclusively lived off animal meat and dairy products, while folks in areas with heavy grain produc…

How about this? | singular | plural nom | legum | legi voc | lege | legos gen | legi | legorum dat/abl | lego | legos

WebGPU also works as a simplified alternative to Vulkan or DirectX-12 on native platforms. I could see nodejs libraries using WebGPU compute shaders as an alternative to CUDA kerne…

But as far as a OpenGL replacement on native, it absolutely is.

Also, how are we read Shakespeare in the original Klingon on the internet?

I had great luck using pandoc instead of raw LaTeX. I'd just write the manuscript body in markdown, and use inline LaTeX for layouts and more complex figures that can't be replicat…