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I could perhaps get myself to care just the tiniest bit if the information that was supposedly stolen wasn't generated by "stealing" from everybody else. Either it is fair use to t…

Electric semi trucks have appeared from all major European manufacturers in the last years and I expect them to become dominant even quicker than electric cars on simple cost groun…

You can find the whole integration routine here https://github.com/ad-si/Woxi/blob/36343ab2cbc97e5081f7c811e... . It's essentially a test mock-up (not even trying partial fraction …

Fully agreed. I have never seen a programming language which is so badly designed as Wolfram. I really wish there was another way to access all of Mathematica's functionality with …

Did you really just attribute the deaths from a bombing raid on a dam during WW2 to a hydropower incident?

TeX is written in a literate programming style which is more akin to a math textbook than ordinary computer code, except with code blocks instead of equations. The actual programmi…

Yeah, I'm not saying it's a good idea. But you could do it if you wanted to.

A 1 MWh battery isn't actually that big. There's electric trucks on the market right now with 600 kWh batteries sitting on the frame between the front and rear axle. That would eas…

They are cheaper to run almost everywhere (depending on the cost of electricity versus gas of course). No breakthrough in battery technology needed for that.

I have never seen a conductor on a metro/subway system in Europe. Mainline trains often have one, but not always. I've ridden trains on small branch lines in Germany which were ope…

Range is somewhere between 350 and 600 km depending on conditions. Aerodynamics, weight, weather all have an influence as well as the battery size and efficiency of the specific mo…

I'd love to see the system of mathematics where 4 times 365 comes out to one million. Maybe I can get my bank to use the same system.

Well hopefully the starter kit doesn't include a few kilograms of weapons grade plutonium.

Although that paper even made it to PRL. I guess I should have written up some similar nonsense and sent it to PRL, might have improved my career chances.

> However, "macros" are a disaster to debug in every language that they appear. I have only used proper macros in Common Lisp, but at least there they are developed and debugged ju…

As far as I know, optimization levels higher than -O0 work fine with SpillPointers. But at least in a cursory first look I had a while ago, the optimizations made things slower ove…

Apart from the restriction to bytecode interpretation already mentioned, one reason for the slowness is that the sort of C with garbage collection that ECL needs is quite difficult…

In lisp, macros are just ordinary functions whose input and output is an AST. So you can debug them as you would any other function, by tracing, print debugging, unit tests or even…

Or perhaps the republican party has developed such an astonishing anti-science attitude that hardly any reasonable scientist can support them? Imagine doing research on vaccines an…

> For one thing, just admitting more people almost certainly decreases the access to quality education overall Why would that be the case? There are many much larger universities a…

Coming from a country where the sort of super selective universities like Caltech don't exist, the fierce debates about equality of admissions to these sort of places never made se…

Thermodynamics is usually (and rightfully so) taught together with statistical physics for which quantum mechanics is essential, so the order does make sense.

> cut all funding, regularly jail them, condemn them to obscurity I can't even begin to describe how overjoyed I am to finally have found a fellow campaigner for implementing the g…

The wormhole in this paper is actually in flat space. The geometry only approximates to an AdS geometry times a sphere close to the event horizons.