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Thank you! I have the same amount of snark now as the top comment, i.e. none that I can tell. It would be nice to have a conversation about this topic that didn't involve me being …

Thanks for pointing out that the other choice is perhaps technically more accurate -- I'm getting a lot of downvotes for pointing that out. The Internet is often more like a bar br…

I'm glad you're not trying to be a confrontational jerk. I'm all for disagreeing politely. The project in which I worked on a C++-to-C translator didn't call it a compiler, it call…

I once worked on a source-to-source translator from C++ to C. In that era, that was the common term for that kind of software. I think that's more clear than "transpiler". However,…

CS history has a long history of similar pieces of software being not called compilers. Normal CS jargon has "assemblers" and "linkers", both of which might appear to be compilers …

Thank you for posting the non-computer definition of the word. I was aware of that before I posted. A large fraction of the words I use in physics and math are not used the same wa…

I'm a bit confused by the use of the word "compiler" to refer to something that turns markdown into html.

I expect the ministry of food science and the ministry of drug science to be scientific. That's quite different from what you're talking about. I have noticed that your comment is …

Pointing out that someone is using silly language with pointless effect is not an "ad hominem attack": can you point out anyone who might be confused by what I said? Your use of "m…

The quote said "significant levels" -- before dismissing it as "doesn't really sound like a problem", you might want to look a little harder.

Thank you for elevating the discourse with phrases like "fucking global pandemic over this pointless red tape". A global pandemic is exactly when we should be thinking hard instead…

If the question is "Is there a commercially-viable search engine that supports this feature", then the answer is "probably not". Implementing this properly involves having your own…

It's entirely reasonable to assume that tests with high error rates cause problems for everyone, not just "groups of individuals who you know are going to make ..." For example, a …

I'm not sure why this comment is downvoted -- it's definitely true, and the FDA does care about stuff that people ingest even if they aren't supposed to.

[0] includes text like: > In one case, the FDA said it had found significant levels of the carcinogen acetaldehyde in ethanol supplied by a company for use in hand sanitizer, accor…

There is harm to a patient if you tell them an incorrect test result.

California has a lot of storage just like that already. The problem is that it can't be scaled up.

It's all up to the charging algorithm. If your grid access is priced according to energy transferred, you pay a positive retail price no matter how negative the wholesale price is.…

How is that a solution when it's difficult to build more of it?

> Water does not have the capability to store much energy. Systems that make ice at night and use it for A/C during the day date back to the 1950s. The general class of these facil…

> The fact of the matter is that an intermittent kWh is not as valuable as an on-demand reliable kWh Don't worry -- every single time renewables are mentioned on HN, this aspect is…

The part that boggles the mind is that the forecasts are still terribly wrong, in the same direction, 10 years later.

If you read [2] you can see they're predicting 2025. Many such predictions in the past have come and gone.

I looked at your link and I did not see how it could be turned off. It doesn't really say what Limit Ad Tracking does. You'd think that if it caused your advertising ID to be zeroe…