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> due to some quirk of evolution, Omega-3, -6, and -9 are the ones biological life uses most. As far as I can tell, there's no specific reason they're all multiples of 3. Probably …

Idris 2 ruined it for me. Scientifically, it's cool of course, dependent linear types yaay. Socially though, incompatible rewrite in Scheme should've been a separate project IMO; b…

CVE scoring is parasocial activity. Hence so much drama. Similarly to SemVer, the good-faith grader attempts to convey a sizeable blob of knowledge... by compressing it into a one-…

Hey @NamecheapCEO, Ukrainian here. Thanks a lot! Please notice, there needs to be some sort of verification mechanism. The russians have already figured out that simply setting "Uk…

I'll disagree. It seems you and GP have been lucky enough to never stumble on videos with #dislikes > #likes, for whatever (usually well-deserved) reasons. I'd seen some; wishing I…

To a non-aussie, the polititian speak is pretty darn bizarre. On the first read, I thought you were describing a physical assault...

I might be a counterexample to your perceived overlap. 3 points: * It seems that, as a species, we have deep issues rooted in our tribal upbringing. Reaching a global actionable co…

Good points. But dare you doubt human's destruction ability?.. Note also, that destroying just the thin tender habitable layer of Earth would suffice.

I'll cross-post instead of guessing. Another comment here: > URVs were quoted in cruzeiros reais and its intrinsic value was pegged to three price indices and had a fixed parity of…

> [...] So a quantum computer would be pretty bad for Bitcoin in its current state. Your reasoning is sound. But it won't be as bad. I'd claim, not much worse than dealing with lea…

This is exactly my grudge with boilerplate. Code is being read much more often than written. I don't care if you hand-coded all those buckets of accessors, or your IDE has generate…

> the claim that a lot of people have it turned off is demonstrably false Not unless you've taken a concrete definition for "a lot of people". Even 1% of internet users is still a …

I guess you mean The Great Oxygen Extinction Event (2.4-2.0 Ga). In that case, it's presumed it was indeed a massive extinction (but no data to quantify any % over, due to no micro…

I cannot quite exclude another idea, that the age-related framing of the mistake is simply a cover-up for a much more prosaic error, perhaps of embarassing quality. "Cultural diffe…

Nope. That assumption is wrong. > The system programming was not carried out in the UK, and in the country where it was performed the title Miss was used for a child, and Ms for an…

... which should be taken as a sign of Signal's technical excellence. Just consider: if you're looking for privacy-respecting, actually secure, reviewed, audited and tested to bone…

You can. It's not even hard to work out: if we take "charging" to mean "buying energy for ₿", then "discharging" ought to mean "buying ₿ for energy". If you think about it, both of…

I didn't say it's unacceptable, neither meant that. In many contexts, it'd be tough without case-insensitive regex matching, for example. Reinforcing my point, //i gains issues onc…

Fair enough. But notice: systems tend to expect that humans interacting with them observe basic rules. "The capital/lowercase variants of western alphabet letters are represented e…

I had exactly that done to me. By a huge 200k+ employees corporate monster... You can taste the humiliation of having to justify every sudo through a ticket system. They censored t…

> mistakes for no reason Don't you think that 65 ≠ 97 is sufficient of a reason?.. I mean, 'A' ≠ 'a', in ASCII, Unicode and even EBCDIC. In computers, those are two distinct charac…

That's a dishonest statement and misrepresents the actual support. The "junctions" are unusable as "windows symlinks". For one, you can't create any as a normal non-admin user with…

I find the "Bitcoin burns energy" argument completely laughable. With all due respect, your skepticism appreciated; let me explain. A more useful perspective is "humanity uses more…

Asking for opinion: can one transfer experiences with non-drug addictions (videogames, promiscuity, social nets, etc) to the substance-abuse kind? How similar are these?