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I'd say it's more similar to Javascript. In fact all of the examples are valid JS if you replace `fn` with `function`. (Although JS doesn't have implicit returns.) At a guess, the …

I mean, it's clearly a very abstract representation based on archaeological data. There's no people or animals in the streets, which wouldn't have been the case even at night let a…

They're comparing to an in-order CPU. Given that most CPUs are out-of-order (at least of the non-embedded variety, and GC is less used in such applications anyway), it would be bet…

I'm pretty sure that is the first implementation of Lisp. Earlier "versions" of Lisp were hand-compiled, because it was considered too difficult to produce a compiler. Then Steve R…

What Labour actually decided against was not oil exploration, but rather a konsekvensutredning , or an investigation into the possible environmental and social effects of oil extra…

Dude, he wrote a detailed postmortem of his own mistakes. That is taking responsibility. You're projecting, for whatever reason. The sentence about the quiet man is clearly referen…

Praggnanandhaa is actually the fourth youngest GM of all time and the third youngest right now, but still, it's impressive. There's no guarantees that this kid will progress at the…

Fischer won the US championship for adults at the age of 14. He then went on to become the youngest candidate for the world championship in history at the age of 15 - a distinction…

The serious statement he makes is that humans have complex motivations, and he thinks any superintelligence would as well--in fact it might be a defining feature of intelligence. T…

The title makes no sense if you interpret it that way, also, it seems to be a very niche term (most of the top google results are not computer related at all). I think 99% of peopl…

Maybe switch banks? My experience is I've had my account blocked exactly once - and that turned out to be actual identity theft. In the end, I didn't permanently lose any money tha…

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This is called the black hole information paradox. Today most physicists believe that hawking radiation preserves quantum information. Hawking himself made a bet that it doesn’t, b…

I did say passing familiarity, which is not a very high bar to clear. It's been my experience, and I don't travel much in rarefied intellectual circles.

I don't know, but if the standard of comparison is Napoleon he doesn't need to be particularly good. There's even a bad opening named after him because he was known to be a mediocr…

Sounds like typical anti-politician bullshit. Most adults have at least a passing familiarity with the rules of chess, I don't see any reason why world leaders would be any differe…

> "Increase GABA" - I thought oral GABA supplements do not cross the blood-brain barrier? Oral GABA doesn't cross the BBB in appreciable concentrations, but I assume they mean incr…

I don't think Nim has one in the standard library, but people have built variations on it. Here's a couple: * https://github.com/bluenote10/nim-stringinterpolation/blob/m... This o…

It doesn't translate to wasm text format, but to wasm binary format. The walt-compiler ( https://github.com/ballercat/walt/tree/master/packages/walt-... ) readme shows how to use i…

As far as I'm aware therapy and antidepressants are equally effective, in the studies that have actually compared them such as this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

I sympathize with you, I really do. I've had some similar experiences. But you're overstating the case. Numerous meta-analyses have found that antidepressants do work for people wi…

You could be standing on top of an archeological site and never know it. Many of the features discovered by lidar are very very hard to spot from the ground. The kinds of people wh…

You're going to use a mythological figure to prove that cannabis makes you think more clearly? I think you've smoked a bit much there, buddy. If we look at the scientific research,…

They still haven’t built the Analytical Engine, which was the general-purpose computer and significantly more complex. Also, building something with the benefit of 150 years of tec…

It's a terrible name. Many of these projects have nothing to do with the web (the three concrete examples cited were two filesharing protocols and one cryptocurrency, none of which…