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Call a spade a spade. It’s nutty, libertarian, billionaire propaganda.

Totally what that guy on Gold Rush needs to get his barge up the Yukon. ;)

What seems the most likely is that, effectively, memory is like very lossy, probabilistic compression spread with redundancy across a billion analog storage nodes, similar in some …

Yup. Think of C as a rusty straight razor and Fortran as a barn full of rusty implements about ready to fall at any time. C++ maybe a rusty safety razor. Originally, Fortran had ma…

I knocked out a bunch of lower division CS classes at a JC (taking 5 at a time). I think I went to the first class and a few before midterms and finals. Just got the labs and hande…

In the late 90’s, I helped port a nuclear reactor simulator to Win32. It was around 20 million lines of Fortran and was actively developed by physicists and engineers (none were re…

Don’t get lost barking up the partisan tree, most Americans aren’t the enemy. Both parties are different flavors of corrupt (Gore Vidal’s Property party): one ignores their base wh…

Wow. Cool. I wonder how hard are the synthesises of the useful antidepressants like mirtazapine. Also, I found ASX-05 (Phase III) uses a DM metabolite that is retained much more by…

Spectrum isn’t an axis. There is much grey in the world statistics can’t capture. Looking for data to fit a narrative is political science, not science.

People often conflate nebulous “evil” with more specific rational self-interest, good investments and cheating/underpaying/stealing from people. There are a lot of middling rich pe…

Two wrongs don’t make a right. Excusing greedy behavior won’t make it right, ever.

Fuck, I’d try this right now. Just stopped mirtazepene because it was less and less effective. Now I’m back to the black dog. I know of a university in the US that has someone with…

There are many, many BS papers because of the mass-production death-march researchers are told to produce, low p-value and sample size standards and ”Is Most Published Reseach Wron…

There are three activities: - critical feedback on papers - hypermonetization (and deleterious siloing) of works often produced with government grants, leading to primarily academi…

Cool! Google Drive integration on iOS stopped working. Other than that, works awesome.

VLC is awesome! :D I use the iOS and macOS versions often. Thank you^10.

The current answer is we don’t yet have full functional pathologies of types of depression, noninvasive, specific mood disorders classified down to exact neurological dysfunctions,…

Umm, not sure this is universal but partial. Depression seems evolutionary psych for multiple, overlapping purposes: - Reducing aggression (and hence conflict) in larger groups. - …

Doesn’t address the problem by shifting externalities elsewhere and reinforces prejudices. Maybe instead of arrogant “quick fixes” it’s worth considering, lower TCO permanent solut…

They could open source everything but secret keys for cloud, secure enclave, secure booting, etc. It’s not like it would help knock-off iDevices or putting something other an iOS o…

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who i…

It seemed risky but innovation demands taking risks. Mozilla could use another “product” category than mainly just a browser.

Aaron’s still at it, fixing bugs in bundler, nokogiri and maybe still teaching even. I’ve stopped using MRI because the toolchain and ecosystem aren’t conducive to economical scali…

Scrypt is tweakable for RAM and runtime constraints. From that PBKDF, it would make sense to use something like HMAC-SHA2 with another magic nonce, and then private information plu…

You're looking in the wrong place. Install the homebrew version, it has 3 patches for macOS that aren't in the upstream. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formu…