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Comment · 2 years ago
Its in zig 0.12
Comment · 2 years ago
They're asymptotic to human performance.
Comment · 2 years ago
So how do you explain our relashionship with countries like Saudi Arabia? Because forget the bully, thats like being friends with the school shooter.
Comment · 2 years ago
the genocide ends
Comment · 2 years ago
The difference is that forefoot running is harder, but _simpler_. You dont even need highly engineering shoes to run using it, especially barefoot. You can run on bare metal.
Comment · 2 years ago
Beautiful comment. The Grope is Good would make a great band name or campaign slogan, or maybe both.

Ill never forget asking a TSA guy if he was sure mmwave was really just sound. "Yes! Its just sound waves, completely harmless," he assured me. "Less than your phone makes in your pocket!"

Comment · 2 years ago
There is no scientific evidence for being able to "train your immune system". There is plenty of evidence the opposite happens. Covid especially can cause permanent immune damage.
Comment · 3 years ago
Its ok to admit you cant truly grasp something, in fact its a mark of wisdom. The collective output and understanding of the world's scientists is equivalent to that of a superintelligence, you alone will never come close.

I have an uncle who knows a lot more facts about climate change than I do, and uses them to great effect in arguing that its not real.

My uncle is also an idiot.

Comment · 3 years ago
I think this is great advice, but saying that PL design is done already isn't really true. Its not as hard to make a new kind of PL as you might think, but it is of course hard to make it useful.

Just combining the right features and forgoing the wrong ones into a language alone is an art, to say that its only innovation is a bit like claiming paintings are innovations because we have all the colors :)

Comment · 3 years ago
Ponder about how the universe could give rise to such a creature, and maybe accidentally discover a few new laws of physics.

_Then_ he'd kill it.

Comment · 3 years ago
The thing about claiming things like this is they require a strong scientific consensus. Otherwise, if they're wrong, its just hurting people, sometimes even killing them. Many girls die every year from EDs, and societal shame is a strong candidate for their cause.
Comment · 3 years ago
Deterring crime through punishment is a myth. Their crime rates are lower than more punative countries.
Comment · 3 years ago
Testing data is dependent on actually testing people, which we aren't doing. However, more accurate measures like wastewater are very consistent with the current narrative.
Comment · 3 years ago
Jim backs his RV into the park. He does so without his vehicle entering the park.

Pam comes to the park and begins to live in Jim's RV.

Bob, an alien, lands his spaceship in the park and initiates first contact.

Tim, a pipercub pilot, lands his plane in the park after suffering an engine failure.

Sam rides the subway home underneath the park.

Jordan, a maintenance worker, repairs a broken light in the park from his cherrypicker.

Robert, Jordan's boss, alleges he broke the rule. Another light needs to be replaced, so Robert fixes it, but ensures the cherrypicker's wheels are outside the park.

Tom, a tow truck driver, tows Tamika's car.

Bill emails a complete 3d cad model of a car, which happens to use a fiber line running under the park.

Comment · 3 years ago
I know I'm in the minority, but still, I didn't give up my privacy for "convenience". I bought my first phone because my employer required a way to contact me. Not to mention all the ways pretty much every single job nowadays requires much more invasions of privacy than just a phone.

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