mpweiher

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Comment · 2 minutes ago
Second best time is now.
Comment · 4 minutes ago
> ... but now nuclear power is too expensive compared with renewables

It's not.

Comment · 3 days ago
And 2 electron apps.
Comment · 3 days ago
I think the idea is correct, but hard to retrofit, you sort of have to have it there from the start.

Objective-Smalltalk runs on the Objective-C runtime, so Objective-Smalltalk methods look like Objective-C methods accessed via objc_msgSend() to the entire rest of the system, including to other Objective-Smalltalk code.

That means it doesn't really matter to the rest of the system if any particular method is interpreted, AOT-compiled or JIT-compiled. They can't tell, except for execution speed.

And of course the execution model includes machine primitives, which the interpreter also deals with but doesn't make faster, but the native compilers do.

Comment · 5 days ago
I think you may have missed the main findings:

• Stereotypically feminine sentences are consistently attributed to female writers.

• Stereotypically masculine sentences are often attributed to female writers.

• Forms of violence central to the gender parity debate are deemed less acceptable than objectively worse forms of violence.

• Inclusivity efforts may have generated unintended forms of discrimination.

Comment · 7 days ago
They don't have to "compete" with Starlink. They just have to provide similar capabilities.

And Ariane used to be the dominant commercial launch vehicle, beating the US alternatives by a mile.

Comment · 7 days ago
Comment · 7 days ago
They are:

https://www.techradar.com/phones/network-providers/europes-m...

And Europe can get things done if it wants to. Ariane had reached 50% of commercial GTO launches in 2010.

...the Arianespace consortium "all but invented the commercial launch business in the 1980s" principally "by ignoring U.S. government assurances that the reusable U.S. space shuttle would make expendable launch vehicles like Ariane obsolete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_launch_market_competitio...

SpaceX has disrupted that, but once the innovation is out there it can be replicated.

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