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8474_s··on Strength training activates cellular waste disposal
Try chewing some chocolate between sets.
8474_s··on Vampires and Arithmomania
The amount of sigils and occult jargon math invents on the spot is very weird in context of most sciences: imagine creating entire fields/theories and gaining followers, like a religious sect, in a field like geometry?
8474_s··on Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
Can't you just make a single-word ligature and manipulate its appearance, instead of chaining single letters?
8474_s··on Longevity Cold Plunge
whats the science on this? How does it work? IIRC metabolism slowdown will also slow down repair?
8474_s··on New Features in C++26
The Template pack index is going to make meta-template variadics much easier. Usually this is prone to cludges like converting parameters to structs or filtering them with functions holding the pack.
8474_s··on What happened to blogs
the one-to-many model of blog broadcasting information has been outcompeted by communities like facebook groups or subreddits, where interaction is many-to-many, typically much faster response and more incentive to comment(likes, karma, scores).
8474_s··on Play 7000 PC DOS games quickly and easily (eXoDOS Review) [video]
638GB? what makes it so big? Its not like old dos games were huge, only very late and those on CDs.
8474_s··on Ask HN: Why don't we know everything there is to know about the human body?
Ethics, regulations, patient privacy. Generally what is done is clinical trials and research on model animals, that of course is much cheaper to experiment as first stage before human trials.
8474_s··on Run Functions in Another Stack with Zig
Why not bypass this nasty stack juggling and just use a async/await?
8474_s··on The Linux desktop is self-destructive
AppImage are perhaps that only thing working OOTB like windows/Mac programs, and other container formats don't come close. Everything else is dependent on right configuration, correct versioning and lots of "magic" settings that need to be set to make something functional. Depending on correct glibc, dependencies being installed with the right settings, environment variables,makefiles being compatible with what your system has,having the right kernel version, etc.
8474_s··on Night owls' cognitive function 'superior' to early risers, study suggests
IIRC teenagers/children suffer greatly from this at the morning, with none of them being "morning people", as this is likely some 'learned habit' driven into people by force. https://time.com/6206470/school-start-times-research/
8474_s··on Show HN: YTHunt, App for recommending/discovering interesting videos
Film & Animation seems lacking in content, i'd expect some animatation or actual film trailers.
8474_s··on Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula Le Guin (1997)
I find it somewhat interesting and providing European perspective. Perhaps the text is hard to translate due cultural frame of reference being so obscure and distant: more that Homer and enmeshed in society was isolated from the West for millenia.
8474_s··on HTML5 Differences from HTML4 (2014)
This could be the alternative to Second Life(which had a web client), with each site being a virtual world.
8474_s··on Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers
You can't pick and choose "Not a real scotsman" since 99% of users will be on bigcorp 2FA that does it in most ass-backwards way possible. 2FA as mobile apps locked to hardware is not going to go away without 2FA being replaced by something else.
8474_s··on Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder
Old code does acquire new bugs by sitting in your hard drive, since it interfaces with dozens of libraries and APIs that don't care about how well test the code is: every path of code is dependent on multiple components playing well and following standards/APIs/formats that old code has no knowledge of. Also, the mountain of patch-fixes and "workarounds" in the end force the programmers into a corner, where development is hobbled by constraints and quirks of "battle-tested" code, that will be thrown away as soon as it couldn't support fancy new feature X or cannot use fancy new library API without extra layers of indirection.
8474_s··on Researchers develop the fastest possible flow algorithm
The constant factors could be optimized or even accelerated with special-purpose hardware. There could be a simplification or even something like reuse/caching/memoization that in real world will reduce the constant factor significantly.
8474_s··on Show HN: Conway's Game of Life, but as a div full of Braille characters
Its random and default 23/3 rule always decays to oscillators and static objects. `Most initial patterns eventually "burn out", producing either stable figures or patterns that oscillate forever between two or more states (known as ash)` https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
8474_s··on Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?
I can't name a good one, but i have strong dislike for big project codebases where even finding one file out of thousands where the relevant code resides is a challenge: its never something isolated but acts like some "component". The best i can think of is one-person projects where organization is streamlined as its actually has to be used by the author, not like a cog in a giant project.
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