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ObscureScience··on 36 Days of Type
You didn't notice the behavior of the site. It doesn't allow you to browse it from a mobile device, not even when requesting desktop version. Perhaps faking agent would work, but I wouldn't be surprised if you'd have to spoof resolution/window size as well.
ObscureScience··on Rotary Cellphone
As I said, not in Sweden.
ObscureScience··on Rotary Cellphone
It seems I remembered correctly. I'm from Sweden and we use the system I recalled. All of you correcting me are right with regards to most other countries.
ObscureScience··on Rotary Cellphone
It's been awhile since I tried it, but isn't it n+1 presses to dial n? So you can dial 0 with one click.
ObscureScience··on Alpine makes Python Docker builds slower, and images larger
The fact glibc is the "standard" does make musl users required to work a bit harder. I would say the proper solution regarding Alpine would be to simply package more python libraries in the official repos and install them from there (pandas is in edge at the moment). Another solution could be to build in one docker image and use that as a pip repo for the development one.
ObscureScience··on Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
While I don't think I would confuse the sensation with anxiety, it kind of breeds anxiety. I always feel my heart beat, both from the chest, blood vessels and by small "muscle spasms" throughout my body, is there any substance, preferably legal, that can subdue this to some degree?

I'm not having high pressure or high resting pulse and it's so severe that, while not externally visible, causes for example a squeaky bed to squeak in rhythm with my heart beat.

I've had a prescription for Atomoxetin and it had some "body calming" effect but in some sense amplified the aforementioned effect.

ObscureScience··on Hellvetica.ttf – Kern in Hell
That how my linux terminals, ex. st or alacritty look when I type the wrong string when specifying a font in the configs ;)
ObscureScience··on What it's like to eject out of a military jet
But then why would the pilot hesitate to eject? They likely want to eject before they blackout, which is why I can imagine there could be a small chance to save the plane at human-intolerable g-forces.
ObscureScience··on Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children
That kind of saddens me as well. How can a GUI be this clunky and confusing? Why would an application mainly for children use the "put every option on screen and in the one uncontextual contex menu" atitude? I think it's low hanging fruit to create the best educational and entertaining environment for children, ask 4.99 on an appstore and be set for some time.
ObscureScience··on Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children
I'm kind of betting on EndlessOS.
ObscureScience··on Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children
I think you got it wrong. Fructose is more inflamatory than glucose (which is not good in high concentrations as well). Fructose-Glucose would be saccharine, the most common type of sugar extracted from cane and beet.
ObscureScience··on Emacs 26.3
It's kind of a sign of inefficiency as, at least as far as you can tell, a similar task was done in 1/10th of the time on a 1/1000th as powerful system. This may not be true, but just as you can't get to know every person you interract with you need to use plausible correlations to make judgements and predictions.
ObscureScience··on Super Mario 64 has been decompiled
Then they made Majoras Mask in around 18 months (which uses same engine and assets).
ObscureScience··on Super Mario 64 has been decompiled
WINE is not emulating/translating instructions to a diffrent ISA. It rather has a win32 loader and inserts some shims to map some calls to windows library functions and others to native(as in host ex. Linux). That's how I understand it. You can however theoretically run x86 WINE to run a x86 windows binary on ARM with Qemu user emulation.
ObscureScience··on Photon Micro GUI
This was what I thought as well. It's really too close. But awesome project nonetheless. I've given FLTK a try and while it's usable it seems a bit old in it's architecture.
ObscureScience··on Sensorimotor Mechanics of People with a Sixth Finger
Ofcourse. But I wonder wonder if the sixth finger arose in humans or if it's an expression of an previously common structure that has been suppressed for the last couple of million years. I would wager on the latter.
ObscureScience··on Brian Kernighan Interviews Ken Thompson at Vintage Computer Festival East 2019
Found the video and even posted it (before I realized that I should do a search). Kind of surprised I didn't see it when it was posted here though. Didn't know about VCF either, good stuff.
ObscureScience··on I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]
I apologize for not reading much of it yet, but could someone give a quick comparison to the exokernel idea?
ObscureScience··on World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later
Kind of, but I guess the other solutions are slightly better at accomodating services that are more than a single binary. I think static binaries really should be evaluated again as they seem to be written off by most big players. Though Go(lang) has preferred static linking which has been something that seem to have been appreciated.
ObscureScience··on World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later
No Linux distributions does not work like that. The kernel interface is pretty stable but userland is not. Dynamically linked executables will not work with new versions of the libraries they depend on in most cases. This is one of the problems flatpak, snap, appimage, docker and nix/guix are trying to solve.
ObscureScience··on Guantánamo’s Darkest Secret
As far as I know the "inmates" haven't even had a trial, so why would the executive branch have a right to enact punishment?
ObscureScience··on Rails on OCaml
I think Ur/Web is interesting to mention related to this.

http://www.impredicative.com/ur/

ObscureScience··on 2.7M medical calls breached in Sweden
Their router admin page and ssh are also open to the internet.
ObscureScience··on Is huh a universal word? (2013)
There alot of those "are they necessary?" prefixes around. But isn't "ver" the same as "for", which I imagine is the same as "pro" from latin. Meaning either "before" or "causing" or "facilitating" or similar.
ObscureScience··on Show HN: Postmake – A directory of tools and resources for your projects
Would keybase be an option? I do realize not everyone use it.
ObscureScience··on Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows
Interface-wise we got Fsearch (https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch) on Linux, but it's not feature complete. I love Everything, and I get a bit nostaligic over these simple but feature packed windows apps that are all but living fossils in the .NET and WFP times.
ObscureScience··on Ask HN: Companies using Racket?
Naughty Dog (game dev) have used it to some extent. This has been up on HN more than once. They have even done a presentation on RacketCon 2013. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12203694
ObscureScience··on The Workman Keyboard Layout Philosophy (2010)
That's an interesting question. Then, dvorak or similar (alternating hand) layout would probably be a good starting point.
ObscureScience··on Systems Languages: An Experience Report
It would be interesting to hear his take on Zig, which I would say (after only reading about it) is sitting somewhere between c and rust, leaning towards c.
ObscureScience··on Jamie Dimon Slams Bitcoin as a 'Fraud'
He seem to assume the idea of bitcoin is making money on speculating on it, which I'm not really a fan of in general, but I'm pretty sure we have different reasons. I guess he missed the point of cryptocurrencies, that they traded for profit is only circumstantial.

I'm not entirely sold on cryptocurrencies, and am not certain that that's what will reign trade in the future, however it might and it's a very interesting idea/technology and if it will lose as a general currency it might win in contracts for example.

One of my personal reservations of current models of cryptocurrencies is how easy it is to have early adopters build up a fortune in the beginning, primarily for causing such a avalaunch of competing currencies of such similar workings (if radically different ideas where tested it might be more interesting), arguably many for simply this reason (to make creators rich).

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