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Sad news, I put a lot of hope in this project. At least we keep the base interpreter improvements they brought along, and we still have PyPy. CPython JIT is dead. Long live PyPy!

Pharo MOOC is still based around Pharo 8. Any prospects to refresh It to the latest version?

They want to avoid an implicit promise of backward compatibility.

Those were not four straight terms. There was alternation, with opposing groups taking the presidential seat in between.

> We're facing the issue in Ontario where firefighters are bored out of their minds and are being used as first responders for anything and everything.

With climate change we can repurpose them as waterfighters when sea level rise, floods and berm breaches become an acute problem.

> I mean, a combination of political and economic factors from 1930s to 1960s forced the wealthy to return a portion of the returns of automation to the remaining working people.

The credible threat of communist revolutions put the fear of god into the capitalist elites. So they had to share a larger share of wealth with workers, beyond mere subsistence wages, to keep them peaceful. With the downfall of USSR, communist revolutions stopped being a credible threat, and elites clawed back productivity gains, pushing workers toward subsistence wages again.

It's only another 30 years before we have the first one hundred years old extant programming language.

Gnumeric has montecarlo built-in.

Is it just my impression, or programming language posts took a hit. I think I don't see them as often as before.

Nice. Suggestion: Add PyPy too.

Did they already test how the proposed jit fares on RISC-V?

Szilard is an underrated genius. Also was an early formulator of the nuclear chain reaction concept, to tap into nuclear energy, but did not zero in uranium right at the outset as the element to make it feasible.

Microstrokes, that affect capillary vessels in the brain, don't cause short term acute loss of function, but have a cummulative impact over time?

> How so? You can just... refuse?

It would be like doping in some elite sports, say road race cycling in Lance Armstrong era. Nobody would be coerced by force, but some people would start taking it, making less sleep time the new normal. With time business would adjust to expect and require it, and other people would be forced to take the drug just to not become unemployable in a market with a upshifted baseline. I think this is already happening in education, with ADHD medications. Children are likely being overdiagnosed, because in a environment with many medicated children, just displaying normal child behaviour starts looking odd, pathology-like.

> Doing a job that you hate for 8h and sleeping for 8h is much worse than doing a job that you love for 16h.

Some jobs just suck but somebody still has to do them.

> What is surprising to me is the knee-jerk reaction I see whenever the idea of looking into this is brought up.

It's because if it were achieved, likely result would be employers forcing people to take the drug and increasing daily work hours back to 16+.

Now I'm puzzled if whatever made Mars lose its primordial water oceans and dense atmosphere could be involved in Mars Bar losing 20g.

Also SNOBOL/Icon.

This looks like Gilad Bracha's Newspeak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak_(programming_language...

Not if it's just microbial life. Anyway it's just one case or another. We knowing what's the case doesn't change it. If the news never break it would be just as bad, perhaps even slightly worse, as we would not have early warning to prepare.

Likely we don't need to replicate. We just need to get a sample of life with completely independent origin to our kind of life here on Earth, to study. This way we would be able to separate what are universal properties for any life from historical contingencies specific to us. To have samples of a single kind of life complicates things.

> Or perhaps there is a risk that the wearer will absorb harmful chemicals secreted by the mycelium via contact with the wearer's skin?

Or just getting a bad itch.

Reminds me of this comic: https://badspacecomics.com/scour-copy-copy

> There is also a layer of friction between doing the computations and then analysing the logs that comp chemistry programs spit out. If you want to visualise orbitals or look at the outputs of your simulations, it's really awkward to run Python whilst being in the cluster, and the cluster has no GUI display.

By the description it appears computational chemistry is stuck in batch processing era. They are yet to discover their equivalent to REPL tight feedback loop workflow.

Echoes of the bicameral mind[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality

Related: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/brazilian-cour...

> Courts elsewhere have gone the other way. Chinese courts have recognized game accounts as inheritable property, while U.S. rulings generally treat games as revocable licenses

Pretty ironic a communist country has stronger assertion of individual ownership rights than USA, the flagship of capitalism.

> The researchers took account of factors such as people’s age, sex and education, but cautioned that they could not rule out the potential influence of other factors that may have an impact on the brain, such as lifestyle and social engagement.

Perhaps it's just a correlation. Number of spoken linguages may correlate with income, frequent travel, sociability, or other factors that improve or filtre for health, brain health included.

I wonder if lost productivity from sick leave days is offset by preserved productivity of all coworkers that were not infected by people that felt obliged to show up sick with flu or other communicable disease.

That's scary if confirmed. It took 500 million years for complex life to find the right mix of atmospheric O2/CO2 to foster intelligent lifeforms. Then we are undoing it in mere centuries.

> At least within the precision limits of the Perseverance’s instruments, the material roughly matches terrestrial kerogen. Using the word “kerogen,” though, was a no-go, the researchers decided. On Earth, kerogen is made almost exclusively of biological matter, mainly fossilized microbes that were buried millions of years ago. “The term kerogen implies biogenic source,” Murphy explained. “Macromolecular carbon implies we don’t know whether its origin is biotic or abiotic.”

I'm pretty convinced the catchphrase "There's no Planet B" is imprecise. In fact there is a Planet B, Earth. Mars was Planet A[1], our ancestors came here billions of years ago, perhaps in a rock fragment full of organics like this "completely not shale".

[1] https://badspacecomics.com/apostles-of-mercy

Bad news is that if we screw the Planet B where our lineage took refuge after Mars dried out, there is no habitable Planet C left in the solar system.