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All else being equal a more fit person is more likely to avoid an otherwise fatal accident.

Scientists commit to politics. Election happens. Election has consequences. Shocker. To be fair conservatives warned about this for decades but nobody listened.

The only possible response to this propaganda piece are nodding along religiously or revulsion and disgust at the sheer intellectual dishonesty of it.

This kind of superficial performative nonsense is a big part of why the replication crisis is as bad as it is. And few scientists are willing to speak of that. I’d love to hear from the scientists whose careers were damaged or destroyed by this person. But I doubt I ever will.

For most of history even a single book of the Bible would cost a princely sum.

Even today a single manuscript vellum scroll is a significant expense.

The OP AKA Dominicans date back to 1216.

Haha obviously I’m kidding you but that’s truly tangentially relevant

There’s a really interesting question here. Will the USA claim the right to tax the new pontiff? Likely answer is no, but legally the statute suggests yes. But who knows? There’s never before been a US citizen who is also a foreign sovereign.

Fusion race vs space race is rather interesting.

The shortage is already rather artificial. A snakebite treatment that costs $150k in the USA is just a few hundred dollars in Mexico.

Meanwhile here I am wondering why everyone isn’t using SQLite.

Remember that the FSF happened because printers suck. Shockingly printers still suck.

We already have UBI. You’re just not in the club.

That reminds me of this: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html.

Very interesting comment!

To clarify, as you know CLOS isn’t the CL type system. I was particularly thinking about things like fixnum arithmetic.

The CMUCL and SBCL manual sections on code generation discuss this and it can be verified with DISASSEMBLE.

Same for peer reviews. Giving anything less than a four is saying fire this person. And even too many fours is PIP territory.

You want a Speed Queen. It’s the closest you can get to an older washer.

You can do that, I think, with EVAL-WHEN.

And a modern compiler will jmp past the type checks if the inferencer OKs it!

Learning XS (maybe with Swig?) was a great way to actually understand Perl.

Has anyone grafted Zig style macros into Common Lisp?

No, it doesn’t imply that. There are plenty of more popular languages that don’t though.

I believe current evidence is that the Berber peoples have been in North Africa at least 12,000 years.

The word “properly” is not only working hard here, but perhaps pointing to deeper concepts.

In particular, it implies a coherent design around scope and extent. And, much more indirectly, it points to time. EVAL-WHEN has finally made a bit of a stir outside Lisp.

There are a lot of “ors” and commas in that law, but it’s not hard to parse unless you’re being willfully obtuse.

((Declared war OR (invasion OR predatory incursion)) IS (perpetrated OR attempted OR threatened)) BY (foreign nation OR foreign government).

The law was drafted in the early 18th century when nation was more of an ethnographic term than a political one.

So "a predatory invasion threatened by Venezuelans" would satisfy that definition.

> Congress is going to try to mass-disenfranchise women before the 2026 midterms. They've stated this on the record.

What on Earth are you talking about?

You can’t just pull out the corporate Amex and buy a world class datacenter. There is considerable value add there.

The code that AI is good at currently is exactly common tasks.

Good luck getting it to write a competitive video card driver for Nvidia hardware or anything else that requires actual creative problem solving that isn’t github boilerplate.

Mathematicians have recognized the importance of elegance for millennia.

I'm thinking GP is saying that maybe human sacrifice rituals aren't the best look for a medical tech startup?

I think “how did non-living matter become alive” and “how do populations of organisms change over time” are two very different questions.

I believe that there are barn designs that capture urine.

The White House is trying to require at least 85% of grant money go to research and not administration. It’s such an obviously common sense improvement and the first serious proposal to roll back this administrative bloat that I’ve ever seen.