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fctorial··on 24,000-year-old organisms found frozen in Siberia can still reproduce
How do they know that the sample wasn't contaminated?
fctorial··on Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to build new kind of nuclear reactor in Wyoming
And way more non-programmer friendly.
fctorial··on The Faux Generosity of the Super-Wealthy: Why Bill Gates Is a Menace to Society
He doesn't buy yachts, he buys islands:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Yxhtl793c

fctorial··on Google is officially releasing Fuchsia OS, starting with a first-gen Nest Hub
> What will this new OS change?

Nothing, this release is a field test.

fctorial··on Accessibility is the hardest thing for me about making things for the web
> Photo galleries and carousels (ex. <gallery> and <galleryitem>)

Aren't you supposed to use lists for that?

fctorial··on 50B birds live on Earth, new study finds
More than half of those are chickens. So it says more about artificial selection.
fctorial··on 50B birds live on Earth, new study finds
26 billion of those are chickens?
fctorial··on CSS Houdini
It isn't a product, it's the name of an API.
fctorial··on CSS Houdini
I find automatic type coercion to be the worst one. Everything else is fine.
fctorial··on ●●|●●●●●|●●|●
They aren't scientists doing research, they are cops keeping dangerous things in prison. Secure, contain, protect.
fctorial··on Amazon Sidewalk
It isn't hard to market something that costs more and lacks a flaw.
fctorial··on Samsung to jump into laptop processor market with Exynos chip in H2
Says more about chromeos than the processor. Try installing windows or ubuntu gnome on it.
fctorial··on Samsung to jump into laptop processor market with Exynos chip in H2
There's a free version of windows 10. The only difference from paid version is that you can't change the wallpaper.
fctorial··on Eating sardines regularly helps prevent type 2 diabetes
Steam cooked. Parasites (especially their eggs) are very resilient. Meat that isn't fried or pressure cooked is not safe to eat.
fctorial··on Eating sardines regularly helps prevent type 2 diabetes
What about parasites?
fctorial··on Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility
Unless you're trying to flash some decade old operating system 'dd' should do the job. I haven't seen a non hybrid iso in years.
fctorial··on “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
Then you'll be trading a security hole that might not even be exploitable with undefined behavior.
fctorial··on “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
"Linux is OK, GNU/Linux is a dumpster fire"

His way of saying "what you're referring to as Linux is actually GNU/Linux".

fctorial··on “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
> every distribution's major selling point ... would be obsolete.

Aren't most of the people working on distros doing it for free.

fctorial··on On UML
>> until things get to the point of being a running system, software is relatively easy to change
fctorial··on Google have declared Droidscript is malware
So they created an app that works as a programming environment, one of their users abused the google play services and they are getting the flak for it.
fctorial··on Renderman
It is not a standalone program. It's a rendering plugin for maya. So the total cost is > 2000$.
fctorial··on Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)
His ant experiments blew my mind. The only experiment I did with ants was rubbing my finger on their trail and then watching them wander around blindly for a minute or so.
fctorial··on Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf]
> Most beginning programmers don't start with C

Except literally every indian engineer. They teach C to mechanical and chemical engineers for some reason. (It's not an elective)

fctorial··on Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf]
All of it. C++ is a superset of C.
fctorial··on How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?
It depends on how complicated the codebase is. Junior programmers usually work on simple programs so they can get away by copy pasting snippets.
fctorial··on FLoC Away from Chrome
Taj mahal is also open source. You just aren't putting in enough effort.
fctorial··on FLoC Away from Chrome
> What's stopping you, or anyone else, from forking code and making it privacy focused?

What's stopping you from forking taj mahal?

fctorial··on Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years
> I spend about $5 million every year to offset my family’s carbon footprint.

And how much carbon does he emit to earn that 5 million. That emission isn't part of his family's emission because it comes from microsoft. It's like tax evasion but for carbon emission.

fctorial··on Deno 1.9
Does the single executable distribution change anything? node/python/google-chrome are all single executable programs as far as the users are concerned.
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