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liopleurodon··on Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electricity But Not Heat (2017)
Apparently it's transparent.

I'll have to remember this the next time I need to build a whale tank

liopleurodon··on Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed
"Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/2-wants-to-know/... on this server. "

I seriously hate how US sites block Europe because of GDPR. No other country in the world does that

liopleurodon··on Show HN: Cyberpunk web design made easy, really easy
Wow, nice work, thanks for doing this
liopleurodon··on The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure
I used to have a cgroup just for chrome to limit how much total ram it could use because of this exact thing
liopleurodon··on US proposes barring tech companies from offering financial services
This ^
liopleurodon··on Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
Hipchat was horrible. Barely worked. Flaky. Was happy when my company switched to Slack
liopleurodon··on Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
Perhaps The French Revolution was illegitimate and the royal family should be ruling France right now.....
liopleurodon··on EU must adopt ‘EU English’ as its official working language after Brexit (2017)
I dint see this one coming
liopleurodon··on EU must adopt ‘EU English’ as its official working language after Brexit (2017)
Upvoted for American English

The English tend to speak English better and have better grammar than Americans in my experience, but I do prefer American spelling (disclaimer: I'm American)

liopleurodon··on Gilbert Strang's New Course on Linear Algebra+ for ML Now Online
I second this. His videos are phenomenal
liopleurodon··on Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app development
Oracle v Google
liopleurodon··on Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app development
Might have less to do with users and more to do with Oracle v Google
liopleurodon··on John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)
ah, scarface74 said the same thing :)
liopleurodon··on John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)
couldn't you just "static inline ...." and let the compiler inline it? He is talking about C....
liopleurodon··on C++20 Ranges
I totally agree. It's stuff like this that will usher in the rust revolution

Edit: also wanted to add - what a disaster

liopleurodon··on Firefox 64 Released
oh man. yes, I experience this everyday (awesomewm user)
liopleurodon··on How I Wrote a Modern C++ Library in Rust
I know it's "extended support release" but I keep reading this as "Firefox Eric S. Raymond"
liopleurodon··on Our suite of Ethereum security tools
I think I read somewhere they were gonna switch to webassembly
liopleurodon··on Show HN: On-disk B+ tree for Python 3
lol, truth
liopleurodon··on Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10
good lord. I would've gone the hyper-v route, that comes with Windows 10 pro, doesn't it? (another linux only user here, so idk). Should perform better than Virtualbox too
liopleurodon··on CRISPR Can Now Edit Genes Using Nanoparticles Instead of Viruses
what's the role of cholesterol in the human body?
liopleurodon··on The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
"Russia has been targeting civilian population centers (with both conventional and chemical weapons)"

citation needed

liopleurodon··on Show HN: Very basic blockchain-free cryptocurrency PoC in Python
maidsafe

edit: I thought Ripple and Stellar had blockchains?

liopleurodon··on Magma – An encrypted email server daemon
Here's the talk Levison gave on it at Defcon a few years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWzvXaxR6us

liopleurodon··on Ask HN: Mark Zuckerberg presidency?
No
liopleurodon··on The BSD family tree
where's bitrig?
liopleurodon··on I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it
Tim Berners-Lee. Thank God, I was worried they had interviewed Al Gore
liopleurodon··on Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified (2014)
depending on who's writing up the "qualifications" though, a lot of them are probably bullshit
liopleurodon··on Silicon Valley's prosperity paradox: 76000 millionaires can't fix local poverty
hahahahahahaha
liopleurodon··on BSD vs. Linux (2005)
I don't know. That kind of architecture can still be useful and I personally use it when running some graphical apps inside of a docker container
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