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It's not, really - but the techniques used in its nucleosynthesis probably are.

Incidentally, if the compound itself does in the end turn out to be useful, it'll be for the same reason - it'd likely be used as some intermediate in a wider-scope reaction. As is the case for many, many (almost all, realistically) otherwise-"useless" chemicals.

Well, why not? With modern 3d printers this is definitely possible. Oh, some will be veeeerry funky looking, for sure (not from printing process; from design), but that might just be more entertaining

The funny thing about this is, while I definitely don't believe it in the moustache-twirling-government-villain sense of the mind-control variety, I do think that it's a least _a little_ true - particularly with how public use of LSD may have played an important role in the anti-war movement (Vietnam War). It's widely documented that many people attributed it as a turning point.

Not even that many people need to have tried it; it's one of those consciousness-raising things, where people that you'd normally respect the opinions of start espousing this belief, and that reduces cognitive dissonance in others in a kind of "belief wave".

"Fighting to suppress war" has got to be one of the best examples of false consciousness (wrong term? I mean a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy based on internal contradiction) ever...

Well, all I can say is if these gasoline car companies - many of whom have actually experimented with EVs - don't follow through, they're going to learn the lesson of Kodak.

Well, um, I'm not running a preview build, but I have it. It's been there since the Anniversary update

The fact that they can't even think that they might want to be able to say "I value my human rights" at some point is severely worrying. Bunch of philosophical zombies.

If they're anything other than white skinned, blue eyed, blonde haired, heterosexual, male, centrist-politically leaning (or one of the other few extremely simplistic predefined options - analogy: the block-shapes-through-the-board children's game) - history called. It's got some advice to give - but, of course, barely anyone is listening. (except the government. No, they're listening plenty... just not to history - they're too busy listening to the sound of hubris!)

They do, if your connection can be forced into using a low grade cipher, or you made the mistake of allowing DH[E] with a common group. Both mistakes which were (are?) common, incidentally. They were decrypting a good fraction of global TLS traffic not so long ago...

I'm not actually sure which comment I'd intended to reply to anymore (wrote it quickly on a lunch break!) - but, anyway: I'd agree the JVM is a bit faster than the CLR currently, but this is arguably because the CLR is more heavily tuned towards startup time (the reduction of), rather than throughput. They've invested more heavily into AOT compilation support (also in service of this goal) and compiler-as-a-service tech (Roslyn) rather than performance... perhaps this might change? Certainly the community additions to the CLR and the larger ecosystem eg ASP.NET Core have produced some notable performance improvements.

Also I'd say the CLR has more potential insofar as performance due to its design than the JVM does, but the JVM has received more attention in this area historically, so it's 'winning' currently despite this.

Not yet - but it does run Xamarin Forms apps, and I'd be _very_ surprised if the syntax for Xamarin Forms and UWP isn't integrated at some point soon... They're both XAML based.

The important thing is CLR support. Everything else is just semantics. (literally)

Yeah, Service Fabric is super awesome! I'm refactoring out company's infrastructure to run on it currently - the older stuff runs on MVC 5 on Azure Cloud Service.

I'm refactoring it to ASP.NET Core on Service Fabric. Getting about 50x better real-world performance. Yes, that much. It's insane. Currently on Windows as Service Fabric on Linux is in preview (not comfortable using it in production), but I imagine I'll move it over once that's stable ️

A great time to be a .NET developer! Makes me happy I stuck with it.

Seems like you'd want a lint rule where if unwrap is used, it must have a comment preceding it (of some formal syntax) describing why it's necessary or appropriate. Thus the build can have all uses of unwrap known as explicitly allowed, allowing all the possible sites of panics to be enumerated and known, a useful property to have

They said "has support for", not "is".

This is a natural consequence of having value types (structs). You can even change the bit packing and other layout properties of structs.

Value types. Reified generics.

Much nicer? You mean "at parity"

Yup. You'd target sex cells instead, but that's only a slight modification.

Nope, not missing anything. It should also be possible to use it it to reprogram mature cells (such as skin cells) into homeopoetic stem cells in-mass, and simply introduce them into the appropriate site (eg bone marrow, for your example)

The term you're looking for is in vivo.

This study was in vitro (and then in vivo!)

I would agree, though, that most people would have thought "in vivo" from the title alone, since the prospect of and actual practicality of doing it in vivo is what really differentiates CRISPR from the tech that came before it.

That or the surveillance apparatus was used in a way so as to ensure that he toed the line...

Oh look, here we are again. Humans are so pathetically easy to manipulate.

The Surface Pro, yep - the Surface Book on the other hand has pretty nice keyboard, and a fantastic track pad (just as good as that in MBPs). My partner owns one (after I recommended it) - they're great laptops... and tablets to boot!

Hmm, let's see: can't run OSX and variants thereof except on Apple hardware (despite acceptable to flawless hardware compatibility), can't build software for OSX and variants thereof except on a Mac (despite being perfectly workable), can't use a different app store on iOS...

Many here will recognise the formative childhood experience of having done something forbidden and getting caught doing it by their parents where, for the first time, instead of the usual response - their getting angry - you are taken completely by surprise when they simply say "I am so disappointed in you" or similar, accompanied by some expression in the realm of abject futility.

This is one of those.

That this could have had any realistic chance of happening at all says a lot about the current state of the US populace.

I find reading any political news out of the US to be particularly distressing: the extent of the echo chamber effect is very prominent and highly persistent. Admittedly, this is part of a more general phenomenon with regard to news today, given that people can construct their own echo chambers much more readily than in any other time of history - but it seems considerably worse in the US. I'm not quite sure why. Perhaps because the FPTP political system encourages game-theoretic strategies which unfortunately effectively optimise for polarisation and related properties..?

Until better solution is introduced by Rust core team, the Awesome Rust initiative is probably next best thing

Huh, interlacing is a neat idea to reduce latency, but I'm guessing you'd want a form of intra-frame temporal anti-aliasing, otherwise it might look pretty fugly. Whether or not this would neutralise any latency advantage due to the computational overhead of doing this, I'm not sure...

So what makes this display tech any different (more special) from that in Hololens? Because it sounds very similar, if not identical..?

Completely agreed!

In the past, I had always avoided C because I didn't understand why many aspects of why it is the way that it is (eg pointers etc). Then I took my university's CPU architecture courses. That sorted that fear right out since I had to go from the ground up, learning everything I'd previously largely avoided or ignored - everything from transistors and the basic logic gates (AND, OR, XOR, NOT, etc) they consist of to full adders, all the way up to pipelined CPUs. Naturally, we learned assembly as part of this.

C made an awful lot more sense after all of this! I still don't like using it, but that's a lot more to do with my understanding of it's dangers (I prefer to let the compiler do the hard work of verifying my programs make sense, a la Rust &c), rather than a fear born of ignorance.

Unfortunately it's REALLY hard to create a completely non-porous composite.

Yes, I strongly suspect that isotretinoin is responsible for my very soon after developing a chronic pain disorder and mood swings. After talking to others afflicted by chronic pain it turns out to be a rather common factor :( there's even a pretty plausible mechanism of action (to do with inflammation, which if you've ever been subject to the stuff, I suspect won't surprise you in the least...) Had I known about any of this (to be clear, I just mean the risk - not my actual outcomes. No predictions of the future necessary) prior to taking it, I'd never have considered it.