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same, the cable style are prone to seize. the older manual winders that use a segment of a sheet metal gear and levers were bulletproof though.


monochrome displays were common in low end laptops, but they were so expensive there weren't many around.


I think the issue is the difference between positive and negative reinforcement. positive reinforcement with money may attract tainted blood, but negative might not, unless you count blood borne diseases which predispose to suicide.

Suppose you were to legalize euthanasia for blood donors. i.e. you could earn the right to assisted suicide after 5 years of regular donations, no questions asked. That way the religious lobby gets shut up because the blood is maintaining the population rate and the chronic mentally ill like myself can have a comfortable exit.


maybe we could use ai to optimise compilers somehow.


The reason rustc and other compilers like it (e.g. GHC) are "slow" isn't because they are unoptimized; it's because they do A LOT of work!

rustc is enforcing a strong and expressive type system, checking for ownership, generating code from macros, etc. It will always be an order of magnitude slower than C/C++ compiler, kind-of by design.


Large C++ projects aren't exactly known for their stellar compile times either.

Coming from a C++ background, I don't find Rust compile times to be that bad for comparable sized projects in C++.


Which is exactly why we traditionally don't build the world from scratch in C++, rather rely on binary libraries for 3rd party dependencies, or component frameworks.

Additionally rely on dynamic libraries during debug builds.


Incremental build times in rust are also on par (and often faster) with c++ on the similar sized projects I’ve worked on.


Except those other compilers offer multiple toolchains, including interpreters, that are faster than rustc.

Standard ML, Idris, ..., F#, Haskell and OCaml have interpreters, and REPLs, in addition to the full blown AOT compilation.

Naturally Rust can also have those, however they aren't here today.



yup this is the cheapest solution. don't know why anyone would suggest a different approach. i read the DL in delta's computers is hard coded so they can't change it, which could be problematic.


I have these brakes on a vintage massey ferguson 178 tractor. the mechanism tends to push back up the pedal when pressed, and the stopping force is weak. there is a reason mf moved abandoned the design.


I believe the poster means that the macro operation is that of an astable multivibrator, whereas they would prefer that it be that of a one shot multivibrator.


Ah, got it. Yeah, I don't think there's a way to do that.



blue eyes have better night vision. video related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgAIWpVSAM8


Thanks, I did not know that.

Lower chance of cataracts too.


And they're unhygenic. Sheep farmers for instance routinely cut the tails of their flock because it is difficult to shear and becomes a breeding ground for blowfly larvae. That said, i saw a movie called Shallow Hal(2001) which had a scene in which a man was shown to have a tail. Now it may have been cgi, but it made me think that there must be a minority of humans with that mutation.


but it made me think that there must be a minority of humans with that mutation

There certainly are, but it is extremely rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail#Human_tails


Its not because of the tail but because of the farms. Sad state of how we do farming at scale.


If someone can think of a better way to feed 8 billion people into obesity and early death cheaply then we'll do that instead.


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