I think you may have misunderstood the meaning of the brackets. The key says this means “dependency or area of special sovereignty”.
You're correct. I didn't spot the legend.
Readit Newskitd commented on Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018) equal-earth.com/index.htm... · Posted by u/bjelkeman-again
kitd commented on Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018) equal-earth.com/index.htm... · Posted by u/bjelkeman-again
Small quibble: the Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey all have "(UK)" appended. They are not actually part of the UK, but British Crown dependencies. Possible confusion (as with most things British and overseas).
kitd commented on Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers github.com/cvilsmeier/go-... · Posted by u/cvilsmeier
It's wild to me that stdin/stdout is apparently significantly faster than using the API in so many cases.
That's the kind of result that makes me wonder if there is something odd with the benchmarking.
And presumably that implies there's OS context switching going on underneath.
Still, I can see a few downsides. Though sqinn-go is pure Go, the forked process is pure C, so you'll need to either download a prebuilt one (Linux and Windows only atm), or build it yourself. This rather defeats the benefits of Go's killer feature of "single-binary distribution".
Still, I agree it's wild it is so fast.
kitd commented on Tiny microbe challenges the definition of cellular life nautil.us/a-rogue-new-lif... · Posted by u/jnord
Fascinating!
The article should have at least tipped its hat to mitochondria:
>But unlike a virus, Sukunaarchaeum has its own ribosomes, cellular structures that synthesize proteins, and it can replicate itself without the help of a host.
Yes and this is true of mitochondria as well: Their own DNA, a own complex set of membranes, a private customized set of ribosomal proteins and tRNAs, and the ability to replicate within the “host”. Mitochondria are also perfectly happy to be swapped from cell to cell.
I wonder if or how these nanobiobots contribute to the fitness of their hosts.
So, from my amateur perspective, Sukunaarchaeum + mitochondria = bacterium?
kitd commented on The Life and Death of London's Crystal Palace (2021) heritagecalling.com/2021/... · Posted by u/zeristor
Remains are visible here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4226201,-0.0739698,953m/data...
Really interesting, stepping up and down the "cols" number, seeing the dots align at certain key points, especially at multiples of 30.
I often wonder why some languages succeed while others falter. Why did Rust break through, for example, while so many other excellent languages didn't.
I guess a lot of languages are kind of fungible. If you want a fast, cross platform, GC-based OOP language, the truth is, there are many choices. I'm not saying they are the same, but for 80% of the use cases they kind of are, and there are always good reasons to use established languages rather than new ones.
The ones that make it offer something very unique, not merely better than peers. So Rust, as a memory-safer non-GC language has a clear use case with little or no competition.
Nim doesn't have this luxury. I wish it well, I like the language and often contemplated learning it properly. But I fear the odds are against it.
> I often wonder why some languages succeed while others falter.
IME language success has very little to do with syntax, and much more to do with stdlib, tooling, library availability, coverage on StackOverflow and all the other things that make solving problems simple.
You forgot to mention those people are holding placards in support of an illegal "terror" group whose objective is to protest the unnecessary human loss of life in Palestine by spray painting British military equipment.
Obligatory legal notice that I obviously do not support said group, but historically terrorists would actually need to commit acts that instil a sense terror in people to further their political objectives. N one I've spoken to feels even remotely terrorised by Palestine Action, and it wouldn't even make sense to be given what they stand for.
I say this as someone who neither supports Palestine Action or shares their concerns.
Palestinian Action are a sanitised, Westernised front for Hamas fundraising. Their founders have praised the Oct 7th attacks and called for repeats. That by most measures counts as being an active part of terrorism. The spray painting was pretty small in the list of threats they pose.
kitd commented on The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation charlespetzold.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/warrenm