lambdabeta

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[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 17 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Whenever I see this image I always wonder 2 things:

  1. What makes hemoglobin more efficient?
  2. Why do we even need these fancy molecules to transport oxygen? Can't we produce some kind of biological ampule that holds some pure O2 for consumption by the various processes that need it? We have dedicated organelle structures for similar tasks (i.e. mitochondria)
[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Apparently it's not even really all that stable, so that whole container would rapidly decompose into probably carbon dioxide (CO2) and a bunch of pure carbon (think charcoal). At least that's my hunch. There is a Wikipedia article on the stuff, but it's pretty short, since it's a pretty unusual chemical (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicarbon_monoxide ).

CO2 is of course extremely common. I'd love to see what a chemist can describe about a bottle of C2O though!

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Oct. 7, 2024

T I G H T R O P E ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🎉

My Score: 2230 https://www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope

I'm in the rare group of: tastes soapy, but I like it. I blame thrills gum.

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Ada, hands down. Every time I go to learn Rust I'm disappointed by the lack of safety. I get that it's miles ahead of C++, but that's not much. I get that it strikes a much better balance than Ada (it's not too hard to get it to compile) but it still leaves a lot to be desired in terms of safe interfacing. Plus it's memory model is more complicated than it needs to be (though Ada's secondary stack takes some getting used to).

I wonder if any other Ada devs have experience with rust and can make a better comparison?

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

First time trying it out. Got a bit lucky.

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Oct. 5, 2024

T I G H T R O P E ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🎉

My Score: 2180 https://www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope

EDIT: just realized I did the wrong date! sorry. still, thanks for showing me a new daily puzzle. :)

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think a few months was the time until he signed I love you, we don't know how much longer it took before she get the implant.

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use fslint myself. Basically a linter for files :)

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly front end, like "High Level" is a very relative term. For example, in compiler design, the bit that parses code is called the "front end" since the "back end" is what emits machine code. I think that's what they mean here, the "front end" that understands D3D8 code has been added, presumably there is also a "back end" that converts the parsed/analyzed D3D8 code into valid opcodes for consumption by GPU/CPUs.

In the other direction, a UI/UX is sometimes called a "back end" when it is part of a more complex embedded project where physical controls are the "front end".

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Why wouldn't a Jew get in the car?

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

They do list lemmy in the advanced "bubbling under" category. I guess they deem lemmy to be a work in progress, but not tildes?

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

I still use Ada daily for my personal projects after having used it at work. I find it compliments my thinking patterns well. My only gripe with it is that they ate too much of their own dog food at AdaCore and now it can be hard to install Ada and gprbuild (due to a circular dependency). Plus gprc stole libgpr and broke some stuff too.

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you read the readme, this looks like it's specifically for when you don't know the correct tld or spelling of the site you're looking for. Google searches often censor sites of borderline legality, but they'll usually still have Wikipedia articles with accurate links.

This specifically only redirects .idk domains as a search helper. Could it possibly work better as a browser extension? Maybe. :)

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