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New comment by Qem in "How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language"

Qem — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:51:02 +0000

Nice. Suggestion: Add PyPy too.

Fedora 46 Proposal Wants to Provide Official Support for Crystal Language

Qem — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:11:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-46-Proposal-Crystal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549503

Points: 3

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New comment by Qem in "RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython"

Qem — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:59:35 +0000

Did they already test how the proposed jit fares on RISC-V?

New comment by Qem in "The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020)"

Qem — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:54:31 +0000

Szilard is an underrated genius. Also was an early formulator of the nuclear chain reaction concept, to tap into nuclear energy, but did not zero in uranium right at the outset as the element to make it feasible.

New comment by Qem in "Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug"

Qem — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:07:06 +0000

Microstrokes, that affect capillary vessels in the brain, don't cause short term acute loss of function, but have a cummulative impact over time?

New comment by Qem in "The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment"

Qem — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:49:24 +0000

> How so? You can just... refuse?

It would be like doping in some elite sports, say road race cycling in Lance Armstrong era. Nobody would be coerced by force, but some people would start taking it, making less sleep time the new normal. With time business would adjust to expect and require it, and other people would be forced to take the drug just to not become unemployable in a market with a upshifted baseline. I think this is already happening in education, with ADHD medications. Children are likely being overdiagnosed, because in a environment with many medicated children, just displaying normal child behaviour starts looking odd, pathology-like.

> Doing a job that you hate for 8h and sleeping for 8h is much worse than doing a job that you love for 16h.

Some jobs just suck but somebody still has to do them.

New comment by Qem in "The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment"

Qem — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:14:44 +0000

> What is surprising to me is the knee-jerk reaction I see whenever the idea of looking into this is brought up.

It's because if it were achieved, likely result would be employers forcing people to take the drug and increasing daily work hours back to 16+.

New comment by Qem in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

Qem — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:47:41 +0000

Now I'm puzzled if whatever made Mars lose its primordial water oceans and dense atmosphere could be involved in Mars Bar losing 20g.

New comment by Qem in "Squeak 6.1"

Qem — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:38:46 +0000

Also SNOBOL/Icon.

New comment by Qem in "Squeak 6.1"

Qem — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:32:57 +0000

This looks like Gilad Bracha's Newspeak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak_(programming_language...

New comment by Qem in "Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"

Qem — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:22:13 +0000

Not if it's just microbial life. Anyway it's just one case or another. We knowing what's the case doesn't change it. If the news never break it would be just as bad, perhaps even slightly worse, as we would not have early warning to prepare.

New comment by Qem in "Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"

Qem — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:15:55 +0000

Likely we don't need to replicate. We just need to get a sample of life with completely independent origin to our kind of life here on Earth, to study. This way we would be able to separate what are universal properties for any life from historical contingencies specific to us. To have samples of a single kind of life complicates things.

New comment by Qem in "Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself"

Qem — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:24:50 +0000

> Or perhaps there is a risk that the wearer will absorb harmful chemicals secreted by the mycelium via contact with the wearer's skin?

Or just getting a bad itch.

Review: Mageia 10

Qem — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:13:10 +0000

Article URL: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260803#mageia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184105

Points: 2

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New comment by Qem in "The Silurian Hypothesis (2020)"

Qem — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:39:58 +0000

Reminds me of this comic: https://badspacecomics.com/scour-copy-copy

New comment by Qem in "Computational chemistry, Locally? My rant on SSH"

Qem — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:38:40 +0000

> There is also a layer of friction between doing the computations and then analysing the logs that comp chemistry programs spit out. If you want to visualise orbitals or look at the outputs of your simulations, it's really awkward to run Python whilst being in the cluster, and the cluster has no GUI display.

By the description it appears computational chemistry is stuck in batch processing era. They are yet to discover their equivalent to REPL tight feedback loop workflow.

New comment by Qem in "EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams"

Qem — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:51:39 +0000

Echoes of the bicameral mind[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality

New comment by Qem in "Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive"

Qem — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:35:23 +0000

New comment by Qem in "Microsoft loses Brazilian case after telling hacked user to re-purchase games"

Qem — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:59:25 +0000

> Courts elsewhere have gone the other way. Chinese courts have recognized game accounts as inheritable property, while U.S. rulings generally treat games as revocable licenses

Pretty ironic a communist country has stronger assertion of individual ownership rights than USA, the flagship of capitalism.

Microsoft loses Brazilian case after telling hacked user to re-purchase games

Qem — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:43:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/brazilian-court-orders-microsoft-to-restore-a-gamers-account-and-digital-library-after-it-told-him-to-rebuy-his-games

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48874547

Points: 6

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