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It's a cellular automaton showing complex behavior emerging from very simple rules. Through especially crafted inputs you can simulate a Turing machine or Conway's Game of Life inside itself.
Re:Phytomining – Extracting Minerals via Plants on Monday April 08, 2024 @09:45AM (#39969661)
Do they plant them underground? Using artificial light? How are the minerals extracted from the plants? How is this profitable?
Re:Flame retardant found in US breast milk on Thursday July 20, 2023 @11:20AM (#36801813)
What an absurd comparison by you. I've always been pro covid vaccine but comparing vaccine criticism to the Nazi Holocaust is absolutely ridiculous.
Re:Moog sells its business to InMusic on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @09:28AM (#36418173)
That doesn't make them feel or look the same.
Re:Apple's Vision Pro headset deserves to be ridiculed on Monday June 05, 2023 @07:13PM (#36205612)
This is true, but on the other hand the previous VR/AR headsets confine their usage themselves, especially in social situations because they are not accepted by other people. Blurring that boundary might cause less isolation compared to other headsets - but might cause more isolation in the long run as an indirect effect due to more widespread usage.
I was wondering why that would be a bad idea and how much radiation sterilization is used today. Apparently about 40-50% of medical single use products are sterilized beforehand using radiation.

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph241/goronzy2/

I think this is due to the bilateral symmetry of most animals. But imagine being non-symmetric yourself (or the alien race being non-symmetric). The concepts of left and right seem to become much more communicable now.
Re:Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video] on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @09:48AM (#21334589)
The whole point of female leagues is, that females don't become overpowered by males. So the decision you are talking about is already made. If one starts to introduce biologically males back into the female league one could arguably instead remove the female league and introduce a unisex one. This would be more coherent with your reasoning in my eyes.
Re:Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just Two Bulls on Friday October 18, 2019 @09:12AM (#21291062)
But it basically only shares the name.
Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra on Saturday September 14, 2019 @09:02PM (#20974895)
And why should this be different for a private currency controlled by facebook?
Re:How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely? on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @08:32AM (#20876506)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria#Toxicity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibotenic_acid

Amanita Muscaria contains muscimol and ibotenic acid. Ibotenic acid is neurotoxic and a prodrug to muscimol, which has the desired psychoactive effect.

Re:Software Rot (2017) on Monday February 25, 2019 @10:36AM (#19246338)
Can you provide an example of rotten software?
Re:Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D on Monday February 25, 2019 @10:27AM (#19246268)
Well, when you get sunburn i.e. high UVB exposure, you get high UVA exposure, too. My understanding is, that UVA radiation causes cancer.

But I would like to see some clarification on this topic, too.

Re:Leukemia Has Won on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @11:02PM (#19205416)
Clickbait title.
Re:Dot Dot Considered Harmful on Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:14AM (#18559422)
Terminal emulator, not Terminal.
This is how you get Brundlefly :O
Nobody is preventing the free market to do fusion research.
Re:Python: Avoid master/slave terms on Thursday September 13, 2018 @09:20AM (#17978361)
Why is this flagged?
Re:Python: Avoid master/slave terms on Thursday September 13, 2018 @09:19AM (#17978351)
Well this change implies that it is not OK to use terms like master and slave. The criticism is founded in fears, that this is used as a precedent to control speech. An Idea that is not fully unfounded.
Re:Python: Avoid master/slave terms on Thursday September 13, 2018 @09:17AM (#17978337)
Bouncing from one extreme to the other.
You cannot fight in cyberspace when a foot soldier turns the server off.
Re:Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2010) on Monday May 28, 2018 @01:19PM (#17173561)
You are implying that only competitive sport swimmers can actually swim.
Re:Why I’m Using the Cerny Method of Game Development on Sunday April 08, 2018 @06:42PM (#16788900)
Duke Nukem Forever
Re:Nikon versus Canon: A Story of Technology Change on Sunday April 08, 2018 @10:16AM (#16786160)
It is possible, but SLRs have a bigger flange distance to the sensor, because a mirror has to fit between the lens and the sensor. To be able to use SLR lenses with mirrorless cameras, the mirrorless camera needs to have the same flange distance as the SLR, which would make the camera body bigger. This kills one of the main mirrorless features.
Re:Nikon versus Canon: A Story of Technology Change on Sunday April 08, 2018 @09:49AM (#16786055)
Because mirrorless isn't.
Whoa, that sounds amazing. Do you have any links to the new mainboards?
I haven't seen one "noisy violent drug addict" in my life. I am not saying they don't exist, but the vast majority of drug users or even addicts are not discernible as such. Anyway, that is my European perspective.
Re:Save the CR100 on Saturday February 10, 2018 @06:05AM (#16346819)
Yes, but i don't think this is an option for the people complaining.
Re:Sorting with GPUs: A Survey on Monday September 11, 2017 @12:28PM (#15219726)
Nvidia PhysX?
Re:C++17 is formally approved on Thursday September 07, 2017 @09:45AM (#15191769)
Yeah, blame the user for the effects of broken design.

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