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Re:A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @08:17AM (#41378631)
a syndication feed would probably suffice
Re:The Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges (2018) on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @08:13AM (#41378607)
> Altruism in large social groups is something chimps haven't worked out yet

But their close relatives, the Bonobos, apparently have.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Behavior:

> Primatologist Frans de Waal states bonobos are capable of altruism, compassion, empathy, kindness, patience, and sensitivity, and described "bonobo society" as a "gynecocracy".

easy to find from the homepage:

https://p2panda.org/libraries/

> The core library is shipped both as a Rust crate p2panda-rs with WebAssembly bindings and a NPM package p2panda-js with TypeScript definitions running in NodeJS or any modern web browser.

I think they'd be more worried about the relatively large number of suspicious deaths in that industry increasing: https://www.apo-observers.org/observer-safety/misses/
Re:A portable, modern regular expression language on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:19PM (#34187169)
You mean the qr// operator. qx// is the generic operator for backticks.
I'm waiting for Vortex Bladeless: https://vortexbladeless.com/
only if you use Apple's walled garden. did you miss the multiple links to the free download hosted on github?
if the kdramas are indicative of their society, they believe kissing will make you pregnant ;-) seriously, they should take a page out of japan's playbook- legalize pornography and establish a contest to encourage economic and population growth :-)
I wonder how some snakes' ability to atrophy and regenerate internal organs (including the heart) is related to aging: https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/-/how-pythons-regenerate-their-o...
Re:Cozy is a modern audiobook player for Linux on Monday September 07, 2020 @03:51AM (#24397478)
couldn't this be solved by integration with fitbit and other health trackers? pause player when tracker detects user is asleep or out of range of device.
"In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort (psychological stress) experienced by a person who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values."
lower fees, but still no return of free transactions? core recently removed support for free transactions even though satoshi stated [1] clearly that free transactions should always be allowed.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=994.msg12168#msg1216...

Re:HTML5 Anonymous Bitcoin Poker on Friday July 10, 2015 @03:09PM (#9866103)
frequently loses connection and when i reconnect the old dealt cards for a hand are not redrawn, only the newly dealt cards for that hand are drawn.
Re:Unicode is Kind of Insane on Thursday May 28, 2015 @08:23PM (#9622024)
the unicode consortium addresses this: http://unicode.org/reports/tr39/#Confusable_Detection

edit: a quick search found implementations of the described algorithms in c++ (ICU library) and perl (Unicode::Security).

Re:Mac OS X Yosemite Under the Magnifying Glass on Thursday June 05, 2014 @05:57PM (#7854848)
Agreed. I wish they'd focus more attention on the kernel. Many of the system processes frequently run amok consuming excessive cpu or memory. And the filesystem is hopelessly outdated.