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Re:Europe's largest carbon capture facility opens in Netherlands on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @01:08PM (#49613193)
It's not a carbon capture facility, it's an ammonia (fertilizer) factory. They will capture the CO2 resulted from the chemical process.
On one hand I hear that quantum computers will crack factorisation and discrete logarithms, on the other that the max number factorised is 15 and that 21 might not even be feasible.

What is going on?

Re:What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @04:06PM (#45906678)
> partially because Intel didn’t see a market

I saw some articles saying that Intel saw the market very well, they just could not deliver and rather than admit that, they claimed the CEO decided wrong.

The English word bit has the same meaning in French as word Coq has in English.
Re:The man who killed Google Search on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @06:08AM (#40142534)
I think NM translation was broken all along. Not in the neural network part but in choosing the right answer. https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.398.pdf
Re:Knuth–Morris–Pratt Illustrated on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @06:12AM (#40050269)
We, humankind managed to get a good optimisation for this problem by using spaces between words. When trying these algorithms for searching a word in a string of text, I was surprised how little they could improve vs just skipping to the next word.
Re:Dada, an Experiement by the Creators of Rust on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @10:58AM (#39617292)
Given that the GitHub repo is almost three years old, I expect Martin Fowler to already have Dada Patterns, Refactoring in Dada, Dada Distilled, Dada DSL and Dada Best Practices ready to publish.
Re:The 37signals Employee Handbook on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:13PM (#39057960)
They don't allow development on GNU/Linux.
Re:RustRover – A Standalone Rust IDE by JetBrains on Thursday September 14, 2023 @04:44AM (#37506445)
Tried it and it feels slow. I opened a Rust project and after a long wait to index crates, I opened a file and deleted a commented line. It took a few seconds to display the annotations again.

While waiting, I did some work in neovim.

Re:You might want async in your project on Saturday September 09, 2023 @04:09PM (#37449758)
Tokio uses a pool of threads for disk I/O because it uses the synchronous calls of the operating system.
Re:Mastering curl: interactive text guide on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @07:53AM (#37403772)
> I’m curious though… are people using it in production much?

Here's Daniel beating his own drum: https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/curl/

Re:Klack – Satisfying sound with every keystroke on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @06:18AM (#37403247)
> the noise level of the keyboard made it difficult for my colleagues to focus

Had the same issue in the past but nowadays everyone is wearing noise cancelling earphones

Can you implement a web shop like Amazon using Rama?
Re:Val, a high-level systems programming language on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @06:20AM (#36784197)
Rust deadlocks just fine.
Re:Jessica Hische Brings New Life to an Old Logo on Monday February 20, 2023 @07:36PM (#34874896)
link to the Pakistani bloke?
Re:Interesting on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @09:38AM (#34595489)
That explanation irks me a lot because it implies Eratosthenes knew the Sun was so far away, the rays reaching the earth are practically parallel. And while it might sound a like a detail, the whole calculation depends on it.

If you presume the Earth is flat and the Sun not that far away, Eratosthenes was calculating the distance to the Sun.

If the Pareto principle is always true, just keep on firing 80% of the remaining engineers until the company runs without developers.
I was under the impression you can opt to simply download the epub and send it to Kindle yourself but the website will not let me do anything before I set up the Kindle upload.
Re:Why Rust is a great choice for startups on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @10:00AM (#31739622)
Can anyone speculate why there's so much crypto using Rust as opposed to everybody else? I am afraid crypto will end up giving Rust a bad name.