lambdabeta

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[โ€“] lambdabeta 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm one of the very rare people that have the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap, but likes it. I blame the soap flavoured gum I had as a kid here in Canada.

So maybe save a little soaplantro for those that want it ;)

[โ€“] lambdabeta 1 points 4 months ago

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That second one was 99.99% I think it should have counted.

TitleIs there even a difference between Monaco and Indonesia?

[โ€“] lambdabeta 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

IIRC it takes about 30ish minutes for caffeine to "kick in". So if you have a bit, then take a nap, it can give you a nice 20ish minute power nap, then naturally wake you up so you don't feel groggy. The key is to be able to fall asleep quickly enough to have a decent power nap before it kicks in.

[โ€“] lambdabeta 3 points 5 months ago

So we meet at diefenbunker.ca? Sounds like a plan! ๐Ÿ

[โ€“] lambdabeta 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What makes you think that? I'm curious. I would've assumed something like Inuktitut (1 word conveys subject verb object tense ...) or something like toki pona (removes unused information) or maybe a highly analytical language like one of the Chinese languages.

[โ€“] lambdabeta 2 points 5 months ago

Interesting that Canada wasn't included (at about 20%). Wonder how/why they picked those countries.

[โ€“] lambdabeta 4 points 5 months ago

Thank you. Clear, easily understood explanations of questions I always wondered. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

[โ€“] lambdabeta 17 points 5 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)
[โ€“] lambdabeta 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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!

[โ€“] lambdabeta 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] lambdabeta 22 points 6 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?

[โ€“] lambdabeta 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

First time trying it out. Got a bit lucky.

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

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