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etatoby | 6 years ago | on: The Enduring Mystery of ‘Jawn,’ Philadelphia’s All-Purpose Noun (2016)

If that's what I think it is, the rest of the world (including Italy) calls it a Sorbet or Sherbet:

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

It's basically ice, fruit pulp and sugar, blended together.

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: A tiny language called Z (2013)

In fact, can't you achieve the author's point by writing a Lisp or Scheme reader?

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: Firefox Reality

It's on the homepage:

https://mixedreality.mozilla.org/static/kid-03fadfdcdaaabce0...

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: Firefox Reality

"They" don't want you to know how and why they are brainwashing your kid. When you take it off him/her to check, it will revert to some "safe" default show.

</Tinfoil>

</Sarcasm>

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: Firefox Reality

I'm not aware of any iOS-based VR headsets.

They are probably not targeting the el-cheapo cardboard variety.

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)

That's by design. People don't want to be "guided to better design," they want to get their math done and over with, leaving some trace (the Excel sheet) for the next time they or somebody else needs to revise that math.

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: Developers don't understand CORS

State-changing GET handlers are against the HTTP concept and specs and are trouble waiting to happen. Each and every one of them were designed and implemented by incompetent and/or inexperienced developers.

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: The Riemann Hypothesis Says 5040 Is the Last

Yes. In fact, if we ever manage to build a quantum computer with a non-trivial amount of qubits, we can expect exponential improvement in the performance of any prime number-related numerical research.

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t rent cars for driving

In fact, the expensive "gaming chairs" that popular kids buy nowadays to flaunt online always looked like car seats to me.

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t rent cars for driving

Not futuristic enough.

The future of rooms is they will be more like cars than rooms.

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t rent cars for driving

They probably aren't talking about the ones used as love hotels on wheels. They could even be inflating those other niche uses in front of the media, in order to distance themselves from that other use.

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t rent cars for driving

Also, the delicious boxed lunches sold everywhere, combined with the social stigma about eating them anywhere that is not a private space or a space already devoted to eating.

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t rent cars for driving

There can be many reasons (house not being yours, etc.) but one of them could easily be cultural inertia.

During the first half of my life, very few people in my country (Italy) had AC in their homes. It wasn't until the recent high temperatures, which only became obvious 20 years ago or such, that everybody started installing them.

I can't find a historic chart specific to my country, but I suppose it wouldn't be too dissimilar from this:

https://www.telesurtv.net/export/sites/telesur/img/news/2017...

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011)

No, the rolled R is just a vibration of the tongue against the roof of the mouth.

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps (2012)

From the article, the poachers are not directly hunting for gorillas or other monkeys. When they find them in the traps, they leave them there to die.

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: Glass Enterprise Edition 2

What, you don't? That indicator light is one firmware hack away from being turned off. Granted, if someone gets into my laptop I have bigger worries than having stealth selfies stolen, but still.

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: Janus cosmology: what is negative mass?

If you look at the bottom of every page, including the homepage, the author references his own relevant peer-reviewed articles.

I'm not saying his theory is right, or that the presentation doesn't smell a bit of crackpottery (it does), but at least he's referencing some real science he's done and that has apparently been accepted.

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: Janus cosmology: what is negative mass?

Yes, being right about one thing doesn't make you right about everything, but being wrong about one thing makes you wrong about everything. It is known. (Especially when aliens are involved.)

It's a fundamental breaking of symmetry in our universe, also known as: luck is blind, but curse has 10/10 eyesight.

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: The Cassowary: World’s most dangerous bird (2016)

> I suspect that most people know that

I don't think so. Spielberg and colleagues clearly didn't know it, or didn't realize the depth of the connection, and they influenced the public's perception of dinosaurs to a large degree.

etatoby | 6 years ago | on: J Language – New Website

Just thought I'd add the same benchmark on the latest Dyalog APL.

Dyalog APL/S-64 (17)

    ⍴+.×⌿?2 3000 3000⍴1e10

    - size 3000: 6.6s, 0.5GiB RSS
    - size 10000: 101s, 5.4GiB RSS

Conclusions:

J's implementation is still the fastest at this particular task (matrix multiplication of huge matrices on a single CPU thread--granted, not the most significant of benchmarks.) Dyalog APL comes close behind. GNU APL and NumPy lag much more behind that.