C++ has a LHS ternary operator.
C++ has a LHS ternary operator.
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I note, in passing, that the plot-line of the film Mission Impossible: Fallout did not contain a very accurate…
I note, in passing, that the plot-line of the film Mission Impossible: Fallout did not contain a very accurate depiction of Anarchism.
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Mastermind
Mastermind
Google has been trying to ruin the URL for 20 years.
Google has been trying to ruin the URL for 20 years.
At around 12,000 years old, #GöbekliTepe in south-east #Turkey has been billed as the world’s oldest temple.
Originally shared by Ancient History Encyclopedia
At around 12,000 years old, #GöbekliTepe in south-east #Turkey has been billed as the world’s oldest temple. It is many millennia older than Stonehenge or #Egypt’s great pyramids, built in the pre-pottery #Neolithic period before writing or the wheel. But should Göbekli Tepe, which became a #Unesco World Heritage Site in July, also be regarded as the world’s oldest piece of architecture? https://buff.ly/2OLlz5T
That’s a nice euphemistic way of putting it that governments have absolutely no intention of doing anything about…
That’s a nice euphemistic way of putting it that governments have absolutely no intention of doing anything about climate change — nothing whatsoever — as our global civilisation slowly roasts itself to oblivion.
Early microcomputers were fun because their only real purpose really was to teach you how to program.
Early microcomputers were fun because their only real purpose really was to teach you how to program.
This article reconstructs pretty accurately what it felt like to be there. I can confirm that growing feeling of excitement as the narrative of learning the machine gradually unfolded.
That’s an experience that’s hard to beat even today despite three decades of technological advancement.
Via Animesh Sharma
Originally shared by Xabier Ostale
Via Animesh Sharma
Extreme weather is triggering climate despair
More people will become hopeless unless there’s radical change
“Even as there’s been a resurgence in the radical left politics which I believe to be essential to tackling the climate crisis, the stories of neoliberal leaders continuing to delay climate action and a renewed far-right that couldn’t even be bothered to pretend while extreme weather events multiply have led me down the path of despair. I’m less hopeful that we can dislodge powerful capitalist forces, intertwined as they are with the fossil-fuel economy, in order to shift to renewables and transform so many of the social, environmental, and economic systems we rely on in time to avoid catastrophic changes to our climate which won’t destroy the planet, but could make significant swathes of it uninhabitable for humans.”
“The study that really caught my attention recently was more of a reminder that we can’t simply hold the planet’s temperature at a specific degree of warming. The climate is a complex system — warming will be more extreme in some areas, such as the Arctic, than others — and there are many factors that could accelerate climate change that we don’t often consider which could be triggered at certain warming thresholds. And if one is activated, others could follow, causing rapid temperature increases.”
“What this means is that when politicians say they’re committed to staying below 2°C of warming, they’re usually full of shit. Not only are failing to take the necessary action to reduce emissions as rapidly as needed, but they also aren’t accounting for factors beyond human control. The more warming we have, the higher the risk we could trigger a domino effect and find ourselves with planet on average 4 to 5°C above pre-industrial averages.”
“But with the increasing tide of stories about extreme weather events, it’s sometimes hard to remain hopeful that powerful capitalist interests will be dislodged in time to take the necessary action to rapidly reduce emissions and build the infrastructure to prepare for the warming we’ve already locked in. Even worse, sometimes it can seem that things might get so bad so quickly that people will run into the arms of far-right tyrants who stoke the fears of the powerless in service of the agenda of the powerful.”
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