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by Aransentin 4y ago
The point of that napkin math is not to get an exact prediction, it's to get a order-of-magnitude estimate to see if this study is different from any other of the large amount of "promising drug cures X" articles that never a
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by Aransentin 4y ago
Some napkin math: Given rectal cancer's rate of survival of 67%, and the small size of the study (18 people), you should see similar results due to random chance every 1350th study. A cursory search on clinicaltrials.gov and I can find
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by Aransentin 4y ago
Being able to answer BS questions such as that is likely strongly correlated to conscientiousness, social skills, and intelligence, even if the actual content of the answer is irrelevant.
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by Aransentin 4y ago
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you lose, then you're forgotten about, then you're yet another example of survivorship bias.
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by Aransentin 5y ago
How is this relevant in any shape or form? The Korean won and the Japanese yen are also worth less than robux. Do you think that implies the same thing about their economies like it does for Russia?
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by Aransentin 5y ago
This is all in line with the author's point. Having an education does demonstrate that you have soft skills like punctuality, conscientiousness, etc. Being able to filter on those criteria is valuable to the employer and that employee
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by Aransentin 5y ago
Thank you. I've fixed it by linking to the proper upstream repository instead.
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by Aransentin 5y ago
Do you know offhand if the guarantees made by the Linux ELF loader is documented anywhere? I did search for it myself but didn't find anything authoritative.
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by Aransentin 5y ago
This was pretty much it. (I am the author) People do low-commitment exploration of new tech all the time, perhaps offhandedly download some new language compiler to see what all the fuss is about. Even a modestly negative experience can eas
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by Aransentin 5y ago
Between a 1.2 KiB and 600 Byte program, probably not, no. I wrote that section to confront the general idea that program startup performance is irrelevant and that optimizing it doesn't matter; a language that assumes so will start pil
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by Aransentin 5y ago
That'd be my company. We've had Zig in production for more than a year now, and it has gone remarkably smoothly - if you're ever using public transport in northern Europe or Germany there's a non-negligible chance that t
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Dealing with Time in the Roman Calendar(aransentin.github.io)
57 points by Aransentin 5y ago|20 comments
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by Aransentin 5y ago
Who are buying these things? The only plausible explanation to me is that the NFT exchange owners are selling to themselves using sockpuppet accounts to drum up media attention. The article even mentions that they are keeping the profits as
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by Aransentin 5y ago
"Our analysis of 1.8m reviews suggests that writer’s block does afflict follow-up books" More likely it's regression toward the mean[1]. The quality of a novel is partially based on random chance. Any selection of authors you
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by Aransentin 5y ago
When it comes to predicting future inflation, TIPS [1] is the thing to look at [2] - they are inflation-indexed bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury, and should track closely to what the market believes the average inflation will be over the n
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by Aransentin 5y ago
For the vast majority of people, "anarchy" does mean "Mad Max style chaos". You probably need to explicitly mention that you mean the specific political ideology if you are speaking to people that aren't really fami
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by Aransentin 5y ago
For the average alien, yes. For the average alien species, no.
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by Aransentin 5y ago
Couldn't your girlfriend (or any other third party who overheard your conversation) have searched for memory stick water damage before you sat down and opened Facebook? It doesn't seem too strange to me that advertisers send targe
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by Aransentin 6y ago
How would we know that the stars are imperfectly simulated when we look at them? It's not like we'd have a real universe to compare it with. Base reality might be unimaginably more complex than our world and there's really
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by Aransentin 6y ago
What a joke. Yes, Windows might show advertisements in the start menu and unbiddenly download & install crapware like Candy Crush, but thank god there's no Easter eggs anywhere.
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by Aransentin 6y ago
Yeah, my reply naturally only works for personal computers, e.g. my laptop/desktop system where it's very unlikely anybody else but me will use it. For corporate servers where you have traceability requirements and such it's
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by Aransentin 6y ago
I'm unsure if "protection against accidents" is that relevant for deciding to have a root terminal open or not. Even if the clipboard contained some destructive "delete everything" command plus an newline character,