Calavar

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by Calavar 1y ago
It's not about lack of knowledge, it's greed. For doctors with flexible morals, garbage medicine is a shortcut to wealth. Since non evidence based treatments aren't covered by health insurance, these practices are cash only.
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by Calavar 1y ago
In your example, "firefighter buttons" is a noun phrase which refers to a particular type of button. "Special" applies to the whole of "firefighter buttons," not just to "firefighter" and not just to
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by Calavar 1y ago
The graphic has four studies that show increased inequality and six that show reduced inequality.
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by Calavar 1y ago
If editors are authoritarian for controlling what people see, then social media algorithms are super-authoritarian for the same reason. They also decide what people see, they also modify the cultural and political consciousness, just on a m
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by Calavar 1y ago
"Rare" is an overloaded word, so let me clarify: I asked one of my friends who's a general surgeon, and he estimates he does 1 to 2 open cholecystectomies or appendectomies per year. It falls in an unfortunate gray zone where
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by Calavar 1y ago
I used to think this myself in the past, but my opinion has shifted over time. If a surgeon needs to do X number of cases to become independently competent in a certain type of surgery and we want to graduate Y surgeons per year, then we ne
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by Calavar 1y ago
Porn sites use smaller special purpose payment processors that have higher fees. It makes sense for porn sites because they only sell sexual content. If Valve and itch used those same payment processors, they'd be paying the higher pre
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by Calavar 1y ago
You can use classes withput doing full blown OO. Classes are not only for encapsulating data with behavior or code reuse through inheritance hierachies. Sure, you can use them for that, but you can also use them for code as documentation. I
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by Calavar 1y ago
By that definition Rust also counts as unsafe. Even managed languages like C# and Java would be unsafe.
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by Calavar 1y ago
There was a 10 to 15 year gap between people ditching bgcolor and cellpadding for CSS1 and widespread browser support for CSS3 media queries (2011, when IE9 got support and Chrome broke 25% market share). So I strongly disagree that the mig
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by Calavar 1y ago
> In many tailwind projects, you inevitably end up wanting to standardize how a button looks, how a field looks, etc., rather than copy+paste the same 20+ tailwind classes that you need to implement a nice looking button in tailwind. CSS
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by Calavar 1y ago
Tailwind is already a full circle. It is essentially a toolkit for using CSS to emulate the pre-CSS era approach of putting styling info inside attributes on the markup (remember the HTML2 days of bgcolor and cellpadding?).
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by Calavar 1y ago
> The transition from GPT-2 era models to now (GPT-3+) saw the transition from novel models that can kinda imitate speech to models that can converse, write code, and use tools. Which is fundamentally about data. OpenAI invested an absur
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by Calavar 1y ago
Not that simple. Take Amtrak Northeast Regional. Service from NYC to Washington D.C is a very busy business travel route that goes down the densest population corridor in the country, but it still crosses areas (especially in northeast Mary
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by Calavar 1y ago
> isn't even legit in modern C++. That's just move semantics. When you move it, it's gone at the old name. Exactly the opposite actually. Rust has destructive move while modern C++ has nondestructive move. So in Rust, an o
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by Calavar 1y ago
It fills the lightweight niche. You can build it on Windows without needing to drag in all of msys. I can see this as really useful for toy projects and demos.
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by Calavar 1y ago
Seems like exactly the opposite. He is saying the common finding (75% of people) is abnormal. He also says "These weren’t overweight or sedentary individuals" which makes me think he didn't thoroughly read the abstract, which
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by Calavar 1y ago
For that scenario you can use a pool allocator backed by a fixed size allocation from an arena. That gives you the flexibility to allocate and free resources on the fly, but with a fixed upper limit to the lifetime (e.g. the lifetime of the
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by Calavar 1y ago
What alternative process do you propose that will discover all side effects, including those with well under 1% occurence, without human use?
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by Calavar 1y ago
> Anyone can get away with piracy on the scale of Books3 or The Pile. The obvious counter example would be Aaron Swartz
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by Calavar 1y ago
Off the top of my mind, I can think of two patients who I personally cared for in the days or weeks after CPR who had an outcome other than death or vegetative state. One patient walked out the door two weeks after admission. The other pati
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by Calavar 1y ago
I think subscription models became associated with SaaS because cloud hype was at its peak around the time the first big corps were first migrating their products from perpetual licensing to susbscription, and just being on the cloud was se
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by Calavar 1y ago
The 2024 Ukraine defense funding bill passed despite having < 50% support in the majority party in the House, and it was not part of a reconciliation.
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by Calavar 1y ago
C++ is "C like" and uses manual memory management. The major idiom is RAII, which is based on deterministic destructor execution. Java is "C like" and uses garbage collection for dynamic memory management. It doesn'
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by Calavar 1y ago
I've seen a few projects along the lines of shader programming in C++, shader programming in Rust, etc., but I'm not sure that I understand the point. There's a huge impedence mismatch between CPU and GPU, and if you port CPU
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by Calavar 1y ago
I think the relevant scenario here isn't one where Twitter itself is malicious, but one where Twitter gets a law enforcement order requiring it to hand over decryption keys. If you don't have decryption keys, you can't hand t
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by Calavar 1y ago
As far as I'm aware, Trump's first term tariffs on China were Section 301 tariffs, and even though he floated the idea of IEEPA tariffs, he never actually invoked IEEPA in his first term [1]. Every article I can find about Biden e
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by Calavar 1y ago
I believe you are correct. Biden used Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. Trump has used the 1974 act, but he's also used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, which is what the trade court just ruled on. My unders
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by Calavar 1y ago
The AMA has been arguing for increased medical school seats and increased GME funding for about 20 years now. There have been 27 (!!) new medical schools opened in the last 15 years, in large part driven by the AMA in its capacity as one of
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by Calavar 1y ago
Linguistics is a heterogenous field, an while some parts aren't empirical, others absolutely are. I can attest to that from the journal articles I read in undergrad. They had experimental data and statistical analyses.

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