Calavar

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by Calavar 2y ago
Ride share and delivery app companies could take some notes on how to stay lean and profitable while operating an online marketplace. I know ride share apps are more complicated, but I don't think we're talking two orders of magni
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by Calavar 2y ago
Fax is still widely used in the American healthcare system for the same reason. It's social reasoning rather than technical reasoning, combined with being excessively liability conscious and catering to the lowest common denominator. I
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by Calavar 2y ago
That's actually the system working as intended. There's not nearly enough faculty positions or even non-faculty research staff positions to accommodate all the PhDs who graduate. The presumption is that most people who graduate wi
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by Calavar 2y ago
If we're talking low level SIMD, like opcode level, I'm really struggling to see the use case for interpreted bytecode. The cost of type checking operands to dynamically dispatch down a SIMD path would almost certainly outweigh th
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by Calavar 2y ago
What would native SIMD support entail in a language without first party JIT or AOT compilation?
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by Calavar 2y ago
IMHO, if you don't spend one afternoon out of 365 in the year researching what to do with your money and you lose money as a result, you can't claim victim status. It's analogous to being out of shape because you never go to
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by Calavar 2y ago
At a certain point it falls to personal accountability. A would be lottery ticket buyer can get all that info in 30 seconds by googling "How likely am I win to win the lottery?" If they don't do that, that's on them. Adv
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by Calavar 2y ago
That's a very good point. There are lots of potential confounders here. But I also want to point out that this study isn't a shot in the dark for random correlations -- there are theoretical reasons to believe that poor sleep hygi
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by Calavar 2y ago
I disagree about those questions being good examples of GPT4 pitfalls. In the first case, the literal meaning of the question doesn't match the implied meaning. "You have 7 books left to read" is an entirely valid response t
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> The only argument against this that is correct, is that like in every other domain people would self-assess their own abilities too optimistically, so even those who are slow would believe that they can retrieve their luggage fast enou
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by Calavar 2y ago
Freedom of association is missing the point when it comes to HOAs. There's some very significant differences between freedom to associate in a book club and freedom to associate in an HOA. If you don't like a book club, there is n
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by Calavar 2y ago
> The only reason the border is wide open is because we don't have sufficient border walls and border enforcement, The bottleneck at the border is not physically policing the border, but the fact that migrants have learned to work
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by Calavar 2y ago
Again, a medieval economy is not an industrial one. In the 1800s, there was plenty of urban demand for food that rural farmers could cash in on, but in medieval western Europe we're looking at roughly a 97%/3% rural/urban div
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by Calavar 2y ago
1. I don't think it's accurate to call Rome a slave based economy. Most people in Rome were freemen. Slaves served certain functions that would have been hard to replace with freemen, but I wouldn't say that makes Rome a slav
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by Calavar 2y ago
Predigital libraries offered both these things. Compression: Microfilm. Encryption: Well, not encryption exactly, but encryption is just an end to a means, which is privacy of communication. Libraries offer private reading rooms and general
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by Calavar 2y ago
Isn't the libertarian view on progressive income tax that it reduces the marginal returns on additional labor, thus removing the incentive for people to work harder and being more productive? Why would the reverse be true for people wh
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by Calavar 2y ago
The de facto standard serialization library for Rust, serde, started using binary blobs to speed up builds only a few months before the xz back door was discovered. Lots of people asked the author to include build scripts so they could (re)
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by Calavar 2y ago
The lack of support for optional<T&> is not an issue at all in my opinion. The actual issue is that std::optional is not a monadic type in the vein of Rust's Option or Haskell's Maybe. So really, what does it buy you ove
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by Calavar 2y ago
> Oh what a dream if that were true! Instead, every year, the 'synonyms' get broader and broader. To me it looks like they're using synonyms of synonyms (of synonyms). Forget about synonyms of synonyms - I've seen ant
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by Calavar 2y ago
You're moving away from the original question, which is does insurance redistribute wealth. If you get an insurance payout and that payout doesn't involve redistribution of wealth, then it means that the payout must come only from
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by Calavar 2y ago
It's up to them what they do with the information. Ideally the doctor would take the opportunity review the patient's chart, but I'm sure there are some clinics that just close the file and call it a day. The feedback loop te
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by Calavar 2y ago
> If you do this rather than either bombing out immediately on the first error or storing a stack of errors, then the syntax errors pollute the generated tree. This will require you to either add a separate pass for building a new tree t
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by Calavar 2y ago
On the contrary, US doctors are significantly more aggressive with testing and treatment than doctors in most other countries. There's multiple reasons for that, but I think the main one is trying to CYA in the event of a malpractice l
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by Calavar 2y ago
I'm in the US. Part of my hospital's workflow for a deceased patient is calling their GP's office to notify them of the death. As far as I am aware, this is mandated by state law. If a patient is discharged, a summary of thei
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by Calavar 2y ago
Yes, it does have to be LR. Which can be a real PITA if you're working with a restrictive subset of LR, like LALR. But there are other options too. LR(1) is pretty powerful, and GLR even more so.
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> Surgeon get immediate feedback if they make mistakes because their patient might die or get severely disabled, but is there any feedback to GPs about the effectiveness of their work? I disagree with this. If a patient dies from a surgi
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A lot of this really hits home. Some of my personal observations across residency and practice: 1. There are some attendings who have a subconscious inbuilt assumption that there are "good" residents and "bad" residents
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I am aware this is an unpopular opinion, but I think the idea that recursive descent is inherently better suited to error reporting than table-driven LR is massively cargo-culted. You can handcraft error messages for an LR parser if you ove
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If you make life decisions that keep your organs healthy enough to donate, the primary beneficiary of that isn't the organ procurement agency, it's *you*. You'll live longer and have better health. I wouldn't call optimi
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> If no one else will work for free, I will not either. If you're deceased, what sort of labor are you doing exactly? To me, your argument seems to fall more along the lines of your body and organs being property that can be inheri

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