Ginden

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by Ginden 5y ago
> I think the opposite is the interesting factor here: late-stage capitalism has demonized the ‘grinding poverty’ and ‘unremitting hardship’ of these earlier ages, to keep our present-day noses to the life-destroying grindstone. Yet, no
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by Ginden 5y ago
Threads use quite much more memory than coroutines. Spawning eg. 3 threads for each request, x 1000 requests per second would probably eat a ton of memory.
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by Ginden 5y ago
> The most common profession in the US is a truck driver. The largest employer, I believe, is Walmart. I refer to this as "concentration fallacy". Mere pointing existence of "largest group" (or "largest legal ent
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by Ginden 5y ago
> In Germany, which is the richest country in Europe As of 2019, there were 8 Europan OECD countries with higher average wages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w...
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by Ginden 5y ago
Nice job writing detailed post. Though, GOG version just worked for me. ;)
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by Ginden 5y ago
It's estimated that more than 6000 people are working on Windows full time . I don't think that Linux (kernel + DE) has half of that manpower.
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by Ginden 5y ago
That's something that have to be tested - I would expect that mirror prions would misfold normal proteins too, but it's dependent on details of chemical process. Prions are scary.
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by Ginden 5y ago
Prions are misfolded proteins that acts as catalysts for other proteins to fold in new, pathological state. They are built of normal L-amino acids. "Mirror-image peptides" are built of amino-acids with reverse chirality: https:&#
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by Ginden 5y ago
Obvious reason would be that hurricanes are large . Like 100km large. Force exerted by blast follows inverse-square law and it's quite negligible in 30km for thermonuclear bombs. 30km diameter disruption of wind affects only 9% of 100
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by Ginden 5y ago
I'm not sure if any liberal thinker would label policies such as fixed exchange rates, constant deficit funded by foreign borrowing, military dictatorships, as "liberal".
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by Ginden 5y ago
> To go even further than standard library, read the language's source code. This is especially relevant for virtualized languages. Yes, reading hundreds of thousands LoCs written in C/C++ is totally viable method of learning l
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by Ginden 5y ago
I wrote about use case where "spawning process to do heavy work is not a viable option". ESBuild DOES spawn process to do heavy work. https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/blob/11d7eacd491c94d2aa23cd...
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by Ginden 5y ago
> And yet, I rarely hear people suggest or even evaluate the solution of embedding a native module that most of the times will be faster. Because there's rarely a real benefit to this approach. I have yet to found use case where C&#
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by Ginden 5y ago
Maybe I'm biased, but I have lower trust for studies with results like that. Alcohol obviously reduces anxiety short-term, because of its effect on GABA signalling. Alcohol can excarbate anxiety in long-term. But there is catch - there
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by Ginden 5y ago
When I was talking about "unsolvable", I meant there is no single "best way to do it". All choices have tradeoffs. "One large player" can make hard, but neccesary choices. Multiple stakeholders can have conflic
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by Ginden 5y ago
I think there is some room for "object predictor" optimization. In real world cases, 99% of objects in array will have the same keys over and over. Smart parser can potentially exploit that.
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by Ginden 5y ago
This is quite issue with any big product - open source never found widely applicable model of operating that isn't dependent on some companies. Linux relies heavily on corporations using it. Gecko is dead without Mozilla - if Mozilla b
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by Ginden 5y ago
> which is the same as any other OS. Did you ever used Windows?
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by Ginden 5y ago
Wages in US have higher ceiling. Averages aren't that much different. This contributes to brain drain - if you are pretty good developer, you aren't really incentived to move to US. If you are one of the best, in US you can earn m
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by Ginden 5y ago
In Poland, any major medical study on living patients must be approved by bioethics commission of local medical self-government. Somehow, almost all of them have Catholic priest as member. He studied ethics on Catholic university, so he i
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by Ginden 5y ago
People in Poland avoid sick leave due to cultural (downplaying illness), legal (sick leave is paid 80%) and financial reasons (certain employers will cut your bonus if take sick leave).
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by Ginden 5y ago
> People in Czechia say Amazon offers the best wage and working conditions of all other warehouse businesses. I imagine it's similar in Poland. I heard similar opinions about Amazon warehouses in Poland, but it's anecdotal evid
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by Ginden 5y ago
> It does sound horrible, especially when you (clearly didn't) read that the entire incident was likely avoidable had his line manager taken his visible symptoms seriously and not told him to continue the manual labour until it was
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by Ginden 5y ago
Can you estimate that harm in term of DALYs?
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by Ginden 5y ago
BUT WHAT IF PEOPLE ABUSE HEARING AID?????? To be serious: amount of things that are "prescription only", even if they can cause only minimal harm, is astounding.
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by Ginden 5y ago
What is even worse - this company can lock phones that aren't their property.
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by Ginden 5y ago
> The inability to detect phenomena does not make them "false" or "fake", Certain philosophers, associated with scientific anti-realism, would argue it does make them "false" (or rather "undefined&quot
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by Ginden 5y ago
> Where do we draw the line on abusive language? Social interactions are full of gray areas and legislation obviously doesn't and can't catch it all. Some people have rather controversial definitions of violence and abuse. Thou
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by Ginden 5y ago
Acquaintance of mine was attacked by neo-nazis on street due to his online activity. Threats should be taken real, because some of them will result in physical violence.
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by Ginden 5y ago
I don't like discussing more general problems in specific terms (in this case, misogyny). Obviously, there is much more hate against women and women are disproportionately affected by online hate. But problem is systemic - justice syst

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