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by acqq 6y ago
> the theory that some strains in Iceland are ineffective I don't see any support at all for that theory though. It is also known that "X show no symptoms" could mean many things, depending who says it and when, and certai
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by acqq 6y ago
Most important lines: "Setting: Autopsies performed at a single academic medical center , as mandated by the German federal state of Hamburg for patients dying with a polymerase chain reaction–confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19." &q
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by acqq 6y ago
Both of these issues don't have any connection at all with any claim that the code could produce scientifically wrong results. The 116 is " if I use it this special way I would expect something else and not what I see" which
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by acqq 6y ago
> if a research paper's main contribution is a model whose results were evaluated using buggy code There's no proof of that at all in this case. The person complaining didn't find any scientifically valid problem, only tha
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by acqq 6y ago
The twits point that Carmack personally worked on that very code (to prepare it for the Github release)! He explicitly writes there: "it turned out that it fared a lot better going through the gauntlet of code analysis tools I hit it
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by acqq 6y ago
> but this GitHub issue is stupid. Yes, it is a political proclamation without any practical substance, and should be recognized as such.
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by acqq 6y ago
Next: currently last death non-projected data: May 01: 65,249. June 01, 2020 projection: 112,073 (91,586-155,417) Total number of deaths in the U.S., worldometers: 74,114. Today is May 06.
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by acqq 6y ago
The existence of "modes" is also opposite to the approach which is know for decades to be less prone to accidental errors: having no modes and always being able to perform more undo steps. There were even the games of considering
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by acqq 6y ago
http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/turnkey/ "The MVS Tur(n)key system is a package of freely available parts of the MVS 3.8J Operating System. The Tur(n)key System does not (to the best of my knowledge) contain any copyrig
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by acqq 6y ago
I've continuously observed the described problem, and have read about a workaround: when writing the "top level" lines of script, never write them alone, but inside of a { } It looks like this in my case: somefunction()
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by acqq 6y ago
> that option is being removed in FireFox 77 Awful. As soon as it can't be turned off, that's the moment I'll finally stop using the browser. It breaks absolutely "normal" expectations of a GUI.
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by acqq 6y ago
The story about a Guantanamo interrogator converting to Islam is hardly something I, as an atheist, would find motivating in any way. It is not the only story of such kind of conversion, but sadly, none of such proves anything positive abou
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by acqq 6y ago
> Does the memory managed by these functions have any special properties? That's what I'd like to read too. It's surely possible to figure that out. Obviously, nothing special is promised by the description of the function
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by acqq 6y ago
The last chapters seemed to be empty the last time I've checked?
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by acqq 6y ago
Right, at least, avoiding C allocation and deallocation functions can surely give one more control over the used memory segment. And I am not aware of any discussion of the positive or negative aspects of CryptMemAlloc and CryptMemFree.
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by acqq 6y ago
> In hindsight it's weird Not, if you know that there was simply not even a concept of nuclear fusion in 19th century, and that the year of discovery of electron is 1897, and of the existence of atomic nucleus 1909. Tangentially, bu
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by acqq 6y ago
The most important information: Some old samples analyzed for SARS-CoV-2 in April, finding one positive who spent two nights in hospital from Dec 27, after admitted as emergency: "taken from a 42 years old. ... One of his child present
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by acqq 6y ago
Casually looking, it seems he misses to use SecureZeroMemory? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/d... Also note: "Use this function instead of ZeroMemory when you want to ensure t
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by acqq 6y ago
I also recommend: https://wizardzines.com/ by the same author. It looks "popular" but it's written much more thoughtfully and competently than most of the content found on the web. Like this article, it'
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by acqq 6y ago
That's only the reminder in the sense of "I've made other videos before about that" of Mick West. The relevant playlist of Mick West with many videos with detailed analysis is: https://www.youtube.com/pla
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by acqq 6y ago
I also like to cite Ben Franklin, writing about the time more than 250 years ago, about him being one of a very few printers in the whole new nation, and facing the same dilemma: "In the conduct of my newspaper, I carefully excluded al
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by acqq 7y ago
>> excess deaths over seasonal average > are there any which actually provide that statistic? Sure, as I've linked it here twice already: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps Belgium is among the top thre
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by acqq 7y ago
> There has also been a large deal of controversy over the counting of care home deaths in the UK with the government consistently being called out by care home operators for unbelievable care home death numbers. Do you have something ab
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by acqq 7y ago
> unless 100% of the population is administered a test with no risk of false negative or positives. Actually, the "risk" of false positives or false negatives is dependent on prevalence, 100% is not always required. If you have
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by acqq 7y ago
> turned out to be based on false positives. I believed it was based on false negatives in previous PCR tests? It's also a question of understanding what the test actually means. The test doesn't (and can't) claim &quot
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by acqq 7y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-52466471/page/3 "29 Apr: The death toll from the virus in the UK rises to more than 26,000 after care home deaths are included for first time " Apart from t
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by acqq 7y ago
> they still persist with the idiocy Also, according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries is Belgium at this moment, except for San Marino of only 30,000 inhabitants, the country with the highest
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by acqq 7y ago
https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com/questions/11353/why... "Virtually all sequencing of RNA viruses is done through cDNA"
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by acqq 7y ago
> Recent seralogical studies indicate that the number of positive test results are likely a small fraction of the total number of cases No: the antibody tests were done with the expectation that the total number of the infected would be
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by acqq 7y ago
> somewhat more lethal than influenza My understanding is that most evidence points to order of magnitude more lethal even when the hospitals aren't overflown . Regarding "testing negative then positive" the experts alrea

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