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by actuallyalys 2y ago
Given the severity of long Covid in many cases, I doubt that’s a more than a negligible factor.
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
The headline is a bit misleading, as the 1 million figure refers to children who had ever had Long Covid, and 293,000 were experiencing it at the time of the survey. That doesn't mean it isn't a serious issue, but I believe accura
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
The log suggests it doesn’t immediately stop upon noticing the file is over 1 TB—the second entry comes two minutes later when it’s trying to upload the 100,001st block. This makes me wonder whether 100,000 blocks is an intentional limit o
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
The fact that many are transgender seems to be relevant because it’s a recruiting and manipulation tactic, not because of a connection to “trans activism.” I haven’t seen any evidence of that connection besides people involved being transge
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
“Bubble” is probably more apt.
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
There’s some truth in that, but isn’t making a radically cheaper version also a new idea that deepseek didn’t know whether it would work? I mean, there was already research into distillation, but there was already research into some of (mos
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
Using RTL doesn’t necessarily result in large binaries. In my (non-WASM) experience, they’re more in line with the “hundreds of kilobytes” flohofwoe suggests.
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
Pascal can definitely produce small binaries (and it looks like it does dead code elimination, under the name “smartlinking” [0]), so it may be a limitation of the WASM backend like you said or not enabled for some reason. [0]: https:&#x2F
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
They list a service for each address, so maybe you could block all the non-Route 53 IP addresses. Although that assumes they aren’t using the Route 53 IPs or unlisted IPs for scraping (the page warns it’s not a comprehensive list). Regardle
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
Someone could say something similar about the large number of people who apparently reviewed this essay, who were supposed to critique it in order for him to make it stronger. It's possible he just ignored their criticism, but it'
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
I don't think being written in VB6 is actually a good reason not to use XYPlorer, which seems like a capable tool, but this page doesn't seem really reassuring? What would reassure me is knowing that there is a maintained version
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
It depends. If you need basic word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and email, you can definitely get by with alternatives. If you want more advanced functionality, you’re more likely to run into limitations or just things that work
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
Thanks for the insight! That makes me even more doubtful of the 30 percent claim.
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
In my experience, while there are some things in the backlogs that a developer can basically pick up and run with, others require input from other roles to actually address or implement properly. And then once developed, you need to test, d
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
I don’t find the claim of 30 percent improvement plausible, but it actually does track to me that you might pause hiring for a time if your employees were suddenly more productive in order to catch up in other parts of the business or figur
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
> The productivity gains of 30% are probably overstated I am doubtful as well. I could imagine 30 percent among certain engineers for certain tasks, especially if you use a popular language with popular libraries and frameworks that are
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
Any sharing of information or data could be construed as a collaboration, but this seems to go beyond that, as the research paper includes multiple Waymo employees as coauthors.
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
It’s with noting this research is a collaboration between Swiss Re and Waymo. That doesn’t invalidate the research necessarily, but warrants more skepticism than if it were an independent research by Swiss Re, like the article implies.
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
> Although I sincerely worry that empathizing with people like this is a trap. I have a similar sense. However, I’m not sure empathizing with them is itself the trap. You don’t want your empathy to make you overly credulous. For example,
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
Thanks for your kind words! I do think there are valid criticisms in the article, even if the overall framing isn’t productive. While the tone and framing may make it especially good at attracting responses, I do want to clarify that I don’
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
I wouldn’t suggest duplicating the id field, but moving from the data field. > Why do you expect SQLite indexes on expressions to be worse than what NoSQL databases do for indexing? I don’t have a concrete reason. It’s just that indexes
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
It's currently just as easy to use for learning and experimenting on Windows as you describe. I don't use Python on Windows heavily enough to evaluate it for more serious development.
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
There’s truth in broad strokes (e.g., the lack of a stable ABI is a genuine problem) that I wish people would acknowledge. I think your attitude is a healthy one! However, I don’t think this article is written very charitably. It seems unfa
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
I’m curious what the reasoning behind having no id or key column. Do you use indexed expressions to index JSON fields? Do you use Rowid for certain queries? Or do you not bother with indexes? My understanding is that NoSQL databases still h
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
I’m not sure any one factor “explains” why something is written in a particular way. History, practical concerns, conveying the tone and register, signaling, and official requirements all play a part. Still, it wouldn’t shock me if legal la
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
Anecdotally, it's common for elderly people to be doing relatively well and then decline quickly, so this result seems pretty intuitive. I would be curious if this also holds for diseases that aren't as linked to aging.
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
She also does mention things she did like about the thing she’s criticizing. For example, she liked the themed food at the Star Wars hotel, as I recall.
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
I’m not sure. One point I agree with the author is that it’s a complicated situation likely involving both social and technical factors.
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
The confusing part of this article is the argument that the kernel maintainers are strongly against RAII. While I guess it’s possible Asahi Lina is unaware of this or is stubbornly including it anyway because she believes it’s such a large
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by actuallyalys 2y ago
I personally like Fennel a lot, but it’s not at the point where I would build something large on top of it. The language itself is solid, but like you said, there’s not a lot of tooling.

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