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by angelzen 5y ago
Explicitly managed memory is useful for handling buffers. Everything else is peanuts anyways and could use a GC for ergonomics reasons. That being said, some really prefer the ergonomics of working with Result and combinators compared with
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by angelzen 5y ago
Tangentially, I did a bit of Rust work recently. I was sadly unable to find a concise credible answer to a rather elementary best-practices question: How does ownership interact with nested datastructures? Is it possible to build a heap tre
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by angelzen 5y ago
There is also Mt St Helens, short distance across the Columbia, which largely disappeared in 1980.
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by angelzen 5y ago
While I am a complete neophyte, from what I learned so far immunity is non-linear. Antibody dependent enhancement and original antigenic sin come to mind. We can't just pile up vaccines and expect the effects to always be positive. ht
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by angelzen 5y ago
Natural infection was one event vs. natural infection + vaccine being two events separated by a time interval. It may be that we are stumbling upon a natural mechanism that makes recurring infections almost impossible past 2nd event.
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by angelzen 5y ago
This confuses false negatives with true positives. If someone can produce a positive antibody test, it means they had covid, period. As such, they don't need the vaccine. The credibility problem arises when people are so gungho into pu
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by angelzen 5y ago
Nit: Neither the OA, nor the link I provided contain the string '18'. Would you please be so kind and post the link where you get the data from?
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by angelzen 5y ago
Pattern matching enable an entirely new class of features that are too tedious and error prone to implement otherwise. Specifically, anything that has to do with recursive structures. Are recursive structures useful? Perhaps, given that nat
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by angelzen 5y ago
From a different article that describes the same press release: > Pfizer’s press release did not include any data on the extent to which the vaccine reduced the chances that children would become sick. Gruber [senior vice president of va
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by angelzen 5y ago
Spain, Yugoslavia, Lebanon.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Zing! This is how communist regimes work in practice: * Utter incompetency. Got to promote the 'working class' in positions of authority across the board regardless of actual qualifications. Got to follow ideological prescriptions
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by angelzen 5y ago
Delayed healthcare is also people scared out of their minds missing cancer screenings or even mundane teeth cleanings because 'what if I get covid from the doctor's office'?
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by angelzen 5y ago
Reminder: The core skill of a politician is to spin credit in his favor for events that are out of his control.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Also, "Ancient Carthaginians really did sacrifice their children", with ample archaeological evidence. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-01-23-ancient-carthaginians-r...
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by angelzen 5y ago
Good explanation, thanks. The scenario is 'translate on device, steganograph the output on background traffic'. There is a huge push for 'on device ML', driven by noble intentions of hiding raw data from Skynet. Alas, th
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by angelzen 5y ago
Average person speaks 16k words per day. Android considers app background traffic excessive at 50MB / hour, which is 1GB / day. 10% of that rate to steer clear of raising red flags is 100MB / day, about 10kB for each word you
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by angelzen 5y ago
The hardware runs an algorithm to detect the wakeword. What makes you confident that a different algorithm can't be run to translate voice to text? They will be in the same family of algorithms, just with different purposes. To make it
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by angelzen 5y ago
What exactly prevents the 'hardware designed specifically for that purpose' to include in its purpose the translation of your voice to text, with voice fingerprinting for good measure? Have you ran an electronic microscope atom la
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by angelzen 5y ago
They are listening all the time. Presumably 'just' for the wakeword. Better yet, Alexa listens to everything you do inside your house, and the Ring Network listens to everything you do outside your house. And both of them are conn
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by angelzen 5y ago
It's a mod for RealLife 1, beta-tested with the Caucasus campaign.
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by angelzen 5y ago
As it happens, we don't live happily ever after unless the evil covid kills us. There are plenty of other death causes, some directly caused by lockdowns like delayed health care, suicide, OD, increased poverty. What we really want to
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by angelzen 5y ago
By the time all is said and done the drones of the NeoOttoman empire would have long taken over Europe. I for one am totally looking for the looming Caffa reboot.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Drone swarms.
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by angelzen 5y ago
I'm not 'quoting' any numbers. I don't own a Tesla. I don't trust lane assist technology, the probability of catastrophic failure is much larger even compared with dynamic cruise control. I'll steer the wheel t
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by angelzen 5y ago
99% is a an very rough colloquial estimate meaning 'the vast majority of the time' to drive the point. Could well be 99.999999%. What really matters is how it compares with human performance, I don't have data to do that comp
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by angelzen 5y ago
That could be selection bias. The [edit, was '99%'] vast majority of the time the car does the boring thing are not click-worthy. Have you driven a Tesla for a reasonably long period of time? There is a bigger lesson in there: cli
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by angelzen 5y ago
> only 25 people in the UK under the age of 18 died last year from COVID! > 15 had life-limiting or underlying conditions, including 13 living with complex neuro-disabilities https://www.bbc.com/news/health-577667
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by angelzen 5y ago
You must never leave your house. If you must leave your house, you must not talk to anyone. If you must talk to someone, you must not talk to anyone else. These are the new rules to keep us safe.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Rest assured, the lockdowns will be lifted as soon as we eliminate Covid.
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by angelzen 5y ago
During the American Golden Era people were free to take whatever position they wanted separately for each individual issue. In 2021, if someone takes position X on an issue, one is expected to take position X on all issues, or suffer soci

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