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by beagle3 5y ago
> ... because back then Unicode was still a pipe dream in the mind of some visionary. Everything used 8 bit encoding, and everyone assumed ASCII or at least something compatible with the 7 bit subset of ASCII. They could still have been
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by beagle3 5y ago
Keywords are in English, and 99% of identifiers in all code I met are too, even when comments are in French or russian. Pascal and old basic (among other languages) have been case insensitive for decades, and that has not been a problem. In
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by beagle3 5y ago
FWIW, there’s nlvm which is a fork of Nim that emits LLVM IR directly.
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by beagle3 5y ago
I don’t remember the exact options, but there’s a way to make Nim emit warnings (and perhaps errors) for inconsistent capitalization. It isn’t the default, though.
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by beagle3 5y ago
Synology isn’t the cheapest, but they’ve made it “just work”. Every few years - both for home, and for work, I consider getting a “more serious” storage system or building one; and every time I do a serious comparison and end up choosing S
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by beagle3 5y ago
Ahh, you are correct, I misremembered.
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by beagle3 5y ago
SSH has included file encryption for a few versions now, and iirc supports yubikeys — probably would be more useful a backend than age.
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by beagle3 5y ago
NewsBlur does (for paying customers for sure; perhaps free users too)
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by beagle3 5y ago
If that’s what you read into my post, all I can say is, we’ll, not sure what I can say cause you’ll likely read it wrong too.
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by beagle3 5y ago
Why would it be?
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by beagle3 5y ago
Smallpox vaccine did, in fact, prevent infection and transmission with estimated 95% efficiency and is thus considered sterilizing. The Covid vaccine is very leaky, and Marek’s disease and it’s vaccine in chicken is an interesting compariso
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by beagle3 5y ago
You are underestimating the geographical spread and numbers of deer in the us. And likely also overestimating the number and ability of hunters.
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by beagle3 5y ago
Sorry, meant to write flu. Not sure why I wrote measles. Measles vaccine is, indeed, likely the best vaccine ever in terms of efficiency and safety. It’s also sterilizing rather than leaky.
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by beagle3 5y ago
GP I was responding to claimed SA was a breeding ground for variants. Unless he has a new explanation different from the other hundreds of people with this claim, it eventually rests on a non leaky vaccine. And that’s why I started with thi
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by beagle3 5y ago
This is nonsense. Vaccination did not stop measles or whooping cough, and has not even reduced their spread (only their symptoms) despite decades of availability. Both of their vaccines are leaky - just like the Covid vaccine.
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by beagle3 5y ago
No people have gone through their life without catching the cold and very few without catching the flu at least once, despite having flu vaccines for a few decades now. Not all viruses are the same, and sarscov2 is much more like cold/
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by beagle3 5y ago
It is possible to avoid lockdown by not imposing lockdowns. It is that simple. It is not the vaccine passports that stopped lockdown - in fact, there is no evidence they had any effect on transmission.
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by beagle3 5y ago
The vaccine is leaky. It doesn’t stop infection or transmission. It’s not clear yet if it is putting any evolutionary pressure towards vaccine evasion (some people expect it to). But SA is no more a breeding ground than anywhere else. The w
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by beagle3 5y ago
Sweden’s death rate is worse than its neighbours but way better than e.g. Belgium and Britain that did lock down. It’s also significantly better (x2-x4) than Israel by every excess death measure, where Israel locked down super seriously and
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by beagle3 5y ago
The logic is sound. You can save essentially every single person who will die in a traffic accident by banning cars. That’s likely a hundred or two people a year just in Missouri. There’s a cost and a benefit, and most people would say that
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by beagle3 5y ago
Amazon had (perhaps still has) whispernet - a global coverage of cellular networks. It was used to download books to your kindle, essentially anywhere in the world, without having to have a local plan or WiFi. It was 2G iirc, enough for boo
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by beagle3 5y ago
Some. But it’s worth looking at the exceptions to understand the range. On one hand, you have Elon Musk at Tesla and Zuck at FBMeta. Their board is essentially non existent. On the other hand, we had Carly Fiorina, who wasn’t even buffering
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by beagle3 5y ago
Different actors have significantly different security preferences / concerns and risk/reward profiles with respect to new features. Almost everyone could be following it -- everyone, if you trust the vendor actually dogfoods -- a
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by beagle3 5y ago
only in the transient stage. in the "steady state", it distributes evenly to the entire pool, and the only thing that matters is total volume (+ intake, - outlet), distance irrelevant.
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by beagle3 5y ago
First, you can make of that what you want, but the bottom line is that acm is increased. Is that statistically significant? Depends on your priors, but the answer is likely “no”. The plague of the century requires vaccine mandates and firin
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by beagle3 5y ago
See the material in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373534 All cause mortality: 21 died in vaccine arm, 17 in placebo arm. You may argue the numbers are very small, but (a) that's not trivial to state; (b) there
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by beagle3 5y ago
See 2nd paragraph of pg. 23 of https://www.fda.gov/media/151733/download for the 21:17 numbers. I can't find the death breakdown for this right now (perhaps it's in this doc, but a quick scan didn't
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by beagle3 5y ago
One thing you have to be aware of, is that the US assumes any financial dealing outside the US is strictly for evading taxes. If you have a pension fund in your home country, you’ll likely be reporting and paying tax on its interest. Be pre
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by beagle3 5y ago
Depending on the tax bracket and the state, they might or might not be. At the top tax bracket in NYC or CA, you have iirc 35% federal + 13% state so almost 50%, and that’s not all of it (there’s payroll tax, social security etc). Products
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by beagle3 5y ago
New York is like that too - everyone has the “transitory” mind set and won’t waste time on long term social ties - even the people who have lived there for 20 years. I don’t know if that’s how the rest of the US is, never having lived there

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