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by beagle3 6y ago
Ouch, too late to edit, but wrote a mistake above. The measles virus resets the immune system, and the measles vaccine stops it from doing that, so the MMR vaccine seems to have a much bigger effect than just preventing MMR, which use
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by beagle3 6y ago
All of these init systems, including systemd, upstart and Windows Service Manager, pretend they can properly deal with failure, but they don't do it well or predictably. If you have a service other services depend on, and then it goes
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by beagle3 6y ago
What I read is that the measles vaccine attacks and resets immune memory - so the MMR vaccine seems to improve immune system function more than other vaccines or infection, but in fact this is an outcome of just stopping measles from hurtin
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by beagle3 6y ago
It is impressive and encouraging, but does not shorten the safety period. It may still come out in a year or two (or ten) that this increases the chance for some autoimmune disease in a problematic way, or causes some other problem. The vac
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by beagle3 6y ago
Or some clash with a TSR (sidekick?)
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by beagle3 6y ago
Doesn’t usb support isochronous scheduling? It did for v1.0
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by beagle3 6y ago
When I hire, I would be happier to hire older (>40) engineers; they have more experience, they are usually done with job hopping, and are also mostly done with resumė stuffing and buzzword bingos that includes the latest framework. Howev
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by beagle3 6y ago
The domain of "software engineering" keeps changing. It used to include (what is now) DevOps as an integral part, but now it's becoming its own discipline. If you do algorithms, nothing changed. If you do frontend, everything
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by beagle3 6y ago
I did too. And I want to introduce my young children to programming, and also find that there is no obvious good modern starting point. Scratch isn't it. Python isn't it. JavaScript most definitely isn't it. I'm consider
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by beagle3 6y ago
> As of right now, I end up with discussions spread across email, SMS, phone, and an issue tracking system (Redmine). That's likely going to stay that way, because there are people on both ends, not machines. They'll write an
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by beagle3 6y ago
It is not purely declarative, but Fraser & Hanson's lcc comes close while still delivering good optimization -- and has a book describing it (IIRC it was written literate-programming style). It's been 20 years or more, I playe
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by beagle3 6y ago
For the past few years I’ve mostly been in Israel (the “here”) and basically only Ethanol is sold in pharmacies for medical use; you CAN get e.g. isopropyl for cleaning whiteboards, but not in a pharmacy.
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by beagle3 6y ago
It is supposed to be 70% ethanol with up to 0.1% “other stuff” that is supposed to discourage drinking, and when I checked 10 years ago I think it wasn’t isopropyl but I might be misremembering or thing have changed. Thanks! Will look into
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by beagle3 6y ago
Almost sure. It was 70% rubbing alcohol, which is almost exclusively ethanol around here. (Bought it in a pharmacy, and they're not supposed to sell pure methanol at pharmacies here)
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by beagle3 6y ago
I was disinfecting something with an aerosolized 70% ethanol in the early days of covid, accidentally got a whiff (through a surgical mask, no less) and was short of breath for a week starting immediately (clearly from the ethanol vapor, al
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by beagle3 6y ago
You may discard Fantasy Football, but it is not easy to be a top player - there are thousands of people who spend a few hours a day practicing, and have been for years. It’s been a while, but when Magnusen rose from “not playing”’to the top
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by beagle3 6y ago
Read on Magnus Carlsen[0] and Josh Waitzkin[1] - both have top spots in other fields, (and I'm sure others do too, these are from memory). Either talent is less specific than you'd think, or work ethic is more important than you&#
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by beagle3 6y ago
Most of those semantics are now tracked automatically without needing annotation in arc/orc.
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by beagle3 6y ago
Nim’s arc/orc mode (introduced in 1.4 and likely to become default in 2.0) does borrow checking but does nit enforce it in the same way Rust does: instead, you’ll get a compiler warning “i can’t just borrow here, so I am making a copy”
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by beagle3 6y ago
20 or so years later, it is my impression that there are no compilers that can do enough ILP (on software not specifically written for the Itanium) to justify the Itanium’s VLIW. Intel licensed some stuff to Cyrix, VIA, AMD, Harris and poss
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by beagle3 6y ago
The body learns associations. There are reproducible experiments with rats who develop a liking for chalk water after sugar is added to it; and it takes them a couple of weeks to stop liking it when sugar is out. There are some experiments
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by beagle3 6y ago
Unlike erlang, though, when it crashed, it crashed. RIP Guru meditation.
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by beagle3 6y ago
Around me, they still cost twice as much as a CGA or Hercules (or even dual) monochrome monitor. The starter Amiga cost twice the starter PC until 1993 or so, and by then the war was lost. It was too expensive for a middle class family wher
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by beagle3 6y ago
A starter no-brand beige box was always cheaper. And iirc, for a long time you couldn’t get an el-cheapo monochrome monitor for the Amiga - only color or TV, which was ok for the C64-upgraders but not for the PC competition.
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by beagle3 6y ago
The Amiga lost the war for completely different reasons. The competition at the time was MS-DOS 4 or 5, windows 2 (and 3.0) were still a toy — and they had compatibility problems. BeOS had no chance to be evaluated on its own merits because
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by beagle3 6y ago
And it worked, well, with 512K memory in 1985. The multitasking was co-operative, and there was no paging or memory protection. That didn't work as well (But worked surprisingly well, especially compared to Win3.1 which came 5-6 years
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by beagle3 6y ago
> FFI: Can nim use a C++ class and vtables? D does it all the time, nearly every language proclaims to have the best C++ interop but only D seems to be actually able to do it. Templates, classes, structs, and more all work. Well, it depe
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by beagle3 6y ago
What do you mean by "if you translate to C/C++ row major order?" What I meant was: In FORTRAN, you idiomatically do Struct-Of-Array=Column-Major order by default, In C/C++ you do Array-of-Struct or Array-of-Pointer-to-St
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by beagle3 6y ago
Not clear. Look at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wallah#Etymology_2 wallah is arabic slang for "by god" voila is french for "look there", meaning "just look at that" They are totally diff
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by beagle3 6y ago
> When you write Java in a C like syntax And C is faster still when you write it with Fortran like (column order, and "restrict" mostly) semantics. An old mentor said to me 30 years ago that "A good programmer writes FORTR

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