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by bsder 3mo ago
> Healthy children and young adults were at very little risk from COVID though. People repeat this but there is no validation of this . Sure, children and young adults mostly weren't at risk of dying . It is not at all clear that
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by bsder 3mo ago
The Covid vaccines were and continue to be VERY effective at preventing you from winding up on ECMO. Yes, you may still get Covid, but you don't die from drowning in your own body fluids anymore. Of course, this only attends if you got
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by bsder 3mo ago
> If these mRNA vaccines had not been pushed or mandated, more people would probably think they are safe: there will be no need for any of these reviews. Hogwash. Wakefield predated anything Covid. And measles vaccines aren't mRNA
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by bsder 3mo ago
> Who are you to say their future career prospect is a folly? Someone who watched an industry chew up and spit out far too many young people. That's who and that's why I'm qualified. > The only thing that defines the t
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by bsder 3mo ago
> I really dislike people that got into a thing and then try to discourage others. “Don’t be like me! I wasted my entire life” which is bullshit from a jaded person that lost passion. Telling people to stay away from graphics programming
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by bsder 3mo ago
Krea2 has been remarkable for me so far, and, I suspect, the reason why Google kicked this out so suddenly.
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by bsder 3mo ago
> U.S. courts have pretty consistently decided that training on copyrighted works falls under fair use. I don't believe that this has been resolved at all, and there are quite a few pending lawsuits about it at this very moment.
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by bsder 3mo ago
> I totally struggled to find the right frame of mind to explore any of this stuff without feeling defeated and bamboozled. Because it's just huge, exhausting, jargon-drenched, unknowable, and I am over the hill at fifty-plus. Hello
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by bsder 3mo ago
That's a Lisp vs Scheme kind of thing. Also, being able to take the cdr of an empty list is a Lisp vs Scheme thing.
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by bsder 3mo ago
> This is one of the great things about formalization: it would have avoided this entire debacle. It's also a MASSIVE amount of SUPER TEDIOUS work. And it's the kind of work that folks who think up advanced math proofs tend to
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by bsder 3mo ago
> checking an existing fully fleshed out proof is simple The controversy around Mochizuki and the "abc Conjecture" proof is a contrary example.
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by bsder 3mo ago
Indeed. It also looks like it hews VERY closely to Shirow's original manga art style. I think ... a lot of people are going to be disappointed in that. I like it, but some of the characters designs are ... ugly. I believe intentiona
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by bsder 3mo ago
> You'll even get better at it till you usually get something good. This is the crux. Sure, if I bake a loaf of odd bread every couple of days, I will EVENTUALLY get good enough to produce something good rather than just edible. Af
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by bsder 3mo ago
In my personal opinion, if a rogue actor can compromise your project by buying you the equivalent of a beer and a pizza, I don't think anyone should trust you as a dependency to any extent.
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by bsder 3mo ago
Can someone explain to me why the inverse domain name solution that everyone in the Java world converged on doesn't work? It's really not clear to me why people keep avoiding that.
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by bsder 3mo ago
There is quite a lot of Verilog/SystemVerilog and VHDL code in the wild. And hardware description language code is very simple and straightforward relative to programming code. And the two things that take up VAST amounts of time in A
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by bsder 4mo ago
Thanks. Even just a few anchor points gives me some context to get started.
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by bsder 4mo ago
And dark themes hide my floaters and are easier on my old eyes. There is not one singular answer for everybody.
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by bsder 4mo ago
Tech folks have a very ... unique ... perspective on things. The following conversation would not be unusual for a tech geek--"Oh, they found something on that scan, so I need to get it looked at once a week for a month or two. Okay.
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by bsder 4mo ago
> we are losing that battle badly despite all the software being here now and viable, entirely because UX sucks. Yep. I'm an old time Linux sysadmin, but I am COMPLETELY baffled as to what I can or cannot run on my 32GB R9700 with
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by bsder 4mo ago
Zero terminated string is a special case of sentinel value termination. And sentinel value terminations make a lot of sense when you have punch cards and fixed length records that you need to carve into pieces. Nobody expected any decisio
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by bsder 4mo ago
Agreed. The issue isn't with individuals having access to the data but with aggregation of said data.
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by bsder 4mo ago
Unlikely. The issue is cold and the speed of the cold. Children have a higher surface-to-mass ratio along with less subcutaneous fat which allows them to cool quickly. The article quotes the breakpoint: If water temperature is >
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by bsder 4mo ago
It's one thing to isolate against strangers in a subway. It's another thing to be goddamn oblivious in a shared space like a grocery store--to take a random (not) example. It's getting to the point that I have to body up to
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by bsder 4mo ago
> and I am free to go away. This is the crux of the problem when landlords are allowed to form or join an "association" that gets too pervasive. This was at the heart of the RealPage lawsuits.
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by bsder 4mo ago
> Adding a vacancy tax just exacerbates the problem. The point of the vacancy tax is also to prevent the over speculation before it happens . If the operators know that they are looking at having to cough up more cash than they expec
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by bsder 4mo ago
The "problem" is that we let people claim the "rent" is X for certain people and "Y" for other people--both at the same time. Just stop that. The "solution" is that you should have to pay tax on what
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by bsder 4mo ago
Erm, don't the guys making homemade Nixie tubes have this figured out? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA
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by bsder 4mo ago
> Instant transitions are only good in theory. For a professional tool, animations are anathema . They interfere with muscle memory. Someone who uses a program continuously can be clicking or typing before a dialog box or button is eve
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by bsder 4mo ago
I believe that every single adder architecture we now use was known by 1980s. The "optimization" is matching the theory to the engineering of the day. The reason you don't use prefix adders in 1980 is that you can't pos

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