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1. 2371.▲
   by chmod775 6y ago

   What about the control groups in those trials? How many people? Hard to tell how effective the treatment is with nothing to compare to.
2. 2372.▲
   by chmod775 6y ago

   If money could fix Intel's problems they would have none. The only thing that might help Intel would be the CIA or NSA engaging in some more espionage.
3. 2373.▲
   by chmod775 6y ago

   Data from the article: Country, real GDP per cap, hours worked, GDP / hour USA , $56,000 , 1800 , $31.11 Germany, $47,000 , 1400 , $33.57 Huh. I wonder if this makes their other points
4. 2374.▲
   by chmod775 6y ago

   Here's a more recent article too: https://www.itwire.com/security/new-york-times-says-krebs-wr...
5. 2375.▲
   by chmod775 6y ago

   How long until technology such as this is used for automatic "crime" detection with surveillance cameras? Not looking forward to having that in the west too. This stuff is the wet dream of every authoritarian looking to effectivel
6. 2376.▲
   by chmod775 6y ago

   Brian Krebs likes to dox everyone: from security researchers, people giving him bad book reviews, to website administrators. Doesn't even matter if you're they're the allegedly "bad guy" of the story he's publi
7. 2377.▲
   by chmod775 6y ago

   Can you elaborate? I can't figure out what you're referring to with just that, but I wonder whether it's a silly nickname for a common limitation of databases?
8. 2378.▲
   by chmod775 6y ago

   I've only heard stories of people getting terminated over abusing their CDN like that, and I don't fancy being next.
9. 2379.▲
   by chmod775 6y ago

   While this is pretty cool, this naive approach will fail spectacularly for animation that isn't just vector graphics, which is most animation. This might have a future as part of a regular video codec, being used when there's mo
10. 2380.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    > Woah this is incredible. Even with the increased CPU demands, this is a very large bandwidth savings. GPUs happen to be very good at drawing shapes. So there's probably a lot of room for improvement, probably even enough that the
11. 2381.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    I think they just don't want you to serve large stuff, because their CDN isn't optimized for that. I serve all kinds of files <10mb via CF, that includes audio, video, images etc. Files over >10mb I handle myself. Around 1
12. 2382.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    > I had to spend some time with google to find the right spelling. Well... here goes the nitpicking. The German word is "Hügelkultur". If you for some reason can't use an Umlaut, the proper spelling would be "Huegelku
13. 2383.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    This was necessarily going to happen at some point and I hope it serves as a cautionary tale to not blindly trust "no logs" claims.
14. 2384.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    >What is the benefit of em/rem? They (em*) scale with the element's font size, and if you set an elements font-size itself in em, that will be relative to the parent element's font size. For example: body { font-size
15. 2385.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    >Given that hard power is being used to punish China they will use every means at their disposal from massive investments and manpower to poaching talents and even espionage. Espionage is usually the first thing, not something of last
16. 2386.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    You'd have to be a special kind of stupid to "un-wash" your own bitcoins this way.
17. 2387.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    There's a few interactive 3D maps of the universe floating around. A really cool one was posted this year on HN, but I can't find it anymore. In any case, here's another one: https://in-the-sky.org/ngc3d.php
18. 2388.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    If I dress myself like a valet and you hand me your car keys in front of a hotel, am I stealing the car when I drive off? Well in this case people intended their money to go one place, but they got tricked and it ended up in another. I&#x27
19. 2389.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    >Are there layouts where that approach isn’t feasible? Or is it mostly a memorization issue? You can adapt most of the western layouts to at least get "[]{}" in easily accessible places, but for instance trying to adapt a Germa
20. 2390.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    >A typical computer keyboard provides four easily accessible pairs of single-character symmetrical "brackets" "falsehoods programmers believe about keyboards" On the keyboard layouts of many countries these keys aren&
21. 2391.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    I don't know what's there to doubt really. You have been provided the work for free by the entity whose prerogative it is to choose the manners of distribution.
22. 2392.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    There's also the problem that if the copyright owner themselves made the torrent available, it's not actually illegal to download it...
23. 2393.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    > That’s not true, though. It takes more than 30ms just to render your frame, deliver it to the monitor, and wait for a screen refresh. For cheap non-CRT screens you are correct. Otherwise, not so much. And even if you're using a ch
24. 2394.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    >Most videogame players have a similar setup and they evidently don’t find it “extremely annoying” I do. And it's not just me. There's a reason many players of fast twitchy shooters are playing either without vsync, or vsync
25. 2395.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    > The original link discussed typing latencies in the range of 1-30ms. 30ms is close to extremely annoying. You will notice a 30ms latency in a video game when moving around, turning etc. Having that kind of latency on mouse movement can
26. 2396.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    If cost is an issue, get off AWS. Immediately. You're paying about 10x what the same hardware/bandwidth would cost you if you just bought dedicated servers.
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    by chmod775 6y ago

    > but I dont have a high confidence of redis with persistent storage Anything that kills redis persistence is also going to corrupt whatever else database you'd have used instead. In fact redis persistence is such a simple model, I&
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    by chmod775 6y ago

    A classical case of "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". Or rather, you're blind to everything that doesn't require a hammer. Even in most of the examples he listed (speech/voice recognitio
29. 2399.▲
    by chmod775 6y ago

    I found it also helps with the hardest problem in software development: naming things. Without knowledge of the theory it can be hard to come up with a descriptive name for some data structure/algorithm you created to solve your proble
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    by chmod775 6y ago

    > As I already stated, the OECD definition of disposable income ( https://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=46 ) explicitly accounts for "social transfers in kind", in both directions. Again. This does n