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by cyphar 6y ago
Alternatively, users could be given the option to opt-out of automated contact discovery so that most users have the current behaviour but people who don't want others to find out they've started using Signal (there are dozens of
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by cyphar 6y ago
In fairness to GP, this only became true a few years ago and Signal has not advertised this (nor the fact that you can now download the Signal APK from their website and it auto-updates outside of the play store[1]). Folks who opted to not
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by cyphar 6y ago
Moxie has explicitly said several times that third-party clients connecting to the main Signal servers are actively not supported and has threatened to start blocking them or enforcing the Signal trademark if they get big enough. (I tried t
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by cyphar 6y ago
Yes, but it should be noted identity servers are only used for associating phone numbers and email addresses to Matrix IDs. Matrix IDs themselves are federated just like email addresses (@cyphar:cyphar.com is mine, and it's hosted on m
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by cyphar 6y ago
Here's a study from the original SARS epidemic showing that people who had known contact with infected people there was a 70% lower chance of infection when they wore masks[1]. At this point, arguing that masks don't work is absol
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by cyphar 6y ago
There's even an xkcd comic about this < https://xkcd.com/1499/ >.
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by cyphar 6y ago
±1 doesn't require a prefix, and while in Europe "deci" is used in common parlance for units of power ±2 it's not really used in scientific or engineering terminology globally. I'm also not sure what real quantity y
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by cyphar 6y ago
I've not seen it used in handwriting I think it's mostly used for digital inputs (including some calculators). The most common usage in handwriting I've seen is like 1.5×10³² (=1.5e32).
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by cyphar 6y ago
Not to mention that many variants of French (Canadian French, Swiss French, Belgian French, and so on) would -- to my understanding -- not be considered by Académie Française to be "proper French" even though they are objectively
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by cyphar 6y ago
As I said, ideally RCTs would run for as long as possible. But in meatspace we cannot ignore that if a treatment shows serious promise it is unethical to deprive control group patients of the treatment. If we ran RCTs for all CoVID-19 treat
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by cyphar 6y ago
> The original Remdesivir trial by the drug company was a high quality RCT (randomized control trial) - except that they stopped it early once they saw a statistically significant positive effect (even though the effect was somewhat unde
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by cyphar 6y ago
You may be more familiar with the term "Rank-Choice Voting". Outside of the US, that system (ranking the candidates in order of your preference, with runoff or similar allocation methods in the case that nobody gets a majority) is
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by cyphar 6y ago
Though it should be noted that when you compile such a binary on a system with a newer glibc, it will not work on a system with an older glibc. To be fair this is basically the case with C as well (you can work around it with .symver but it
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by cyphar 6y ago
> Rust probably could provide a precompiled binary, but the recommended installation method for Blades involves `cargo` which is why I asked the question. Cargo is the Rust compiler (or rather the Rust build system). After you run it, it
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by cyphar 6y ago
This is more of a Rust quirk[1] than a glibc/musl thing. Glibc can be used statically (though it's not really recommended -- hence why Rust doesn't support it and requires you to use musl instead). [1]: https://d
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by cyphar 6y ago
Both Go and Rust do not produce static binaries by default -- they both link to glibc and a few other libraries -- but you can coerce them both to do so (though with Rust it's slightly more painful because you need to install a compi
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by cyphar 6y ago
You are correct, the point being made was that a lot of people aren't aware of that and just take it as gospel that O(1) algorithms must be faster than O(n) ones -- but, as you said, big-O notation only says that is true after n goes a
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by cyphar 6y ago
Yeah, you're quite right. I guess I should've said it required more folding (given how much the folded aspect of Japanese steel is sold as being a key aspect of what makes it "unique")?
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by cyphar 6y ago
I'd think that it's more likely that all swords are about as good as any other. If katanas really were junk swords to the point where it made a material difference, Shogun would've used imported western sword designs (pre-iso
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by cyphar 6y ago
I'm not a metalworker at all (I just spent a bunch of time last year researching it while diving down a rabbit hole of forging YouTube videos). However, I did stumble upon a longer explanation of this. Folding steel is only required
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by cyphar 6y ago
I'm not disagreeing with the validity of ISO or anything like that, I don't know where you got that impression. The original point being made in this thread was that Oracle copied the API of SQL from IBM and thus is guilty of the
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by cyphar 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that a fair number of commonly used QR libraries were not developed by people who shelled out for a copy of ISO 18004 (they probably just looked at descriptions of how it works outside of the standard document). Similar
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by cyphar 6y ago
Yeah I agree the GPL is not relevant to the case at hand, though it does raise the question whether (assuming Oracle wins) the logical conclusion is that the Java APIs are under the GPL/Proprietary dual-license Oracle offers today or t
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by cyphar 6y ago
You don't have to pay for ISO to implement an ISO standard. In addition, Oracle released their database software in 1979 but SQL only became an ANSI standard in 1986 (and an ISO standard in 1987) so they did originally reimplement an A
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by cyphar 6y ago
Sun released Java under the GPL in 2006 and most of JDK in mid-2007, but the first release of Android was in 2008. Or is the issue that they were developing it behind closed doors while it was still proprietary, even though they never distr
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by cyphar 6y ago
Australia does /kind of/ do this with the skilled occupation list, but it's not like getting a Bachelor of Accounting means you are guaranteed a path to permanent residency (thanks to many of the recent visa pathway changes).
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by cyphar 6y ago
> Singapore and Australia (and maybe others I don't know about) allow international students to apply for permanent residency if they meet certain very reasonable qualifications and it works out very much in their favor for retainin
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by cyphar 6y ago
CC0 is much more thorough than the Unlicense, was written by actual lawyers, and has a fallback to a maximally-permissive license in jurisdictions where willing relinquishment of copyrights into the public domain doesn't exist. Unlicen
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by cyphar 6y ago
Limiting interactions is not the same as disabling pull requests wholesale (you can disable issues completely), they are temporary in nature (you can only disable them for 6 months at a time), and in addition I believe my comment was posted
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by cyphar 6y ago
Yes, skilled professional translators who are native-level in both languages are possibly the closest to a perfect translation you can find and arguably they are one of the reasons that international diplomacy is at all workable (though the

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