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by dcsommer 3y ago
The negative effects of PFAS on animals and humans is widely studied and reported. There is no confusion on this. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7906952/ is one starting point.
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by dcsommer 3y ago
The BEAM VM (Erlang/Elixir) recently optimized a related procedure as well https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/7426
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by dcsommer 3y ago
Correct parental examples are key to successfully training healthy habits, but phones are plenty addictive in their own right. It's not just a problem of bad parental examples. Why do you think the parents are addicted in the first pla
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by dcsommer 3y ago
It's not a sealed draft at all. You can purchase as many decks as you like, and you can also purchase from secondhand markets.
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by dcsommer 3y ago
> I wonder if a matrix like that would even be legal. Probably not, but I heard from an acquaintance college admissions official that systems like this exist, and they are highly secretive. This is just one anecdote, so make of that what
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by dcsommer 3y ago
500 > 5
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by dcsommer 3y ago
Convenience, of course. Secondarily, lack of awareness of alternatives.
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by dcsommer 3y ago
Smartphones have dramatically changed the way humans relate to each other, with incredibly profound impact on mental health and social interactions. The negative impact hasn't gone away just because part of the population hasn't s
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by dcsommer 3y ago
I love this exercise. Great job exploring a concept fully. I find this article one of the better arguments I've seen yet against including exceptions in a language.
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by dcsommer 3y ago
The same trend applies to all forms of close relationship. So no, it is a problem if you want to maximize any form of social cohesion.
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Alignment is of course still critical for marriage. The increasing difficulty or low probability of alignment is the problem.
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by dcsommer 3y ago
It's threatening to equality (wealth disparity) and also social/cultural values (aka work vs. family/neighborhood/community/etc.). These are all important equities, as is enabling high performers to work well. It is
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by dcsommer 3y ago
I'm glad you found a consistent source of enjoyable and enriching interactions online. That said, do not dismiss the need for long-term, in-person friendship. IRL forces you to confront the uncomfortable/mismatched parts of others
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by dcsommer 3y ago
NDAs have nothing to do with this. Employees leak all kinds of stuff from tech companies all the time despite NDAs.
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by dcsommer 3y ago
I don't claim it's the only way to promote social cohesion. A year of mandatory trash pickup would probably do that too. I don't understand the comment about brainwashing. Any form of public education, including mandatory tra
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by dcsommer 3y ago
You're right that it is not necessarily efficient from a military effectiveness perspective. I see it as also an educational tool/investment. As other comments have pointed out, this helps the populace internalize their responsibi
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by dcsommer 3y ago
There's plenty of good content in this paper. FFI safety is a very important topic, and there are unique concerns with Rust FFI. Such a shame it devolves into unprofessional and inflammatory remarks. The authors could have put their na
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by dcsommer 3y ago
Not without fine-tuning. The issue is that high-energy supersymmetry no longer removes the "ugly constants" of the standard model -- it just shifts them somewhere else. Disclaimer: not a physicist, but I learned a lot reading &quo
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by dcsommer 3y ago
Smartphones are not a prerequisite for access to educational resources online. Having an old school computer in a public part of the house is great for such things. Kids should just hang out and focus on each other when they're out and
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by dcsommer 3y ago
The opening F# upward octave in Paganini's La Campanella is that pitch memory for me. It's fairly well seared in my brain from violin practice. It's very similar for me where I remember the F# pitch and then work out the rela
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by dcsommer 3y ago
> Most Citation needed. Log4j comes to mind as a logic bug disaster, but all the data I've seen is that >65% of the high severity bugs come from memory unsafety in most software projects. https://security.googleblog.co
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by dcsommer 3y ago
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se... https://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-70-of-all-security-bugs... https://alexgaynor.net/2019/aug/12/in
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by dcsommer 3y ago
Why not use the builtin E2EE backups? https://faq.whatsapp.com/490592613091019
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by dcsommer 4y ago
Sadly, this is a trend too. Lush, orchestral music with memorable themes, harmonic development, etc. is being phased out in favor of minimalist, repetitive, electronic sounds. To understand what that gives up, I recommend the "Listenin
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by dcsommer 4y ago
> Is it more efficient resource and time-wise to rewrite everything in [Language of choice], or to comb through the currently existing code This is a false dichotomy. Bugs are concentrated in new code, so the biggest value for Rust is to
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by dcsommer 4y ago
Do you have data on the relative frequency and severity of non-memory safety integer overflow security issues?
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Integer overflow isn't a security issue unless your program's memory safety depends on the correctness of the integer operation. Safe rust doesn't (in any build mode), but C/C++ does.
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Cumulative damage may be very small now, at the beginning of this age, but educators I talk to certainly are having a reckoning about it. Whether this will ultimately be bad for education is an open question, but with the way many classes a
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by dcsommer 4y ago
I would love to see details of iBoot. How they built a memory safe bootloader with just "a modified C toolchain" is a pretty important detail. Did add they another language to the toolchain or add a special --memory-safe flag to
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by dcsommer 4y ago
Another microtonal master was Ben Johnston. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhZd4Tea2cM is his string quartet arrangement of Amazing Grace. It starts with just intonation and then... goes...

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