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by dexen 5y ago
There's a recent (January 19, 2022) CDC publications with numbers on exactly that. Forbes provides a brief overview: "CDC: Prior Covid Infection Offered More Protection Against Delta Than Vaccines — But Both Together Did Best&quot
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by dexen 5y ago
>why artists The unsaid part: "recipients are supposed to publicly laud the government": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_painter
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by dexen 5y ago
>work somewhere dysfunctional >bellmar.medium.com I did a double-take to ensure it wasn't "ballmer.medium.com" :D
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by dexen 5y ago
https://archive.fo/4pSSU
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by dexen 5y ago
Underrated insight. I believe it parallels the natural lifecycle of materials inside libraries: content gets retired at all times, while still largely maintaining appearance of "everything at your fingertips".
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by dexen 5y ago
>Sweeping generalizations aren't really adding to the discussion here That sentiment fits individualist views and policies, where it behooves us to hear out individuals and consider them on their individual merits. However the vie
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by dexen 5y ago
>Much of the problems we see today are because the news media largely became unprofitable. Close, but not quite there. Much of the problems we see today are because the news media are financed through marketing & PR spend. This mak
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by dexen 5y ago
>"won't fix, we just reboot servers when they crash" >understanding dark magic That is the original Unix black magic: KISS and do the simplest possible thing that works and when in doubt use brute force and so
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by dexen 5y ago
>While there is some overlap between a manager and software dev they are in the end two fundamental different jobs. I used to think that early on in my career as developer. At this point I believe those two are fundamentally the same j
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by dexen 5y ago
>This is why we shouldn't take medical advice from people who have read a few Wikipedia articles. >sometimes the experienced doctor or researcher made a mistake, and the guy who posted something on Reddit is correct Both of t
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by dexen 5y ago
>Being unable to fix a "whoopsy" is the biggest weakness. Who decides what is a "whoopsy" a legitimate user made, and what is a pretend-"whoopsy" conjured by a malicious actor? Giving people & automate
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by dexen 5y ago
Not to ding on you, but rather to make a general observation: There is certain irony to posting a strong "allergic" reaction to a rather mundane phrase in discussion of propaganda. One could say there was effective propaganda for
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Gender Bias in Academic Recruitment? Evidence from a Survey Experiment(researchgate.net)
2 points by dexen 5y ago|0 comments
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by dexen 5y ago
I am in awe with how the post neatly interleaves the why and the how. Having recently implemented L4 decompressor (itself a rather reasonable and "lightweight" standard), I like the QOI even better. Hoping to see the video decoder
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by dexen 5y ago
Two further alternatives for improved expressiveness: q('select name from users where id = :userid', compact('userid')); q('select name from users where id = ?', [ $userid ]); Recommend using single q
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by dexen 5y ago
PHP: the original progressive enhancement .
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by dexen 5y ago
Beyond reasons & limitations explained in sibling posts, having large number of (logical / instruction-level) registers also inflates instruction size, and thus diminishes instruction density, and thus lowers performance - so there
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by dexen 5y ago
>You cannot wear a car in your pocket to show it off to your relatives or business partners. There's a few striking errors in your post, and this one is the most glaring - in that it's very visual, and also very wrong. Cons
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Right to Repair: EU's Margrethe Vestager's Response to Louis Rossmann(youtube.com)
13 points by dexen 5y ago|0 comments
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by dexen 5y ago
Fair enough. I've had good luck discussing the subject back in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6464807 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6465175 , with the insightful replies. Wow, rea
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by dexen 5y ago
>There is no "10X" touch-typist Ironically enough your example is flawed: there are documented 10x touch-typists. The realities of the court system place high demands on the typists; the minimum required typing speed is alr
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by dexen 5y ago
Unlocked smartphones, where the user can easily install third party apps, including browser with ad blocker. Emphasis on easily - if it ever becomes straightforward, without going through scary settings menu, Google will be quite scared
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by dexen 5y ago
>One big caveat of this is that since git doesn't really store just a stack of diffs, despite the fact it presents itself as such to the user, >a custom merge driver will not make your .git grow any less than it would normally
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by dexen 5y ago
>Green Parties the world over are anti-nuclear and have been since the 80s. >I'm beginning to wonder if they aren't lobbied by fossil fuel companies. There was a large oil-exporting and gas-exporting country that has bee
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by dexen 5y ago
>>I use the same USB plug everywhere, >That's because of EU regulation. Patently untrue: the Micro USB has won over proprietary connectors before the EU regulation, thanks to being cheaper than ever-changing charging &
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by dexen 5y ago
>Do we have any room left for innovation in charging ports? Absolutely! The sheer amount of optional features in USB-C cables makes charging - in particular fast charging, and charging tablet/laptop sized devices - a hit-or-miss g
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by dexen 5y ago
Bad move, an unforced error. This will stifle innovation needlessly, similarly to how US' (previously) mandated single model of sealed beam headlights stifled their automobile headlights innovation for several decades. Seems some burea
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by dexen 5y ago
The car FSD - aircraft autopilot analogy is deeply flawed, and nowhere near instructive. Let's consider some details: What aircraft autopilot does is following a pre-planned route to the T, with any changes being input by humans. The a
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by dexen 5y ago
>crazy things like blurring the image until it's just fuzzy blobs That... that doesn't influence one of the presumed ways the NN categorizes images: the trend in bone geometry. The "blobs", while fuzzy, still larg
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by dexen 5y ago
I am dismayed by your example that runs counter to the modern science. While "faster than light neutrino" was highly unexpected and rather suspect from the start, the "bone geometry differs slightly between ethnic groups&quot

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