fabian2k

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by fabian2k 2y ago
I did expect SSR to be generally quite slow, but ~34 rps on the VPS is below my expectations. If I understand the blog post correctly, this tests an essentially static site with no DB requests. That would be pretty abysmal performance for s
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by fabian2k 2y ago
I prefer caching in memory, but a major limitation once you have more than one process is invalidation. It's really only easy to stuff you can cache and just expire on time, not if you need to invalidate it. At that point you need to c
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Trump announces strategic crypto reserve including Bitcoin, Solana, XRP and more(cnbc.com)
52 points by fabian2k 2y ago|14 comments
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by fabian2k 2y ago
I don't think we can guess the specific problem here, but the credit card limits could indeed easily take services offline as hosting isn't payed. So it would not surprise me at all to see a bunch of cases like this caused by the
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by fabian2k 2y ago
Pubmed is essentially Google for scientists. Anytime you search for scientific publications you usually use Pubmed. Of course there are alternatives, but until now you didn't really have to know about those. Everyone just used Pubmed,
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by fabian2k 2y ago
And for some reason the vouching mechanism isn't available for these submissions like it is on comments.
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by fabian2k 2y ago
We know more people would die without vaccines. There is plenty of data on the classic vaccines. If you tell people something else you're lying. And herd immunity protects those that can't be protected by vaccines, your "expe
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by fabian2k 2y ago
We know how many people died before we had vaccines, especially children. There is no argument here. We eradicated or almost eradicated a whole bunch of terrible diseases with vaccines. What you're proposing here is simply murder. We k
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by fabian2k 2y ago
With this kind of massive conflicts of interests and the way the current administration behaves you have to assume that any kind of regulation on Musk's companies is effectively removed. Even if he does not intervene directly, every em
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by fabian2k 2y ago
The research done at universities and pharma companies is simply different and not interchangeable. This move will also kill the pipeline for new scientists that pharma companies want to hire. If you want to read a bit about all these event
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by fabian2k 2y ago
They're simply trying to eliminate most academic research, there aren't many other plausible explanations here. Blocking the grant reviews might look temporary, but these delays pile up and at some point it simply won't be po
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by fabian2k 2y ago
The effect on mortality is what mattered, and that effect was very significant in the risk groups. Would have been even better if the effect on transmission had remained with the later variants, but unfortunately it didn't as the virus
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by fabian2k 2y ago
Cutting DEI is blatantly and explicitly political. They can do that, within the laws and regulation that apply (this part is arguably something they don't follow). But it's not fraud or abuse, this is just "stuff they don&#x2
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by fabian2k 2y ago
DOGE should be able to make those arguments themselves. They're also not particularly transparent, so we have to assemble information from various sources. They're right now firing all probationary employees at multiple agencies
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by fabian2k 2y ago
They're trying pretty hard to kill a large part of the scientific research happening in the US right now. They're messing with NIH and NSF grants, the cap on indirect costs is likely going to decimate research at universities. And
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by fabian2k 2y ago
This is a good example of what I mean. There is no evidence that DOGE is acting on actual fraud and abuse, that is immediately obvious if you consider how broad most of their actions are. And unless you think that the federal government sho
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by fabian2k 2y ago
For some reason quite a number of people seem to believe the purpoted goals of DOGE, removing waste and increasing efficiency of the government. I can't really understand that as it seems obvious to me that they're just destroying
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by fabian2k 2y ago
It was clearly something that looked a lot like a Nazi salute. And it was twice, this wasn't just an unfortunate camera angle. And Elon has been commenting (positively) on tweets by various extreme right figures for a long time now,
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by fabian2k 2y ago
DOGE isn't providing accountability or transparency. It provides destruction of government agencies and services. And given the enormous amount of grift and corruption done by Trump and the people he associates with, I would expect mor
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by fabian2k 2y ago
Ignoring the horrifying political parts, I think one aspect here about data access that is inherently worrying is that it seems like all usual controls were bypassed and the DOGE people had very low level access to systems. So there are pro
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by fabian2k 2y ago
None of the numbers feel scary
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by fabian2k 2y ago
They're going to either shut down payments for certain programs they want to eliminate or they're going to use some kind of AI to detect "fraudulent" payments and block them. And everything without any oversight or recou
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by fabian2k 2y ago
There wasn't enough time for Trump to affect his specific incident. But longer term it's certainly not a good idea to send traffic controllers a letter asking them to resign (the letter went to all federal employees) and to interf
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by fabian2k 2y ago
This is moving very fast, and the sheer amount of chaos they're creating is successfully stymieing the potential responses. The important initial challenges here are the legal ones. And there are already some temporary decisions that s
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by fabian2k 2y ago
This does not only affect the obvious ideological targets of purging any mention of DEI or gender. One section that is missing seems to be the official vaccine recommendations. Go to the ACIP page ( https://www.cdc.gov/acip&#
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Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency(reuters.com)
48 points by fabian2k 2y ago|13 comments
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by fabian2k 2y ago
There was an incident like this and the person was fired if I remember correctly. Not at all comparable to what is happening now.
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by fabian2k 2y ago
Part of this might be bluffing or just for show, so we don't know if Trump will follow through on these tariffs. Though the uncertainty alone this introduces could have serious effects as companies might avoid investments that Trump co
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by fabian2k 2y ago
Gel electrophoresis data or Western/Southern/Northern blots are not hard to fake. Nobody seeing the images can tell what you put into each pocket of your gel. And for the blots nobody can tell which kind of antibody you used. It&#
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by fabian2k 2y ago
Even for people familiar with the field this title is a bit hard to parse at first without context. "bands" really needs either gels or gel electrophoresis as context.

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