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by gHosts 6y ago
Bizarrely enough I found a tweet by a rabid right winger and covid denier that linked this BMJ article as proof that covid was a left wing plandemic conspiracy..... The twit obviously didn't read more than the headline. Probably hadn&#
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by gHosts 6y ago
Bollocks. My cats regularly imagine a future in which I'm going towards the fridge to provide them with food...... ...when the reality is I'm going elsewhere and just going to trip over them.
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by gHosts 6y ago
Reminds me of The Good Old Bad Old Days of the South African arms industry..... ...built entirely to circumvent sanctions and fight "Die Swart Gevaar/Rooi Gevaar"... ("Black Danger" / "Red (Communist) Dang
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by gHosts 6y ago
We are, and continue to be, a major exporter of food.
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by gHosts 6y ago
> if you close your borders, don't produce or import anything globally. We're producing and exporting and importing just fine thank you. Borders are closed to casual visitors, not goods. Yup, that can (and just has) create oppo
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by gHosts 6y ago
Actually, reality has fine print.... Instead of overseas visitors spending in NZ and rich NZ'ers spending their tourist dollars overseas .... the richer NZ'ers are spending locally. Turns out not as different as the doomsayers pre
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by gHosts 6y ago
In the category of bright guy that believes this, and has some pretty concrete ideas on how it would work, but admittedly is pretty "Out There"... https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-ma
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by gHosts 6y ago
Compared to what? Do you have an evil twin that doesn't have bruxism?
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by gHosts 6y ago
Dunno whether it does, but if it does, I bet South Africa Biltong chewers must have strong masculine square jaws fit to bite off any competition then.' Hmmmm. Biltong. I'm drooling.
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by gHosts 6y ago
Very early April 2014...
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by gHosts 6y ago
The technical term for that is "a Lava Flow". The code melts and changes for awhile... and then congeals into unchanging rock again.
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by gHosts 6y ago
I can just imagine the bat cave now..., "ROOOOBBIN!! You haven't taken out the rubbish!" "Nah! It was your turn you big bully!"
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by gHosts 6y ago
Now saute the VC in butter.... Bon Appetit.
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by gHosts 6y ago
I once had a chat with a VC bag man... He said their policy was to invest in a 100 startups in the hope that one would go viral. The sooner the other 99 died and stopped bleeding the happier they were. Go big or die soon was their policy. I
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by gHosts 6y ago
The solution is butter, apple cider vinegar and salt.
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by gHosts 6y ago
As Bruce Schneier says.... Data is the toxic waste of the modern era... you just know sooner or later it's going to leak. Don't collect it if you don't need it. Destroy it as soon as possible if you do.
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by gHosts 6y ago
Conversely, their parents and grand parents get infected by the little plague carriers returning from the plague pit and general viral exchange facility that is school. And the grand parents and obese parents are vulnerable as all merry hel
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by gHosts 6y ago
Correlation is not causation.
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by gHosts 6y ago
Supposedly https://www.britishpathe.com/ was an icon of journalistic objectivity in it's day. Today it looks like an icon of British Imperialist jingoism.
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by gHosts 6y ago
> confirming the inverse relationship between strength and all cause mortality Ahh, but which way does the relationship go..? Unsurprisingly if I'm dying of something really serious and lying in bed sick as a dog..... ...I lose mus
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by gHosts 6y ago
I call that one "Proof by Reference to Pay Walled Article". That article could say absolutely anything for all I can see....
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by gHosts 6y ago
Anybody look at that graph and say... WTF?! The data says nothing like what the headline says! Yes, the projection goes down sharply... but the best estimator of tomorrow is yesterday, and the last few years of data are saying nothing like
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by gHosts 6y ago
There are quite a few remnants of the Whaling industry around NZ... it's clear that one of the major reasons was they were so damn near extinct it wasn't anywhere close to energy profitable to hunt them anymore. For some phantasma
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by gHosts 6y ago
I tried to find the source for the AOC quote.... I want (as always, whether Trump or AOC, to see the exact quote in context) and encountered a interesting new form of obfuscation... Proof by reference to a 4 hours long video!
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by gHosts 6y ago
Because there are such perverse incentives in Academia that what they do and teach have no relevance to anybody. eg. There was a major linux conference at the local university.... Full of cutting edge real world OS / HW stuff. The CS d
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by gHosts 6y ago
For more fun enter "I am going to work outside today" compress, delete the second character and decompress, the result is... "I know what you're thinking –"
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by gHosts 6y ago
> Programs without documentation have no value. Counterpoint. Your users won't read the documentation. Get used to it. Odds on your developers won't either. Take care when you do read the documentation, it's probably out o
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by gHosts 6y ago
If your device doesn't change the way your customer does business, why bother? Every truly successful device will be used for purposes you didn't dream of when you first created it.
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by gHosts 6y ago
Had a GPS that started jabbering crap when it got cold.... showed up as system dying because it was being flooded with events, ie. Some other task died because it wasn't getting enough cpu time.
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by gHosts 6y ago
Try this as a way of thinking about it.... ISR's are random events that preempt your scheduler. Deferred Service Routines run in the same thread as your scheduler. It's excruciatingly hard to write (correct) code that can be inter

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