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by gambler 7y ago
Just on deaths alone, which is a 2 week lagging indicator, the count as of 2 weeks ago was several tens of thousands of cases. Where are you getting your numbers? https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country&#x2F
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by gambler 7y ago
Is Italian population deficient in vitamin D compared to those other countries you mentioned?
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by gambler 7y ago
My question is, why all the numbers look so different in Italy and South Korea? The countries are roughly the same size. They both have modern, socialized medical systems AFAIK. But the stats are completely different. We're not talking
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by gambler 7y ago
Before praising countries for declaring martial law and harassing people, check their stats in terms of how the disease actually spreads there. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ I think it's pretty obviou
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by gambler 7y ago
>I think that's a vision of OO that not many OO programs that I've seen actually follow. Maybe not, but it absolutely was part of the original vision. This is why Smalltalk 80 implements if/else statements and loops as
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by gambler 7y ago
You're missing my point. In OOP every object is computation represented as data. It's not some kind of "unnatural" design pattern programmer should concoct in a special way. Erasing the distinction between data and pro
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by gambler 7y ago
>I might explain this concept to OOP-minded programmers like this: Sometimes, you can improve your code by having it return a description of what to do, rather than doing the thing directly. ...which requires you to turn functions into
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by gambler 7y ago
>Huh, but if you have an "we made it ourselves" framework, won't that cost still be there too? In many real-life scenarios it's not a matter of learning a 3d party library or an in-house product. You often have to
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by gambler 7y ago
>The lack of name spacing in css is a big issue on any non trivial project. FFS, just use custom attributes. Your attribute becomes the namespace. Its content determines styles. I figured this out 4-5 years ago and never looked back. I
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by gambler 7y ago
>if you're a hobby developer, reinventing the wheel (of UI design) is fun and just costs your time; If you're an inexperienced manager, buying off-the-shelf products for everything outside of your core business might sound ap
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by gambler 7y ago
Reminder to myself: donate to them when I get home.
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by gambler 7y ago
I this this is a good move. I stopped buying games on sales long time ago. I only buy something when I want to play it right now , regardless of how much it costs. So, you can't entice me with sales. However, a return policy makes me
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by gambler 7y ago
This article is a great example of how FP is currently being ruined in the same way OOP was ruined in late 80s. The paradigm had a lot of great ideas, but it became so popular so quickly that people began to fetishize its terminology and to
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by gambler 7y ago
>His backup strategy is to direct interview into the same set of overly generic questions where the quest has nothing interesting to say. It's kind of irritating. Couldn't agree more. I want such people to comment on their fi
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by gambler 7y ago
It was blatantly obvious that social networks are ideal tools for corporate and political propaganda. It was obvious from the very beginning, where people sung praises to Web 2.0 and "collective intelligence". Moreover, real tec
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by gambler 7y ago
This is the worst thing about Java. Almost all other languages have some way to deal with bad libraries or missing features in those libraries. Java has nothing of this sort and it gives library provides all kinds of tools to fuck you over.
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by gambler 7y ago
People are now beginning to realize that cellphones send out too much data. Well, modern cars are far worse. Do you know that some of them have weight sensors in seats? Do you know that they send this info out? On your phone, you at least h
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by gambler 7y ago
>Modern Java is actually quite good. Lambdas can't handle checked exceptions, which are the most common exceptions in the system. There is no way to extend Stream with your own methods. Still 8 primitive types to wrestle with. Jus
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by gambler 7y ago
>Who owns copyright on training data? Megacorps. Regardless of what the data is, who produced that data or when.
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by gambler 7y ago
>Now, if there ever was a life-critical physical phenomenon, it is lift production by an airliner wing. I nominate this as the worst analogy of the year. Airplanes are rigorously tested under the same conditions they will operate in. A
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by gambler 7y ago
P2P is probably the best solution for search in the long run, but here is how it can be decentralized in the interim. Separate crawlers, indexers and search websites. One search website could go to several indexers. One indexer could get in
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by gambler 7y ago
>I appreciated Smalltalk for a while but it is simple only on the surface and once you peel below that it's extremely complicated. Not really. Definitely not compared to C# or Java. Smalltalk simply has more system-level code acce
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by gambler 7y ago
The only thing Java proved about language design is that popularity and good language design have zero correlation. If you want to see simplicity that stood the test of time, look at Smalltalk or Lisp.
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by gambler 7y ago
It's worth reflecting on why the most popular language in the world has syntax so inflexible that a simple operator like this requires begging some ubercorp for a compiler change. Smalltalk had user-definable binary/infix operator
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by gambler 7y ago
What you really need in such cases is a pentastate boolean: https://crossdysfunctional.tumblr.com/search/pentastate
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by gambler 7y ago
Anti-nuclear FUD. I wonder who's paying for this stuff. > Currently, the total global power consumption by mankind is about 15 terawatts (TW) —so the question we address is: Can nuclear power feasibly supply at least 15 TW? This i
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by gambler 7y ago
In 2015 Google claimed to have created a chat bot that can do common-sense reasoning and do tech support just by reading a sufficiently large dataset: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.05869v1.pdf
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by gambler 7y ago
The question is not whether it's possible to pretend to be multiple people. The question is whether storing a large file places some fundamental restriction on how much activity a node can conduct on the network. (I.e. is there a cost
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by gambler 7y ago
> I'll cheat by making my "large file" the output of a PRNG, meaning I don't have to store any of it, but other people do because they don't know the seed. This will work, but only until the file is sufficicent
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by gambler 7y ago
Computational power is not a good proof of anything. It devours energy and disproportionately rewards weird market actors (like people with custom mines ASICs). I always wondered whether storage could be used as proof of stake. It might use

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