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by gjulianm 5y ago
If I see a[i] = i++ in a codebase I am immediately removing it as it looks ambiguous, possibly invalid and probably unpredictable.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Parsing and writing a C compiler might not be simple, but writing C is, much more than other languages. It's easy to understand what normal code is doing and how is that translating to instructions (more or less) compared to, say, C++.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
It's fairly disingenuous to put those problems as examples. > No one has innovated a cost effective way to update office ventilation properly, I can find HEPA air filters in Amazon for less than $100. > no one has made highly com
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I don't agree with the implication that using Internet and smartphones make people asocial. If anything, I bet those techs helped people feel less isolated than they'd have felt without them.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> Having children is simply more burdensome and time-consuming for women, no way around it Pregnancy is 9 months, the children live for many years. For that second part, men and women could take responsibilities in an equal way (save for
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> Taking a career break to have children, historical 'steering' of women away from STEM subjects in education, some apparent natural tendency for many women to avoid such subjects even when they have a free choice, a tendency f
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I think the article could go a little bit more in depth, but overall I agree with the sentiment. For starters, saying "this is wrong" is the least helpful way to present a problem. Of course it can work, but it's better to sa
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by gjulianm 5y ago
They do not consider it seriously. Both assume no economic cost from the no-lockdown scenario. Of course in that situation lockdowns cost, but it is an incredibly naive way to look at it. The assessments of those papers can only be done fro
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Again, the question is “What do you think would have happened without lockdowns?”. Most of the research you mention, from what I’ve seen, doesn’t take into account the amount of damage that no lockdowns would have caused, not only on “life
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> Some commentators are saying that the article doesn't address why we have 12 notes but I wonder if they even know why Is there an actual reason or are all of these post-hoc explanations? Depending on the culture you'll have d
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I have a degree in mathematics and have studied music for some years. My personal opinion is that they're quite different things. Yes, the underlying theory of music requires some mathematics, but that's it. Once you get into it t
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> But getting people to dedicate a core/thread [to RX/TX polling] is also a hard sell. I think that if you're at the level where the kernel network stack is not enough, core pinning is a no brainer. You're probably sp
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by gjulianm 5y ago
You can’t seriously tell me that I’m making a bizarre strawman argument and then proceed to repeat the exact thing I’m criticizing. It’s not “simple math”. Lockdowns weren’t just to “extend life of a few 80 yo”, even though I personally thi
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> Just because your city isn’t equipped to deal with an unusually high amount of deaths Nowhere in the world was equipped to deal with the incredibly high amount of deaths that happened, nor with the incredibly high amount of sick people
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Non-random samples get you to up to 10% fatality rate. I have the data for my region and in march-april 2020 the IFR was 10-15%. Of course, that was due because there weren't enough tests and only the ones that were really sick entered
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by gjulianm 5y ago
But we know what happened even with actions taken. In my city all hospitals were saturated, there were so many dead people that the army had to help and move corpses to an old ice rink. And that was stopped only by a full lockdown. I don&#x
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I am not sure how many man-years would have been lost if nobody had done anything regarding COVID.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> Think of the strong traditions behind birthday or annual holiday greetings, for instance. And I don’t know of any meaningful relationship that is maintained just by that bare minimum.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
To me a business relationship is a business where you don't really care about the person but about the business/work potential. Of course you can make personal relationships in business, but those are different things. And yes, &q
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> This is one thing I thought about doing, but it seems like there's a lot of APIs that are now closed. But also, relationships are not like a tennis match, it's ok to write twice. I know, but if the tool stops being synced wit
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Well, that's my point. Putting someone in the "once a year" category means you're putting them in the path for that relationship to disappear without actually doing anything to try to fix it. Like you're in a car go
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> But the other lens to apply here is “how at risk am I of never talking to this person again if I don’t manage to say something, however simple, at least <once a year>?” There may be folks in your life with whom your relationship
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Well, this is precisely the point some commenters are making, that it feels more like a system for clients and companies and business contacts than for actual personal relationships.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> It's wrong in a way that is stable as well, and that is why it takes effort to fight: people easily get anxious about rejection, and they easily get it in their heads that the other person doesn't want to hear from them. Anyt
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> but you have baseline level of commitment to every relationship. Well, the issue is that baseline level of commitment is extremely low, to the point where I don't think it's an actual relationship if you only talk once a year
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I think there are two sides to this: scheduling the contact and triggering the thought to contact. The first one is ok, we schedule things we care about all the time. The second one is the weird one, and to me the OP is more about the secon
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I get thinking about a system like this. I have given some thought about building something similar, but always ended up abandoning it for the exact same reasons this post strikes me as extremely weird: - It feels weird classifying people i
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I don't think the comparison is apt. I think this is something that's being glossed over completely: friendships are two-way, and also flexible. It's not a medication that needs to be taken on a schedule, and it's not a
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Nothing is inherently true, things are only true based on some axioms and hypothesis. What I meant with "results that are true" is things that are consistent with our physical world.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> but they're going to be meeting people who memorise pi to 50 decimal places or happen to calculate the sum of small cubic numbers for fun to pass the time and are really good at arithmetic. Not really. The "above average abi

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