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by glangdale 5y ago
Oh yeah, this is another good one: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...
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by glangdale 5y ago
Actually, a good deal of evidence suggests it might . There have been 3 or 4 recent well-publicized studies suggesting neurological effects of COVID coming at various angles (imaging from Biobank, tests of various mental tasks on people wh
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by glangdale 5y ago
Yeah, that would be even more consistent with the idea that there's a combination of natural resistance (if not immunity) from the first form of the virus (I think you can get again) as well as resistance for vaccination. It's not
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by glangdale 5y ago
That's a straw-man. "Indefinitely with no clear, achievable exit criteria" isn't what I said. A lot of countries have done masking as a default during flu season, without the massive chorus of whining from dipshits about
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by glangdale 5y ago
"We've been doing that for almost a year and a half" - have we? A lot of jurisdictions have done lockdown light, if anything. A few fitful weeks of half-measures, then declare that "lockdowns don't work" seems
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by glangdale 5y ago
They had a ton of COVID cases (1M, in a population of 10M!) and have vaccinated heavily. They're also doing a lot of the social distancing things that they initially avoided. Vaccination does reduce the chance of spreading the virus. H
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by glangdale 5y ago
As far as I can tell the conclusions we're going to have to draw are: 1) We need to keep using all strategies - including masking, social distancing, and targeted lockdowns - to reduce large scale spread of the virus. If we don't,
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by glangdale 5y ago
Yeah, pretty much agree. The problem of being lazy about constness is that when you finally get your act together and think about it, you'll wind up having these huge "viral" chains of const-fixes to do. The code will be bett
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by glangdale 5y ago
Nah, he was talking to me. We had that kind of a relationship where this stuff was always going to be considered funny, not offensive. We did tone it down a lot when other people were around because this kind of banter can be misinterpreted
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by glangdale 5y ago
One of my direct reports once fixed one of my "simple bugs" with the astonishingly direct commit message: "Const, motherfucker. Do you speak it??!?" (which, I hasten to add, would have been unthinkable if it had been a b
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by glangdale 5y ago
LLVM is also preferred because it has much cleaner internals than gcc (although gcc has gotten hugely better over the years). And of course, all production compilers become monumentally complex over the years (I once worked with Open64 - ga
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by glangdale 5y ago
My wife's grandfather did almost exactly this: navy pilot (I forget the exact details but he had at least one of those "firsts" like "landing on an aircraft carrier at night"), survived WWII, got out, was a teacher
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by glangdale 5y ago
I don't doubt your word that fringe environmentalist groups are pretty well established in Oregon. That said, the idea that these groups (or prevailing attitudes behind them) are preventing some form of logging that would actually hel
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by glangdale 5y ago
That would be mean, and perhaps even career-limiting or break NDAs or both. One example I can point to is the fact that we (Sensory Networks) had cargo-culted in a recursive hash function for a string matching engine (back when we made hard
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by glangdale 5y ago
So, the evidence you found is that "most of the forest in Oregon is owned by the Federal government" and "19 years ago someone had a hearing about ecoterrorism". I'm particularly enjoying the fact that the mild-mann
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by glangdale 5y ago
I built a beautiful dynamic algorithm a while back to assign strings to "buckets" in Hyperscan. The problem is (roughly) that you can pack lots of strings into buckets for a "bucketed super-character shift-or matcher", b
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by glangdale 5y ago
Cuckoo hashes are great if you really understand why you're using them, but 99% of people would be fine with chaining for most applications or a simpler set-associative scheme if open addressing is not negotiable. Their locality is pro
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by glangdale 5y ago
Maybe you should look this stuff up and figure it out, as opposed to guessing that it's based on "extreme environmental political undercurrents". It's not like the location of the fires is a state secret. Effectively y
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by glangdale 5y ago
Yup. I've seen pictures of what's left behind after logging in some of the fire-affected areas in Australia. Not only did they do exactly what you said they left mounds of flammable waste in stacks to "rot" (or burn, as
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by glangdale 5y ago
I like Bloom filters well enough, but I've noticed them getting cargo-culted into projects where they aren't even remotely necessary. There are a few techniques that people seem to love (Cuckoo hashes are another) and uncritically
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by glangdale 5y ago
In Australia, one of the problems that we face (and we have much more of a culture of "let it burn" and doing controlled burns than CA) is that chaotic weather (almost certainly the result of climate change) has reduced the number
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by glangdale 5y ago
Logging for profit is not the panacea that people criticizing environmental groups thinks it is. Here in Australia, at least (where we do a lot more controlled burns and let fires burn out a lot more) commercial logging tends to leave a hug
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by glangdale 5y ago
I would imagine 'line' police officers are unused to the technological aspects of what's going on and are rewarded/punished for shallow productivity numbers ("arrests per day"). I don't think it's nec
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by glangdale 5y ago
Seriously. Anyone that worked up about the events is obviously running a fence operation out of the shop. As I commented on the Twitter thread, we used to have tons of break-ins in our area. Miraculously, when they closed down all the pawn
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by glangdale 5y ago
Remarkable. I didn't watch the whole 2 hours, or even properly skim it all, but it was incredibly white. Were they worried they wouldn't be marketable if they weren't almost 100% white?
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by glangdale 5y ago
Balancing the one side playing aggressively for the win is the fact that the other side can "aggressively" seek a draw. The "if-we-draw-I-win" side is now way more motivated towards seeking out drawish positions.
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by glangdale 5y ago
This is what I would refer to as an "expansive" list - it also has Salvatore on it. Some people just plain like a lot of F&SF; far be it for me to "yuck their yums". Honestly, if I pick up a glossy new F/SF book
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by glangdale 5y ago
I liked working in an open-plan office with my team around me. We were a team of 4 who had been working together from 2007-2008 through to 2017 (for a while, we were 4/5 of Sensory Networks, acquired by Intel). We talked all sorts of o
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by glangdale 5y ago
As I've stated elsewhere, apparently everyone on HN understands what acceptable levels of "parahippocampal gray matter change" might be, which is reassuring. "Nearly half the case participants had more gray matter after
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by glangdale 5y ago
I love how you pivot from "demanding peer review" and a "high bar for science" to unleashing a great pile of anecdata about overreaction. Much of the science on depression and social ill effects of lockdowns is no more c

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