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by glangdale 5y ago
Delta, so far, seems to infect whole households with ease in a way that we didn't see. Sydney, Australia is on severe lockdown at the moment thanks to a delta outbreak (it hasn't helped that, like many countries that handled the l
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by glangdale 5y ago
I'm not clear on what level of "pretty low" I'd have to see before being reassured here. I guess it's HN, where I'm the only dummy who doesn't know what acceptable changes in everyday metrics like "Pa
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by glangdale 5y ago
I think it's reasonable to be way more cautious about COVID than the "just a flu" and "it'll become endemic" (for some value of 'endemic') crowd seem to think. The UK brain imaging study is a (small,
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by glangdale 5y ago
There's a UK brain imaging study - small, due to the fact that one required the "lucky" confluence of having participated in the study before the COVID-19 epidemic, and having gotten COVID - showing the kind of longitudinal e
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by glangdale 5y ago
One unintended consequence of this advice being widely followed will be a lot of (or, frankly, "even more") write-only projects appearing on Github. As an interviewer I wouldn't be against this metric, but I would prefer to
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by glangdale 5y ago
I once ran across an inner city neighborhood with 4 friends to see Solaris, due to being a bit late. We got in just in time - I watched it raptly, and at the end of the movie, looked to my left to see all 4 of my friends angelically asleep
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by glangdale 5y ago
"Memoirs Found in a Bathtub" punches above its weight for Lem. Solaris is good too. I find Lem interesting but only sporadically enjoyable. The Strugatskys have gone from being "Roadside Picnic" + a largely unobtainable
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by glangdale 5y ago
Metro 2033 is a solid SF B-grade actioner. Not great, not terrible. It's not even vaguely in the same league as Roadside Picnic.
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by glangdale 5y ago
Friedl should be off the list - writing a vaguely competent "user" focused book that butchers the theory (in a way that's had long-running consequences for people's understanding of what an NFA actually is) doesn't
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by glangdale 5y ago
Younger people catastrophize; she's not crying about her software job, she's crying about what she perceives as the "obvious failure of her entire career starting now". When I had a dubious run of bad job interviews and
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by glangdale 5y ago
One thing I've noticed in a number of different contexts is that women seem to disproportionately feel shame and guilt in circumstances where the majority of men would just cynically punch the clock and collect cash until it's tim
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by glangdale 5y ago
From what I recall, raw Shaney output is considerably less well punctuated than the examples given. I suspect a good deal of manual clean-up has gone into these examples to keep sentence length manageable, as well as make punctuation and ca
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by glangdale 5y ago
A former boss is a great zerohedge aficionado and constantly posts their stuff to his Twitter. He is locally famous for having predicted about 35 of the past 2 downturns in the Sydney property market.
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by glangdale 5y ago
Ellenbrook is more of a planned exburb, not a new planned town per se. It's about as far from Perth as Parramatta is from Sydney. Odd that you mention Australia, as I think we're completely lousy at building new cities (leaving to
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by glangdale 5y ago
I'm finding it remarkable that people getting chased out of houses they've lived for years - maybe all their lives - by property taxes is "non perverse". Bonus points for using the phrase "happened to randomly live&
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by glangdale 5y ago
Thank you. I think that the idea that a hash map that doesn't provide insertion order "hates me" is a bit overblown. Not that this isn't occasionally what you want, but that feels like an exotic new data structure, not t
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by glangdale 5y ago
I agree. Further, to the extent that students need to learn "Jira-fu, unit testing, peer reviewing, etc." they can learn this in a controlled environment run by the university. The problem with trying to have all students (not &qu
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by glangdale 5y ago
I've done some Processing with both of my kids. One of them also did a ton of Scratch, which is very different in a bunch of ways - and he seemed to spent a lot of time wrestling with the fundamental limitations of Scratch. It felt s
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by glangdale 5y ago
It's my feeling that articles like this are evergreen, simply because the demands on a "first programming language" are contradictory and excessive. Depending on who you ask, a first programming language (I'll say 1PL to
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by glangdale 5y ago
Mostly, but there are legal actions one could stumble into where $5K is pocket change. These typically 'downscale' but they don't necessarily downscale all the way.
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by glangdale 5y ago
Weird that anyone would acquire anything for <$5K; I would have thought that sensibly taking on any kind of going concern or project would require too much in the way of legal expenses to make it worth it. Maybe I have an exaggerated not
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by glangdale 5y ago
Yeah, and then they took little Calvin Jr and buried him in an unmarked grave or dumped him in the Potomac, right? The conditions were considerably worse than those afforded to the President's son, and arguably worse than those the chi
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by glangdale 5y ago
It seems like time to pull out the ground-penetrating radar at, well, anywhere the church-y types have been allowed custody of children. The Irish "homes for fallen women", for example. It's amazing, in Australia, how religio
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by glangdale 5y ago
You are conflating "concentration camp" with "extermination/death camp". The modern "concentration camps" were invented by the British during the Boer war.
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by glangdale 5y ago
It's a baffling idea that these are competing for the same market, but maybe ebpf is going new places? [edit to be more clear: I thought P4 is aimed at a much narrower, higher performance use-case than ebpf].
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by glangdale 5y ago
He wasn't awful. OTOH while he seemed principled, he often just seemed to vote along with the Coalition then publicly regret it afterwards - helping them get what they wanted on refugees and then being surprised at how inhumane it all
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by glangdale 5y ago
A lot of nitpicking here, as is typical on HN, but the Australian experience is instructive. We can vote for the Greens without "throwing our left-of-centre" vote away and still preferring Labor to Liberal. Ranking only up to 5 is
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by glangdale 5y ago
In the Good Soldier Sveijk, Hasek recounts (via a character) that famous, if apocryphal tale of the French commander Pierre Cambronne, who when asked to surrender, supposedly said "Merde! The guard dies, but does not yield!". I th
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by glangdale 5y ago
My hindsight also shows me that I trashed the WWW as "yet another system like gopher and WAIS that probably won't amount to much", so I should not be trusted with predicting the future, or even possibly the present.
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by glangdale 5y ago
Given rob's disdain for academic research and the literature in general, I'm not sure he'd be my go-to guy for analyses about this, but I agree that we don't see the kind of OS research we saw in the 90s. I think a lot o

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