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by greendave 6y ago
Okay, I give up. Who's the third U? Also, why all the hate for the National Institute of Health?
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by greendave 6y ago
> To avoid any false positive result we have taken all the usual precautions and we also confirmed it by two different, techniques and staff. Sure? No. But taking their statement at face value, it does seem unlikely.
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by greendave 6y ago
Would be interesting to see a comparison of Amazon's tactics and Walmart's. Traditionally Walmart has gotten a lot of bad press for its working conditions and its destruction of small businesses across the US. Amazon has thusfar
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by greendave 6y ago
Still limited to 2 USB/TB ports on the base model (and precious little else). Want more than that and you're paying a minimum of $1800. Between limited ports and soldered in storage/memory, it feels like Apple has gone all-i
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by greendave 6y ago
> Auto-updating of snaps can only be deferred at best, until at some point, like Windows, it auto-updates anyway. Even on metered connections, snaps auto-update anyway after some time. This attitude is obnoxious. Yes, not everybody is o
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by greendave 6y ago
Seems that'd be an argument for x86, not against it. Especially now when AMD is quite competitive. > starting sometime around 2020 That prediction hasn't proven wrong yet, but it's looking increasingly unlikely. If the M
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by greendave 6y ago
Somewhat surprised at the lack of PCIe 4.0. Is there really no demand for more PCI bandwidth on high-end desktops?
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by greendave 6y ago
> comes as the 3,800-person Uber engineering group could be slashed by nearly 800 people in the coming weeks That leaves 23,000 people to account for.
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by greendave 6y ago
> The Mountain View, California-based company helps commercial vehicle operators go electric by providing charging infrastructure and fixed prices to charge their vehicles. I imagine that commercial power rates are less variable than res
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by greendave 6y ago
> There is an emerging political consciousness in Silicon Valley. Technologists are advancing a new way of understanding the challenges facing America and how to solve them that do not split neatly along the traditional left right axis.
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by greendave 6y ago
It's good to have numbers, but given the wide disparity in testing rates and protocols, it's difficult to come to any significant conclusions based primarily on day-to-day case count. Death count is at least somewhat less subject
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by greendave 6y ago
Perhaps badly worded on my part. Limited != none. Clearly SIP has bent the curve. But new cases that are being reported now were transmitted well after SIP came into effect, i.e. are happening despite SIP. And absent other policy change
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by greendave 6y ago
It's not that SIP does nothing - it's that past a certain point, the rates are what they are. San Mateo and Santa Clara counties have seen a slight increase in the number of cases last week over the previous week. Other Bay Area
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by greendave 6y ago
This problem generalizes to state-lines as well. Moreover, restrictions are not uniform. For example, San Mateo county restricts movement to within 5 miles of one's residence. Other bay area counties like Santa Clara do not. So lega
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by greendave 6y ago
The problem is that the shelter-in-place rule is already limited in effectiveness due to a very lengthy list of exceptions plus many people not observing the spirit of the rule. Compliance will only drop over time as people see that 1) The
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by greendave 6y ago
I suppose today it would be impossible for something like this to unfold the same way that it did in 1955. Still, given how much larger the financial services industry is and how clever they have been at packaging and repackaging things, c
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by greendave 6y ago
"This article is aimed at small companies and serious indie developers who do this for living; not for home and hobby use." "Mac mini is not an option, don’t even look at it." Absent any discussion, I'd be inclined
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by greendave 6y ago
An interesting project with an interesting history. The alternate OS scene isn't as big as it used to be, but MorphOS is one of the few still plugging away and adding new features (3.13 was released 7 Feb 2020). For anybody curious en
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by greendave 6y ago
"She said it is also likely that more companies will continue to allow or even prefer employees work from home if they can, which could also eliminate the cost of some office space." I'm all for allowing WFH, but I fear when
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by greendave 6y ago
"Brought to you by Ahrefs, a data-driven marketing toolset powered by a huge index of backlinks, keywords and content" "90.63% of Content Gets No Traffic From Google. And How to Be in the Other 9.37% [New Research for 2020]&q
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by greendave 6y ago
I'd be happy to believe that Sweden has found a better way to deal with things, but at the moment they have 5x the number of deaths per population of California (2150/10.1 million vs. 1500/40.0 million). That's not grea
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by greendave 6y ago
I've found xfce 4.14 to be a very nice update from 4.12 (which was in 18.04). Glad to see it will be getting a lot more exposure now via xubuntu.
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by greendave 6y ago
The joke about building idiot-proof software comes to mind, but it's surprising to me how many systems really don't do a good job of making the right thing easy and the wrong hard. Dangerous defaults have consequences! Of course
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by greendave 6y ago
Probably worth noting in the title that this is a June 2019 publication, so the versions used (gcc 7.2.1, go 1.9.5) etc. are not exceptionally ancient - basically they used what was readily available in CentOS 7 around that time. That said,
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by greendave 6y ago
As an asymptotic* person, I resent your hyperbola. (Sorry, couldn't resist).
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by greendave 6y ago
Thanks. Had not seen that acronym before.
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by greendave 6y ago
And 51% is quite misleading. 24% of the US population lives in the 30 smallest states. That means that effectively 12%* of voters are responsible for a supermajority of senators. Or if you consider the filibuster, 41 senators can represe
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by greendave 6y ago
"In a grotesque way, Florida’s disastrous UI system represents the successful completion of a project: They intended to build a UI system that failed those who needed it, and they very much did." This is the lens that needs to be
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by greendave 6y ago
That works up to a point, but test accuracy makes it risky to be too definitive in interpreting the results. For example the Abbott test appears to have a 15% false negative rate[1]. That's potentially a lot of infectious people who
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by greendave 6y ago
I'm always a bit suspicious about x86 vs. non-x86 micro-benchmarks. I remember all the fun people had with ByteMark back in the day, and while I assume that Geekbench doesn't play those sorts of games with compiler optimizations,

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