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by haberman 4y ago
> So now you have to wonder why it was applied, instead of trying to figure out if it applies or not. Now the question is whether you are willing to apply the same analysis to Twitter's decision to apply its "Hacked Materials P
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Ok I think I am with you now. You are saying that lipstick-wearing variation is very strongly influenced by genes (namely XX vs. XY chromosomes), and is thus highly heritable by the definition of heritability, but is somewhat paradoxical i
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But heritability is a statistic that is specifically designed to distinguish between genetic and environmental factors. A trait whose variance has no genetic influence would have 0 heritability, unless I am missing something.
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by haberman 4y ago
> I find it helpful to remember that lipstick-wearing is highly heritable despite zero genetic determination I don't understand what is being claimed. Are you suggesting that twin studies show (or would show) that children inherit
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by haberman 4y ago
The CDC released only a small fraction of the data it collected about COVID, because it felt the data could be misinterpreted. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/20/health/covid-cdc-data.htm... It also dec
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by haberman 4y ago
> Obviously categorizing beliefs into "neutral" and "not neutral" is impossible. There is one distinction that matters a lot, and that is empirical vs. moral. Also known as vs. ought ( https://en.wikipedia.
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> So far tech was doing what it was told, within certain boundaries. This is the kind of tech that will end up telling you what to do, either directly or through some intermediary The financial crisis in 2008 was caused by investors who
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I'm completely content with that deal. But the deal only works if the warranty is clear. Unless it's unmistakable to users that they have crossed the line, they will complain if you break them. A comment next to the member is n
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by haberman 4y ago
RAII is not a silver bullet. RAII wants to have neat recursive ownership and cleanup of everything, which is undoubtedly a nice model, but sometimes in low-level code you have to choose between nice recursive ownership and performance. For
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> What are the downsides of keeping the public fields in a struct which is in turn embedded in a private struct created by the library? That seems similar to using "opaque {}", if I am understanding you correctly? I think eithe
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by haberman 4y ago
To me the anti-pattern is lots of redundant, trivial, verbose getters and setters. If I see a source file with tens or hundreds of lines of trivial method definitions, I think something has gone wrong. Properties help avoid this anti-patt
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by haberman 4y ago
> Most particularly, my experience with arenas and defer drop is -- they aren't always perfectly easy in Rust. That is my experience also: https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/12/19/arenas-and-rust.html
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by haberman 4y ago
> First, I think Zig’s strength lies strictly in the realm of writing “perfect” systems software. It is a relatively thin slice of the market, but it is important. This resonates with me. This is exactly why I use C today, and why Zig a
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by haberman 4y ago
> Speaking of structure fields, they're always public. Structures and functions are private by default with an option to make them public. But struct fields can only be public. This feels like a mistake to me. I own and maintain a
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by haberman 4y ago
I'm one of the biggest GC curmudgeons, but as long as it's an opt-in thing that you do not pay for when you do not use, I am happy. I speak as the kind of developer who wants to optimize the memory management.
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by haberman 4y ago
If the shareholders were wiped out (as I understand they were), then the moral hazard seems limited, no? The main remaining moral hazard would be that customers would be incentivized to choose banks that offered higher rates as a result of
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by haberman 4y ago
This sounds really similar to the story we were hearing about Servo back in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erfnCaeLxSI I was really excited when I saw that demo. Why didn't this turn into a final product that pe
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by haberman 4y ago
That would be true if Rust was a perfect language, but it isn't (no language is). Sometimes Rust makes things hard because the invariants you want to express cannot be cleanly mapped onto Rust's type system. I described one such
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by haberman 4y ago
Articles like this frequently assume that if new housing can be built, the value of existing housing will go down. Is there data to support this? Supply and demand is of course a real and powerful force, however if you tear down a single f
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by haberman 4y ago
> In this case, the executives and shareholders who historically have shown to not be interested in taking a loss for the sake of safety. If an executive is making a choice between profit and safety, then the regulatory regime has failed
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by haberman 4y ago
Only thing that would make this better is if the containers were running under Rosetta instead of QEMU. I'm hoping this is possible at some point on macOS.
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by haberman 4y ago
> Tasks are defined and run as if you were running them in the terminal; no more abstractions like BUILD files. But abstractions are a good thing! They let you separate a system into layers, so that things programmed at a higher layer d
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by haberman 4y ago
> To be clear I already admitted I was wrong about this after checking the other faculty signatures. The call to put pronouns in signatures wasn't mandatory. I was referring to prospective faculty, not current faculty. I saw your c
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by haberman 4y ago
> These opinions seem to be fueled mostly by chatter in the right-wing media sphere, especially Tucker Carlson in recent days. I don't listen to Tucker Carlson, but I have been listening to what you have been telling me in this thre
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by haberman 4y ago
> So yes, the affordances are asymmetric, because the relationship between these groups and the institution is not the same. One is a paying customer, the other is an employee. I find this explanation unconvincing. If we take you at you
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> Some applicants will make some big deal about pronouns not being necessary, and we will have to reject that application because we all have our pronouns in our signatures. Not for political reasons, but because we have many trans stude
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by haberman 4y ago
When I see someone argue from first-hand experience that this is all no big deal, I feel fairly confident predicting that their politics are more or less aligned with present-day progressivism. And within that context, I can believe that i
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by haberman 4y ago
If the interest in DEI was primarily market-driven, rather than ideological, then we would expect to see a strong correlation between the selectiveness of an institution and disinterest in DEI. Institutions like Harvard that accept only 4%
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by haberman 4y ago
Isn't correct unwind information a precondition for handling C++ exceptions? It seems like a compiler that produces incorrect unwind information would display incorrect behavior when a C++ exception is being caught.
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by haberman 4y ago
> I am extremely wary of their quality control I am curious to hear more about this. Do you have bad experiences to share?

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