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by hannob 10mo ago
Yeah, but there's a plausible explanation for this: Likely, people who get vaccinated also are more likely to do other things to improve their health.
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by hannob 10mo ago
It looks like the shingles vaccine has positive effects that prevent dementia. (Well, that's in the title.) This study was possible due to a "natural experiment" where one country gave people from a very specific birth date t
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by hannob 10mo ago
I found the intro very confusing, tbh. Particularly the "no increased risk of all-cause mortality". I mean, if we assume the vaccines worked, we'd certainly expect a decreased risk of all-case mortality (because "all-c
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by hannob 11mo ago
Counterpoint: XML is a horrible format. Why? Answer this question: how can you use XML in a way that does not create horrible security vulnerabilities? I know the answer, but it is extremely nontrivial, and highly dependent on which program
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by hannob 1y ago
Oh, great, they found another way to power energy-hungry chatbots with inefficient fossil fuels.
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Hydrogen Has No Color(industrydecarbonization.com)
12 points by hannob 1y ago|2 comments
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by hannob 1y ago
While true, it is completely unrelated in this context.
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You want CCS, but cheaper and less controversial? Try Biomethane(industrydecarbonization.com)
1 points by hannob 1y ago|0 comments
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by hannob 1y ago
This comes up on a regular basis in the discussion around hydrogen, sometimes it's also known as turquoise hydrogen. The claims made here are very misleading, let me quickly explain why. The idea here is that you make hydrogen from fos
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by hannob 1y ago
It's actually relatively simple. Adding dependencies comes with advantages and downsides. You need to strike a balance between them. External libraries can help implement things that you better don't implement yourself, so the ans
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by hannob 1y ago
This does not appear to be particularly surprising (?). I think it is widely recognized that exercise and an active lifestyle can lower the risk of type 2 diabetes. Remembering my cannabis consumption days, being under the influence of cann
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by hannob 1y ago
For the people wondering why this does not show up as revoked in their browser: I believe the way the current revocation systems work is that browsers compile centralized lists of revoked certificates, but they do not contain all revoked ce
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by hannob 1y ago
They started shipping installers with de-facto-malware, but at a time when they were already on a downward slope. It was many years after "sourceforge was the default place to host FOSS".
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by hannob 1y ago
> I think GitHub added the “pull request” as a really useful add on to git and that really made it take off. I'm pretty sure the term "pull request" existed before GitHub. (Meaning writing an email saying "I have chan
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by hannob 1y ago
> But that comes at the cost of speed That is mostly a myth. I mean... technically, yes. But the cost is so marginal that you will have a hard time even measuring it unless you generate gigabytes of data. For pretty much all common use c
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by hannob 1y ago
It seems like there's a very plausible mechanism for reverse causation here. If you're already having health problems, you are more likely to follow a dietary pattern that is said to promote health. That this translates to a corre
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by hannob 1y ago
Having seen too many "this randomness function was never meant to be used for security, but people use it for security anyway" vulnerabilities in the past: Can we PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE have this secure by default from the beginning?
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by hannob 1y ago
> We hold an ACME account key on your behalf with the CA, but we cannot use it impersonate your domain or decrypt traffic. That makes no sense whatsoever. If you have an ACME account key for my domain, of course you can use it to imperso
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by hannob 1y ago
> As far as I understand, the key material for any post quantum algorithm is much, much larger compared to non-quantum algorithms This is somewhat correct, but needs some nuance. First, the problem is bigger with signatures, which is why
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by hannob 1y ago
> 3) Syngas fills in that last 2-5% Just one note, I believe what you mean is some form of gas made from renewables, most likely hydrogen. "Syngas" is a term that has a relatively specific meaning in the chemical industry, nota
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by hannob 1y ago
That brings back some memories... Back in the 90s, there was a whole scene around exe/com compression and protection tools. ("Protection" in the sense that people figured out if they compress their executables, that also mean
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by hannob 1y ago
> The Germans in this article all appear to be aligned to either BSW (populist far-left, pro-Russia, anti-US) Picturing BSW as far-left, while not uncommon, strikes me always as very strange. While it's a bit unclear where to put th
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by hannob 1y ago
Okay, maybe this is a stupid question, but: what is an agentic browser? You seem to assume that everyone knows what that means. Is this a common and well-defined term that people use? I've never heard it. It would appear to me from the
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by hannob 1y ago
It's a company selling this "enhanced protection". You need it, because otherwise, they wouldn't make money. The whole thing looks like a PR stunt for an Infosec product. Just that they somehow convinced the EU to fund i
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by hannob 1y ago
"AI Responses May Include Mistakes" is really the one, single most important thing I want to shout into the whole AI debate. It also should be the central issue - together with the energy/climate impacts - in every debate abo
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by hannob 1y ago
This is a justification that was made up after Git came under increasing criticism for its poor choise of a hash function after the shattered attack. It was already known that SHA-1 is weak before Git was invented. The problem is... it does
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by hannob 1y ago
> The standard approach is be liberal in what you accept and be specific in what you emit. What you're paraphrasing here is the so-called "robustness principle", also known as "Poestel's law". It is an idea
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by hannob 1y ago
> Some people don't want to be forced to run a bunch of stuff they > don't understand on the server, and I agree with them. Honest question: * Do you understand OS syscalls in detail? * Do you understand how your BIOS initia
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by hannob 1y ago
> Several people in the comments seem to be blaming Github for taking this step for no apparent reason. I mean... * Github is owned by Microsoft. * The reason for this are AI crawlers. * The reason AI crawlers exist in masses is an absur
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by hannob 1y ago
> the only power generation that has a completely closed fuel life cycle What exactly are you talking about? It does not sound like it describes the way nuclear power, uranium mining, and nuclear waste storage works.

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