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by harry8 2y ago
Lots of doctors from reputable places eg Mayo on X. Weighing in on things with media coverage like whether cholesterol drugs are a good treatment option. Possibly they're countering quakery from charlatans with good, measured opinion.
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by harry8 2y ago
The ceo and board of directors should go to jail. Suddenly these corporate crimes would stop happening. A company itself does nothing. People make decisions and carry them out and should be accountable.
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by harry8 2y ago
Without agreeing, I'm sympathetic to that point of view.
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by harry8 2y ago
SEO is just another form of advertising, with all the costs, benefits and externalities of any other form.
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by harry8 2y ago
Life Expectancy differs from human years lived, no? Got any numbers? It seems difficult to believe all the medical treatment advances and insane amounts of money spent are having zero effect on postponing date of death (Or even the date of
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by harry8 2y ago
Octal is essential in x86 assembly encodings. They make little sense in hex. https://gist.github.com/seanjensengrey/f971c20d05d4d0efc0781...
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by harry8 2y ago
You think that's seedy? I once used excel & vba as an intranet webserver to collect weekly business analytics using user input into web forms from various departments. A very little knowledge, no proper resourcing, no support, inte
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by harry8 2y ago
The argument runs like this. Legal, regulated opiate availability implies a known quality, purity and therefore dosage. Any drug user who prefers heroin takes uncut heroin in the precise amount they choose. They would not choose to take cut
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by harry8 2y ago
> The performance cost is... Measured how? Being good enough or not for which of a million uses? Without that these statements may well be true for the author but meaningless for the reader & potential user. (Avoiding allocations is
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by harry8 2y ago
Happy customers might work, maybe, possibly. Dependent customers does work, even when they're miserable and they hate you. Consider some examples, from worse is better through addiction.
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by harry8 2y ago
My understanding of OP: Say the loan amount on the building is 100m you know you ain't getting for less than that because the lender will bid up to there at least if anyone is bidding. You think it's worth 20m? Go home, that bid w
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by harry8 2y ago
Religious studies fails to make kids more religious. Abstinence programs taught in schools fail to increase celibacy. Health programs fail to dent mcdonalds market share. Arithmetic fails to stop people taking on unnecessary and punitive de
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by harry8 2y ago
Is that due to the prevalence of steroid usage? Do we know?
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by harry8 2y ago
In 2 sentences this comment encapsulates everything wrong with C++ culture that has caused so many terrible errors becoming standardized forever over the years. Sometimes being nice really pays off.
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by harry8 3y ago
>can we expect that companies like TSMC will even be able to find enough US workers to staff these facilities at a scale which will be large enough to move the economic needle? Immigration.
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by harry8 3y ago
Note Rafa has also won wimbeldon on grass, against Federer at his unbelievable peak (in the midst of winning it 8 times), in 5 sets, in the final, finishing in the dark. And won again 2 years later to put those trophies with his 14 French O
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by harry8 3y ago
French Open tennis. Seems like the winners, (eg Rafa Nadal who has one of the greatest sporting records in any sport, anywhere there), consistently hit ground strokes from the baseline, back over the net and deep enough in play. From that p
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by harry8 3y ago
In a world where inter-company expenses [1] charging out for IP use, accounting & HR services, strategic direction etc. etc. exist, something so simple as expenses being larger than revenue being an accurate economic measurement is whol
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by harry8 3y ago
Would you or I or anyone look less flawed if they went for us like that? Why believe ny mag? How would the author of that piece look under similar treatment? What consequences are there if the article is shown to be full of half truths and
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by harry8 3y ago
ny mag did a hit piece on him which seemed to be without much substance. First I've heard of him, no opinion at all about him.
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by harry8 3y ago
init_nfs_fs() use of multiple gotos starting to look trivial in comparison to that, huh?[1] [1] or trivially replacing with so many nested if statements.
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by harry8 3y ago
yeah, until your destructor throws...
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by harry8 3y ago
Re write: static int __init init_nfs_fs(void) line 2046 without goto. See which version you prefer? I don't see goto use as mandatory. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds&#x
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by harry8 3y ago
The existence of humans who do not suck is utterly irrelevant in calling out an industry where exploitative practises are prevalent. Some say they are the norm. Whatever your view of the proportion, reform is badly needed. Good for you if y
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by harry8 3y ago
You aren't organising your own thoughts. You're missing out on imporant clarification to your thinking and very likely settling for second rate on that basis. That's one reason not to use it, but you may be able to counter th
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by harry8 3y ago
"The grad students that CS profs exploit and who are tasked with doing the review the prof claims s/he has done appear to be using GPT." We know the exploitation is quite prevalent and we should keep saying so out loud every
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by harry8 3y ago
Unless senior managers and board members get criminal convictions and jail time it will continue and the "disturbing" will cease only by being normalized.
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by harry8 3y ago
If an index is being touted and it's garbage it is harmful. (I have not formed an opinion on the index being assessed). The point being if it's extremely variable it /will/ be gamed and will work against you. The circula
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Stuff with a lot of simultaneous i/o that needs to be processed simultaneously, is one answer. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/healthcare-it/produc...
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Volume control is pretty damn safety critical when the driver takes their eyes off the road to jab at the f&^king miserable touchscreen and accidentally wipes out your family. Sir Issac Newton wrote down the laws about piloting a couple

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