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by jzl 8y ago
LLVM bytecode is very cool, and arguably evidence that a more generic system could be successful, but it is not considered to be instruction-set agnostic. Yes, it allowed Apple to tweak the cpu in new Apple Watches without requiring updated
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by jzl 8y ago
Was about to say the same thing. Seems like he's slipped right back into his long-established form of discourse. It's always entertaining to read, I'll say that much.
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As the old saying goes, "smoking is the leading cause of statistics."
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Update to my post above: it's called "lead time bias".
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Good article. Links to this interesting one from the same site: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-early-detection-of-canc... Excerpt: This earlier detection can also lead to an overestimation of the efficacy of treatmen
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The article goes into this, but reminder that cancer survival rates must be carefully considered as a part of a bigger picture. In short, if cancer patients are surviving on average 5 more years than, say, X years ago, but cancer is at the
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by jzl 8y ago
Are you familiar with the show? No American viewer of Last Week Tonight is so lacking in self-awareness that they would condescendingly "laugh" at Brexit as if their own country was doing fine. There's nothing contradictory a
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Good update on Brexit yesterday from Last Week Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaBQfSAVt0s This answered a lot of questions that I (an American) was wondering about the current state of things. The most telling mom
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by jzl 8y ago
Not seeing any comments here about the most interesting part of the OP: how Ghostery ran tests disproving Google's claim about the length of ad blocking lists causing noticeable performance degradation. Yet in the mailing list announce
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Unless if you're Costco. https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/06/20/how-did-costcos-cr...
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I love that FF has its own root store. I've often wondered why Chrome doesn't have its own, which seems like it would be a Googly thing to do. But I'm glad that they don't and hope they don't implement one any tim
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by jzl 8y ago
More info on SHAKEN/STIR: https://transnexus.com/whitepapers/understanding-stir-shaken... http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/how-to-stop-spam-robo...
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That documentary, "Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me" is currently free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuU23sDT6hY Obligatory link to The Replacements song "Alex Chilton", which is how I and I&#
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Was curious about this too. A minute after some quick googling: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article76614477.html
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Recently switched back to Firefox after a ~4 year stint with Chrome. Was previously almost exclusively Firefox but eventually surrendered to the tide, not to mention FF wasn't in great shape at the time. Have been super happy switching
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I read through that whole discussion the other day and thought this was the best comment: Is a browser something fundamentally under the user's control, or is it something fundamentally under the corporate entity's control? Ask
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Exactly. Robocallers just call every single phone number. There aren't that many.
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But that's pretty much already a problem because most people, myself included, no longer answer calls from unknown numbers, unless we are expecting one. And my patience even for that is running thin -- more than once in the last few mo
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They've said it themselves multiple times: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/slack-confirms-it-has-rais... In previous rounds, Slack’s CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield has said that the company ra
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Yeah, huge shout out to Initech specifically for their amazing work in that field. ;)
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Useful answer, thanks!
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But, why not? Let's say a (regular) scooter or even bicycle has been sitting on the sidewalk for a couple of days. Is it illegal for me to consider it abandoned and just take it? Consider the case of an item that actually is abandone
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by jzl 8y ago
So, simple question, but: what is the legal reason I, not a customer of Bird and having never signed an EULA in their app, can't just take a Bird scooter off the street and just keep it in my house, even as decoration without modifyi
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by jzl 8y ago
"This may seem like a distant problem, but, as Tom Scott recently observed, the year-2038 apocalypse is now closer to the present than the year-2000 problem." Wow, I knew it was approaching soonish, but that's an eye-openin
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by jzl 8y ago
Don't know specifically about this one but many aren't. The Pillars Of Creation isn't[1]. Also we humans can never see most of space in "true color" with our own eyes, even in a telescope, because the brightness of
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by jzl 8y ago
"Do you suppose the "night sky" would be about as bright as day due to the number of stars?" --> I seriously doubt it. Not an astronomer but: 1) Remember that you are looking at a 2D projection of a 3D galaxy. There&#
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And don't forget ViaGrafix.com
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Or "locate".
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There is one surprisingly good feature in yahoo mail that I wish google would provide: the ability (requirement, actually) to create a custom prefix for disposable email addresses. Just pick something completely unrelated to your real usern
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Have you seen the movie Free Solo? Some interesting coverage of this topic in it.

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