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by krona 5y ago
Doing nothing is usually better than doing anything.
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by krona 5y ago
Anecdotal, but I have a 2015 Lenovo X1 Carbon running Ubuntu 20 (gnome 3.38), a 2020 MBP and a 2019 MS Surface Laptop 3 (windows 10). The recent Gnome experience on hardware half a decade older than the Surface laptop is so much snappier th
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by krona 5y ago
..racism is so deeply rooted in the makeup of American society that it has been able to reassert itself after each successive wave of reform aimed at eliminating it. One hypothesis is this is largely explained by prevalence-induced concep
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by krona 5y ago
Given the UK quarantine period was reduced by the chief medical officers "After reviewing the evidence" to 10 days from 14 by the start of 2021, it probably didn't make a difference.
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by krona 5y ago
Some of the worst aspects of IBM's internal dysfunction survived Gerstner, even though he claimed to had fix them. It's hard to blame him personally, he's just one person. The important point is he perfectly identified the pr
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by krona 5y ago
Louis Gerstner (ex. IBM CEO who transformed the company in the 90's) called it 'success syndrome': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cHVgA2tgWI
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by krona 5y ago
https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-exa... I'd prefer this well written and working minimal example (one of many) to API documentation 99 times out of 100.
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by krona 5y ago
Religious arguments about 'good' and 'evil' are exactly what the people you disagree with are doing.
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by krona 5y ago
Reporting someone of a crime is a violation of their privacy and/or publicity rights?
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by krona 5y ago
Sure, but are you implying the remaining stigma applies unequally and is dependant specifically on age? Is there any evidence of this?
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by krona 5y ago
If social stigma is no longer an issue, why aren't we seeing transitioning across the entire adult population in equal proportion, and not primarily in children?
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by krona 5y ago
The sheer amount of time that specific mistake is made Don't you mean the shear number of times that mistake is made? I'm sure you have no insight in to the aggregate duration of time all these people took to incorrectly pre
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by krona 5y ago
Perceptual and judgment creep. Do we think that a problem persists even when it has become less frequent? Levari et al. show experimentally that when the “signal” a person is searching for becomes rare, the person naturally responds by bro
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by krona 5y ago
WSL Doesn't support CPU performance counters (PMU) or systemd the last time I checked. It's fine for some things but it's more of a simulacrum of Linux.
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by krona 5y ago
To make the case for irrationality, you must make the case using truth, objectivity and reason, and therefore you're implicitly committed to them.
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by krona 5y ago
The vaccine will prime your immunity to one (important) protein. Natural infection could prime your immunity to up to 29 proteins. I'm not sure 'robustness' right word in the context of rapidly evolving variants.
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by krona 5y ago
Making the system handle any unpredictable scenario without ever relying on precomputed maps is likely far safer. Sounds rather counterintuitive to me. I feel far safer driving on my regular commute because I know where the potholes are,
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by krona 5y ago
We were not able to explain the variation of deaths/million in different regions in the world by social isolation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84092-1 A dozen other papers in reputable journals hav
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by krona 5y ago
If the question is how do I get more reliable benchmarking results in the presence of Hyper-Threading, then the answer (on linux at least) might be to use cpusets. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-
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by krona 5y ago
coercion, social alienation and social stratification. As though sexual coercion, social ostracism and strict social hierarchy didn't exist beforehand. Take, for instance, the Chimpanzee.
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by krona 5y ago
Modern CPU's already have several counters for 'nominal' cycles (i.e. cycles at a constant frequency). e.g. TSC instructions and Performance-Monitoring Counters. Converting nominal cycles to time can be unreliable in some cas
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by krona 5y ago
It's no longer a credible business model to simply report what you see to a wider audience. We have Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and every person on the planet with a smartphone for that. (See the fall of Kabul for the latest example.) W
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by krona 5y ago
People 100-150 years ago washed their clothes one a month (victorian England). Rich families had more clothes and extra help; they could afford to have clean clothes. By using more efficient mechanical washing machines the effect wouldn&#x2
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by krona 5y ago
Energy consumption per unit GDP tells a different story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_intensity_by_country
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by krona 5y ago
> A typical plant takes ~20 years from decision to productionized 500 days for a small modular reactor (450MW) https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactor... At least, that's what the brochur
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by krona 5y ago
> and allows health officials to make informed decisions based on vaccination rates. Barely. Forecasting is being done on antibody levels at least in countries that are running good real-time surveillance studies. Hence why Israel&#x2F
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by krona 5y ago
> The test is easy, but has a relatively high false positive rate. The FDA approved Roche serology test has a specificity greater than 99.8% and sensitivity of 100% (14 Days post-PCR confirmation) https://www.roche.com&#x2
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by krona 5y ago
The 95% efficacy statistic was ultimately a positive PCR test, i.e. infection or a 'case' of the disease.
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by krona 5y ago
I'm just about ready to pack it in and hope the next generation is smarter than this one Sorry, the Flynn effect is dead.
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by krona 5y ago
> dealing with an entirely new situation for our species https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics It's not entirely new, is it?

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