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> The problem with that in the US is that we have no form of ID that almost anyone who is eligible can obtain for free or very low cost. Wrong. Every American citizen has Social Security Card as well as Birth Certificate or Naturalizatio
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> As a reminder, peer review is not designed adversarially. I beg to differ. Peer review is an adversarial process. The author(s) of the paper are making statements and report findings proving them by logic or/and data and analysis.
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From the article: > But as more and more engineers joined us, some shortcomings of C++ came to bite us: unreadable coding style, memory leak, segmentation fault, and more. One advantage of Rust of C/C++ that is underreported is the
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> PS. If you design software that works with money amounts, always use fixed point decimals. Don't use floats, it's just wrong! Fundamental reason being that powers of 1/10 in decimal fractions are not always representable
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> Why leave one of the brand new, larger pipelines undamaged ... Two possibilities: (1) explosive charge malfunctioned (2) make plausible arguments that it was Russia who did it
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> You can see result of the war cranium detonation "war cranium"? Is it you, ChatGPT?
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In US there are two useless armies of administrators sucking money out of providing patient's care -- one army employed by insurance industry to deny a claim whenever they can, the other one employed by hospitals and healthcare provide
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> telemetry (VSCodium), they could easily remove the name mangling as well. They already did.
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> Just remember: none of that matters unless you're taking measurements. Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted. (attributed to Albert Einstein)
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Rayon operates on top of the thread pool. You can control its size [0] and limit it to a fraction of your available cores leaving the rest for I/O. [0] https://docs.rs/rayon/latest/rayon/struct.ThreadPool
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Use tokio (async) when you wait a lot, use rayon (threads) when you compute a lot. These are two almost orthogonal concurrency use-cases.
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> Giving a forged ID to the secret service, the people in charge of detecting counterfeiting? Well, he was on a thin ice but nevertheless still within bounds of the law. He did not forge or fake the ID, it was a fictitious one like Disne
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From the article: > Meanwhile, market professionals and day traders are rattled and waiting for the exchange to elaborate on what it publicly called a “manual error” involving its “disaster recovery configuration”. Oh, I love it -- a dis
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> They got permission to wipe out acres and acres of wetlands without having to worry about mitigation by donating the money to some wildlife fund instead. How is it anything but manifestation of the blatant corruption? And who run'
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From the article: "The team, led by 29-year-old regenerative medicine physician Oliver Zolman" 29-year-old physician? Did he complete medical school and his residency? Give me a break.
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Fentanyl is strong but short acting opiate mostly used during surgeries. I am curious why it was used for such a long duration as 6 weeks.
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> The big thing pandas has going for it is that it's already been through this field testing. All the bugs have been ironed out by the hundreds of thousands of users. At this very moment pandas github repo has 1563 open issues label
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> SWE at Google means you're good at interviewing, and that's it. Not quite true. As a hiring manager I lost several really good candidates to competing offers from Google. And these were strong engineers not only interviewing-
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V.I. Arnold "Problems for children from 5 to 15" [0]. The book was discussed on HN in 2021 [1] (325 comments) If you have kinds and teach them math this book has mind-opening problems that even curious adults would enjoy. [0] ht
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> Possibly is a result of the SEC rules regarding insider information SEC insider information laws were the same during the DotCom boom/bust of 2000. Yet firing practices were quite different despite the fact that employees also had
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> Apple Silicon Mac’s have 2-3 times longer battery than PC laptops The title should say "longer battery _life_". And no, the Mac's battery itself is not longer than the PC's one.
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> for everyone else the career ladder did exist and you could make considerable impact by your work. This is simply not true and is main reason that superior education in USSR did not materialize in economical and technological prosperit
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We are getting back to labor rights of 19-th century with no guaranteed vacation time. Then it was between you and your manager or company owner of how much PTO time you get (if any), and 21-st century feels the same.
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> The correlation with CO2 output is very very good. Sorry to recite a common wisdom that "correlation does not mean causation".
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> In every TPCH query we ran, polars is orders of magnitudes faster than pandas. I have no doubts that polars is faster than pandas. But the published TPCH results [0] are fairly outdated based on polars-0.13.51 while the current polars
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> Once I am happy with my drafts, I write these up in LaTeX. If I am not mistken, TeXmacs can export into LaTeX directly.
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> "physics person dismissive of other fields" This reminds me of an old physicist-lawyer joke: A physicist goes to see a lawyer. He knows that above all the lawyer is interested in getting his money. So the physicist not wantin
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> Mass and energy are equivalent. Mass is energy at rest, hence equivalence with exception of massless particles like photons that have zero mass and non-zero energy. Also, photons travel with the speed of light in vacuum and cannot be f
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Timing of his arrest is a bit suspicious. Tomorrow SBF is supposed to testify before Congress [0] and his arrest by Bahamian authorities is a perfect way to make sure that the testimony will not happen. Coincidence...? [0] https:/&#x2
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In the absence of price controls UBI will be quickly absorbed by resetting the prices of food, housing, etc. The inflation kicks in and negates most of the UBI benefits. Income (basic or otherwise) is the reflection of person's product

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