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by mr_toad 9mo ago
> Some people claim that China's population is half of what the officials claim. Some people claim that the Earth is flat. I’m rather more inclined to believe China’s official statistics than what ‘some people’ on the internet have
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
> I do think the headline exaggerates, I doubt "a lot" are fake, but some do seem to be. The headline is more fake than the numbers are.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
> Over here we just have every person registered in a central database from birth and it's mandated by law to keep the registry updated with your current address. Where is this magical land with no homeless people?
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Or to stand in the way of one.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
He only likes right wing dictators. Even if the left wing dictators behave exactly like right wing dictators.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
This is why certain types of cancer tests are usually only performed on people over a certain age. If you test young people the false positives outnumber the true positives.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
> general trend at the moment “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing” is not new, it’s a quote/observation that goes back hundreds of years. > Imagine if as a dev someone came to you and told you everything that is wrong with y
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
That’s saying that they’re 95% confident that the mean measurement is lower than the treadmill estimate, not that the watch is 95% accurate. In other words they’re confident that the watch underestimates VO2 max.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Compared to the average patient a typical GP sees, someone who can actually run a mile is probably doing pretty well.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Dawkins original definition was an idea that replicated unchanged , in an analogy to a gene, which is essentially a unit of DNA small enough to replicate unchanged.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Why not use a pre-processor or something like it to simply translate the keywords etc? I know that there isn’t a 1:1 match between English words and words in other languages, but you should be able to get something close enough.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
For every car enthusiast there are probably a hundred poorly maintained vehicles on the road. Black smoke is likely soot, and white smoke is almost certainly an oil leak.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
I had a professor who cautioned us not to assume the problem was in the compiler, or in anyone else’s code. Students assuming that there is a compiler (or similar) bug is not uncommon. Common enough he felt it necessary to pre-empt those
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
People used to say the same things about computers. Even back in the early 90s people still questioned the value of computers in the workplace.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
And in a business you can easily measure total profit and divide by total hours worked. When you try and break it down to various products and cost centers is where it comes unstuck. It’s hard to impossible to measure the productivity of v
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
In the computer labs at university we taped a sign over one machine to warn people that its floppy drive would reliably destroy disks.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Not seeing the ballots won’t necessarily stop them from trying to vote. They might ring up to complain that they never got them. They may try and go in vote in person. Trying to vote using someone else’s name or ballot can very easily la
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
> There's absolutely nothing to prevent me from filling out all eight of them as I see fit and mailing them. Nothing. Until the other seven people try and cast votes.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
> Im guessing the answer is probably Java is why eclipse is out of favor. Some people just want a text editor, whereas eclipse is “an IDE and Platform”.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
> what does macOS offer a power user that Linux doesn't https://www.apple.com/macos/continuity/
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
It’s only about 200km across the straight. They have over a thousand fighters and a couple of hundred bombers capable of crossing that gap.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Yes, but that’s not because of AI, it’s because of the Orange Wizard of Tarrifs.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
They’re not cutting edge chips, they’re made all over, including the US, Korea, and China.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Apple doesn’t make hardware either, but they make a lot of money selling it.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
What’s the AI smell now? Are we not allowed to use semi-colons any more? Proper use of apostrophes? Are we all going to have to write like pre-schoolers to avoid being accused of being AI?
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Curious about which browser and hardware. In my experience browsers often choke on 0.5GB strings, or decide to kill the tab/proccess.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
I mean if you replaced an array of one million objects with an array of one million arrays you’d probably end up with similar performance. The article is discussing how you get better performance from having arrays with one million primitiv
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
> I'd be curious to see what the results would be if they repeated the "array of objects" benchmark with an "array of arrays" Arrays are objects, so I’d be surprised if it made much difference.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Many analytical queries require full scans of fact tables anyway, so indexes are less useful. Joins are usually to dimensional tables, which are quite small. Snowflake doesn’t use indexes at all, and it’s built for handling the largest vo
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Which is a lot for a single user, but when you have a dozens or hundreds of analysts who all want to run their own jobs on your hundred terabyte data warehouse then even the largest single machine wont cut it.

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