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by nn3 6y ago
Why? The younger doctor is likely just reading wikipedia too. And the older ones are probably just telling you what was the conventional wisdom when they did their education 20 years ago.
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by nn3 6y ago
I knew someone would come up with a counter example. Or restoring over the block device. But at least these mistakes are easy to avoid. While with duplicity destruction was fairly easy.
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by nn3 6y ago
I once had a spectacular accident where duplicity managed to delete most of my local file system on a (misguided) partial restore attempt. After that I went back to good old tar/cpio (for incrementials)+gpg and haven't looked back
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by nn3 6y ago
According to the article GE already has orders for $13B worth of monster turbines. That's a substantial business.
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by nn3 6y ago
2. It has too many buttons
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by nn3 6y ago
This raises the question - what paid HTML tools are available today which are as easy to use and have similar capabilities as the old Adobe tools?
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by nn3 6y ago
So what's the recommended way of still playing old Flash games you have a local copy of? I'm very fond of some of the older Amanita games, such as Machinarium
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by nn3 6y ago
Too bad they didn't shut that racket down. The whole business model is a disgrace.
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by nn3 6y ago
Have you ever read the release notes of your browser? JavaScript has holes basically every month too
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by nn3 6y ago
I like it actually as a mental filter. If the language is the main defining quality it usually means the project is nowhere near production ready, and can be safely ignored for now.
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by nn3 6y ago
As I understand most of the cost of a new drug is the testing and certification. It's unlikely that a new drug with the same testing/certification requirements is significantly cheaper than an old one.
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by nn3 6y ago
WebAsm is not performance competitive: "We find that the mean slowdown of WebAssembly vs. native across SPEC benchmarks is 1.55× for Chrome and 1.45× for Firefox, with peak slowdowns of 2.5× in Chrome and 2.08× in Firefox." https
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by nn3 6y ago
Religions are usually quite adaptable, otherwise they don't survive very long. For example Christianity was originally a doomsday religion that expected the second coming any generation, but it eventually outgrew that too.
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by nn3 6y ago
India has special rules for making patented medicine locally. Perhaps similar rules could apply to papers and books too. Unfortunately that's not up to the court, but the politicians.
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by nn3 6y ago
Hell will freeze over before Jepsen runs on Oracle
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by nn3 6y ago
Also birds (and insects/bats/pterosaurs) flight is a lot more energy efficient than any plane. Today's deep learning is essentially brute force, burning thousands of watts for anything more complicated which a single human br
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by nn3 6y ago
There are likely hedge fonds that do just that, but they charge a few percent overhead for the privilege of using that "proprietary" information.
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by nn3 6y ago
Reminds me of https://www.pcg-random.org/party-tricks.html finding Hamlet and Romeo in RNG output. So perhaps the trick is to develop the game with normal content, and then spend a lot of cycles finding the desired output
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by nn3 6y ago
The question is how long the free party at github actions will last. That must be a considerable drain for github's Microsoft internal budget. I predict that will eventually end too as they aim towards profitability.
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by nn3 6y ago
Well it's a degree. Some people write write-only code in perl or in K. Others using category theory and Monads. Not sure if abstract colors are any worse. In practice I doubt there is a significant difference. It's all incomprehen
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by nn3 6y ago
How about Piet? https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet Programming as an abstract painting
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by nn3 6y ago
So we can all assume they will be out of business in 20-30 years? Great. Doesn't sound like a real loss.
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by nn3 6y ago
The music in case you're curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C78HBp-Youk
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by nn3 6y ago
1. The original motivation for opposition to GMO was mainly religious I believe ("Don't mess with the creation"), but somehow turned into "GMO is dangerous". 2. While GMO by itself is not dangerous a lot of the thin
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by nn3 6y ago
I think Microsoft uses with btrees: https://github.com/microsoft/ALEX Of course they call it "ML", but it's just a linear interpolation for faster tree search.
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by nn3 6y ago
For the emergency room bills most of it is paying for other people who didn't pay. It's kind of socialized medicine.
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by nn3 6y ago
Better then #define ZFREE(p) do { free(p); p = NULL; } while(0)
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by nn3 6y ago
I call it resume driven engineering. Just making one server run well won't do much to your resume. Creating some distributed micro service buzz word bingo monstrosity on AWS on the other hand looks impressive. It's all a question
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by nn3 6y ago
Yes, back testing is not perfect, but it's better than nothing. In the Covid simulation case they have nothing as far as I can tell.
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by nn3 6y ago
For climate the simulations can at least back tested against the past climate. It's unclear how that can be done for for Covid. There's nothing to test against because both the virus and the society's reaction is very differe

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