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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
The numbers seem to be inconsistent with other studies. The following paper gives incidence of 0.2/100,000 for 15-19 year olds in recent years, while the post claims a rise from 0.3 in 1999 to 1.3 today. https://acsjournals.
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Crypto Trader's Criminal Trial Tests 'Code Is Law' Claim(bloomberg.com)
2 points by oldgradstudent 3y ago|0 comments
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
Sounds good, I'll add it to my ChatGPT prompt.
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
What's the difference between a prior and a bias? How does one distinguish between the two?
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
That could be an effect of aggressive attempts to regain control rather than the cause, though.
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
Usually, a harbor pilot guides the vessel when entering and leaving the harbor. The pilot is a former captain with a lot of local experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_pilot [Edit: The association of Maryl
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
> Every user hates using microsoft products Only because they've never had a chance to experience the competition. Having worked in IBM and had to use the Lotus Office Suite I can tell you Microsoft won fair and square. And I'm
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
> I only ever heard creatives complain about Adobe and their UI/UX and how they don’t understand their customers. There are tools no one uses, and there are tools people constantly complain about.
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
They may be brilliant, but if they're string theorists, they aren't scientists. Or at least that's Woit's point.
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
> If/when it gets to the weight/comfort of normal glasses then sure. I'm not so sure about that. Even after 36 years of wearing glasses (current ones weight barely 20 gram), they still bother me, and I fiddle with them con
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
Measuring the wrong thing, even if it is highly correlated to what you really want to measure, often results not in a slightly suboptimal result, but in the worst possible result.
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
> My wife, who is a physician, thought it might be hypoglycemia, since i'm at high risk for diabetes. Isn't hypoglycemia a side effect of insulin and other glucose lowing agent rather than of the diabetes itself?
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
It also contains an archive of opensubtitles, which is also not very open source.
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
As long as the chairperson of the Federal Reserve doesn't say that the economy is fundamentaly sound[1], I think we'll be OK. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/03/01/fed-chief-economy-...
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
> There's a LOT of room for improvement, but there's no profit incentive for improvement, and let's be honest, git is very nice at it's price point, so we're likely at a local maxima for a while. There was no pro
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
> I was going to say exactly the same thing. This is precisely the issue with UX-led processes. When you're dealing with very hard engineering problems, you really don't yet know enough to be designing a product. It's like
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
> Mr. Ive and his team of designers drew concepts for a car that would look like a European minivan such as the Fiat Multipla 600, which has a half-dozen windows and a curving roof. It had no steering wheel and would be controlled using
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
It has little to do with "shareholder value". The original sin is paying executives with stocks and especially stock options. It creates catastrophic and corrupting incentive structure. Their incentive is to raise the stock price
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
That's simply wrong. While life expectancy at birth has increased a lot, that was mainly due to infant survival rates. Life expectancy once a person reaches, say, 25, has not increased by that much. Diabetes type II was vanishingly rar
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
> Wouldn’t its very reliable high prevalence across a wide diversity of today’s gene pools strongly suggest an early, not late or isolated, origin? There are plenty of things which are common across a wide diversity of today's gene
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
> However, you as a person will only have 1 machine. 1 machine at a time. A configuration allows you to setup a new machine quickly and consistently when one breaks, get stolen, or lost in an inconvenient time. More importantly, as a dev
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
> Why's that? They can get the weight down to barely more than glasses Even after 36 years of wearing glasses (current ones weight barely 20 gram), they still bother me, and I fiddle with them constantly.
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Waymo recalls robotaxi software after two cars crashed into the same towed truck(techcrunch.com)
4 points by oldgradstudent 3y ago|0 comments
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How did the bike industry get into such deep trouble?(escapecollective.com)
2 points by oldgradstudent 3y ago|0 comments
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
There are pretty reasonable 4-port KVM switches on Aliexpress that support 60Hz 4K and USB-3 for $55 or even less. I got this https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002941646654.html a year ago. It has some minor compatib
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
> WSL is what happened, and when it couldn't do some things they built WSL2. I always wondered why it wasn't called WslEx.
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
- "A rolling loan gathers no loss." As long as real estate prices continue to rise, you won't see large scale missed payments because they will be able to sell the assets, refinance the loan, or even successfully rent it out.
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
How could a company, that provided me the amazing insight that I have 71% likelihood of having little or no back hair, fail? BTW, I have quite a lot of back hair. Most of the other physical features are wrong.
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
They didn't simply miss the boat on 64 bit. That was an intentional act to force customers into Itanium, which was 64 bit from the outset.
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by oldgradstudent 3y ago
> I thought that Krzanich should do something similar: Intel should stop focusing its efforts on being an integrated device manufacturer (IDM) — a company that both designed and manufactured its own chips exclusively — and shift to becom

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