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by orra 5y ago
> quirky work around for negative square roots. I would say that is more of a side effect. I agree it's not a perfect motivation, for teaching purposes. When you introduce an answer to the square root of a negative number, questions
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by orra 5y ago
Somebody else replied to you about the technical feasibility. It's also worth noting that if you statically link Glibc, you'll need to make more of an effort to comply with the LGPL. If you dynamically link, you automatically comp
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by orra 5y ago
What is your point? That clearly isn't typical terminology for news reporting. Moreover, I explained it is bad terminology, for it trivializes and normalises suicide.
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by orra 5y ago
Actually, no, saying somebody "died of suicide" is preferred language[1]. It's important when reporting on suicide deaths not to glorify suicide. Copy cat suicides are a real risk. Words like "successful" have a har
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by orra 5y ago
Perhaps not as a drive path, but they can via a UNC style path. For example you can browse to these in Explorer: \\wsl$ \\wsl.localhost\Debian
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by orra 5y ago
To be fair to UWP XAML, it's more efficient than WPF. I don't mean because it's written in C++ instead of C#. The render pipeline of WinUI is more efficient. It's really interesting, but unfortunately I can't find t
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by orra 5y ago
Yeah, I'd parse the article as saying, for example, job postings for React roles shouldn't specifically require years of experience with React. This is because Vue knowledge is highly transferable. There's an insulting premis
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by orra 5y ago
Often the number of years required is discriminatory. Asking for 1 or 2 years experience is probably fine, but quite a few posts ask for five years. Without a particularly good reason, I suspect this is nominally unlawful in many jurisdicti
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by orra 5y ago
OK, but isn't the flip side of low density that there just wouldn't be enough of them to generate a meaningful amount of electricity?
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by orra 5y ago
I realise you’re being flippant, but if you turn parks into windfarms then suddenly many, many people have no access to any green space. Transmission isn’t that expensive in the scheme of things. Else offshore wind, of which I am a fan, wou
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by orra 5y ago
A lab in the UK performing PCR tests messed up big time, and returned 40 000 false positives. 40 000 people forced to work by their employers, who then spread it to colleagues and customers, because they had a respiratory disease but ‘it is
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by orra 5y ago
This is drivel. First, even against Delta, the vaccines remain some of the most effective vaccines ever, at preventing severe disease. Second, COVID just doesn't mutate that much considering how prevalent it is, in part due to RNA proo
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by orra 5y ago
> spread it to those who can't take a vaccine, including the immunocompromised. I agree we should get vaccinated to reduce spread but, good news, this is wrong. UK clinical guidelines[1] state the immunocompromised and the immunosup
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by orra 5y ago
That's a misleading line, referring to peak viral load. If you read the rest of the article (or probably the study abstract), you will see vaccinated people are infectious for less time.
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by orra 5y ago
Alas you are a tad optimistic. The majority of the common cold cases is caused by rhinoviruses. But yes, like 20% (ballpark) are caused by coronaviruses.
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by orra 5y ago
Some fair points, but these things are possible. Last time I was using Mercurial—which was admittedly a long time ago—there wasn't /anything/ like fixup.
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by orra 5y ago
git rebase -i (interactive rebase) is, however, to kill for.
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by orra 5y ago
> Also vaccinated people spread delta Vaccinated people? Much less so than the unvaccinated. Double vaccinated people are 60-75% less likely to catch even asymptomatic COVID. If infected, they are 50% less likely to transmit it onwards t
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by orra 5y ago
> My decision against getting the vaccine was entirely risk based. You say that, but you ended up catching COVID twice. Was the second time post the availability of vaccines?
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by orra 5y ago
Presumably they're kicking the placebo participants out? As others say, it is not ethical to give them ineffective treatment (placebo), given the effectiveness of the drug has been clearly demonstrated.
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by orra 5y ago
> one has to necessarily take on vaccine risk without catching covid Thankfully that risk is tiny. > Also, if the new pill ends up as effective as they say it is, there is no reason to push for 100% vax uptake anymore -- it would turn
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by orra 5y ago
I'm not so certain. People who for whatever irrational reason don't want an mRNA vaccine can take a viral vector vaccine. Yet they don't.
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by orra 5y ago
The vaccines are 92–95% effective at preventing hospitalisation and death. (They also reduce spread significantly.) That's great. However, that means something like this is still very useful because of that 5–8%, especially for the eld
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by orra 5y ago
Gotcha, thanks.
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by orra 5y ago
People act astonished the COVID vaccines aren't perfect. You mentioning universal vaccination is such a key point. Let's look at smallpox. We eliminated smallpox. Amazing! Yet, first, the smallpox vaccine wasn't perfect. It w
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by orra 5y ago
I am thinking: if and when this is approved, we have to think about distribution. This drug is fantastically effective at preventing hospitalisation and death, if administered within three days of symptom onset. That gives quite a long time
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by orra 5y ago
That it's unethical to continue giving half the participants a placebo makes sense. I am curious though: do they ever continue with the trial, with the patients on the actual drug? Might that be useful for monitoring rare-ish side effe
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by orra 5y ago
Indeed. At least BSL licensed software will eventually be FLOSS. But this? The Elastic Licence? Apollo is now indefinitely proprietary software, disingenuously masquerading as open source.
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by orra 5y ago
Mmm, to rust can have a specific meaning, especially in chemistry, of iron oxidization. Nonetheless, there is also a more general meaning of corrosion of other metals. (It's entirely normal for words to have both specific and general m
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by orra 5y ago
Sure, making a dynamic language fast is not easy. However, back then people thought LLVM was a magic wand. It wasn't. There were several problems. First, the Unladen Swallow team (IIRC) spent a lot of time fixing bugs in LLVM. Second,

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