oxymoron

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by oxymoron 6y ago
Took me a few days before I could get to it, but this has been fixed now.
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by oxymoron 6y ago
I find that monadic error handling and null safety is as much of a game changer. It gets discussed less, and is obviously not unique to rust, but coming from Java I see what I’d guesstimate to be an order of magnitude difference in unhandle
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by oxymoron 6y ago
Yeah, it was pointed out by someone on /r/rust when I first posted it. I thought I had corrected that, but apparently not. I’ll revise that tonight. It’s obviously a bad mistake.
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by oxymoron 6y ago
I’m the author of this. Fun to see it appear here a few years after I wrote it. I originally put this together in an attempt to fish for a Rust gig. It worked out! I current coworker of mine saw it in /r/rust and passed my name to
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by oxymoron 6y ago
The picture here is unclear. Public news interviewed several dozen doctors across hospitals in Stockholm. Some of them had the impression that they were preemptively turning patients away from intensive care units, but a substantial fractio
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by oxymoron 6y ago
It’s because it takes time to coordinate the collection of deaths from nursing hones and so forth. A large number of countries are not even collecting these statistics, so I think it’s unfair to say that Sweden is poor at it. According to t
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by oxymoron 6y ago
So does Sweden. The public health agency also reports weekly on excess deaths. About 80% of excess deaths are captured in the official COVID-19 statistics.
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by oxymoron 6y ago
Sweden’s hospitals hasn’t been besieged in the way seen in Italy, though, so I’m not sure that is true either. https://www.svt.se/datajournalistik/corona-i-intensivvarden/
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by oxymoron 6y ago
SARS-COV-2 is more closely related to SARS-COV-1 than to other HCOVs, and the original SARS triggers longer lasting immunity (1year+). We don’t know if that’s the case for SARS-COV-2, but at least it’s an open possibility. Encouragingly, th
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by oxymoron 6y ago
You can always subscribe to the many worlds interpretation and stop worrying about it.
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by oxymoron 6y ago
The model is calibrated based on the study from late march, which randomly sampled 700 individuals in Stockholm. From that they can infer the number of infected people at that point in time. They use two separate variables to track unknown
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by oxymoron 6y ago
That was the intention, and the actions where designed for it. However, the care of elderly are handled by the municipalities, who didn’t have any readiness for handling it properly. Hopefully some of those mistakes can be avoided outside o
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by oxymoron 6y ago
A recent estimate puts R at around 0.92-0.98 in Sweden, which means that it’s right around the treshold of sustained epidemic vs staying under control. If people start to become more lax around social distancing restrictions, it could shift
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by oxymoron 6y ago
That estimate is exclusively for Stockholm which is ahead of the rest of Sweden. Stockholm has ~2 million inhabitants, so that’s 25%+. That said, the key aspect is of course whether the intensive care units can keep up with the needs. So fa
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by oxymoron 6y ago
There is very substantial evidence of that. A random sample was taken of 700 inhabitants in Stockholm, which came in at 2.5% positive at that time. Based on that, they model that around 600 000 people have been infected. https://
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by oxymoron 6y ago
Sweden is very efficient at attributing the cause of death, so that's probably why it stands out in CFR rankings: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav... A recent study
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by oxymoron 6y ago
Yeah, estimates range from the current number being around 20-30% of the population. Here's a report from the Public Health Agency on the topic, based on a random sampling study: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/publ
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by oxymoron 6y ago
I may not have expressed that point very well, but it seems like the common law system would encourage less explicit regulation rather than more, so that seems like a bit of a contradiction. Does the need for more litigation drive a desire
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by oxymoron 6y ago
Yeah, I generally agree. The book does highlight how much of it is hinged on contingency, though. The US has strong institutions, but the dynamic of having elites opposing change is still present, obviously. High barriers of entry is a prim
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by oxymoron 6y ago
We’re not necessarily talking about litigation here. Like another commenter pointed out, other legal system allows you to ask the courts for decisions without an opposing party.
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by oxymoron 6y ago
A global capital levy is Piketty's central proposal in _Capital in the 21st Century_.
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by oxymoron 6y ago
I'm in the process of reading _Why Nation Fails_. The central thesis is that the rich and poor countries are separated by inclusive vs extractive institutions. The extractive institutions are characterised by elites that attempt to def
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by oxymoron 7y ago
This is probably the best explanation available of this: https://www.bigmessowires.com/2019/05/19/explaining-4k-60hz-...
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by oxymoron 7y ago
It seems awfully odd to write a full article about this without mentioning that S3 has completely different guarantees due to the cross-AZ design. I tend to think that you probably can trust the cloud from a data integrity standpoint, but I
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by oxymoron 7y ago
Change the RAID settings in BIOS to ACPI and Ubuntu will work out of the box on Dell XPS.
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by oxymoron 8y ago
I’ve completed 120 of them or so. It’s definitely true that most of then are more challenging in terms of mathematics than programming, but there are plenty of exceptions. That said, I don’t think people without a math background should get
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by oxymoron 8y ago
Agreed. That said, to give some credit, here are a few I’ve read during the last few years that I can offer as counter examples: * All the shah’s men, by Stephen Kinzer, about how the 1953 coup against the democratically elected prime minis
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by oxymoron 8y ago
Here’s another good intro, from a few days ago, by Daniel Stenberg of curl fame: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/01/23/http-3-talk-on-video/ He also has a free book about HTTP 3, over here: https:
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by oxymoron 8y ago
This is a good article. The anecdote about Henry Ford’s generator probably isn’t true though: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/know-where-man/
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by oxymoron 8y ago
Is it really fair to say that Wiles proof is the most famous in mathematics? Seems to me like something like the Euclid’s proof of the infinitude of the primes might be more well known? Or the standard geometrical proof of Pythagoras theore

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