puffoflogic

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by puffoflogic 4y ago
How much should we trust or care about the WHO critical medicine lists, given that ivermectin is on there too? Seems like a bunch of anti-vaxx nonsense to me.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
<> are the worst characters for generics, except for all the others that have been tried. () leads to the type syntax being difficult to distinguish from value syntax, which is great in dependently-typed languages but bad elsewhere. [
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
I'd say that because of everything-is-an-expression, and items (e.g. functions, type definitions) allowed in block scope, rustc will accept exceptionally opaque syntax compared to other languages. But that doesn't mean that you
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
If you don't have a source for that, you should put it back where it came from.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Here's one notable use that I doubt many are familiar with: let iter = some_iterator_expression; {iter}.nth(2) For some reason, nth takes &mut self instead of self (note that T: Iterator => &mut T: Iterator<I
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
If I applied this strategy I would quickly be fired. All of the things that my management chain finds valuable are not things which are valuable to the product (mostly, planning and producing as work output JIRA tasks, spreadsheets, timetab
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
If you don't have a cheesecake factory in your town, you are, as far as Amazon's employee demographic is concerned, unpeople. Prime efficiency has little to do with it.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Oh, honey.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
> several classic problems having to do with balls and bins Can't tell if joke, or wrong audience, or authors out of their topical comfort zone. I think the typical way to refer to such problems would be "counting problems&quot
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
I think something is being poorly explained, because that's a lot - a very big lot - of angular momentum that's got to go somewhere or come from somewhere.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Odd that this source omits that McGonigal was a key figure in promoting the Russiagate conspiracy theory.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Algorithms bad.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
If we had used this model in past centuries we would believe the earth was the center of the universe and that germ theory was a crackpot idea. Those ideas would have polled poorly in their target audience and been suppressed.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
> a pesky nuclear reactor would surely also endanger their precious oil and gas profits (A), stop taking obviously unserious legislation seriously, it's a bad look. (B), they can comfortably rely on other jurisdictions having their
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Instead of "now I own..." it would be more accurate to say that the author has been tricked by the police into maintaining custody of the records, without having any ownership claim to them, and being unable to sell them or give t
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Re the "oh shit it's hacker news" edit: TIL dang is a white supremacist.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
> Adding a new file, for example, requires that the filesystem compare the new item name to the name of every other file in the folder to check for conflicts Tell me you don't know how data structures work without telling me you don
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
What's really going to happen: "log in with Google"/"log in with apple" will be the only choices. Are you ready?
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2080/ (Especially re: education expenses)
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Instructions unclear, pinky finger fell off.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Author has confused the drop functions. `Drop::drop` and `mem::drop` have nothing to do with each other.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Garbage. Heating that didn't happen wasn't "hidden", it didn't happen. This is like saying "your serial murder spree was hidden by the witness statements placing you two thousand miles away".
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Sounds like you had doctors performing the procedure who have gotten sloppy because most of their patients are too sedated to tell that the procedure is being done incorrectly and unsafely. As you know perfectly well, the colon doesn't
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
It is medically possible (and maybe even advisable) to get a colonoscopy without sedation. It's uncomfortable but no more uncomfortable than any other... rectal insertion, and a non-negligible fraction of the population does that recre
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
> First, people or companies using the cracked version of your software were never going to buy it. Or , they would never have bought it if unable to obtain a pirated copy, but now that they've tried it, may purchase. Admittedly th
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Parasites like... BNPL schemes? "Everyone is ready to take money from poor people and that's why your racist (or whatever) if you don't let poor people give their money to people ready to take it from them!!!1!" Also the
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Yeah, but is it even worth saying that when the response will inevitably be "so what?" by the entrenched anti-MOND orthodoxy?
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
> That data suggested the possibility that the updated booster might not be any more effective at preventing Covid-19 infections than the original shots. This is a very confusing sentence. It makes it sound almost as if the original shot

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