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by rleigh 7y ago
"Tips" might well be taxable income. But that doesn't automatically entitle Google to a cut of them. Talk about a greedy land grab.
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by rleigh 7y ago
I'm unsurprised by the replication crisis. I've seen scientists p-hacking, and even choosing inappropriate statistical tests because it gave a "better" result. Example: using a non-parametric "U"-test when a p
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by rleigh 7y ago
I think if you take it further, the incentives are ultimately financial: promotion, better salary, continued employment. The alternative is losing your funding and getting the boot.
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by rleigh 7y ago
It's also a fact of life that that economics dictates where effort is spent. If I port all my OpenGL code to Metal, that's a big undertaking in both time and money. And what do I gain? Nothing. The program will render the same
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by rleigh 7y ago
Good point. Probably not a problem in practice for most containers, but yet another reason for why the STL (and C library, for that matter) should have used a signed size type from the beginning.
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by rleigh 7y ago
I'm assuming here that they would use the `size_type` for the container they are iterating over. Otherwise I'm not sure.
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by rleigh 7y ago
This post does not "debunk" what I said. In fact, it explicitly mentions the Warburg effect as something to target as a treatment possibility. And looking at two of the molecular cancer biology texts I have to hand (I did a PhD
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by rleigh 7y ago
No. They can make use of glucose or ketone bodies. I recommend a biology textbook before commenting on fairly basic and long-established facts. However, even if they only metabolised glucose, the brain's requirement is for a constant
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by rleigh 7y ago
It didn't have a source, but it's not pseudoscience. The switch to anaerobic glucose metabolism is part of the evolution of cancer as it progresses. This is because oxygen diffusion into a solid tumour is a limiting factor upon i
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by rleigh 7y ago
> I recently gave every Linux DE an honest test drive and... it's clear that nobody really has the resources to perfect them. That's not strictly true. The resources were (and are) there, but they have been pointlessly squande
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by rleigh 7y ago
No Docker image for the release yet, though, as far as I can see. Anyone know how long it usually takes for it to be made available?
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by rleigh 7y ago
> My pet theory is that 1) people don't want these jobs Ask pretty much anyone who has worked in manufacturing if they liked their job, and wanted to keep it, and you'll generally get a positive answer. People were (and are)
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by rleigh 7y ago
It ultimately doesn't matter much. What matters is that you have the ability to manufacture a product. You can own as much IP as you like, but if you don't have the capability of using that in a production process then it really
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by rleigh 7y ago
It's absolutely effective. Much of the public aren't as educated as we might like, and communication needs to be as simple as possible. Using units of measure will only serve to confuse, because it adds additional complexity in
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by rleigh 7y ago
I'm not sure that's true. Charges for e.g. plastic bags in supermarkets had a dramatic effect across the entire country. Even if you can afford an expense, people don't like paying for things if they don't have to. Wh
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by rleigh 7y ago
Every aspect of biology serves an evolutionary purpose at some level. It has all been selected for at some point in time. Many behaviours are innate, including many (most?) of our own. However, the fact that we have many innate aspects t
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by rleigh 7y ago
No, such beliefs were perhaps entertained by Descartes. But to assume that humans are separate from animals in our conscious perception of the world and our agency flies completely in the face of our understanding of basic biology, from ge
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by rleigh 7y ago
That's an invalid comparison. The stomach is controlled mostly by the autonomic nervous system, as it is in all vertebrates. You aren't comparing like with like. Same for the blink reflex, breathing etc. It is valid to compare
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by rleigh 7y ago
I think there's one key flaw in this, as well as it being fiction. There's a difference between being able to do something once or at very low volumes, and then doing it at scale for production. So long as you understand the basi
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by rleigh 7y ago
Not at all. It would be surprising if it wasn't maintained. Evolution can progress very rapidly, but the core machinery which drives life is very conservative. A good analogy would be to look at other codes. In the computer world,
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by rleigh 7y ago
> It's not "gentler". It's only perceived as such. An iron fist covered in velvet. Exactly so, and exactly why this isn't "wasting time dancing around our feelings". We might think it's illogical a
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by rleigh 7y ago
This isn't even the start of the problems with pip and pypi. If I install pylibtiff, it embeds a copy of an old libtiff which is binary incompatible with the libraries on my system. I have to build it from source, then it works just
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by rleigh 7y ago
One could make that claim about every human being on the planet other than our own self. While both are interesting theoretical philosophical arguments, I don't believe either are true. It's pretty convincingly clear that most a
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by rleigh 7y ago
No, they are a unicellular fungus, which is a completely separate evolutionary branch (eukaryota).
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by rleigh 7y ago
I'm not sure how you drew that conclusion from what I wrote, when I said almost the exact opposite! My argument was that bureaucracy, thoughtlessly imposed, was damaging for projects, and that it should be kept to the bare minimum...
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by rleigh 7y ago
Yes, that's the exact reason you got those CVs in the first place. To assess their suitability. To require every applicant to waste their time to do some test to save you reading them is phenomenally lazy. Do that after you've
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by rleigh 7y ago
I would have to disagree, because there's a logical fallacy in your reasoning here. I agree with your point that in addition to fixing a bug, there's also the need to test, document, take account of maintainability, performance a
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by rleigh 7y ago
That's not what they said. You learn by doing, and also by example. So they can do the review themselves, but also see what other people pick up on. It sets expectations, and also shows how other people think. I always find it intere
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by rleigh 7y ago
> Not even close. It's actually bang on the money. Two words: Common Law. I would suggest, strongly, that the UK does indeed have vastly more in common with the US, at the most fundamental level. Our freedoms, law, government and
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by rleigh 7y ago
He's exactly the same as the other guy. Under the guise of modernisation, he's introducing even more technical debt and gratuitous overcomplexity. Look at it this way. In 15 years time, that ancient docker setup may well be as i

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