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by scott_s 7y ago
Perceived latency is why I stuck with Terminal over a decade ago. Since then, Terminal has gotten better. Maybe I should re-evaluate, but it's serving me well and I prefer using default applications where I can.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Because their hospitals are not overwhelmed beyond capacity despite having positive cases just as long as other places.
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by scott_s 7y ago
That does not answer what differentiates your solution. I work on steaming systems. I am aware of the spectrum of online, latency aware data processing. But what I can tell from your solution is that the changes are coming from the database
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by scott_s 7y ago
Any database which offers what are called "continuous queries" also solves this problem. I'm glad the ACM Digital Library is open right now, because I can just point to: https://dl.acm.org/action/doSearch
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by scott_s 7y ago
What is that difference?
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by scott_s 7y ago
Thank you.
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by scott_s 7y ago
When your goal is to initiate those in the out-group, it's counter-productive to use an in-group term in the title, especially when that term refers to members of the out-group itself. Insulting has nothing to do with it; in-group term
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by scott_s 7y ago
And I suppose I don't consider it fear mongering because I use the term when someone in the media is saying " X is going to happen," while X is exceedingly unlikely to happen, and it is of negligible risk to their audien
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by scott_s 7y ago
Except that "normie" is the name a particular in-group gives to their out-group. It's not a name that out-group adopted. Most normal people seeing "normie" will both intuit what it means (a normal person), but also
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by scott_s 7y ago
How is this article fear-mongering? And how are they "straining to wring every last drop out of COVID"? To me, these seem like natural articles to write in the middle of a pandemic, and their coverage has also seemed appropriate
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by scott_s 7y ago
This is why I dislike that some have characterized the bill as a "stimulus." The point of stimulus efforts is to stimulate the economy, implying that it's ready to be stimulated. It's not. The $6 trillion is life supp
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by scott_s 7y ago
> All the attenuated live viral vaccines spread. Can you point me to sources supporting that claim? I searched myself, and what I found says that our knowledge is limited to the polio vaccine: "Little attention has been given to v
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by scott_s 7y ago
All good points. But paulsutter's message remains: young people are at significant risk. Yes, the risk for older people and those with pre-existing conditions in higher. But the parent poster's characterization of the risk for you
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by scott_s 7y ago
The DS version is an excellent port - much better than the Final Fantasy ports to the GBA, because they didn't have to compromise on the resolution. It's selling for about $55 now. (Yes, I know this is quite different than having
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by scott_s 7y ago
They likely won't be rehired; some of those business will not exist. Some companies will not try to hire everyone back. And with so many people out of work, there will be less economic activity, period. If the government had funded com
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by scott_s 7y ago
This is an economic shock unlike what any current unemployment infrastructure in the US is designed for. What we want, as much as possible, is a total economic pause . Paying companies to keep their employees on payroll would come closer t
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by scott_s 7y ago
There are. The nonprofit my girlfriend works for works with all victims of domestic abuse. I imagine most such organizations do the same.
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by scott_s 7y ago
The lockdown is not the problem, but it a problem. A new and novel one, as the article explains. My girlfriend works at a non-profit which provides shelter and support to domestic violence survivors. She counsels people in all stages. S
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Open access to ACM Digital Library during coronavirus pandemic(acm.org)
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by scott_s 7y ago
Memory fences and atomics are a part of lock-based code as well. They're just hidden by the locking and notification primitives.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Agreed that sched_yield() is unlikely to be the right approach. A better approach is to use nanosleep() with an exponential backoff.
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by scott_s 7y ago
If having "products people may want during this time" is the criteria we used to determine if a store should remain open, no stores would close. This is a numbers game. We want most stores closed to limit the number of people out
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by scott_s 7y ago
I believe it's likely that many of the stores won't be able to reopen, and I can believe the company would recognize that too. But I but I can't find any source for the company saying it on an investor call. Where did you fin
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by scott_s 7y ago
I like to play games on my couch, without having to hassle with settings or upgrades. I also like having a media center attached to my tv. Yes, one can hook up a PC to a tv. No, that is not without hassle and upgrades. I want a box to play
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by scott_s 7y ago
China tested hundreds of thousands of people in provinces with known cases, and found very little evidence of asymptomatic circulation. See my comment from a week ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22475853 , which qu
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by scott_s 7y ago
Yes, that would. But what evidence do we have for that? I believe you're engaging in special pleading: appealing to an exception because it fits your conclusion.
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by scott_s 7y ago
A comment by Bradley Kuszmaul on that blog post gives a good reason why the scenario presented is not likely: > Given the amount of testing being done in South Korea, we can rule out that there are a lot more people currently infected th
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by scott_s 7y ago
The US can't follow the South Korean model because the US does not have the testing infrastructure for it: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-south-korea-scaled-co... This article presents it as dueling narrat
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by scott_s 7y ago
That should be: prod([2,2]) = 2*2 = 4 Right?
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by scott_s 7y ago
The value increase caused by the buyback tends to disappear in a year or so. There was a study which found this, but I don’t have a reference on hand.

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