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by scott_s 7y ago
I think you’re disingenuously interpreting what I have said. The federal government is the ultimate authority in the US. That is established in the Supremacy Clause: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause . This
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by scott_s 7y ago
It agrees with what I said. Calling states sovereign means they answer to no higher authority. The constitution clearly states that the federal government is a higher authority than state governments. The 10th amendment basically means that
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by scott_s 7y ago
This is demonstrably not true. The constitution clearly states that federal law is supreme in the US. That means the states are not sovereign.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Lessons are generational. Unfortunately. For example, the rhetoric from anti-vaxers would be unthinkable to people from the generation that lived through polio.
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It's also important to keep in mind that some of those ventilators are already in use for non-COVID-19 cases. Our healthcare system has to deal with COVID-19 on top of what it's already dealing with.
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by scott_s 7y ago
And I don't disagree with what you said. But I don't think most of it applies to what the author said: I don't believe she is a post-modernist, nor do I think she subscribes to the simplified view of objectivity that you pres
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by scott_s 7y ago
> The pigeonholing of heritability studies with eugenicist policy Where does the author do this?
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by scott_s 7y ago
> But there is a reason Computer Engineering is the predominantly understood title of the overarching software field. This is not true. The software field side also falls under computer science . Computer engineering is understood to
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by scott_s 7y ago
> If the underlying premise is flawed, who cares if the methodology is correct? The post you're replying to includes an explanation addressing that point.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I don't think that's completely true. The value TCMALLOC_RELEASE_RATE controls how often tcmalloc returns memory back to the OS, but I don't believe it uses a separate thread for that task.
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> When multiple threads simultaneously allocate or deallocate memory from the allocator, the allocator will serialize them. Memory allocators designed for multithreaded use will not serialize allocations and frees. Such allocators use
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by scott_s 7y ago
I got tripped up on that statement, too. The problem is that tinus_hn's parent comment started with a false premise: that the only way to return memory to the OS is by moving memory around, which is not the case. I think CJefferson wa
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by scott_s 7y ago
Memory allocators for manual memory management could return memory asynchronously in a separate thread as well. The call to free() is only required to update some internal bookkeeping in the memory allocator's internal data structures
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Because only the caller of a function gets to decide if an error is recoverable or not. Also note that this reasoning applies to all kinds of error handling, not just exceptions.
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That is a different situation, as there is not mass testing in Washington State. There was/is in China. The point of this line of argument is to get an idea if the fatality rate really is 2-3%. When we thought there might be a lot of u
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by scott_s 7y ago
This is a claim from the submitted article with no evidence: > In all likelihood, however, given the one-off infections that are being detected in disparate locations, thousands if not millions have already had mild or asymptomatic SARS-
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by scott_s 7y ago
My personal favorite example of this is when any character in The Simpsons, other than Homer, says D'oh! They don't say it because Homer said it. They say it because Homer said it, then our entire culture started saying it , so
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by scott_s 7y ago
> In her 1998 book Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement, sociologist Janet Poppendieck controversially argued that, rather than seriously addressing the problem of hunger, food shelves and other nodes of the charity-
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by scott_s 7y ago
I have worked in a development team that had both priority and severity. The main difficulty I encountered was that people would silently factor one into the other. Some would factor severity into priority ( This is a crashing-type bug, so
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by scott_s 7y ago
A saying I have related to this is "Rules make sports." The skills and strategies that matter in a sport develop around the rules. Change the rules and you change the sport. The judo example the author presented is actually one
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by scott_s 7y ago
You're thinking that I label the behavior sexist because the manager propositions only women and not men. I am not. I am labeling the behavior sexist because it contributes to both a work culture, and the wider culture, which excludes
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by scott_s 7y ago
Propositioning a woman who you manage at work is sexual harassment and sexist.
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by scott_s 7y ago
The sexism I see in her post: Upon joining, her manager sexually propositioned her; a subsequent manager sabotaged her performance reviews and attempts at transferring to keep a woman on his team; they gave leather jackets to SREs as a gift
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by scott_s 7y ago
A great explanation of what a service mesh is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589508
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Not in a literal sense, no. But I bet their model treats it similarly.
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"Sideways" exists: don't rate it.
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Since this policy will only publish reviews of accepted papers, I don't think it would impact the situation you presented either way.
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I think this is good, and may also improve reviews. I doubt that Nature has an issue with substandard reviews, but I have definitely seen it in some of the computer science conferences I submit to and have served on [1]. If reviewers know
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by scott_s 7y ago
> We know malloc is very slow because people so frequently roll their own allocators that the STL supports this behaviour out of the box. But malloc/new is also completely endemic all over C++ codebases. Custom allocators are rare a
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by scott_s 7y ago
If I may interject: I believe you are both trying to make orthogonal points. calcifer's is trying to say that some features of Go are compiler intrinsics, and cannot be implemented as a library. You are making a different point, which

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