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by scott_s 7y ago
The Barkley Marathons. It's a 60 hour race of 5 laps through an unmarked course in a Tennessee state park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_Marathons There is a good documentary about it called "The Bark
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by scott_s 7y ago
For anyone looking to use perf, Brendan Gregg's page on it is the best resource I know of: http://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html
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by scott_s 7y ago
Those from the skeptical community who I read and listen to (mostly from The Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast, https://www.theskepticsguide.org/ ) are quite aware of this idea.
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by scott_s 7y ago
So, rather than having a financial system with basic consumer protections (which would allow transaction reversals and contestation), you would prefer we have a criminal justice system which aggressively enforces and prosecutes minor offens
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by scott_s 7y ago
That's an enormous burden. If we require lawsuits to enforce even minor cases of consumer protection, I argue that there is effectively no actual consumer protection.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I'm confused by your last paragraph. How does the existence of laws that protect consumers actually protect consumers if the payment systems we use don't allow reversals?
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by scott_s 7y ago
What do you mean by "compliance" issues? If you meant that the sum of money you send cannot trigger someone, somewhere to check to make sure the transaction is legit, and we're assuming a transfer from a "normal" ba
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by scott_s 7y ago
The employer has to do it because they're the one who employs the person experiencing the loss. If this guarantee is written into law, then the company's voice will not have much influence on the matter. This is how labor law wo
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by scott_s 7y ago
> I'm just not a great worker. I sincerely doubt that you. You sound like a conscientious employee in an environment not set up for the kind of work you were hired to do. You also sound like you want to leave your job - which can gi
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by scott_s 7y ago
Sorry, I asked that wrong. Clearly misclicks matter at the pro level, as pros are going to exploit their competitors mistakes ruthlessly. What I should have asked is, at the pro level, how often do misclicks affect the outcome of a match?
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by scott_s 7y ago
How much do misclicks or accidental double clicks matter at the pro level?
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by scott_s 7y ago
Your suggestions would lead to absolute paralysis, as you are advocating against using basic plausibility tests before pursuing any hypothesis.
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by scott_s 7y ago
That's the author's conclusion in the final paragraph of the final entry.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Yes, she does discount string theory: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2016/06/dear-dr-b-why-not-s...
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by scott_s 7y ago
Your suggestion about jumping on the EM drive is in direct opposition to what Sabine suggests: "The only way to avoid being sucked into this vicious cycle is to choose carefully which hypothesis to put to the test. But physicists stil
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by scott_s 7y ago
Because the story is based off a recently filed lawsuit. The lawsuit does not say what the contaminate is, which is clearly stated in the article.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I wasn't thinking of that case in particular, but that there are other instance in a garbage collector where you will not just be able to bump a pointer: you need to request more memory from the OS, or you need to start a collection ph
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by scott_s 7y ago
I agree. The author and other commenters here have not proposed an alternative which provides two features I consider critical to a generic data format: schema specification and validation; and easy parsing support in many ecosystems. JSON
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by scott_s 7y ago
Yes, exactly. And! It exists in garbage collectors, too.
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by scott_s 7y ago
In case anyone thinks the above joke is actually what the paper is doing: it is not. The work is trying to use the same techniques that neuroscientists use on neural systems on a processor. The reason is simple: we already understand proc
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by scott_s 7y ago
In support of flohofwoe's point: good implementations of malloc will, on the common path, just bump a pointer without synchronization. The allocation path of good manual allocator implementations and garbage collectors will probably lo
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by scott_s 7y ago
Taken from the Wikipedia page on terminal velocity, and quoted from the biologist J. B. S. Haldane: "To the mouse and any smaller animal [gravity] presents practically no dangers. You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft;
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by scott_s 7y ago
> sadly we live in a society that caters to the lowest common denominator rather than demanding and rewarding excellence. I find that an odd perspective on successful public safety rules and policies with the aim of reducing serious inju
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by scott_s 7y ago
I read the memoir of a CIA case officer ("See No Evil" by Bob Baer) while at that same university. It was surreal to think the place he trained was where I would end up if I turned right instead of left when getting off the highwa
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by scott_s 7y ago
Summaries are fine. Just let's not pretend there's no loss of information.
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by scott_s 7y ago
"Verbosity" also encourages empathy. The piece does a good job relaying the lengths several players go through to achieve the sleep they want. It also gives a good overview of what their travel schedule actually is. Let's not
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by scott_s 7y ago
Service jobs were not scheduled the same way back then; they didn't have the technology do it.
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by scott_s 7y ago
> But if most people have hours of free time every day, it seems hard to believe that schedules don’t line up at least several times per month. One of the main points of the article is that many people don't know their schedules in
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by scott_s 7y ago
For those that don't know, the author is Anthony Swofford, who wrote the book Jarhead, which was turned into a movie of the same name.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I encountered something similar almost a decade ago on this forum when discussing the halting problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1322901

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