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by scott_s 6y ago
My point was that the submitted article was weak evidence . That is not the same from saying their conclusions are wrong. It very well may be the case that Vitamin D supplementation is effective against COIVD-19. But the submitted article
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I had some confusion in really understanding how the core memory worked from the author's brief description, and I decided that's something I should remedy. This video has a good explanation, with good figures and animations exp
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I think we should be more measured in our conclusions. See https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-and-covid
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> Unless they were also testing these other interventions, that critique does not apply. How do we know they weren't? Since this is not a RTC, but rather an analysis of historical data, we don't know how much they divided up th
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by scott_s 6y ago
Agreed. To support what you said: the phrase "was associated with" is not a causative claim. You cannot go from that phrase to "improves."
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by scott_s 6y ago
The current discussion here seems to be about Vitamin D in general, and ignoring the study itself. In my reading, this study is weak evidence. This was not a randomized, controlled trial, but historical analyses of a natural experiment. In
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The problem for me is that by changing what I'm not looking at, it draws me to look at what was taken away. We are drawn to look at movement. It may be better to leave the not-relevant stuff alone, and instead highlight what the user
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by scott_s 6y ago
I have wondered something similar, even though I also think that eliminating vote counts was a good thing. A possible feature is, per-thread, giving commenters the option of viewing karma for posts, but doing so prevents them from being abl
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by scott_s 6y ago
I maintain a folder with bookmarks of particular users' comments pages.
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I have a saying on this topic: you’re not as funny as you think you are. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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Agreed. And HN has something I associate with it specifically: the back-and-forth argument, maintaining consistency in positions and reasoning, looking like two people taking. But, upon inspection, many people are involved. That, I think, i
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by scott_s 6y ago
That’s me approaching a blue mailbox with my letter to send in one hand, and my keys in the other.
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And the C compiler that uses it is now at: https://github.com/maekawatoshiki/sericum/tree/master/sericu... (For historical reasons if anyone is looking at this thread in the future.)
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What's important is that you no longer have a critical section , where mutual exclusion is enforced. The only piece of code that has mutual exclusion is an attempt to commit the transaction. The kind of thinking required to implement
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by scott_s 6y ago
Agreed. But! Not all architectures implement atomic operations by locking the bus, as x86 does. The Power architecture uses load-linked, stored-conditional ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-link/store-conditional
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by scott_s 6y ago
> Really, "lock free" programming is just locking critical sections with lower level hardware primitives. I have to disagree, as the more interesting lock free algorithms use atomic operations that can fail . Yes, a compare-an
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by scott_s 6y ago
John Nagle is a commenter here on HN, and has commented on this very thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10608356 I have also ran into this, but for me it was a periodic latency spike with steady but periodic messag
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by scott_s 6y ago
Yes, the gif is more time-efficient. But I watched the slower video first, and I'm glad I did. While I received the same amount of information, I spent more time thinking about that information.
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by scott_s 6y ago
I don't think that's accurate. Looking at the patent application (courtesy of klyrs below, https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2017049261A1/en ), it is indeed an earring that fits into a person's pie
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by scott_s 6y ago
I started explaining that, but stopped as I started asking myself about what the definition of "cancelled" is.
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Star Trek was cancelled after its third season. (This is one of those pop culture facts I didn't realize until recently, as I never liked the original series, but adore Next Generation. All of its cultural impact was from just three
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Netflix pays their software engineers huge salaries because stocks and bonuses are not a significant part of their compensation. Stocks are not a significant part of their compensation because the culture at Netflix - at least what they pro
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And the relevant part from the article discussing it: > The original idea dates back to the 1970s with the work of Stephen Hawking and Bernard Carr. Hawking and Carr reasoned that in the universe’s first fractions of a second, small fluc
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by scott_s 6y ago
Books rarely teach a subject to a person. It's more about shaping the concept in their mind . Let's take a book that shaped how I think about the media: "The Powers that Be" by David Halberstam. It's a tome of a
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by scott_s 6y ago
Sometimes, yes. But you're assuming a result. Divorce is not the goal. Improving your own satisfaction with your life is. Hopefully, that will not lead to divorce, and that's the goal of couple's therapy.
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Things can be done! But you have to decide that your life satisfaction is worth it.
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Please reconsider therapy. If your wife won't engage in couple's therapy, then please consider therapy on your own. You sound depressed, and you are providing reasons to not bother taking action to be not depressed. I am worried b
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I think that when others are talking about the experience of being an academic, they mean that of a professor, not student. While some students do help their advisors write grants, I don't think it's the norm - I never did. But gr
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by scott_s 6y ago
I feel like this discussion is slipping out from under me, as I thought we agreed that the counter itself is a contrived example to illustrate synchronization mechanisms. But your recent response seems predicated on the fact the problem you
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Are you the author? As I said, sometimes you need to be at those levels for reasons outside of your control. When you are at those levels, it's useful to know the best thing to do at that level. In particular, sched_yield() is a know

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