scottlocklin

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by scottlocklin 6y ago
It's widely recognized by the actual American left that neoliberals have taken over the Democratic party, but it's less often said that the Republican party is mutating into a worker's party, differentiated largely on social
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Complaining about strict evaluation, the std lib not doing what he wants it to, the type system, the lack of heap profiler/threadscape, and .... demanding Golang handle zero values in his preferred way is basically him whining it ain&#
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Because people gamble on election outcomes using ethereum.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
It's actually not an interesting or original idea, and this is a shit tier paper; it's generally a way for a physicist to attempt to get a job when done grad school. Echo state networks do insanely well on the Mackey Glass equatio
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
TLDR: dude ate less (careful tracking with no cheating) and got some strength training in. Strict discipline and doing some work actually generalizes.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Reminds me of Alfred Lord Duggan's "Count Bohemond" where Sichelgaita of Salerno comes off as one of Bertie Wooster's harridan aunts. Also trash historical fiction, but unlike the above authors, Duggan never pretended ot
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Are you shitting me? You're asking me ... on one hand to "trust the science," to the point humans change our use of power, transportation: basically upend industrial civilization, but you're also telling me this "sc
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
It's a nice story, but it's about as likely as brie causing fewer realized CHD deaths. There's no way you could deconvolute either from their diet; the red wine meme is probably just upper middle class people telling each oth
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Now do France. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1768013/ Correlational studies are inherently flawed when you have something as complex as diet. It's probably quite true that in a random samp
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
We're not living in a Golden Age of Historical Fiction; in fact everything I recognize in that list is total trash. John Biggins is pretty good though. A Sailor of Austria is better than any of the Flashmans I've read (the other 3
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
> So you demand that scientists produce predictions that are bang on not only in 'what' will happen, but also 'why' and 'when'? Yes, actually: if I'm supposed to take "scientists" seriously, t
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Same is it ever was; IF Stone was one of the greats of his era, and he basically fed himself with a private newsletter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._F._Stone
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
FWIIW it appears that UPS located the mail.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Just a reminder: git was developed as, and can be used as a decentralized source control system. You don't need github at all. Github came 3 years after git was invented.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Your prediction isn't correct if your time estimate is wrong. I bet some Pacific islands will be beneath the ocean some day with probability very close to 1 (I dunno we could get hit by an Asteroid first). Betting they will be last mon
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
That study is absolutely not missing, and it says exactly what you'd expect it to[0]. It's even being tested as an active treatment[1]. In fact, that study was also done with Influenza[2] and other lung borne ailments as well. It
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
New Englandah here. More or less the same upbringing you describe, where intimate touch is reserved for sexual partners and family members. I don't agree, though, that it's made my life materially worse in any way, and articles li
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
I'm kind of flabbergasted anyone from the desktop era stopped using desktop computers. Trying to do serious work on a laptop is either not doing serious work or laughably insane. Big monitors, big IO (laptop motherboards mostly throt
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Stuff I use every day: column reflow, djvu/chm/mobi support, cropping and zoom on text size even in scanned images. Supposedly lots of other features as well , but simply supporting djvu is so huge for me, I can't imagine bot
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
what? nobody mentioning Koreader? Light years ahead of whatever Nickel reader comes with the thing.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Beyond being complete gibberish, of course their dumb ass phones produce as much "radiation" as an ipotato.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
The way the asics were written in 2000 it should work. Should work in free-fall also.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Terrible take; basically flinging poop at the agricultural southern economy without mentioning, you know, how the North kind of burned most of it down. He quotes a nice description of the American skilled working class of the 1800s, then so
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
> I don't understand how such a popular language can have such a weak story in dependency management and integration with third party libraries. At some point 40 years from now, someone will complain about Rust not having full integ
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
You can do whatever makes you feel better: everyone who is not living in a bubble is getting it, vaccine or no vaccine. Notice how we wiped out the flu with the flu vaccine back in 1956? Yeah, me neither. Lung borne viral ailments do not wo
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
You fail to understand the fact that everyone's going to get it. You can't control that fact, not even by blowing up the economy. The best thing you can do if you're afraid is to wear a mask and take vitamin-D (or go outside
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
The reality is, most people are going to get the 'rona. Germany for example; they didn't get it as much last spring; they're getting it now. NZ, same thing's going to happen, unless they develop North Korea style immigra
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Looking pretty path dependent at this point. Don't mistake luck for good policy.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
csvlook/csvkit, apparently; something I never heard of before, which is actually not installed by default in ubuntu. He also included the data itself, which is pretty helpful, but which could have more usefully gone into a git repo som
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
You're engaging in solipsism here; the point isn't whether or not you think pre-marital chastity is acceptable or not (I bet there's a question in this goofball RWA book asserting that it's not OK) -the point is the nazi

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