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by sjducb 9mo ago
It’s missing the time taken to instantiate a class. I remember refactoring some code to improve readability, then observing something that was previously a few microseconds take tens of seconds. The original code created a large list of lis
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by sjducb 9mo ago
There is an advantage because occasionally you find the second block while the first block is still secret, then you release the two blocks in quick succession. That’s the edge.
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by sjducb 9mo ago
On day one the UKs porn ban was used to censor political speech. Discussion and images of the protests around migrant hotels were age restricted because they contained adult content (racist content, fighting and burning things). This age re
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by sjducb 10mo ago
When people say they have nothing to hide I like to remind them about fraud and criminals. All law abiding citizens have data that they want to hide from fraudsters. Fraudsters often get their hands on government data through breeches and b
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by sjducb 10mo ago
It seems surprising that IQ would not be heritable. Literally everything else is heritable. Height, skin colour, sporting ability, body weight, eye colour, cancer risk, most disease risk, beauty. Why would IQ be mostly random when other thi
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by sjducb 10mo ago
I think we need a law that government agencies must support out of band identity proofing. The root of the problem is that government agencies can request personal details and if the tech company fails to comply then the tech company is san
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by sjducb 10mo ago
I think they will create fake candidate identities. So you’re just the person who passes the interview for them. You might find that you spend most of the time interviewing and fill many positions per year. Providing lots of work for Indian
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by sjducb 10mo ago
Keir and Lammy want to jail Palestine action and extinction rebellion protestors. Juries keep acquitting peaceful protesters. Juries are a great safety measure for bad law. This is why they have been vital for the last 600 or so years.
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by sjducb 11mo ago
Synonyms rarely have identical meanings for example: Happy: Joyful, cheerful, merry, delighted Or Beautiful: Lovely, pretty, attractive The only truly identical synonym I can think of is flammable and inflammable
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by sjducb 11mo ago
Slow roads are easier because you can rely on a simple emergency breaking system for safety. You have a radar that looks directly in front of the car and slams on the breaks if you’re about to crash. This prevents almost all accidents below
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by sjducb 11mo ago
Yes many contracts contain unenforceable or unactionable clauses that are superseded by common law. This is an example of that. For example a tennant can sign a lease that says they have no notice period before eviction. If they’re in a sta
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by sjducb 1y ago
This article is not making a good comparison. Most EVs are luxury vehicles. Luxury vehicles depreciate much faster than regular cars. Luxury car buyers care if the car is new or not. Tesla should be compared to BMW not Ford. Teslas deprecia
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by sjducb 1y ago
You can usually remove the fuse that powers the 5G antenna. That will probably isolate your car from kill switch software updates. Agreed that most people don’t think about this. I’m a preper and I hadn’t thought about this.
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by sjducb 1y ago
I’ve looked at the fuse box for my car and found the fuse that powers the Ariel Module. Removing this fuse breaks GPS and all cellular connectivity. Hopefully it breaks automatic updates. I am tempted to leave it disconnected to see if my c
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by sjducb 1y ago
You’ve got me thinking. I drive a Chinese made EV. If China ever had a nuclear war with the west they would definitely brick all of the cars they’ve sold us. Also it doesn’t have to be China that issues the command. Remote shutoff of cars i
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by sjducb 1y ago
Best case you’re transforming 10^6 cells and you expect 20 of them to take up the DNA. Worse case it could be 10^11 cells for a strain of bacteria that doesn’t transform well. You would have to look at a lot of colonies to find the one that
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by sjducb 1y ago
Biologists modify cells so that we can study them. The modifications are about 0.00001% effective. If you attempt to modify 10^6 cells then maybe 20 cells will be modified. Most cells do not take the modification. So you need to select out
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by sjducb 1y ago
The authors tried to find evidence of gene flow between the domesticated messor drones and the wild messor populations, but couldn’t. They sequenced about 100 ants, so it was not an exhaustive search. However if it was common you would have
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by sjducb 1y ago
The original paper discusses this in more detail. There is a well understood phenomenon called sperm paratism where male sperm will take over the egg, instead of sexually reproducing with the egg. In sexual reproduction the offspring has 50
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by sjducb 1y ago
In 1975 the British Queen instructed her representative the governor general to dismiss the Australian prime minister, dissolving the Australian parliament. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitution..
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by sjducb 1y ago
I think the author would say you did the simplest thing that could work. Ignoring the namespace creates ongoing complexity that you have to be aware of. Your solution now just works and users can use namespaces if they want. The author deal
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by sjducb 1y ago
I’m unsure how the risk compares to an e-bike. Assuming speeds are equal I think the consequences of a crash are better on a scooter. You don’t have a crossbar between your legs to trip you as you fall, and you start in a standing position,
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by sjducb 1y ago
This sounds like the No True Scotsman fallacy. We know all true scotsmen are good upstanding citizens. If you find a Scotsman who is a criminal, then obviously he is not a true Scotsman. If you find a rationalist who believes something mad
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by sjducb 1y ago
I think it’s a result of the concentration of wealth. Lots of wealthy people invest their capital and live off 2-3%, while the portfolio is expected to average 7-11%. They choose this distribution strategy because they are trying to avoid a
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by sjducb 1y ago
> Or that theory could end up being disproved by unforeseen events. It wouldn’t be the first I love this ending. Too many in the media are certain when no certainty is warranted.
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by sjducb 1y ago
Homegrown ORMs are universally terrible and a lot of the anti ORM crowd are really anti homegrown ORM. I’ve used Django, SQLalchemy and Hibernate. All three have good migration stories.
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by sjducb 1y ago
100% If a dev thinks that all SQL can be written by hand then they probably haven’t worked with a complex application that relies on complex data. A good question to ask them is: what problems do ORMs solve? Good answers are: Schema Changes
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by sjducb 1y ago
Gold became a global standard.
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by sjducb 1y ago
People often forget the benefits of dynamic typing.
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by sjducb 1y ago
Maybe, I think the tyre shop is encouraging premature tyre changes. My local tyre shop recommends changing the tyres at 3.9mm. The tyre’s data sheet says it’s ok down to 1.6mm. You’re wasting 2.3mm of tyre, which is 30% of the life of the t

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