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by smaddox 7y ago
Do you have a link to it on Audible, or somewhere? There seem to be several Great Courses on Biology. I absolutely love the series, and the one you're describing definitely sounds like one I would like to listen to.
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by smaddox 7y ago
Or it could go dormant, like the herpes virus.
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by smaddox 7y ago
Ahhh. In that case, Google also has a version of this that writes to Google sheets: https://www.google.com/forms/about/ Our HR and accounting ppl use it regularly.
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by smaddox 7y ago
They're certainly easier to clean. If you use an anti-viral cleanser on copper or SS, it would presumably be more effective than on cardboard.
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by smaddox 7y ago
To clarify, the borrow checker is not disabled in unsafe blocks. Unsafe blocks just allow raw pointer dereferencing, which can be used to bypass the borrow checker.
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by smaddox 7y ago
Seems pretty easy and reasonable to write a wrapper function for mmap for all 3 OSes in common use...
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by smaddox 7y ago
Very cool. It would be incredible to see what some professional game devs could do with FPGA acceleration.
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by smaddox 7y ago
Give it some more thought. By having a third level, your representative is only shared with another few hundred people, and you talk to him/her semi-regularly. And the 2nd level rep talks to that person regularly. And your concerns and
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by smaddox 7y ago
> The average US representative represents more than 700,000 people. That's because Congress capped the number of representatives. https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1901-1950/Th... If they ha
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by smaddox 7y ago
But that's massively better than just an array. It changes the time complexity from O(char_inserts x file_len) to O(cursur_move x file_len), which is likely a couple orders of magnitude better.
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by smaddox 7y ago
Only 49%? I sure as hell didn't come up with a completely original password when promoted by a 90-day-expiration. I just incremented the appended number.
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by smaddox 7y ago
Any rule that reduces the posterior of a breakthrough is generally going to be an improvement. Unless your definition of "breakthrough" is extremely generous.
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by smaddox 7y ago
TIL about liquid metal cooled nuclear reactors. Wikipedia makes lead-cooled reactors sound pretty amazing, and yet lead-bismuth seems to be preferred, presumably simply because of the lower melting point, despite the disadvantages of bismut
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by smaddox 7y ago
The bank bailouts is distinct from Quantitative Easing. The former was government backed loans to large banks. The latter is the Federal Reserve buying extremely over-valued financial assets (over-valued because of fraud), and then just fin
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by smaddox 7y ago
Luajit does something vaguely like this: http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector#arenas_block-ma... It doesn't need to access the actual data when sweeping.
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by smaddox 7y ago
Deflationary currency is even worse than Fiat currency. We don't need irrecoverable recessions. We just need our governments to stop relying on trickle-down nonsense, and start injecting money at the bottom. We need to rely on and leve
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by smaddox 7y ago
Even if you weighted the F150 up to match the weight of the Cybertruck, the Cybertruck would almost certainly still win. Electric motors have much higher starting torque, and as soon as the F150's wheels start slipping, it would be gam
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by smaddox 7y ago
Mindfulness meditation. Sitting with your thoughts and emotions, experiencing them, and understanding them, rather than avoiding them or distracting yourself from them can have a dramatic effect on your life. And 10 minutes a day for a week
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by smaddox 7y ago
> hard problems Understatement of the year. The number of man hours Intel has sunk into optimizing each of these boggles the mind. And this is coming from someone who worked there for 2 years.
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by smaddox 7y ago
You've got the causality backwards. Low interest rates cause speculative investment. Good investments don't cause high interest rates.
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by smaddox 7y ago
:sigh: Interest rates are pinned at the zero lower bound by the central banks. They can't raise the rates without tanking the economy, because just about every country has massive private debt burdens in excess of 150% of GDP. Higher i
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by smaddox 7y ago
14% is still ~35 million adults. That's still a problem. And yes it's better than it was right after the global financial crisis, but this boom is not going to last forever. Our economic policies and policy makers are too busy sti
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by smaddox 7y ago
Why do you say that? The approach I linked can be an absurdly efficient way to generate gamma rays with super-conductor magnets and electron recycling, like the Japanese electron accelerator has. And keep in mind, these atoms are already un
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by smaddox 7y ago
It seems unlikely to me that this could be an efficient way to burn radioactive waste. However, there is another approach that combines a linear electron accelerator with infrared laser pulses to generate absurdly high power (compared to tr
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by smaddox 7y ago
From wikipedia: > In computer science, imperative programming is a programming paradigm that uses statements that change a program's state. All CPU's I know of are definitely imperative. My (limited) understanding of GPU instru
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by smaddox 7y ago
> Using average pilots instead of highly experienced test pilots is a sensible step to prevent a repeat. Or a good way to kill average pilots. How about using highly skilled pilots, but failing a plane when anything unusual happens?
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Maybe... But a single drone could much more easily put a coal, oil, or natural gas power plant out of commission. How is this relevant?
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In my reading, basically every one of those points to Uber/Lyft drivers being contractors...
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Not in Rust.
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If a stimulus is required (which it definitely will be when the next downturn hits, unless we want the worst depression in history), we'll be begging for inflation. But there will be massive deleveraging and the resulting deflation to

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