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by snewman 6y ago
GC also protects you against forget-to-free, which in most non-GC languages is a common form of memory leak.
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by snewman 6y ago
The fraction of infections which are diagnosed varies quite a bit by circumstance, e.g. available test capacity. In general I get the impression that 10x was typical early on and 3x may be more typical now.
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by snewman 6y ago
Look at it this way: if Tasmania ceased to exist, CO2 emissions from power generation would increase , because on average Victoria would need to run their coal plants more. That strikes me as a pretty pragmatic definition of "100 perc
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by snewman 6y ago
In addition to the points made by toomuchtodo, I believe Starlink currently relies on the presence of nearby ground stations to relay your packets to/from the Internet backbone. Eventually they plan satellite-to-satellite hops but I do
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by snewman 6y ago
Eh, there's nothing new under the sun. The book A Robot Ping-Pong Player ( https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/robot-ping-pong-player ) contains an anecdote about the robot mistaking Marvin Minsky's head for a ping-
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by snewman 6y ago
Agreed, the spectrum ultimately is arbitrary. I was thinking in terms of a spectrum normalized to the country as a whole. In a particular district, you often have a breakdown that is off-center relative to the overall nation (of course that
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by snewman 6y ago
A common scenario in many locations in the US: A district tilts heavily toward one of the two main parties -- it is a "safe" district for that party. The candidate nominated by that party in the primary election is nearly certain
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by snewman 6y ago
A couple of questions: 1. How likely is it that a collision like this (two large satellites, high enough for the fragments to have a long orbital lifetime) occurs in any given year? 2. This announcement popped up on HN a couple of days befo
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by snewman 6y ago
Casey Handmer has a great blog taking hard analysis of what activities will be practical in space. He argues there is no real reason for asteroid mining to bring resources back to earth. So the challenge is to identify a large market for re
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by snewman 6y ago
1. That's the number of deaths given the restrictions. If there were no restrictions then the numbers would be much higher. 2. What is your source for death rates not fluctuating with cases? In general, deaths have reliably tracked cas
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The Core Lesson of the Covid-19 Heart Debate(theatlantic.com)
6 points by snewman 6y ago|0 comments
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by snewman 6y ago
Imagine I am implementing a service that queries 20 separate MySQL database servers to generate a report. (I'm not saying this is a good architecture, it's merely to illustrate the point.) I know that sometimes one of the MySQL in
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by snewman 6y ago
I think GP is referring to nondeterministic exceptions. For instance, if the service under test depends on some other service, then you may need to test the scenario where the other service is unavailable. The exception is not triggered by
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by snewman 6y ago
Correct. But the Google tech stack evolves, and so the codebase may now be based on obsolete internal technologies. (Source: worked at Google 2006 - 2010, was very slightly involved in helping the Jotspot team integrate)
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by snewman 6y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/
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by snewman 6y ago
> ...risk of death is 0.01% for 18-45 year olds. Where do you get this figure? Your first link shows 14 deaths per 100,000 in that age range, or 0.014%, but that is for the entire population , not just people who have had the virus. The
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by snewman 7y ago
Agreed generally, but my understanding is that testing people in the hospital does have value. Just for one example, if you're negative, then you can be placed in a non-Covid wing (otherwise you're liable to catch the coronavirus
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Little Breakthroughs(scalyr.com)
6 points by snewman 7y ago|0 comments
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by snewman 7y ago
Thanks for reaching out. It really depends on what you're looking for, and I don't want to hijack this thread with a long discussion, so feel free to reach out at https://scalyr.com/contact . If you're focused
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by snewman 7y ago
> Their profit margin is usually in their efficiency in doing it better than you This is a very nice way of framing the question. I think there may be at least two scenarios to consider. For some products, cost is primarily driven by R&a
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by snewman 7y ago
Fivethirtyeight has been surveying epidemiologists: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/infectious-disease-expe... Responding on March 16 and 17 to the question, "how many cases will the US report by March 29&quo
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by snewman 7y ago
This site shows the number of tests performed in each state in the US: https://covidtracking.com/data/
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by snewman 7y ago
Try reading https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-th... .
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by snewman 7y ago
Certainly: locking down the populace and the economy, without any plans to take advantage of the resulting respite, is unacceptable. Giving up and attempting to resume normal activity is also unacceptable, full stop. The best/latest
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by snewman 7y ago
I am not sure I agree with the thrust of this article. The gist seems to be: if we do a sufficiently good job with containment measures (e.g. social distancing), we might succeed in limiting short-term infections, but we will have to remain
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by snewman 7y ago
It doesn't change the actual odds, it changes the perceived / measured odds. Imagine 100 people contract the virus, 10 develop serious symptoms, and one dies. In country A, with widespread testing, 40 of the 100 are identified. Th
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Coronavirus: Act Now(medium.com)
17 points by snewman 7y ago|0 comments
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New Fuel-Efficient Rocket Engine Could Enable Lighter and Cheaper Spacecraft(azom.com)
1 points by snewman 7y ago|0 comments
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by snewman 7y ago
Fair point.
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by snewman 7y ago
As predicted in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "...an electric pencil flew across the cabin and through the radio's on/off-sensitive airspace."

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