thu2111

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by thu2111 6y ago
IIRC it calls it monomorphisation.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Manual memory management isn't magic and speeding up atomic ops doesn't fundamentally change anything. People have to spend time tuning memory management in C++ too, that's why the STL has so many ways to customise allocators
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by thu2111 6y ago
At least in the English speaking media I hardly ever see virologists mentioned. However, maybe I should read some of their papers too then because basically all the advice around masks, lockdowns and so on has been proven wrong by observat
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by thu2111 6y ago
Duggan was nearly a decade ago though, and he pulled a gun on police when they tried to arrest him. Involved in gangland activities. It shows how messed up some of these sorts of riots are: they invariably seem to be about people who were i
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by thu2111 6y ago
I don't think virologists have contributed much so far, at least not to government policy. That's driven almost entirely by modellers. I'm not asking you to blindly trust me on this. By no means. Go read some of the papers yo
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think they're just using a different definition of "expert" to you. Your reply alludes to this; your definition of an expert involves whether journalists say they're experts. How would journalists know? Trusting expert
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by thu2111 6y ago
Thanks! I'm not sure why your post was dead but seeing as you're so nice to me, I vouched for it to bring it back.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Ridiculous that you're downvoted. There are a lot of people posting here who haven't worked on memory management subsystems. GC vs RC is not a trivial comparison to make, but overall there are good reasons new systems hardly use R
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by thu2111 6y ago
But GCd languages don't need to hit atomic ops constantly in the way ref-counted Objective C does, so making them faster (though still not as fast as regular non-atomic ops) is only reducing the perf bleeding from the decision to use R
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think you're mixing up IFR with CFR. Current best estimate of COVID IFR is 0.27%, which is basically the same as flu. https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf However the CI is extremely
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by thu2111 6y ago
Science is the modeling of reality by formulating and testing hypotheses through observation and/or experiment. Does epidemiology not fall squarely within this definition? This is really the heart of the issue, in 2020 at least (I ho
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by thu2111 6y ago
Conversely, outright ignoring recommendations about COVID or climate or something similar, simply because "science isn't always right" or because you "aren't a scientist" is a different thing altogether. Isn&
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by thu2111 6y ago
Well, oil is traded in dollars but not pegged to it. To be pegged to it, there'd have to be a constant oil price but the price floats freely. SoftBank is something of an aberration caused by the growth of China. Son would have lost all
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by thu2111 6y ago
QE. All the low risk high quality debt is effectively cleared by governments in order to 'stimulate' the economy. Well, after enough years of pumping enough stimulus in, the economy starts to look like someone on a perma-high who
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by thu2111 6y ago
Surely the answer is to set management fees to zero and demand that investors are paid entirely from a percentage of the ROI. And maybe that ROI is defined as dividends ... although that part might be going too far (under this definition an
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by thu2111 6y ago
The article is primarily about WeWork and the VCs that invested in it. I don't get why so many comments in this thread are about the Murdoch/Theranos stuff which hardly features. WeWork had "real" VC backing and 95% of t
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by thu2111 6y ago
I'd say they aren't enforced because they are really vague and thus hard to enforce, and if they weren't, all sorts of things would be different and weird. For instance Google might not exist (the search engine) because for t
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by thu2111 6y ago
Are you arguing that WeWork hasn't outcompeted any other office space leasing companies thanks to its funding? The article revolves around testimony from firms that WeWork beat. Also, even if we assume WeWork is an aberration, "be
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think you've just never been exposed to any counter-arguments, frankly. The media won't do it so you're left to believe anything you disagree with is completely irrational. The rational/logical argument for opposing ga
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by thu2111 6y ago
Why can't a corporation have a moral imperative that says "I will not participate in acts of cruelty"? Because it won't be consistent about it. Lockdowns are the heart of cruelty. Mass, evil incarceration of entire pop
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by thu2111 6y ago
I don't watch any TV dude. The stats on admissions are public. There are also plenty of medical workers going public saying they feel guilty to be receiving public adulation at a time when they weren't even working because caseloa
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by thu2111 6y ago
That's what lite mode is. Check it out!
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by thu2111 6y ago
This kind of month-to-month comparison is misleading because flu waves (which is what COVID is comparable to) are usually happening a bit earlier than April. So just comparing April-to-April, and then putting it in percentage terms, and the
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by thu2111 6y ago
It's gone too far though. Where I work everything is automated, even the setup of things where we only have one of them. It's all a giant pile of Ansible scripts, some of which are sort of half maintained. This kind of fanatically
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by thu2111 6y ago
Well, Docker has an API and its own file format (the Dockerfile), I constantly have to look up Docker switches as it's not a tool I use every day and it's not at all intuitive, and I'm still unclear why people love this layer
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by thu2111 6y ago
No, it isn't and no they wouldn't. Sweden, Belarus and now Switzerland are proving that if you don't do lockdowns you get ... nothing. Same kind of epidemic as everywhere else. Nothing out of the ordinary and a year that&#x27
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by thu2111 6y ago
The same system is enforced on sign up too, but the spam market is split between account creators/sellers and account users. So you need it everywhere.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Are you sure? Google has been on a kick for some time now to try and ensure each product area is independently profitable. Up until a few years ago the status quo was that search/content ads made all the money, and every other product
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by thu2111 6y ago
They have a system for generating JavaScript programs that detect what browser you're using and whether it's embedded.
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by thu2111 6y ago
A malicious developer trying to phish in that flow will just substitute a self-hosted or local simulation of the Google login form. That doesn't work because Google login is multi-step. Just stealing a password isn't enough, the

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