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by timerol 6y ago
A tweet that hit hard recently from patio11: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1258224216156954624 > A gut punch of a paragraph in a 2010 vintage fantasy novel re: plague response: > They were intelligently
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by timerol 6y ago
That's clever. I might steal that at some point. Or combine into a millisecond_of_month on a 32 bit processor. For people that don't play with bits often: Unsigned 16-bit integers have their max as 65,536. Storing data often waste
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by timerol 6y ago
The journal Nature respectfully disagrees: https://www.nature.com/nature-research/for-authors/write > Nature journals prefer authors to write in the active voice ("we performed the experiment...") as
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by timerol 6y ago
Credit card transactions generally take 2.9% + $0.30, which completely removes the possibility of making money on micropayments. Theoretically crypto should enable lower-fee transactions which could enable micropayments. I say that, but a t
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by timerol 6y ago
> I'm lost; what specifically is not the point? That there is an organizational issue. Of course there is an organizational issue. There will always be organizational issues. > Or explain why 20+ person-years of engineering time
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Being in a recession is a weird thing to detect. From Wikipedia: > In the United States, it is defined as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the market, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real
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by timerol 6y ago
If this was true, then living in a city would cost about the same as living in a suburb. (Or even less, since city dwellers require fewer resources, as mentioned above.) As it stands, living in a city is significantly more expensive, and ye
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> The new order will include limited easing of specific restrictions for a small number of lower-risk activities. It appears that this will be the slow start of ending the lockdown.
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The price is generally the last price at which a transaction happened, modulo people intending to cheat the system. There are people who put limit orders on the exchanges. Say that the price of TSLA is $500. I think it's overpriced, an
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by timerol 6y ago
I would guess that Rust wants to stick to one standard encoding, and LEB128 is already in WebAssembly, DWARF, and LLVM. Adding BEB128 would add more complexity. Also, since Rust is generating a bunch of output files, it's definitely po
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by timerol 6y ago
One thing the article doesn't mention: What's next for the facility? Is this a shift change, with the next group cycling in for another 28-day shift? Or do they intend to go back to normal shift work, with people heading home at t
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by timerol 6y ago
Using traditional antibiotics against a virus is not particularly likely to help. Traditional antivirals are in a number of studies currently. By my non-expert estimate, remdesivir seems to be the most likely candidate. It's not approv
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by timerol 6y ago
They give away the whole renaming game when they talk about the image of transportation mechanisms: skateboard, bike, car, etc. They talk about it as if it's a SLC image, but the image title is "How to build a Minimum Viable Produ
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by timerol 6y ago
You are correct that official coronavirus deaths are low. But official influenza deaths (blue diamonds) were almost double their baseline value (green line) and above a threshold value (purple line, but I don't know enough Japanese to
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by timerol 6y ago
No, it doesn't say that the NYT article was based on the work of the Working Group. It would have significantly clarified the post to say whether the NYT article writer did or did not use the memo to help inform the article. It does sa
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by timerol 6y ago
I really appreciate this post. It's hard to read, but this seems very intentional. There are a number of salient points that are very specifically not stated. Some questions deliberately not answered: Who was on the Working Group, othe
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by timerol 6y ago
The article now claims a "504Wh-capacity battery," which agrees with VanMoof's page for the S3.
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by timerol 6y ago
Here's a personal claim: Meine Ehre heißt Treue. (My honour is called loyalty.) Seems like a upstanding thing to say, but it's banned as a slogan in Austria and Germany, because of its relation to the SS. The words chosen are rela
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That doesn't matter. If you sell a contract for August now, the buyer of the contract is the person who has to worry about the price of the contract going down. As the seller, you just have to deliver the goods as specified by the cont
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by timerol 6y ago
Private development funds public infrastructure though. So if you build really expensive public infrastructure, you need a corresponding amount of private development in order to pay for it. Really dense and valuable development like in dow
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Conflating "people that practice good OpSec" and "criminals" is disingenuous.
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There's huge uncertainty in the estimate, but someone on Forbes sites guessed about $3.4B yearly revenue in the fall. https://www.forbes.com/sites/christianowens/2019/09/21/strip...
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by timerol 6y ago
I agree with you that Americans don't know how to use lanes, but I want to push back on the cruise control comment. Many cars have cruise control set differently, and "keep the speedometer at exactly X" is not the algorithm g
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It's perfectly rational to want to buy twice as much flour if it's the same price it normally is, but not be willing to pay extra for the organic flour. It depends on the individuals willingness to pay and their estimation of the
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> So he designed the Lucid around a 900-watt architecture. “It’s the only one I’m aware of,” he says. “Tesla’s round about 400 V. Porsche, they upped the ante last year to 800 V.” Is that supposed to be 900 V? Considering the car can pus
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by timerol 6y ago
For a good example of this, see Social Security (OASDI) in the US. The funding method is very regressive, taking a flat percentage of income only under a threshold (12.4% of income under $137,700 with half paid by employer and half paid by
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Compared to conventional explosives, and especially compared to nukes, this is an ineffective and expensive way to flatten a target. A moon base of this type would only start to make sense if you assume that you want to completely flatten d
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by timerol 6y ago
Note that optimal branch factor would probably depend on the expected negative rate. If 98% of your samples are coming back negative, it may be more optimal to divide by into 4 or 8 groups instead of 2 groups.
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This isn't accounting for combinatorial math. If each sample is negative 85%, then the probability that all 10 samples are negative is 0.85^10, or about 20%. If any sample turned positive (the other 80% of the time), then all will need
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by timerol 7y ago
This is basically a clickbait title at this point. After a now-famous CS letter by Dijkstra, "Go To Statement Considered Harmful"[1], the title format expanded dramatically. I'm personally a large fan of Meyer's '&q

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