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811.
by tlb 5y ago
Doctors that work on older patients or worse cases will have worse numbers. Usually that effect far outweighs the skill difference between doctors.
812.
by tlb 5y ago
Doing RCTs of a treatment tells you if it works. Without random assignment (or some clever experimental design) tracking outcomes really doesn't tell you anything.
813.
by tlb 5y ago
oof-size:large.gif To pick up one thread: how would increasing the consensus threshold from 5/9 to 8/9 help? It seems like the nodes were compromised with the same hack, so at most it's adding a little extra busywork for the
814.
by tlb 5y ago
It's not clear to me. If you're able to estimate the fraction of cargo shipped on short-haul coastal routes from that picture, can you share what number you arrived at and how?
815.
by tlb 5y ago
What do you think the advantages of continuous following are, vs. reading up on their history the day before the next election? It seems to me that by waiting, you'll have more information on how their policies worked out. JIT judging,
816.
by tlb 5y ago
Do you have more information? Like what fraction of total TEU-miles are on short routes?
817.
by tlb 5y ago
This seems surprisingly far down the list of what SEC's priorities should be. A million dollar fraud when there are almost certainly billion dollar frauds ongoing. One theory for going after small fish is that fraudsters often start sm
818.
by tlb 5y ago
The sad thing is, there's no reason for any modern system to require a small MTU. MTUs of only a thousand bytes made sense on sub-megabit networks (to limit jitter), and when RAM was purchased by the kilobyte. But there's no reaso
819.
by tlb 5y ago
I think you can get the carbon credits if you can make the system work. You should work out the economics: the volume of water one of these tubes can transport per year times the amount of CO2 dissolved in that much surface water divided by
820.
by tlb 5y ago
How did the firmware modify the data in the shift register to write text? Did it require cycle-accurate delay loops to hit it at just the right cycle?
821.
by tlb 5y ago
Most Apple products I've owned, I've ended up seeing inside at some point in their life cycle. It makes a difference to me knowing that they're nice inside. But also, it's hard to think of products that are nice on the o
822.
by tlb 5y ago
Fixed, thanks.
823.
by tlb 5y ago
Fixed, thanks
824.
by tlb 5y ago
Why? All security agencies have both offensive and defensive operations. Hacking tools leak often, because you have to install them on hostile systems. So it seems like an unrealistic goal to want an agency with good defensive advice and no
825.
by tlb 5y ago
But the answer to this isn't to just let fires start whenever and not put them out. When they start on hot, windy days they can destroy cities. The right answer is some combination of controlled burns (on cool days) and stopping random
826.
by tlb 5y ago
Languages not ruled by a BDFL are subject to every team member wanting to get their pet feature in, motivated by ego, fame, and career. This happens with all corporate software, as people compete to (for instance) foist their new videoconfe
827.
by tlb 5y ago
We should be stricter with requiring a genuine technical connection. “Has a podcast on Spotify” or “fundraised through GoFundMe” don’t count. Journalists throw in recognizable names whenever possible because they get clicks, even though the
828.
by tlb 5y ago
For instance, the addition of boilerplate to every document would increase their similarity metric. This has certainly happened over that time period with required compliance statements.
829.
by tlb 5y ago
> - Training someone after they fall victim to a phishing attack makes them MORE likely to fall for future attacks. Fascinating. A fair number of training programs seem to have the opposite of the intended effect. DARE (saying no to drug
830.
by tlb 5y ago
It's one way for people to cope with information overload. Instead of letting the information firehose spray into space, try to store it somewhere. You can certainly store some for future use, but when people get excited about fancy sy
831.
by tlb 5y ago
You can't detect most UB at compile time. LLVM has a system to detect it a runtime. There is a significant performance penalty, but it can be useful during testing. See https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehavior
832.
by tlb 5y ago
It evolved from a small system where the people all knew each other and went to the same few public schools where everything also ran on the honor system. It wasn't a bad design for its original scale & context. Those dumb bankers.
833.
by tlb 5y ago
I got this too, from the UK (I'm pre-ordering before heading back to the US). I suspect it's trigged by non-US IP addresses. Using a VPN fixed it. But how lame to give such an opaque error to so many people.
834.
by tlb 5y ago
Don’t overlook the probability of a fire or burglary or flood causing the loss of everything in the closet. RAID and file system redundancy won’t help in that case. You need multi-site backup anyway, and then file system failures are also c
835.
by tlb 5y ago
A strange mix of ideas. Some (“ESP works”) are matters of fact: either true or false, and the scientific method can improve our confidence in the answer. Some (eugenics) are a matter of values. Heretical values are interesting because they
836.
by tlb 5y ago
What are the advantages of putting heavy industry on the moon?
837.
by tlb 5y ago
There seems to be very little machinery available for making small volume injection mold runs of your own. The industry has gone in the direction of large, expensive machines that can crank out lots of one design quickly, and then switch to
838.
by tlb 5y ago
GP seems to claim that, with sails spread AND motor running, it has to follow power boat rules despite looking the same as when it's just sailing.
839.
by tlb 5y ago
Does it create a problem that other boats can't tell which rules a motor/sail boat are operating under? In other driving rule systems, it's important that everyone can predict everyone else's proper behavior.
840.
by tlb 5y ago
It'd be a fascinating experiment. The languages we use all have a great deal of shared history. Essentially all modern languages were designed by people who were good enough programmers to implement compilers/interpreters/run

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