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Sure. In many parts of the United States, regional hospital systems have captured their local markets through consolidation and exploitation of their non-profit status. They then offer their own health insurance plans to provide access thei
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> In a not for profit healthcare insurance system, every dollar not spent on patient care is considered waste, and we work to decrease it. That’s cute. But the reality is often closer to this version: In a not for profit healthcare insur
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But that evidence is not persuasive that the set of fonts that the author calls Gorton are actually derived from the lineage he presents (see the diagram captioned “The Gorton quasisuperfamily”), rather than from freehand lettering that wou
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The issue is that the author presents the entire set of typefaces that are similar to Gorton as derived from Gorton without presenting evidence to rule out the obvious alternative lineage: that, just like genuine Gorton, they too were deriv
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As I mention in a previous comment [1], this style of hand lettering was common in textbooks prior to 1894. From 1883, for example, we find this specimen in Standard Lettering , published by the Columbia School of Drafting: https:/&#
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I think you're right. I also believe that it's more likely that the font was informed by what was commonly taught as good lettering for technical drawings in that era. For example, consider the one-stroke gothic lettering in 1883&
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The reason the maintainers can drop support for hardware nobody uses is that dropping support won't harm end users. The same cannot be expected of Rust in the kernel. The Rust For Linux folks, like most sensible programmers, intend to
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The point is that “the deal” assumes that the Rust folks will keep their promises for the long haul . Which kernel maintainers, who have witnessed similar promises fall flat, are not willing to trust at face value. What if, in years to com
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> it's like saying to people that they cannot add for example npu subsystem to kernel because they should first work for 10 years in other subsystems like filesystems on with they know little about. sound absurd? just replace subsys
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> There is nothing the Rust developers could possibly do or say that would alleviate the concern you've just exprssed. They could do exactly what Ted Ts'o suggested in his email [1] that Marcan cited: They could integrate more
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It turns out that the Yellowstone Supervolcano is actually over-risen bread...
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This is like probabilistic programming but with implicit uniform distributions over the supplied values.
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I'm going to guess that the algorithm behind key generation is "record a series of random bytes (from a truly random source): that's a new key". Pretty hard to crack.
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Yes, if you're an executive being lured away from your current position, both signing bonuses and severance packages will serve as insurance against your new position not working out. But, if you're on the board that's trying
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One reason that CEOs get good severance packages is to entice them to leave other successful companies. If they are doing well at those other companies, are well liked by the board, and can reasonably expect to make a lot of money, why shou
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Indeed! The first example I linked to explains this connection in detail.
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What's particularly interesting is that folds are not limited to processing lists. For any recursive data structure, you can create a corresponding fold. What's even more interesting is that you can organize your code to automatic
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The first three stanzas each chain into the following. But the final stanza chains into itself, completing the knot.
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The Computer Modern font was designed to incorporate a "blackness" variable that controlled the thickness of its strokes. This provided a way to adjust the design for different printing processes and to accommodate, for example, i
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I'm only asking you to show me how you'd write tests to detect XSS (or concurrency) problems. In Go or the language of your choice. You've claimed that writing tests as all you need. I'm asking you to show how it's
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Show me the tests. If you can't show me the tests you'd use to prove you don't have XSS problems, it's hard to believe that your tests are effective at preventing XSS problems. > I've built some of the most heavi
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> I know I'm right on this and it appears as though the only people who disagree with me are the same people who don't write tests (and have a lot of bugs). For the record, I write lots of tests, and don't have bugs. I eve
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You're missing something important. You know your code is going to work in production before you got there not because you wrote tests but because you thought about what it means for your code to work in production and then came up
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What you wrote was "you write tests so that you know your code works," but what you seem to have meant is "you write tests so that you when you get burned in production by problems that your tests didn't anticipate, you
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I think what you're missing is that "you write tests so that you know your code works" doesn't actually work for some important classes of "works," security and concurrency (the subject of this HN discussion) b
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I think you're getting downvoted for the unsupported assertion that "If you write comprehensive unit tests, it is not easy to have bugs in golang." Probably because you made that assertion in the context of a discussion of ch
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There is also a summary of this research and some quotes from the lead researcher in today’s Bloomberg Prognosis newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-11-19/weight...
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Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss(nature.com)
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Thanks! That was very kind of you to say. Whenever I write stuff like that, I wonder, "Does anyone find this useful?" It helps to hear every once in a while that the answer is sometimes yes.
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Another neat property of Poisson processes is that when raced against one another, they win in proportion to their underlying rates. This property is the basis of a clever random sampling algorithm that works well in SQL: SELECT *

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