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by vajrabum 4y ago
What would dentistry that isn't in the dark ages do differently? Genuinely curious.
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by vajrabum 4y ago
To get a real handle on this you need to look at metastability in electronic circuits. Essentially any asynchronous circuit with feedback even one as simple as a flip flop can fall into a stuck state such that it may never converge to a val
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by vajrabum 4y ago
Are you talking about Government employees or lobbyists? BTW, notice that their power is circumscribed by the law. When that changes their powers change.
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by vajrabum 4y ago
Isn't rounding pretty much the same thing as throwing away some precision in this case? So if I drop some (enough) bits and add .5 then no amount of averaging is going to recover the lost precision. Or maybe I misunderstand?
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by vajrabum 4y ago
I've heard that story before, but never seen any data that substantiates it. I'm interested in it. Where did you come by this opinion?
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by vajrabum 4y ago
Do you have some historical examples?
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by vajrabum 4y ago
Is that really true though? Do you have an example of bureaucratic ossification leading to a mafia state? Is there evidence that is how any mafia or mafia state has arises? Is there any evidence that bureaucracy has played a role in a revol
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by vajrabum 4y ago
Not speaking for the person you're responding to but if you call incessant Nazism and anti-semitism bullying then yes.
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by vajrabum 4y ago
But Nazi propaganda does cause Nazism. They called it redpilling, but it's clear on the chans anyway that means Nazism.
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by vajrabum 4y ago
Are IPv6 numbers not available from your local registry at low or no cost? Or in these late days must you rent them? Or is this just a problem of people not wanting or knowing how to run BGP so they can control their own fate?
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by vajrabum 4y ago
Normally you're never going to run a kubectl command in prod that changes anything except for kubectl apply -f. The yaml file may or may not be script or template generated but it's likely. In a lot of shops they're just goi
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by vajrabum 4y ago
There's probably a reason that Apple has moved to designing it's own chips. With that Apple doesn't buy chips so much as buy time at the fab. Not sure that's the same reason but I'd guess it plays in there.
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by vajrabum 4y ago
If you read the document again (?) maybe you'll see it's not about proving a negative. Instead, it's a standard of due care. Did you check whether using some particular tool illegally discriminates and document that considera
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by vajrabum 5y ago
I sympathesize about the overhyping. I certainly don't know if it's a good idea or not, but if you work for Google driverless cars are already on the road. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/30/23002082
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Maybe improved, but acting crazy on LSD hasn't completely gone away in the new century (see below). I suppose one lesson would be don't take 4 tabs of acid and drink as the guy in the article did, but still LSD isn't somethin
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by vajrabum 5y ago
I'm not so sure. At VMware in the 2000s we had Marketing Executive who had been a tenured math professor at Stanford. He joined early probably following the primary technical founder at VMware, Mendel Rosenblum, but still.
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YouTube strike for uploading DeSantis video of hassling kids with masks(twitter.com)
9 points by vajrabum 5y ago|0 comments
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by vajrabum 5y ago
I'll second the recommendation of drawabox. That site helped my drawing a lot.
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Very cool. What was the treatment that he got?
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by vajrabum 5y ago
There hasn't been a huge amount of progress in this area since this came out in 2009 at least from looking at Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_vaccine
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by vajrabum 5y ago
I've built spreadsheets with financial data before for business investment and decision purposes and the idea that any spreadsheet or argument relevant to public or business policy would be value free seems laughable to me. There'
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by vajrabum 5y ago
I'd guess that means that going forward security conscious people will be putting tape or covers over not only their cameras but also over their LEDs. In high security settings the buildings have no windows or have fake windows to keep
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Freemind is written in Java. It hasn't got much if any love in the last 10 years but it works fine. There's also a fork named Freeplane that's actively developed. The file formats are mostly compatible. I believe Freeplane fi
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Make sure you test restores periodically! I had a co-worker who got fired when they tried to reformat a failing disk instead of sending it out for recovery and felt safe because the user "had tape backups." Those were DLTs and per
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by vajrabum 5y ago
I think you mean Paxlovid? That's actually approved but apparently it's hard to make and Pfizer is still working on expanding production. Some pharmacies do have it however. As to highly effective, I believe it means that if you t
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Programming Evolves, Privilege Reigns(medium.com)
2 points by vajrabum 5y ago|0 comments
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by vajrabum 5y ago
I've spent a lot of time fixing or working around messes caused by people who don't know algorithms and data structures. If you don't know about those problems then you're likely to solve one without recognizing it and d
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by vajrabum 5y ago
I'd be more sympathetic to that point of view if the evidence supported it. So far, it doesn't. See for example. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Google "Glenn Greenwald is unreliable" or simply type his name into Quora's search and you'll soon see the substance of the complaints. Here's one article on the topic. https://quillette.com/2015&#x2
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by vajrabum 5y ago
There's lots of common 'knowledge' in social psychology including studies done by serious reputable researchers that turns out to not be so. This is a big enough issue that it's termed the "replication crisis".

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