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by virgilp 6y ago
I would guess Adobe's? Or otherwise it's not "Liquid Mode" but a similar feature...
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Discovery of a druggable pocket in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein(medicalxpress.com)
87 points by virgilp 6y ago|61 comments
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by virgilp 6y ago
You can do rentals, there are non-Airbnb rentals everywhere for periods of "months". > It does not take AirBnB to have problems with other parties within an apartment block. No but AirBnB exacerbates that - and adds a host of o
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by virgilp 6y ago
Only if you're from US, I guess :|
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by virgilp 6y ago
What surprises me, more than the ton of comments about Google's credibility, is that I suspect nobody even tried to get more than a superficial understanding of what the product is supposed to do and what differentiates it. Surely I ca
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by virgilp 6y ago
> what does that mean? Can it be reduced to a vector of scalar values? No, it certainly doesn't mean that "your performance was [7.23541 8.1241 34.412515 .52632 995.154]". It means "you did good/ you did very goo
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by virgilp 6y ago
It's all in the details. If I get to pick who rates "how useful", this translates into a general "how well liked by my colleagues am I" (general problem with 360* feedback; I'm not saying it's useless, but
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by virgilp 6y ago
You touch on two issues here: one, that there's an entire gamut and not a binary "senior/junior"... and management just LOVE to present requirements like "Can walk on liquid water; God asks him for advice on how to
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by virgilp 6y ago
I'm not saying "people can't be managed" and "one can't evaluate the performance of a programmer" - that'd be obviously false. What I _am_ saying is that it's an art not a science - very hard to
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by virgilp 6y ago
This (and original) statement(s) are all good and nice, but meaningless (in the same way as "there should be no hunger in the world because we have enough food"). Ok, we should judge people by what they can and do contribute to th
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by virgilp 6y ago
Like what, Google would stop operating in Ireland and Netherlands? That’s worse than the rine
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by virgilp 6y ago
Yeah, I really don't get it. Google seems to be daring EU to apply a 5% fine.... why wouldn't EU do that?
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by virgilp 6y ago
Exactly my point. If you're still doubtful about impact of max speed on fatality rate, check out the EU stats per 100k vehicles, bikes vs mopeds in different countries: https://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety&#x
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by virgilp 6y ago
Look at the numbers: 857 bicycle deaths[1] vs 4985 bikers[2]. You can look at the unit sales to see how those translate to percentages - but I hope it's easy to agree that there are more cyclists, in fact. Your theory that motorcycle m
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by virgilp 6y ago
"loud pipe save lives" has always struck me as such an egotistical, anti-social argument. Do you know what would save much more biker lives than loud pipes do? Limiting speed for 2-wheeled vehicles to 30mph, by construction. Someh
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by virgilp 6y ago
Rust has pretty decent documentation. My point is that it's possible/ we shouldn't settle for "that's the universal status quo, nothing can be done about it". Something _can_ be done. And we _should_ be demandi
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by virgilp 6y ago
I don't understand your point. You seem to know that Apple denied an application that was merely stating the "widely known" fact that Apple takes 30% cut; yet you brush that off as irrelevant and "little indication that
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by virgilp 6y ago
My beef is with the assumption that tests can fully encode the requirements - to the point where any bug would trigger a test failure. Having such a test suite is no simpler than having a perfect implementation of the requirements - i.e.
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by virgilp 6y ago
Yes but then the tests would formally describe the requirements - i.e.they would be a de-facto implementation. Congratulations, you just coded an (indirect) solution to your problem (a solution that you postulate is correct/bug-free)
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by virgilp 6y ago
4thbase.io seems available....
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by virgilp 6y ago
> At any rate, the definition of “zero cost” isn’t “it’s the same as a raw pointer”. Rather, it should be read as “its cost is the same as the equivalent functionality rolled by hand” What kind of definition is that? Zero cost is exactly
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by virgilp 6y ago
They are not zero-cost, but yes, it's good that they were added
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by virgilp 6y ago
Best doesn't mean good - as others (and you) said, to be able to claim "objectively good" you need to define what "objectively good" means and how you measure it. You can say "good runner = can run 100m in less
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by virgilp 6y ago
Thing is... talks like these give a wide body of application developers ammunition to say "smart pointers are slow, we need to use raw pointers!". Which is incredibly damaging. In many real-life situations, the difference literall
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by virgilp 6y ago
Ok, I guess I'll look at the talk/ didn't know the guy was in the C++ committee. Still, I personally had to fight the other way around - to convince people that "no, smart pointers don't have significant overhead ov
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by virgilp 6y ago
> Nobody... on what basis? I don't understand the question (I didn't use the word "nobody"). I stand by the first claim (library writers & ISO C++ commitee never claimed that smart pointers are zero-cost abstracti
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by virgilp 6y ago
I developed an optimizing C++ compiler in my youth (one that was actually used in production, not just a pet project). I probably know the actual cost, and also know it may depend on compiler. But that's not the point - the point is th
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by virgilp 6y ago
I watched only a tiny part of that talk but the speaker claims "there are no zero-cost abstractions" and justifies it with.... unique-ptr??? I mean, who doesn't know that smart pointers can be slower than raw pointers? They&#
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by virgilp 6y ago
Or > The coronavirus could kill millions of Americans: ‘Do the math,’ immunization specialist says How is that failed? Do we have a crystal ball that says it's all over/ this virus can't possibly mutate into something dead
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by virgilp 6y ago
What happened exactly? As you wrote it, your comment might also be read as "She failed to maintain a privacy agreement when a Vice editor doxxed her". [edit] the third link above describes what happened

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