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by whack 3y ago
The language maintainers have already decided to slow down string-construction by calling StringUTF16.compress(value) which checks if the input can be converted into LATIN1 and if so, creating a LATIN1 byte-array representation from the gro
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by whack 3y ago
I didn't think it was a bug either till I got to the "Spooky action at a distance" section. The fact that the following code: "hello world".startsWith("hello") can return false in any circumstance, is a bu
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New study finds a causal link between sexual activity early in life and m (cont)(psypost.org)
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Spending a night without sleep produces mood benefits for about half of p (cont)(scientificamerican.com)
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Beware of teammates who refactor code based on personal taste without pro (cont)(digma.ai)
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An evolutionary approach to consciousness can resolve the 'hard problem o (cont)(aeon.co)
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Beyond Affirmative Action – How to Avoid Stunting Entire Generations of Kids(outlookzen.com)
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China’s Gen Z graduates fear they have ‘blank paper’ diplomas as youth un (cont)(fortune.com)
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Moneyball for Software Teams – An Imperfect Heuristic for Quantifying Dev Perf(software.rajivprab.com)
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New Car Market: Prices Are About to Plummet Due to Oversupply(finance.yahoo.com)
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Product-Engineering Collaboration – Getting Past Waterfall(software.rajivprab.com)
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by whack 3y ago
> The moral of the story is that data locality matters, and it can pop up in the most surprising of places. Using random is typically the worst thing you can do for locality, so if you want to use UUID’s, try to use a sequential variant
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by whack 3y ago
Sorry to hear that. How did you end up in a situation where you're the only founder working full-time but the other founders have more equity and control over the business?
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Combining caffeine and taurine boosts physical and mental performance, st (cont)(psypost.org)
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Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018)(software.rajivprab.com)
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Bank of Canada now eyeing 'corporate pricing behaviour' in its inflation (cont)(bnnbloomberg.ca)
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CERN celebrates 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web(theregister.com)
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Bayes vs. Frequentists – An Empirical Test in Code(software.rajivprab.com)
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by whack 3y ago
I've taken both the Underground and the MTA and you're overstating the difference. Aesthetically, the Underground is far better, no question. But most commuters are focused on functionality. And functionally the MTA is just as goo
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Why do businesses keep raising their prices? – CNN Business(cnn.com)
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Newly discovered brain mechanism linked to anxiety, OCD(medicalxpress.com)
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We Need a Democracy That Cannot Be Hacked(outlookzen.com)
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Tmux Cheat Sheet: Essential Commands and Quick References(stationx.net)
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Healthcare workers who learned Transcendental Meditation during the Covid (cont)(journals.plos.org)
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Bayes vs. Frequentists – An Empirical Test in Code(software.rajivprab.com)
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Why Would People Dislike a Nice Person?(psychologytoday.com)
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by whack 3y ago
> It might not be wise to accuse people of having an "agenda" It would be wise to read the comment more carefully before replying. I explicitly did not accuse or suggest anyone of having an agenda, unlike the person I respond
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by whack 3y ago
Your comment excludes all mention of Churchill's active role in causing the famine. One would be tempted to conclude that your comment has an agenda of its own, but I'll assume in good faith that is not the case. Source: https:&#
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Parental rejection in childhood predicts fear of intimacy in adulthood, s (cont)(psypost.org)
1 points by whack 3y ago|0 comments
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Git Merge – The Definitive Guide(freecodecamp.org)
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