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by xyzzy123 4y ago
> Why not a videogame controller? For the same reason you can't effectively teach marksmanship using call of duty.
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
I am absolutely on the COVID-19 lab leak train because it's plausibly true, no serious investigation has been done and a lot of contorted reasoning has been provided to the effect that no one should look. The other things I could care
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
IMHO some other distinguishing factors of true "wicked problems", like housing, welfare, drug policy, traffic etc is that it tends to be very easy to make things worse if you are not extremely careful, and they are subject to id
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Agree, huge demand for virtual desktops and centralised management overall... just not running Solaris. Altho hn'ers are not very exposed to it, many large enterprises run with thousands of users on "virtual desktop farms", l
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
for the ultimate in efficiency though, what if this processing was done right inside the userspace process? /s /ducks
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Unspicy take: Try to take a blameless post-mortem approach rather than blaming your "bottleneck" engineer, this is ultimately an organisational failure. Get people together, go through the RCA process. Use some representative bloc
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Ironically, Equifax is making money out of the Optus breach: https://www.optus.com.au/support/cyberattack/equifax-protect...
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
You can't practically do nontrivial computation with homeomorphic encyption and the overhead would be much greater than just computing the result 3 times (think at least 10,000 times slower). There's no generic answer to this, you
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Could also be a desire to harvest training data for rekognition?
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
I don't know! That's why it's fun. (EDIT: I can safely say this isn't practically useful... but it's interesting in the same way as watching a cat try to fill out a tax return. I'm not surprised the cat does it
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
It might not be rigorous science but it's a cracker of a blog post. It shows a surprising ability of language models, code is provided and plenty of mystery is left for the reader... which can be investigated by almost anyone for tens
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Optane was pretty great for fs and db logs / journals. That was pretty much its killer (practical) use case.
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
More power to you if it's helpful to you.
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
The problem with complex code is usually branches / conditionality. Also complex indexing or expressions. This stuff very rapidly stops being expressible in narrative form because the details can't be "compressed". The
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
You could try the "osdev" community eg https://forum.osdev.org/ and osdev on reddit.
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Which covid vaccine can I take to prevent being infected?
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
I don't think it's kind to maintainers. IMHO vendoring all the things works for very small (personal) projects or for very large projects (you are google), but not for most of the stuff in between. It's great to be the sort o
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
+1 for gradle, not enough people realise it's a very general build system (not just for java / android). The caching is indeed very good if you set it up properly. In the hands of a level 5 gradle wizard it can also be extended to
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Or contact the financial ombudsman assuming this is in the uk.
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
It's not in the abstract but you can open pdf and see its omicron vs vanilla pfizer (bnt162b2) and moderna (mrna-1273).
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Seems weird, but if they had actually done that (much better) experiment (which has a moderate to high chance of detecting no meaningful difference) it's quite likely the result would not be "interesting" enough to be publish
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
I would like to offer the dissenting opinion that it's good to send cs students out into the world with the idea that "software planning, management and communication exists, and there are a variety of approaches to it" - eve
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Keep them out of easy reach but don't go to crazy lengths. If you can, talk to your 5 year old. Ideally, involve them in the process of making sure grandma takes the medicine. Kids can be very responsible when they understand something
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
It's a confusopoly! They're most obvious with "basic" products like energy and comms - in theory what is delivered is mostly undifferentiated kWh or GB but through the magic of "confusing plans", marketers have
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
> if those papers existed Those papers don't exist for the simple reason that "interesting" bats don't live there. You might want to consider that while R H Ebright can be offensive and distateful, he has been bangin
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Sorry, where are the unsampled bats within 1000km of Wuhan? This stuff has been sampled extensively. Or are you merely stating it's possible there's a bat cave no one's heard of that hasn't been sampled?
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Apart from asphyxiation/kinetic risks and cold burns from crackers (none of which are really high risk IMHO), there's also methionine synthase inactivation. The last one is what the kids need to be told about. It's unfortunat
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
A lot of amenities "worked" before because of aggressive social norm enforcement. For example, people experiencing persistent mental health issues would literally be locked up "for the common good". I think what we are s
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
I consider political systems, language, cultural institutions, religion, values, educational practices, sports and so on to be social technologies. Functional institutions and political systems, trust, capacity for co-operation etc are soci
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
I think it's complicated; the fact that I use a free slack instance for note taking / bots is one thing, but I'm on 2 company slacks right now (paid), 2 non-profits (1 paid 1 not) and a handful of open source communities. Am

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