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by zackees 5y ago
13k downvotes, 30 upvotes.
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by zackees 5y ago
What liability? Section 230 specifically says they are immune from liability.
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by zackees 5y ago
That open letter against RMS is so cringe. The people who are attempting to purge him sound like intolerant, wanna-be dictators.
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by zackees 6y ago
This article is not a good explainer of type erasure because it uses inheritance to do it. I’m waiting for the day that someone figures out and does a blog post showing that every std data structure can be rewritten with type erasure. Here’
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by zackees 6y ago
“At the same time, developers still see value in writing type annotations as they serve as documentation.” Also useful for autocomplete. For me, most of the value of typing is at the function level: what does this function accept as input a
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by zackees 6y ago
One of my favorite data structures in C++ is InlineVector<T,N>. If the number of elements is <= N then it all fits in the preallocated space. This is great for keeping memory on the stack when N is small, yet allow heap memory over
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by zackees 6y ago
Yet that hasn’t happened despite all the warnings in the media for 3 decades of my life and no significant rise in sea level in my lifetime. The alarmism is more likely propaganda than legitimate scientific inquiry.
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by zackees 6y ago
> “Quite frankly, [to] other folks who have tried this over the years, it was considered a career ender,” An astounding indictment across the whole scientific community that attempting to investigate an energy source that would advance h
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by zackees 6y ago
> We'll set aside for a moment that he's trying to argue the only way that sexual assault can occur is if the attacker literally assaults the victim. So was it figurative assault or do words not have literal meaning anymore?
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by zackees 6y ago
Going to chime in here - ice ages cause extinctions, not warm ages. We are in the knifes edge of too cold. A little extra green house gas to buffer out the ice age is a good thing.
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by zackees 6y ago
Imagine going to Germany and warning that “neo confederates” were planning on storming the capital. People actually think there is a nazi movement here in the united states. It’s one of the Big lies in our culture and media now. Sad.
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by zackees 6y ago
or physics is broken.
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by zackees 6y ago
You are either going to catch the bugs in the type checker or you are going to have to write unit tests to catch them. For me, typed python saves me a bunch of time.
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by zackees 6y ago
Thanks for the correction on PPM not PPB. Let me address the H20 issue with the runaway global warming theory. There is literally an ocean of H20, therefore the total load of H2O is elastic (unlike CO2). Hotter temperature -> more H2O in
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by zackees 6y ago
I just want to point out that Global Warming as an existential threat is more of a political position and less of a scientific one. If the scientific method were applied to real planetary destruction we would rank the use of farmland as #1.
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by zackees 6y ago
No. Correct theories are suppressed all the time by oligarchs. See the electric car. This assumption that the best is chosen is part of the problem of the scientific institution - the assumption that corruption doesn’t play a major role in
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by zackees 6y ago
> For many here it’s a mystery why military did this Big Tech started banning Myanmar government officials from their services that they didn’t approve of. Now they cry about suspension of democracy? The claims of a rigged elections in M
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by zackees 6y ago
Imagine changing core features of your codebase and then the compiler / type checker telling you all the places that you needed to fix it. Then when it's fixed, the code runs flawlessly. That's happened a LOT in my 10 years o
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by zackees 6y ago
Except 50 million years ago we had +10 degrees Celsius increase in temperature and life on the planet was pretty good. We see mass extinctions during ice ages, not during hot spells. This is left out of nearly every climate debate, which ty
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by zackees 6y ago
An engineering solution that is incredibly cheap was invented in 1980. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization "Give me half a tanker of iron and I’ll give you the next ice age." - John Martin Iron d
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by zackees 6y ago
The Somatascope did this first: https://youtu.be/KGJW94ciq4c?t=416 Before quantum was a buzzword.
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by zackees 6y ago
With intrusive you can remove from the list in constant time from the object itself. With std::list you need to find the iterate to the node before you can delete it.
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by zackees 6y ago
When you are young - your cells work better in all aspects. Even if children / adolescents have poor sleeping, protocols for mitigating alzheimer’s would be better spent at ages middle age and up. This is when the body’s repair mechani
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by zackees 6y ago
It's one thing to inject an antigen that your body makes antibodies for. It's one thing to use a viral vector to reprogram some number of cells. Due to the Emergency Use Authorization, much of the safety testing has been skipped.
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by zackees 6y ago
Even in this interpretation (you are being very generous) he's off by a huge margin. The the rise of autism follows an exponential curve.
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by zackees 6y ago
> There's no such thing as an "immune booster". Yes, there is. You could have done a quick search on Google Scholar to confirm this, example: A mathematical model showing the potential of vitamin c to boost the innate immu
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by zackees 6y ago
Also - big tech is coming out against vitamin supplementation with their creepy censorship: Example of YouTube saying they will ban vit. c videos using the "misinformation" label: https://twitter.com/i/status&
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by zackees 6y ago
Net neutrality never regulated Google/Facebook or the other social media tech giants. It only regulated the ISP which have never posed any threat to free on the internet. Net neutrality was only about shoving the costs of the internet
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by zackees 6y ago
> What do you think 1/150 and 1/68 translates to? It translates into the increase in ONE DECADE. Now go read the claim by the author: that this increase happened in ONE CENTURY.
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by zackees 6y ago
From the article: "I wonder if there’s a similar effect in the antivax movement – autism seems to really be on the rise (0.7 to 1.5% in this century)." CDC is reporting that Autism has increased MUCH MUCH more than this. By their

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