SnowProblem

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by SnowProblem 3y ago
I was reading Weaving the Web, the story of Tim Berners Lee and the creation of the web, there's a section on misunderstanding about links. In 1999. Wish this were still not a misunderstanding today. Myth Two: "Making a link to a
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
This was the most well-written technical piece I've read in a long time. Kudos Andi. The conversational tone, imagery, well-sourced history - it was perfect. It was interesting to read that Rust has a WebGPU implementation [0] outside
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
Great project - this is important! Love your clear motivation statement at the top. I do wish there were some code/data examples within the README, but clearly that's not holding people back from using it.
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
It’s not WASMs fault. Rust produces large binaries for whatever reason and people like to write their WASM in Rust. I’ve ported Rust to equivalent C and it was 25% of the size and similarly for loading times.
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
The UI redesign called Cheetah was also forced internally and a lot of OGs left during that period including the long time VP of Eng Tim Sehn. Lots of internal politicking, late hours, and then layoffs the next year, for a project many of u
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
I wish Nostr were invented 30 years ago because it seems like a elegant protocol with room for extensions that could have served as the backend language for Twitter, IRC, FB, and more. But network effects are just so powerful and people pos
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
"Data brokers would have to undergo an independent third-party audit every three years to ensure compliance with the DELETE Act provisions and submit audit reports to the California Privacy Protection Agency." Source: https:&#x2F
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
You have the right to be as ignorant as you want.
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
His audience is already there. Anyone young and even slightly right-leaning knows he's hugely popular on social media. His clips also drove Fox News's whole YouTube channel, so whatever viewers he might lose by leaving cable, ther
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
It also shows mortality rates per 100,000. That's what I was referring to. For example, here are the rates of all-cause mortality for the most last month they released, May 2022, for the 40-49 group: - Unvaccinated: 64.1 - One dose:
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
Why is it so hard to find data showing how often people are dying, no matter the cause, broken down by vaccination status and age? Surely that would help clear things up. Lots of countries publish COVID-19 mortality rates which show benefit
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
Not so cheap anymore! They go for $2M each today which seems insane to me.
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
Not true for men under 40, which happens to be the HN demographic.
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
It's far from perfect, but I believe this to be the best RCT we have on masks out of Bangladesh: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9069 We found clear evidence that surgical masks are effective
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
Apple famously went with gorilla glass over plastic for the original iPhone, despite glass being more breakable, because when it would break users tended to blame themselves rather Apple. Plastic on the other hand scratched just from ever
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
Thank you for the answers. It's all amazing to think about. It seemed strange to me when reading your comment, for example, that the universe would look the same age in every direction. Why? Are we close to the center? And then it hit
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
Is each of those spirals really the size of our whole galaxy? And if we were to zoom in 100x more, would there be just as many galaxies to see, or is there a perceivable outer edge to our universe's expansion?
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
Yes, but see NASA is trying to tell us something. The nerds thought they would be on the ones pushing space exploration forward. And they were, for a time. But then the travel vloggers, the instagrammers, the reality tv producers, and even
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
My wife and I are dealing with this as new parents. Even setting aside the COVID vaccine which looks completely unnecessary for infants, there were a ton of other issues that lost our trust. The CDC does not for example recommend aspirating
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
A lot of people are getting burned right now from the big lie, the one that enables the rest. Read the original Bitcoin whitepaper folks, as well as the early Satoshi posts. Bitcoin was designed for "small casual payments" on the
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
Did you see their response on page 5? I'm skeptical like you generally but I find it a believable explanation. "All results, including the positivity rates by vaccination status graph, are unadjusted. The team has observed that th
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
Yep. Eating animals, when you add up their methane + respiration, the feed for the animals, the deforestation, and transportation, is arguably our biggest cause of climate change [1], and it's avoidable. The longest living people in th
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
I've only looked into turmeric so far, but they actually add lead chromate to it to keep its color bright orange/yellow.
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
It's common in many spices we use today, unfortunately. Consumer Reports published tests on this recently, following-up on other studies, and they have a campaign to get the FDA to regulate heavy metals because so few companies test. F
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by SnowProblem 4y ago
We should expect some heart damage because it happens after the flu too, but this study is flawed. If you had covid but weren't tested, you were put into the control group, meaning the conclusions they draw (ie. 5% increase in heart pr
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
Recently I learned the Whole Foods Plant Based diet avoids processed oils altogether, including olive and coconut. Not sure I could go that far myself, but it's interesting to know that people do it, and it's the one diet known to
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
Yep, you can always add oil yourself if you like the taste. I also recommend buying the ones that have the skin and bones, because there's a lot of nutrition there. The bones are barely noticeable. This was the brand I went with: http
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
Don't forget the worst gimmick - Krispy Kreme donuts - when we know the vast majority of deaths are in the overweight. These are tricks for monkeys. And a reminder how little they think of you. You know what would have worked? Maybe a
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
We need an awesome-vaxxers repo to keep a list of companies that required injections for their customers or employees. Because I'd like to avoid them going forward.
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
To each their own. I used to live in Seattle and had some reservations about LA, but my opinion changed after living there, on the west side specifically. I've since moved, but I do miss 70° and sunny everyday, all the diversity of foo

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