Solar19

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by Solar19 3y ago
I think we've made a huge mistake in our notions of "experts", especially the blind assumption that we need experts to tell us something on every arbitrary issue. On all the recent issues, you can and should engage with reali
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by Solar19 3y ago
^ *not* in the Top 15 that year. Gun violence as a cause of death.
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by Solar19 3y ago
Social psychologist here. There's a profound lack of cognitive activity in American journalists, and what I'd call legacy leftist media especially. I don't think we can explain what happened here without reference to their of
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by Solar19 6y ago
It will be a chunk. It accounts for a lot of income variance in existing research, like Chetty's at Harvard. He and his colleagues seemed to bury the effect though in at least one of their papers on "inequality", which is fr
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by Solar19 6y ago
Interesting choice. They desperately need a new sled. When she's not misdelivering my packages to other people, I feel terrible for my USPS mail carrier during the summer months. Those Grumman POS mail vehicles have no air conditioning
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by Solar19 6y ago
Are you taking about the word "Defense" in Oshkosh Defense? Yeah, this isn't a military vehicle. It's a van, not some sort of modified Humvee or anything. Oshkosh makes lots of vehicles and some civilian kit like fire tr
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by Solar19 6y ago
As a brown person and hopefully a champion of reason, I would like to encourage you white folks to be a bit less obedient and compliant with this madness. It is long past time that this ideology was firmly and squarely rejected, contested,
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by Solar19 6y ago
You're assuming racism is the cause of the gaps. Big assumption. Out of wedlock births alone will explain a gap of that size: more than 70% of black American children are born out of wedlock. That's a disastrous figure, an emergen
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by Solar19 6y ago
I don't see much nuance or texture there. I think this work is a scratch, has no epistemic standing, meaning, or utility. Modern academic methods are incredibly sloppy and non-rigorous, where they just make all these assertions and syn
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by Solar19 6y ago
Social psychologist here. The article doesn't back the headline. They never mention the effect size, how much parental finances matter. The mention that smarts "explain 11% of the gap" or something, but they don't provid
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by Solar19 6y ago
I agree. In fact, I'm not aware of any context or venue where leftists have supported freedom of speech (for non-leftists). They're failing every test. Campuses, disinviting speakers like Ayaan Hirsi Ali or even Condi Rice – don&#
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by Solar19 6y ago
I think gains in I/O will be more noticeable than gains in their CPUs. SSDs are being choked and held back by PCIe 3.0 interfaces at this point. I'm not sure that PCIe 4.0 is any better on latency. It would be interesting if Apple
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by Solar19 6y ago
Anyone know what happened to Intel over the past 5+ years? They used to be unstoppable, relentless, the best. Have they had trouble recruiting the best engineers? How have TSMC and Apple been been able to pull ahead in terms of being at the
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by Solar19 6y ago
I'm the author of that Medium article. The "second one" you referred to isn't the second bug I reported – it's just an aside on Wired's crazy headline font. They've since replaced it with a normal readable
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by Solar19 6y ago
Faster still would be to skip the request for the CSS altogether by inlining it in the head. Therefore you'd just request the font immediately and directly. This makes the preconnect moot, and should be faster. Faster still is to use a
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by Solar19 6y ago
Nice. I love Mini Discs, and especially Mini DVDs. They're great for archival storage. I would just keep them, not migrate to something else.
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by Solar19 7y ago
The potential red flag in this account was Jared interrupting the interviewer who was asking a question that mentioned microservices to say that he had no experience in microservices. Why did he interrupt the interviewer? And why interject
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by Solar19 7y ago
The reason governments waste time on recycling, or fail to authorize landfills, or orchestrate the export of trash to other countries is because environmentalists exist and are very active. They're especially powerful in rich countries
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by Solar19 7y ago
Interesting read. It always surprises me that companies go many years running major apps and infrastructure with interpreter-based languages like Python and Ruby to begin with. It's an incredible waste of energy, compute, and for web a
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by Solar19 7y ago
Why is WeWork considered a tech company? And what exactly is wrong with their business model? That's not clear to me from the article. It says they take long-term leases and sell short-term leases. That seems straightforward and potent
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by Solar19 7y ago
What is the article referring to when it cites an "increase in climate change" and says that it's been more aggressive than predicted?
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by Solar19 7y ago
I like it. What would also be cool is another Go compiler and linker, developed by a different team not at Google. It would be good for the ecosystem and performance if there was more than one compiler and runtime. I think there would be a
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by Solar19 7y ago
The Teams client is built on Electron? Why? Developers need to stop building slow applications. This is ridiculous. It's 2019 and software is slower than it was in the 90s. It must take an enormous number of CPU cycles to execute simpl
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by Solar19 7y ago
Anyone know what it's made out of, the specific materials?
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by Solar19 7y ago
Stealing? That would imply that someone else's money belongs to you, which by definition it does not. I think it's unethical to tax anyone's income, and if people can escape it I'm happy for them.
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by Solar19 7y ago
What is EF?
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by Solar19 7y ago
Nice work. By the way, on the x86 simdjson did you use any of the string compare instructions in SSE 4.2? Or was AVX faster?
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by Solar19 7y ago
Any ideas on why they use: 1. MessagePack (instead of, say, FlatBuffers – am I wrong to think that FlatBuffers are more efficient? (and the format was created by Google)) 2. ELF binaries (instead of, say, taking a clean-sheet approach to ex
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by Solar19 7y ago
Anyone know what programming language the kernel is written in?
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by Solar19 7y ago
> It is also not possible to use C++ to fully write iOS or UWP applications... UWP has native C++ APIs. So does Win32, right? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/universal-windo...

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