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by blegr 2y ago
I’ve seen him discuss additions to the static typing features.
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by blegr 2y ago
Same as a bank? If you lie to investors and get yourself nuked, the owners or what passes for owners get wiped out, which is normal. The people who really qualify as victims are those who were harmed and didn't benefit from the fraud
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by blegr 2y ago
> The police spent the day searching her house. Inside, they found a note with the heading “NOT GOOD ENOUGH.” There were several phrases scrawled across the page at random angles and without punctuation: “There are no words”; “I can’t br
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by blegr 2y ago
New link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/20/lucy-letby-was...
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by blegr 2y ago
Some people feel some kind of person/presence close to them, that's how it happened to me. This [1] weirdly makes sense. It felt kind of like those dreams where you can't move. Except you've woken up, I could see the cor
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by blegr 2y ago
A lot of suspicious facts in the article though. > Letby’s defense team said that it had found at least two other incidents that seemed to meet the same criteria of suspiciousness as the twenty-four on the diagram. But they happened when
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A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It?(newyorker.com)
4 points by blegr 2y ago|6 comments
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by blegr 2y ago
Does this make MRIs safe for some people who wouldn’t qualify due to metal implants? Or at least reduce the risk of accidents?
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by blegr 2y ago
It's funny that restaurant burger prices in my EU country are basically the same as in your "upscale American city". I thought everything there was more expensive since the higher percentiles of your salaries are so much hig
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Anger's role in heart attack risk may start in the arteries(heart.org)
4 points by blegr 2y ago|0 comments
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by blegr 2y ago
Didn't Microsoft stop using those in BitLocker years ago because they were often borked? [1] It's a new failure point, but it's sensible. [1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/bitlocker-encrypts-self-en..
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by blegr 2y ago
Good design dictates that you start one loop and build the whole program around it, no? The docs for asyncio.run say as much.
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by blegr 2y ago
It’s not about the price of upgrades though, it’s about their bundling together and the ridiculously stingy base specs that often make the upgrade non-optional. People who buy a base MacBook Air probably aren’t thinking about keeping it for
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by blegr 2y ago
I hope this means AI-accelerated frameworks get better support on Mx. Unified memory and Metal are a pretty good alternative for local deep learning development.
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by blegr 2y ago
Yes, but you understood what I meant since you could assert that it’s not what it means.
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Generalization in Diffusion Models(arxiv.org)
1 points by blegr 2y ago|0 comments
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by blegr 2y ago
It forces you to buy multiple upgrades instead of just the one you need.
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by blegr 2y ago
Now that GP said it, it'd be nice to be able to write "some_map[i].value_or(some_value)".
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by blegr 2y ago
I see your point, but my experience is that you need the stack trace first, and the developer’s explanation second. Asserts crashing with a message that makes perfect sense in its context but is completely useless for debugging are the bane
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by blegr 2y ago
Right, but that's redundant with the stack trace. It's not actually helpful to run a big program I don't know very well and panic with a single "your goose isn't cromulent!" message from a call 20 levels deep.
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by blegr 2y ago
It's not really my choice, I'm working in a big codebase I didn't write. Lots of large classes containing large collections with getters and setters.
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by blegr 2y ago
It sucks but it's easy to review and avoid, probably could be checked statically by linters too.
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by blegr 2y ago
> The Option type seems to have various standard Rust methods like expect() Isn't that value()?
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by blegr 2y ago
> The practical use of optional<> is that you know where T is going to be constructed and can reason about the memory layout. The practical use for me is making interfaces safer. Where I saw colleagues use pointers as optionals, en
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Personalized mRNA vaccine boosts melanoma immunotherapy(nature.com)
21 points by blegr 2y ago|1 comments
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by blegr 2y ago
Isn’t that the consequence of them having smaller budgets to begin with? Having a trillion-dollar budget means the US defense industry can afford more graft and cost overruns.
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by blegr 2y ago
I'll admit the support for my Dell was pretty good. They sent someone on-site to fix a known defect in their product line.
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by blegr 2y ago
This is less severe than losing an account because at least the encrypted drive is backed up, right? :)
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by blegr 2y ago
Everyone has a brand they're never buying again because of a few problems they had in the past. For every new brand they _are_ still buying, there are 10000 other people who are never buying _that_ one again because of a few problems t
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by blegr 2y ago
Wasn't that mostly compiling though? VSCode's CMake tools take multiple seconds just starting an already-built executable.

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