lavishlatern

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by lavishlatern 1y ago
I'm not sure what the point of this blogpost was. As far as I can tell, the author discovered eval() but is making it more complicated for no reason? There also isn't any actual patching going on.
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by lavishlatern 2y ago
Taking mobile orders usually requires accepting coupons/rewards programs which franchise owners are not always obligated to participate.
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by lavishlatern 3y ago
Imperial China is basically the Greek/Roman empire of East Asia. Both of these civilizations made deep and lasting impact on the culture of East Asia and Europe/North Africa/West Asia respectively. Confucius is like Chinese P
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by lavishlatern 4y ago
I've worked in healthcare, I find the software practices absolutely atrocious. The consequence of this has been ransomware attacks: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-10-10/... h
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Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge(arxiv.org)
9 points by lavishlatern 4y ago|1 comments
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by lavishlatern 4y ago
Common practice for the websites of law firms (and some other fields like private equity) to have the headshots of all employees on their website with job title and description in a nice table. Example of a different firm where you can even
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by lavishlatern 4y ago
It is too much. I was Google SRE and there is an internal meme showing a time series graph jumping backwards during the double 1am at DST. These mistakes happen everywhere and are best avoided by a system that doesn't allow them to hap
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by lavishlatern 4y ago
Not at all. Everybody using UTC would just not need to deal with leap seconds anymore. A UTC second is the same as a TAI second. It's a no-op for the vast majority of UTC users. UTC will just drift slightly more from UT1. This change o
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by lavishlatern 4y ago
I don't see how replacing all UTC in software with TAI is more realistic than breaking UTC sync with UT1 (isn't it literally doing the same thing?). The whole point is that going forward, leap seconds are going to get harder to de
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by lavishlatern 4y ago
A lot of people in this thread are criticizing this move, but let me offer an opposite view. One of the largest electronic health records systems has code that predates the UNIX epoch. Much of the time handling code is custom written to dea
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by lavishlatern 4y ago
Bear in mind nearly all of the people receiving letters should be <65. I quickly skimmed the paper and it seems like the authors don't have enough data to come up with a quality adjusted life-year type of statistic like the NHS uses
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by lavishlatern 4y ago
I disagree with this definition. We have yet to produce a perfect model of the world (aka, a theory of everything). All models produced by "science" thus far are "wrong", at least on some level (ex. Newton's model d
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by lavishlatern 5y ago
This comment is incredibly out of touch with the world of big law. Not only do associates get cut, but many people stall out and can't make partner. (also the whole concept of "Up or out" comes from Big Law/Consulting...
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by lavishlatern 5y ago
> That's why we use double reviews. We being Europeans. Double reads are not standard in the majority of the world, including the US.
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by lavishlatern 5y ago
The medical pipeline doesn't have to be sensitive to federal funding either. There is nothing preventing residencies from being privately funded (besides the fact that most are currently publicly funded). Medicare funds this out of a b
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by lavishlatern 6y ago
Thunderbolt 3 is 40GBits/s (5GB/s). PCIe 4.0x16 is over 6x the bandwidth.
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by lavishlatern 6y ago
Pretty much all hotel chains require ID these days, even if you're paying with cash. There are also some state and local ordinances that require hotels to take ID of guests, so I doubt it's Airbnb's choice to do this. Deletio
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by lavishlatern 6y ago
> Besides, if "racism" is the explanation behind it, how are you going to explain the immense popularity of Chinese food everywhere in America? Probably in the same way that one could explain how the existence of Taco Bell does
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by lavishlatern 6y ago
Alternatively, the influx of tech money greatly increases the cost of property in Texas. In turn, senior residents start to no longer be able to afford to keep up their property taxes. Eventually a proposition appears on the ballot to limit
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by lavishlatern 6y ago
1) None of these incidents occurred in SF 2) Politically motivated violence is rare in the US and right-wing violence obviously exists as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Portland_train_attack https:/&#x2
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by lavishlatern 6y ago
I've never seen this behavior in SF, especially considering how many people wear red 49ers apparel...
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by lavishlatern 6y ago
Oregon still seems to be doing relatively better. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100k...
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by lavishlatern 6y ago
A 6br lakefront house in Minneapolis is just as expensive as a nice condo in Boston (op literally notes they spent the same amount).
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by lavishlatern 6y ago
I mean existentialism literally gained popularity post WWII. See how much more popular Neitszche and Kierkegaard became many years after they had died. Camus, on the other hand, was celebrated during his lifetime. Is it so absurd to think t
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by lavishlatern 6y ago
How is the current pandemic now causing dread in people? Sure, most people experience existential crises individually, but now we have an event that is causing a lot of people to experience it at once. In fact, the first time existentialism
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by lavishlatern 7y ago
Would hate to work in the kind of environment where coworkers don't trust each other. At last big tech company, people willingly added their compensation to an internal spreadsheet.
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by lavishlatern 7y ago
200k is a 22 year old at a FAANG vs 30 year old MD. I was a somewhat successful premed student (99.9th percentile MCAT, CS major), and I went the FAANG route instead. Physician and tech salaries are similar in that the top makes alot more t