leodeid

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by leodeid 8y ago
Sure, but it is still a valid 'char *' :)
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by leodeid 8y ago
I haven't touched C in years, but here's my descending "wtf" list: 1. Returns pointer to stack-allocated data, which immediately becomes invalid. Instead, it should be using some sort of allocation (e.g. 'malloc&#x2
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by leodeid 8y ago
The "vaccine" you refer to here is racotumomab. It's not a vaccine in the common-parlance sense ("prevents disease"), but a different immunotherapy treatment which is only approved for use in Cuba and Argentina. I&#
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by leodeid 8y ago
Check out the cancer.gov page[1], which does a decent job of giving an overview. The drug in question, pembrolizumab, is a monoclonal antibody (you can tell because the name ends with '-mab'), and you can read more about how those
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by leodeid 8y ago
Palantir.net is not the same Palantir everyone is talking about here. Palantir.net seems to be a website consultancy for drupal-based sites. Palantir.com doesn't seem to have anything referencing the source of the name.
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by leodeid 9y ago
Submission which links to the underlying MIT News source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16401904
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by leodeid 9y ago
Maybe it is a reference to the Rick and Morty episode "Anatomy Park". http://rickandmorty.wikia.com/wiki/Anatomy_Park_(episode)
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by leodeid 10y ago
In the intro, it is stated that "literally five or less" cities do not have these monetary problems. I'm curious what those cities are, and why are they special. If the answer isn't "they've always used accrual
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by leodeid 10y ago
I would be surprised, to be honest, if more than half the american population knew that a nuclear power plant literally cannot blow up like an atomic bomb. However, I can't find any information to support either of our gut feelings. Al
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by leodeid 10y ago
Yes, yes, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best is today. Is nuclear any different? I am unaware of anything about nuclear energy that would have worked 20 years ago but is a bad idea to do today.
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by leodeid 10y ago
Thank you, this explanation made a lot more sense to me.
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by leodeid 10y ago
I read the wikipedia page and that "what is TRIZ" article, and I still don't understand what it is. At times, it sounds like an automated program (especially with statements like "More than three million patents have bee
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by leodeid 10y ago
This (and the other) article seems to be adamant that the study was horribly put together. Was the intent of the original study merely to determine the efficacy of screening? That sounds like a really really weird study to want to run, as I
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by leodeid 10y ago
That was a rather entertaining article, both for the story, but also for the subtext about the dangers of SIGINT-only intelligence gathering. The NSA hoovers up everything it can get automatically, but that data is used without context. In
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by leodeid 10y ago
Can you explain the part about injury recovery? Are you not allowed to take the medications because it would stress your kidney too much? (Also, do you mean NSAID drugs, or are there issues with pretty much all anti inflammatories?) What ar
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by leodeid 10y ago
Nit: The inalienable rights of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is in the Declaration of Independence. None of those things are broadly recognized as rights in the Constitution. I have been unable to determine to what
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by leodeid 10y ago
Seems that the requirement being due to the Widener family donation is apocryphal[0], but still an interesting idea. Also, that source suggests that there was a swimming requirement for all students only from fall 1970 to spring 1975. It w
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by leodeid 10y ago
I'm a little confused about the point here. Security researchers often hunt down bugs that are deemed esoteric or state-actor only. Security researchers are often the sort of people who would do things like stalking. Therefore we need