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Looks like base64 text but when I run `echo aHVudGVyMgo= | base64 -d` the output is just `*******` weird.

I've generally found no/minimal change between assembly and intrinsics. Once I start using them I tend to look at the generated assembly to see what's actually being generated and to make sure the compiler isn't doing something surprising.

I apparently live in a pretty low light pollution area in the UK, but it's been a while since I've seen the stars because of clouds =[.

> because I don't want it that way.

- some editor probably

In my handful of encounters trying to contribute to wikipedia it's always been such a frustrating experience.

"not enough people monitoring for quality" is one way to put it, but I've often found it to be one very zealous person monitoring for their idea of quality. It ends up quite frustrating, especially if you're a domain expert.

I've corrected articles where things I've written have been cited and had the changes reverted. It was enough to just give up.

In 20 years of running Linux on spinning rust I've not had to fsck. *Knocks on wood*. My first Linux FS was ext3.

Correction: I realized I've run it in vain attempts to recover SD cards. It always failed.

What should I use for the felis catus living organisms? They want root accounts, but those already belong to sequoia sempervirens living organisms.

I probably should have gone with accounts and had a species column.

That's a lot of words to say there's no real alternative if one wants a pocket sized device with an ssh client and a good cellular data connection.

I get your point. It sucks that these are our options, but you didn't present any viable alternatives.

That seems more like a Rule of Acquisition Revised for the Modern Ferengi from when the prophets "helped" the Grand Nagus

Here are a couple articles to start pulling threads on

> Despite all the evidence, Gawande admits that even he was skeptical that using a checklist in everyday practice would help to save the lives of his patients.

> "I didn't expect it," Gawande says with a chuckle. "It's massively improved the kind of results that I'm getting. When we implemented this checklist in eight other hospitals, I started using it because I didn't want to be a hypocrite. But hey, I'm at Harvard, did I need a checklist? No."

https://www.npr.org/2010/01/05/122226184/atul-gawandes-check...

Not sure if this supports the reluctance idea since it says 93% use checklists, but most surgeons don't think it improves safety.

> Of the 353 survey respondents, 93.6% use SSCs and 62.6% would want one used in their own child’s operation, but only 54.7% felt that checklists improve patient safety.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6221594/

Not that I know of. If I were doing it I'd expose a library / interface with pybind11 to test, but really I find Googles unit testing framework or boosts to both be pretty effective.

The article is talking about deaths by Nov 2020 compared to Nov 2021 when there was an accessible effective vaccine. Parent comment is talking about increase of deaths from 2019 to 2020. I don't see the applicability of that quote. (Maybe OP and you and me are all off topic, but here we are.)

[0] has no statistics on opioid deaths. [1] says that the deaths were going to be higher in Vermont, at (a projected) 200 deaths for the year vs 157 for the previous. That's maybe meaningful, but isn't limited to the age group the post parent was discussing. [2] Does not have year over year statistics to compare against. Just that it was the worst, and is drawing on a smaller sample size than [1].

If (and this kind of seems like a big if) Vermont is representative of the rest of the US, *and* the age group he was discussing then maybe you have one source that supports your claim that a large portion of the deaths are from additional opioid deaths.

On the other hand assuming the root of the increase of all cause mortality between 2019 and 2020 among adults is mostly uncorrelated with the pandemic is a tough thing to convince me of. Can you please provide a source showing the national increase of opioid overdoses and suicide between 2019 and 2020 among the 20-40 age group?

Note I agree entirely that there were more overdose deaths in the US in 2020 than 2019 (that's easy to source https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/...) what is hard is breaking it down into these smaller nuggets that we're discussing.

ETA: I couldn't find the original NY Times article grand-grand-grand... parent talked about that got us down this path, but this is pretty convincing that all cause mortality increased by at least 45% https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7376843/

Do you have a link or source to support your hypothesis? It should be trivial to provide it.

This is a pretty nice article. CMake is a pretty nice tool and this is a good article for its good parts.

One thing I *hate* with build systems is having to enumerate all of my files. I have a file system. It knows about the files. If I organize my code appropriately (say a lib, inc, and prog directory) the organization says how to build the source code.

I often make my build system support finding all the files in directories, and enumerating them and using them for the build targets.

Some times that scheme bites me when projects get very large, since it can take a while to `find` all the files, but those projects suck to enumerate all the files in too.

Yeah definitely was not x86. It was an embedded DSP

In order to leave my current position I'd need an offer of $XXX. My current salary does not include additional side benefits that company X offers that you don't.

On a 16 bit cpu I worked on char, short, and int were all 16 bit words, long and long long were 32 and 64 bits, but doing math with 32 bit words required the C compiler to emmit instructions to manage the 32-bit operations.

Also sizeof(long) was 2 and sizeof(long long) was 4.

I think the primary driver is higher peak performance. With OFDM on 4G and 5G you can have very wide bandwidths for a given tower, and small, but high QoS allocations for voice, or high bandwidth for video streaming. With 3G you had similar flexibility, but the peak RF bandwidth was ~3.84 MHz compared to ~40 MHz of 4G).

This is doubly so with 5G. The maximum allocation is potentially huge from a time and (RF) bandwidth point of view, but an HD video stream is still limited.

I only have Hulu installed, and it's the only paid streaming service I use. I'm getting ads for peakcock and disney+ too.

I didn't realize nVidia was an ad company. Their business model sure has changed.

It reminds me of the related story [0] titled " I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It." The author tried hundreds of burgers around the US and deemed one the best and the business seemed to overwhelm him.

[0] https://www.thrillist.com/eat/portland/stanichs-closed-will-...

I mean couldn't it simply be an increase in demand due to remote workers? Someone renting an apartment in SF may now be interested in buying a home in the suburbs of DFW? Feel free to pick any other HCOL large city and medium to low COL area.

Inflation shouldn't be ignored, but if inflation was on the order of home price increases we'd be seeing it in the cost of food (which has gone up, but not that much), and other every day goods.

This site might have an alternative copy that's been updated more recently: http://mathscheats.weebly.com/2019-downloads.html

I still wish there was LaTeX for it.

Yeah that was my first thought too. I want the LaTeX so I can re-typeset it.

Thanks!

I wanted to know what masses they were using ~90 mg, and that had the answer. It was surprising to me it wasn't in the article.

What was this used for? With out more information (that I couldn't really find) this just seems like a list of cities.

I completely agree. I think it makes sense when they have 256 processing nodes with GPUs plus everything else, just the number caught me off guard at first.

I hadn't read about the CHIME (Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) telescope before.

From the wikipedia article:

> The telescope's low-noise amplifiers are built with components adapted from the cellphone industry and its data are processed using a custom-built FPGA electronic system and 1000-processor high-performance GPGPU cluster.

that's super interesting. My limited exposure to radio astronomy relies on a lot more custom collection hardware (super cooled LNAs, with hydrogen maser clocks, ...) and mostly pure software processing. Seeing this very COTS hardware with careful processing systems is neat.

> The telescope consumes 250 kilowatts of power.

woah.

This is somewhat tongue in cheek, but refinancing a 30 year mortgage and taking out the equity every 5 - 10 years and putting it anywhere else sounds awfully reasonable when the loans are so cheap.

It feels *weird*.

Just today I had some code that helpfully said "should never get here" and aborted. It left us to figure out what the possible options of how we could end up in that spot "we should never get to". It was maddening because it's ~12 year old code that had some library updates. A little bit more help like the error code or really *anything* would've been helpful.

The Hutter prize [0] is based around the idea that compressing Wikipedia will lead to more advanced AI research. It doesn't seem like it has so far, but the solutions aren't all open source so it's hard to say, but it's definitely along the same lines.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize