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This is a good argument, but it has a flaw here, which is that a systemic fever during illness may still be an evolutionarily beneficial adaption on average if there are a some sit…

There's no shortage of benchmarks (coding or otherwise) that any competent coding model will now pass with ~100%. But no-one quotes those any more because if everyone passes them, …

> Cable does not matter, tried with many of them including ones providing power from other chargers. That might not necessarily be the right conclusion. My understanding is: almost…

GP clearly meant "trademark not copyright". It's perfectly coherent to be in favour of strong protection of trademarks but also weaker copyright laws. They have very different purp…

> That morass makes it difficult for the public to cleanly digest when something is blatantly unconstitutional I'm not convinced that's a relevant issue here. For some parts of EU …

What problem here would be solved by ratifying a constitution? Like -- ISTM that the relevant property here is the ability of the courts to overturn ordinary legislation for incomp…

...No...? If someone puts paint on a 280 million year old rock, that doesn't change the age of the rock.

It's glass fibre reinforced concrete (GFRC). Very much doubt it's heat-reactive, suspect it's just oil & dirt on a somewhat porous surface (so cleaning properly is labour-intensive…

I'm a reasonably new go programmer, I've only been doing it full-time for a few months. But "great concurrency ergonomics" has.. not been my experience. What I've been finding is t…

> If the intervals overlap, the difference is not statistically significant. Demonstrably false. Obvious counterexample: the study in the OP, which has overlapping confidence inter…

The fact that the 95% confidence intervals of two variables have some overlap doesn't mean there's a >5% chance that the expected values of the two variables are the same. Consider…

..No, not wanting to indefinitely maintain arbitrarily-old versions of a free and open-source security library is not "planned obsolesence".

The monarch is theoretically above the law, yes. But theory is not practice. In practice, if King Charles shivved someone in Trafalgar Square tomorrow, crowing about how he can't b…

Charles I tried that argument, it didn't go well for him.

> It reminds me of how lawyers are happy to accept signatures by fax The purpose of a lot of these sorts of requirements is not authentication. It's ensuring that if you do do it, …

Many possible reasons. Eg Ryanair operates a completely uniform fleet, 100% 737s, and their current operating model relies on all of their pilots and crew being able to operate wha…

Look up Grice's Maxims sometime. Conversations have context. The context here is a comment section for an article about a nation state requesting chats from Telegram. The only rele…

No idea, we don't use it. These were websocket connections to processes on ec2, via NLB and cloudfront. Not sure exactly what part of that chain was broken yet.

Definitely not just the console. We had hundreds of thousands of websocket connections to us-east-1 drop at 15:40, and new websocket connections to that region are still failing. (…

> Only in America! This is... not really true. The US is indeed in the lead in COVAX donations at 45 doses pledged per million dollars of GDP, and that's laudable. But it's not lik…

The problem is that that's not how the patent system works. If the Sonos patent is upheld, it doesn't just stop google from making speakers that synchronize their clocks with each …