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https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cance... Page 2 has the figure. Getting people to not smoke has been the most effective treatment in our lifetime. Public hea…

I think this is a major mistake for Zig's target adoption market - low level programmers trying to use a better C. Julia is phenomenally great for solo/small projects, but as soon …

For better or worse, Fortran is still a popular language to write clever PDE schemes in, as it maximizes "time to first, fast-enough-running code". But for anything with a userbase…

Julia's choice to encourage people naming their variables greek letters is bad though. There's a whole group of students who struggle with the symbols, but understand the concepts …

Alternatively, any implementation of operator+ should have a notional identity element, an inverse element and be commutative.

I can do it, and I do similar such things in C++ - but the biggest benefit of "safe defaults" is the standardization of such behaviors, and the resultant expectations/ecosystem.

Please do this. But first: we need to take step-zero and introduce a type "r64": a "f64" that is not nan/inf. Rust has its uint-thats-not-zero - why not the same for floating point…

It's slightly less cynical than that - it takes about eight years to design a space mission and rocket, but doing the detailed design is expensive as hell, so in order to meet a bu…

its metabolic rate. im always cold.

My actual co-pay is $10/mo for the good stuff, plus warfarin (eliquiis/xeralto were too weak for me :/) which is ~$12 for a 90 day supply from the mail order PBM pharmacy. I averag…

I take four pills a day and the primary side effect is weight gain. The earlier 1950s era treatment made me exhausted 24/7. There's a new trial that has a new target, and looks to …

This is bad science. Patients schedule when they go to immunotherapy appointments. People who go in the morning are still working/doing things, where once you get _really_ sick, yo…

It's honestly surprising so many programming languages ignore the needs of "floating point" users. Rust has ints that aren't 0, but no std type for floats that aren't NaN? In some …

Jonathan McDowell, the astronomer and debris tracker: https://web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post... They may be _meant_ to last a lot longer, but as you launch a …

I think it's also important to justify why VCs use EBITDA. Excluding depreciation makes sense when you are dealing with assets with an unknown highly variable lifespan - e.g. softw…

I think it's operating on the assumption that the VC donor money, and the valley's pivot to defense spending is the VCs getting "ahead" of the problem that "AI" isn't going to prod…

The grift began a while ago - when "startups" like SpaceX started using EBITBDA to claim profitability on starlink. But the depreciation costs of LEO are substantial, and starlink …

The problem with this administration is that you can't tell if they are 1) fools (resources != profitable resource extraction) 2) on drugs (elon's pupils during his oval office pre…

Old World, made by some ex-civ people, is really quite excellent

Babbage is wrong! He is answering what a computation engine will do, but not what a "wise" person would do, which is the _the_ test of AI. The goal of wisdom (and good teaching) is…

I want to use std::expected because I want clear, explicit error handling, not performance. There is a time and place for performance optimized code - but usually where the hot loo…

I use IPOPT, and I like it quite a bit.

This is incredible. The death of Moore's law is going to yield wild stuff in ASIC land. Why did they choose not to support double precision floats? They are pretty needed for fluid…

I think this argument fails to understand that purpose of black-box models is to be impossible to understand, as it shields the operator from pre-emptive accountability. Then, sinc…

This is a great piece of polemic.