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thaunatos | 2 years ago | on: No telemetry in the Rust compiler: metrics without betraying user privacy

Later in the post:

> I could picture a future where the Compiler Team realizes we have an important question about the behavior of the software, that could be answered by analyzing these metrics, and have a VSCode or cargo plugin that analyzes these metrics locally, and if relevant information is found in these logs an appropriate summary is presented to the user for them to file a ticket.

thaunatos | 4 years ago | on: US states brace for ‘avalanche’ of evictions as federal moratorium ends

I don't believe the CDC has this authority:

> On Thursday, the White House confirmed it would let the moratorium expire because the supreme court said it would block additional extensions unless they were authorized by Congress.

The Supreme Court did vote 5-4 to leave the moratorium in place, but this NPR article provides more context:

> Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who cast the fifth and deciding vote, wrote in a concurring opinion that he voted not to end the eviction program only because it is set to expire on July 31, "and because those few weeks will allow for additional and more orderly distribution" of the funds that Congress appropriated to provide rental assistance to those in need due to the pandemic. He added, however, that in his view Congress would have to pass new and clearer legislation to extend the moratorium past July 31

(https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1003268497/the-supreme-court-...)

It sounds like the Supreme Court would block any renewed attempt to ban evictions, unless Congress was behind the attempt.

thaunatos | 4 years ago | on: Compiling Rust is NP-hard

It's worth noting that the author of the arcicle doesn't think it's worth integrating a SAT solver:

> Does this mean that rustc should integrate an industrial-strength SAT solver? As hilarious as that would be, I'm advocating no such thing. This will only be a performance issue on pathological examples crafted by bored nerds, and I don't think precious engineering time should be spent on that. Besides, generalizing a SAT algorithm to handle the full expressive power of Rust's patterns might be, to borrow some language from mathematicians, non-trivial.

thaunatos | 6 years ago | on: Coronavirus and Credibility

> “Under these conditions, there does not seem to be a significant difference between the mortality rate of SARS-CoV-2 in OECD countries and that of common coronaviruses (χ2 test, P=0.11). Of course, the major flaw in this study is that the percentage of deaths attributable to the virus is not determined, but this is the case for all studies reporting respiratory virus infections, including SARS-CoV-2.”

> “Under these conditions, and all other things being equal, SARS-CoV-2 infection cannot be described as being statistically more severe than infection with other coronaviruses in common circulation.”

> “Finally, in OECD countries, SARS-CoV-2 does not seem to be deadlier than other circulating viruses.”

thaunatos | 7 years ago | on: Recursive fibonacci benchmark using top languages on GitHub

Just adding a @lru_cache() to a python isn't guaranteed to be correct; for example, if you're reading from an API the response could change between calls.

Skip tracks side effects, and will either (a) memoize automatically a pure function or (b) recognize that a function is impure and avoid the memoization.

thaunatos | 7 years ago | on: Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages

> What are ATL and BTL activities? They seem simple enough. Above The Line (ATL) advertising is where mass media is used to promote brands and reach out to the target consumers. These include conventional media as we know it, television and radio advertising, print as well as internet. This is communication that is targeted to a wider spread of audience, and is not specific to individual consumers. ATL advertising tries to reach out to the mass as consumer audience.

> Below the line (BTL) advertising is more one to one, and involves the distribution of pamphlets, handbills, stickers, promotions, brochures placed at point of sale, on the roads through banners and placards. It could also involve product demos and samplings at busy places like malls and market places or residential complexes.

http://www.theadvertisingclub.net/index.php/features/editori...

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