I think if anything they would be biased towards having fewer allergies than normal people. Which suggests that 0.21% (1 in 500) is a reasonable bound for how rare a moon dust allergy could be.
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Assuming a representative sample, the best point estimate is 1/12 (8.33%), and the 95% confidence interval is 0.21% to 39%.
Longer explanation here: https://lemmy.zip/comment/19753854
Yes, but it’s a prefix and can’t be used as a word on its own.
I am a native English speaker and I know it. It’s rare though.
Same meaning as in German and apparently we borrowed it from German.
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Programming@programming.dev•the most important question i have: can i program a whole operating system based on UNIX using ONLY python???English
3·11 months agoWhat you are looking for is some way to shortcut the process of learning to write an operating system by re-using your existing knowledge of Python.
(I’m not judging that; I understand why you want to do it)
The simple truth is that there is no way to do that. Any solution that involves using Python in a kernel would cost you more in terms of complexity and time than learning C would.
It is rarely worth it to use a language outside of the domains that it is normally used for.
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Programming@programming.dev•How AMD Is Taking Standard C/C++ Code To Run Directly On GPUs
21·1 year agoI assume that they mean that OpenCL, which is a traditional GPGPU language, is a very restrictive subset of either C or C++ (both are options) plus some annotations.
In fact, OpenCL toolchains already use the Clang frontend and the LLVM backend, so the experience of using and compiling them is very close to C++.
The talk mentions all of this; it says that a benefit of using full C++ on the GPU over using OpenCL is that you don’t have to deal with all the annoying restrictions and annotations.
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Programming@programming.dev•The president's doctor: Why your projects take forever
21·1 year agoI appreciate this. It’s a good overview of what it means to be a productive part of a larger context.
I prefer the terms “throughput” for “worker productivity” and “latency” for “work-unit productivity” but I can see why they chose to use their terms.
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cats@lemmy.world•Siri: "I am fluent in over 6 million forms of communication"
14·1 year agoMy poodle knows how to tap the homepad with his nose to play music. He gets up to it, taps it, and then curls down beneath it to listen. It’s very cute and definitely intentional on his part.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•NYC car addict sues after his $315K Lamborghini supercar gets ticket from noise cameraEnglish
3·1 year agoBut he lives in NYC (Staten Island). It’s his own local government.
It is doable for many young professionals who work office jobs out of college, do not have dependents, and live with a roommate for a few years while getting established in their careers, finding a spouse, and then moving out to the suburbs.
This is just about possible in NYC if you 1) work in a high-rise by a station 2) commute during peak times with frequent trains 3) live in a high-rise by a station.
For example: Downtown Brooklyn or Exchange Place high-rise <=> WTC.
The other option would be to live within walking distance. A <20 minute walking distance to a downtown or midtown office is reasonable.
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Programming@programming.dev•Ladybird browser is switching from C++ to Swift
51·1 year agoThrough talks at C++ conferences and appearances on C++ podcasts:
https://youtu.be/lgivCGdmFrw?feature=shared
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cppcast/id968703120?i=1000663536368
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Programming@programming.dev•Ladybird browser is switching from C++ to Swift
333·1 year agoSwift was developed by a lot of former C++ committee members, and in C++ circles they’ve been advocating for it as a “successor language” for quite some time.
This could definitely be confusing if you don’t have that context, but making Swift useful for this kind of project has been an explicit goal of the Swift developers for years.
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Programming@programming.dev•Why Facebook does not use Git – and why most other devs do • DEVCLASS
8·1 year agoThere’s also a whole industry of ex-Googlers reimplementing Google tooling as SaaS services to sell to other ex-Googlers at other companies.
There’s even a lookup table: https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg
(some of those are open source projects, some are SaaS services)
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Programming@programming.dev•Oracle Java license teams set to begin targeting Oracle users who don't think they use Oracle
13·2 years agoThe way the article makes it sound is, if individual employees download OracleJDK while on the company network, and use it for small personal scripts or automation, then that might be enough to trigger Oracle to act.
If your company is large enough, then enough employees may have done that to make you a reasonable target for litigation if you don’t work something out with Oracle. And Oracle is an expert at litigation.
I think that the best defense for a large company would be to IP block all Oracle domains and periodically scan employee laptops for any Oracle products (especially JDK and VirtualBox guest additions) and delete them.
You really have to treat anything that Oracle touches as malware if you want to protect yourself.


+1. If your library makes it impossible to recover from errors, then it will be unusable from any program that requires recovering from errors.