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LoSboccaccon Players Blame Skill-Based Matchmaking for Losing in Call of Duty

It's inevitable, the player distribution isn't uniform and as you move forward the gradient steepens. Most sbmm as they call them suffers from oscillations, even games with a large player base, where you'd think there's enough to balance things out.

It also flattens the base, as people have to figure out what works and what not without having skilled player in the mix to learn from

LoSboccaccon HTTP/2 Push is dead

> google is just arbitrarily deciding what they want the web stack to look like

well yes they do try but not arbitrarily, with them running as much infra they do and margin being as they are, a bit here and there on the stack can dramatically influence their bottom line.

LoSboccaccon HTTP/2 Push is dead

there's still one area where it kind of mitigates another issue, which is making sure fonts are on the client by the time text is visible, idk what's the status now but last time I checked, admittedly more than a year ago, there weren't much other options to at least reduce the flicker.

LoSboccaccon Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?

> It just peacefully and gently starves to death?

they know damn well and are already diversifying their portfolio; beside, even if we stop burning these fuels, fossil based carbon polymer will be with us for a while until vegetable alternative can be mass produce in matching qualities.

LoSboccaccon Johns Hopkins: Heart Disease Deaths Dropped in 2020 [pdf]

the 2 and 5 year average are interesting too, because another important matter for a age-skewed disease is how much it impacted life expectancy

LoSboccaccon Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems

> software engineering hasn't killed enough people to advance

and where it had, you get pretty serious control and certification process put in place to avoid it (Boeing notwithstanding)

LoSboccaccon A Kid, a Minor Bike Accident and a $19,000 Medical Bill

I know. but that's not an excuse to pass or accept a wrong information ("y only cost x to me in this country") as correct.

LoSboccaccon A Kid, a Minor Bike Accident and a $19,000 Medical Bill

I didn't try to pass a moral judgment on the issue and I like the socialized system we have, for the most part.

but confronting cost without taxes is trite and tiresome. I'm going to pay north of 150k eur to subsidize healthcare thorough my life, and being in the upper tax brackets (which start at some ridiculously low point) I also have to copay each service on top of already being paying more taxes for it.

and when I see the "but ambulance rides are almost free here in x european country!" and the likes well no, they aren't, it's people that just didn't factor the actual costs in, because it's sunk in other taxes.

LoSboccaccon A Kid, a Minor Bike Accident and a $19,000 Medical Bill

in Italy it costs to me about 300eur every month for work life to potentially have partial coverage at some point in the future if something happens.

I suspect your 3000 cost is skimping on a lot of taxes that are subsidizing the actual costs.

LoSboccaccon A Kid, a Minor Bike Accident and a $19,000 Medical Bill

important to notice this is not the medical bills they showing, but the claim rejection, and the claim rejection is "we require additional information"

we don't know what information was on the claim, but judging but the long list of "professional services" it's indeed too vague to be itemized against their policy if that was the description provided.

or in short this piece is presenting a very biased view by withholding a lot of information required to come to an understanding.

LoSboccaccon 1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland

...and other common, unsurprising results from the power law distribution

LoSboccaccon I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”

quite many startup exist to capture vc capital, not market share

LoSboccaccon You might not need machine learning

well yeah anything you can do with NN you can do chaining enough functions

what NN allows is to test millions of permutations of thousands these functions to find the one that works

if your problem is intractably hard to figure out functions for, NN provide a larger hammer to brute-force an approximate solution.

LoSboccaccon Dev Fonts

...and then he decided to put his name in small caps under the ligature article, and that one isn't a link.

LoSboccaccon Apple lets some Big Sur network traffic bypass firewalls

Apple literally solved their production chain suicide issues by installing nets to catch jumpers, which made the rounds across media https://www.wired.com/2011/02/ff-joelinchina/

I didn't see people ditching Apple then with people life on the line, I don't see people ditching Apple for a software configuration.

LoSboccaccon Dev Fonts

then again, the signature is indistinguishable from small cap and isn't a link

LoSboccaccon Dev Fonts

“ligatures in programming fonts are a terrible idea”

I agree as well with the point about ligatures, but I find funny that the advice comes from a site that thinks straight up normal text with no hover, no distinct color, no distinct font and no underline is a good way to signal linked pages https://i.imgur.com/9iVMfgD.png (who would have guessed Racket was a link?)

LoSboccaccon James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winners announced

> vastly more preferable to a false negative

depending from the POV.

if a condition has an incidence of 0.001%, production capacity of test kits will probably be geared to that.

if you suddenly have 0.01% false positives, you're outstripping production by a factor of ten

it will also use up production capacity that might be necessary for other kits, driving up both test prices and/or wait time for everyone else.

for example: false positive in Italy are the reason you see a new case slowing down in the last week: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=italy+cov...

this is not because the containment measures are working, it's because a lot of tests are redirected to verify the PCR results, eating up test capacity and slowing down for example contact tracing tests, which are competing for the same kits.

so, no. false positives have far more implication than one individual short time of anxiety.

LoSboccaccon 1% of people cause half of global aviation emissions

...and other common, unsurprising results from the power law distribution

LoSboccaccon Graphics for JVM

SWT had a lot of weird cross platform quirks which were unbearable to diagnose, it's been 10+ years now so I can't recall all details, but every time I tried under the premise of the better components, as the UI got complex, there was no other solution but escape back to Swing, where the tooling and facilities around where miles better.

LoSboccaccon Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac

yeah transmeta c1 had the same claim. turns out there's a lot more to cpu speed than executing math operations in a straight line.

LoSboccaccon Don't use third party auth to sign in

> you will be locked out of all the services where you signed into using Google

most services keep your identity even if you sign in with another authenticator, because your profile key is your email.

LoSboccaccon Optimizing Things in the USSR (2016)

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/GDP-per-capita-ppp-selec...

even disregarding the other issues with communism, the central premise is wrong: it's quite apparent that what growth centralized economy countries enjoyed was far at a lower rate than free market counterparts, up until they opened up to private initiative.

LoSboccaccon Optimizing Things in the USSR (2016)

the first point stands but the second line is not the best example, the West German economy was built on top of the Marshall Plan money, not on it's own merits.

LoSboccaccon Astonishing Performance of .NET 5

this wasn't that far off. for a while you could upgrade celeron to pentium soldering a connection, the r5 are r7 with cores disabled, the athlon II did the same but was easier to unlock as the extra core are turned off not from yeld but to follow market demand.

LoSboccaccon Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative

interesting

how can user share data with each other?

LoSboccaccon Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers

Apple has missing middle _strategy_

LoSboccaccon The Gods on Hacker News

> equally based on its own merits

unless you have a slightly non mainstream opinion on some of the HN dearest, then you get drowned in flags irregardless of merit.

LoSboccaccon Walmart drops inventory robots from its stores

> or top of the opposite shelf

angle would be about same from top or ceiling

> on each shelf, looking at the shelf opposite of it

it would cost a lot more than a camera on rail, especially the wiring but also bandwidth

LoSboccaccon Walmart drops inventory robots from its stores

the robot as seen in the video makes zero sense, a railing camera on the ceiling or top of the opposite shelf would do the same in a fraction of the time because it doesn't have to be slow to avoid injuring people and will have greater accuracy due the fixed nature of the shelfs spatial relationships, moreover it doesn't have to come with complex navigation software and hardware.

research is fine and all, but this is quite far from something that could have resulted in a production run.