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Bun users don’t care either.

At this point it is pure BS.

This endeavor had negative net value.

Also, beside the direct murders as @ceejayoz mentioned, the social exclusion of LGBT folks drives far too many of them to many of them to suicide.

The legalization of same sex marriage cause a noticeable drop in their suicide rate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_among_LGBTQ_people#:~:...).

Covid has long term health consequences, and these are proportional to the severity of the acute infection.

People who died of a stroke of a heart infarction 6 months down the line were not counted as "covid death", even though covid is known to increase their incidence in the next year.

The author has a strong quantum physics background, and makes testable predictions [1].

This isn't circular fluff as argued in this thread, but a mathematically fledged theoretical framework.

1. https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/15/11/115319/3372193/Un...

Called it, six years ago :-)

I can see boards of directors drooling at the potential savings.

It looks like independent hackers with a strong technical background and little regard for decorum.

Their methodology seems reasonable, and their results are plausible.

I’m reserved about the final part of the post where they moot about applications, but the core result seems solid. They elicited osmosphenes like one can elicit phosphènes by targeting the visual cortex.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_focused_ultrasoun...

Oh... could you elaborate?

rv builds on André's reputation. The best way to squander it would be to attack the rubygem infrastructure.

They actually thought about it, and decided not to do it :-/

I sometimes realize in the afternoon that I forgot to change my patch in the morning because I'm a bit drowsy (a feeling not unlike being uncaffeinated when you're used to drinking coffee). AFAIK the withdrawal symptoms fade out in at most a week.

I've been taking nicotine patches for half a year now, with great success (and it is available OTC unlike other stimulants). Nicotine in itself isn't toxic at these doses (7, 14, 21mg), it's a cool life hack :-).

They don't need a formal model, they need examples from which they can pilfer.

It's a big mess.

0. https://github.com/isaacs/semicolons/blob/main/semicolons.js

- running the benchmark in thin slices, interspersed and suffled, rather than in one big batch per item (which also avoids having one scenario penalized by transient noise)

- displaying a graphs that show possible multi-modal distributions when the JIT gets in the way

- varying the lengths of the thin slices between run to work around the poor timer resolution in browsers

- assigning the results of the benchmark to a global (or a variable in the parent scope as it is in the WEB demo below) avoid dead code elimination

This isn't a panacea, but it is better than the existing solutions AFA I'm aware.

There are still issues because, sometimes, even if the task order is shuffled for each slice, the literal source order can influence how/if a bit of code is compiled, resulting in unreliable results. The "thin slice" approach can also dilute the GC runtime between scenarios if the amount of garbage isn't identical between scenarios.

I think it is, however, a step in the right direction.

- CLI runner for NODE: https://github.com/pygy/bunchmark.js/tree/main/packages/cli

- WIP WEB UI: https://flems.io/https://gist.github.com/pygy/3de7a5193989e0...

In both case, if you've used JSPerf you should feel right at home in the WEB UI. The CLI UI is meant to replicate the WEB UI as close as possible (see the example file).

So, yes, they are better left to their own devices.