I haven’t read White Fragility and couldn’t read the entirety of the article linked here due to the paywall, so I cannot comment on those.
I have been trying to educate myself about the topic recently, though, and would strongly recommend looking into some of the excellent work on systemic racism in the US if you’re interested in learning more.
The documentary “13th” (available for free on YouTube at the moment), the 2nd season of the podcast Scene On Radio (“Seeing White”), and the book How to Be An Anti-Racist are three things I can recommend based on what I’ve read/heard from them so far.
What you’re calling the “recent forced redefinition of racism” is not especially recent. I first heard this argument around 30 years ago, and at the time dismissed it, but now understand why people want to emphasize that over the definition I recall learning as a child which was structured along the lines of a belief in superiority of one group over another.
Having a belief may impact how you feel towards someone and how you act towards them, and may even have an impact on that person if you are in a position to influence the course of their life.
Having a system that is designed and reinforced to encourage disparate outcomes is far more impactful to that group as a whole.
I’m not going to argue that both aren’t harmful, but I’ve certainly come around to the conclusion that systematic or policy-based racism (if you’re uncomfortable calling it racism, feel free to disregard the name and come up with something you’re more comfortable with) has disproportionately affected Black and non-black people of color in the US.
I spent two summers in an apartment in San Francisco that was near the nest of what I assume was a nightingale.
Every night around midnight it would start singing. It would loop through maybe 8 songs. Some of them sounded very much like the local environment. For example one song was pretty much identical to sirens that I would periodically hear.
It would last for an hour or two each night. I don’t know where the bird went the rest of the year. That was almost ten years ago and I still miss falling asleep to that.
This is something I’ve seen called “butts-in-seats management”, and yes, I’ve seen it in practice.
Many years ago I had a new skip-level manager who emailed me one day saying that he had dropped by my office a few times to introduce himself but I was never around and he was really concerned with the fact that I never seemed to be in my office working. I am relatively certain every time he dropped by I was either in a colleagues office discussing a work issue or had run down to grab a coffee. But to him this was “concerning”.
He didn’t last long. I believe he moved on in 8-12 months.
The SF Bay Area has a population that is 75% of Sweden’s entire population.
SF itself is more densely populated than Sweden’s most densely populated city which appears to be Stockholm (7700/km^2 vs 5000/km^2). Stockholm has a population around 20% larger than SF.
According to Wikipedia, California is smaller than Sweden.
So there may be some dense pockets in Sweden but it certainly isn’t more densely populated than California and it doesn’t appear that there are large cities that approach the density of NYC/SF.
Sweden has 1/4th the population of California. It looks like the total deaths is around 50% higher than California although of course California might have deaths that should have been attributed to COVID-19 that weren’t.
It looks like it was estimated to have arrived in Sweden two days earlier.
“The percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza is 8.2% which is above the epidemic threshold of 7.2%. Deaths due to pneumonia have increased sharply since the end of February, while those due to influenza increased modestly through early March and declined this week. Deaths attributed specifically to COVID-19 will be reported next week.”
I work in industry in a position where having access to papers is very helpful, some would say essential.
I have access to IEEE and ACM DLs. I don’t, however, have access to myriad papers from other organizations like Elsevier or Springer Verlag. These are often cited by papers on IEEE/ACM DLs. Some are from 20-40 years ago and still very relevant and interesting.
I have yet to find a way to get access to these in a predictable manner (yes, sometimes you can find preprints or old PostScript versions on various authors academic websites, but not generally).
Often the contents are from government sponsored research from the US government and possibly other governments (if only through their support of Universities in their country).
> If you receive packages let them sit somewhere for 2 days before opening
I am curious if you have a source for the two day number.
I have seen various reports ranging from 12-24 hours for how long this particular virus can last on surfaces like cardboard. The longest estimate I have seen for any surface is 72 hours for stainless steel under lab conditions (i.e. not real-world conditions).
So presumably if it takes 2-3 days for a package to arrive, the contents should be okay if you wait another day or so for the exterior surface to become safe.
There have been several reports going back at least a few months of a coyote wandering around Noe Valley at dusk, I think around 25th & Sanchez or that general area.
So this isn’t new although perhaps more are venturing out for longer periods of time due to the streets being emptier.
> Asked about the study, WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told reporters in Geneva the UN health agency's experts were "looking into this to give further guidance."
> "In the meantime, we recommend using rather paracetamol, and do not use ibuprofen as a self-medication. That's important," he said.
Not if it’s a library that you’re not compiling, like language runtimes or system libraries.
LTO requires that you’re compiling all the code to get the benefits.
I’m also not sure if either gcc or clang’s LTO does layout at the basic block level or at the function level. There is a lot of benefit from doing it at the basic block level. You can literally lay out all the code that runs at application start time so that it is mostly adjacent and fall-through from block to block during execution.
This isn’t something you necessarily do instead of LTO, but rather something you can do in addition to it.
Because if you statically link libraries like the language runtime it allows you to reorder the blocks in those as well to improve locality and instruction cache utilization.
For example if your code calls a particular runtime function shortly after starting, that function (or the basic blocks from that function that are executed frequently) can be placed close to the call site.
I’ve been listening to those four albums very regularly for 6-7 years now. For a while I listened to at least one of the four each night.