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I can’t believe you’re still here spouting off your half-baked opinions on this pandemic. A few weeks ago you were all over this site proclaiming this as overblown and no big deal. At what point will you admit that you have no idea what you’re talking about, and that you represent an extremely dangerous and irresponsible mindset that will ultimately cost millions of lives?

Seriously, you have zero expertise and you’ve been wrong about everything since the start. Please stop talking.
(Not a virologist)

As I recall, the virus in The Stand had a death rate of something like 99.4%.

However, if that actually happened, it seems like there would still be enough people to make a medium sized country, and wouldn't it rapidly evolve to be less virulent anyway?

But anyway, just on my vague sense of fate, this all might be an omen for what happens in ten or twenty years. I keep thinking of the 20th century kind of echoing, first there was WWI, the flu epidemic, the depression, WWII...early on you couldn't have imagined what was coming.
Because it takes months to open a mask factory.
not to downplay any death but there are roughly 100 deaths/day from car accidents and similar number is also from gun-related just to have some perspective. Unfortunate/scary thing is that the virus has the potential to eclipse those numbers by 10x easily
Its a ledger but that's about it. Its not distributed, decentralized or permissionless.
> and I was referring to this data [1]

You were referring to data more than a week old, when the infected cases had neither time to recover nor time to die. The latest figure from yesterday is 1.16% of all cases according to JHU.

> That's not how CFR works

That is exactly how CFR works. If you test more people, C will be closer to I.
Absolutely agree with everything you've said. I had dreamed of a Libib[1] for my kitchen, but knew I would have to do all the painful data adding and it was too much of a bother.

The other big challenge I never resolved was how you'd account for e.g. using 1/4 cup of flour out of a bigger volume. Or taken to its extreme, cooking oil. How do you know how much your 'splash' is? You can't predict the remaining volume without a lot of fiddling to measure it and that defeats the purpose.

In the end, I opted for manual databases too, but they're pain to keep up-to-date. I still think there's a lot of value in a database for all-or-nothing style ingredients, but it was enough to deter me. I'm glad someone is less lazy.

[1]: https://www.libib.com/
I think type hints make sense in some specific cases. Especially if it's an external API that your code is providing, or for when the usage is not clear.

It's good for checking the internal logic, but being optional is important in the python context.
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Surely such death rates would surely make people a lot more scared, thus a lot more likely to maintain quarantine and isolation. And the governments wouldn't suggest silly things like keeping schools etc running like normal.
With the Feds helping and mandating setup of new lines and paying for them so much more could have happened.
You're trusting that the microphone is not listening, which is about on par with trusting any device that claims to only store stuff in a local buffer, except when commanded to talk to the cloud.

I think to your point, there is possibly more legal protection around wiretaps than voice assistants. However, how many apps have access to the microphone? Are these apps covered by the same protections as making a phone call using POTS?

Edit: I see you've linked that your phone is an old-school landline, which doesn't really help people understand the legalities around smartphones, which many feel are a requirement to daily life.
Same here, in fact I'm so not used to having breakfast that any time I try to I have awful nausea.

Dinner time, after work and chores is the best time to cook, eat, socialise and take our time enjoying some food.
The Kalman filter is basically an ML algo. The key here is to implement already known linear optimization approximation versions of it in common libraries.
It may be more effective to do time-restricted eating with no dinner, but for many people (with kids, for example), this is not practical. I've done 17/7 for about a year with good success, usually from 7p to noon. It allows me to eat dinner with my small kids, and that has made it feasible for my family.
Electronics can be done as boards to stick in at an assembly point.
I'll take you on that bet. Given his work on poverty, I wouldn't be surprised if he knows the approximate price of milk in supermarkts around the world.

IMHO, The primary thing wealth gives you is the time and resources to understand society in great depth. I just wish more wealthy people took that opportunity, but Gates is one of the leaders here.
Parasite? Please, grow up dude. Reported your comment. People like are why the everyone hates bernie.
Complete extinction of humans is a high bar. Also I would expect that the reaction to such a disease would be extreme. It could certainly be much worse than the current crisis we are facing.
I don't think this solution is sustainable either. It takes one bad apple to restart the exponential growth rate. Look at south Korea and patient 31.
Not even from a safety perspective, but from a UX ergonomics perspective:

Give me a D pad, an OK and a Cancel button. And make a phone API that works exclusively by that and the sounds and chimes it outputs.

I just want every supported app to be in a top level list that I arrow through and OK. Then within any app the options are all navigable in simple ways. Overall functionality is reduced.

Voice control is a secondary system altogether.
Does the US not use the WHO cards?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_Jaune
Sure, and nobody who cares about privacy would own an always on smart home device from Amazon or Google. But you don't always know if one of those devices is listening, such a when going to a friend's house.
Because companies were forced to reduce quality of service in order to not break the current internet infrastructure; also because now people need to use high quality internet in sub-urban locations.
If that were true, how do explain studies (like this one) that show that hands-free devices also hurt reaction time worse than alcohol? Drivers don't even need to "let go of the phone". They're looking straight ahead, and they have to respond to a big red rectangle, right in their field of vision. Yet somehow, they're still worse at it than people who have been drinking.
Simply not true, at all. He can kick and scream all he wants, but his plan would never pass Congress.

You don't get things done by doing it his way. Ever. It's terrifying how many people forget how HARD the ACA was.
People commonly misunderstand the value proposition of smartphones. They spend $500 a year for service, but view spending $1,000 for a top of line phone that maximizes the value of that service as excessive, even when that phone only costs $250 a year in depreciation. So instead they buy a $500 phone, costing $150 a year in depreciation, with a worse screen, camera, cpu, etc that they use for hours every single day.
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I’ve been doing this with https://www.thingybase.com/, my phone, and a wireless Brother label printer or the past few months. Once you get use to a workflow it’s not that bad, and very handy when you are out and about and need to see what’s in your deep freezer or in storage.

Edit: I noticed a few people have signed up and are kicking the tires. Please let me know what you’d like to see built for this thing and give feedback in this thread. At the top of my list is: (1) a phone app, (2) better onboarding (3) more fields for quantity, units, custom, etc. (4) attach photos to items, (5) messaging/chat/threads for each item so people can coordinate better on inventory, (6) one-click to “create a posting to sell an item on Craigslist/etc” for getting rid of a thing and, (7) a way of loaning items to friends and showing them what’s available for loan.
yes. changing the title is prudent at this time. I thought other way too!
Don’t be purposely obtuse. You know what I meant.
There is a strong network effect for phones. This seems like a smart way for Apple to maintain its market positioning as a premium offering, while enabling growth of its market share amongst people who can’t afford their new phones, thus making their network more valuable.
Is "normal weight" less of a problem? Do such studies usually generalize to overweight males better than to females?
Forfeited the role? "Leader of the Free World" was just a rhetorical title and not an actual role. Surely the people in other parts of the Free World didn't think of previous Presidents as their leaders.

In my opinion, all this means is that some media outlets liked previous Presidents and don't like Trump. I'm not convinced anything is actually lost because some people don't call the President "Leader of the Free World."
Just to confirm...128MHz Z80 via an FPGA. https://sowerbutts.com/socz80/
Or maybe they get plenty of zinc (Zn++)!

"[NIH] Zinc Fact Sheet for Health Professionals":

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Zinc-HealthProfessional/

3 ounces of oysters contain a whopping 673 mg of zinc. My 100 mg zinc supplement, of which I take only 50 mg at a time b/c it's too bitter and dulls my taste buds, pales by comparison.

Oysters, crab and lobster seafoods are among the best food sources of dietary zinc.
> (just wanted to add that with one weight you can usually [imprecisely] weight both really small values and really big values by multiplying/dividing. Let's say you need 0.5g but your scale can only do down to 1g, so you can weight 1g and then just half it and now you have 0.5g. Same goes if you need 1kg when max is 100g, just do 100g and then multiply)

Not with a 1gram-resolution scale - at best it's measured 1g +/- 0.5g, so after you halve it you have anything from 0.25g to 0.75g, +/- your own inaccuracy in halving such a small quantity. (I suppose you could count out each spore cluster!)

However, I really don't believe it's going to have a material affect on your homemade bread; that level of recipe precision just isn't important outside of commercial manufacturing.
Yes, in music (and much of the arts), there's an expectation that if you're enrolling in a program at school you have some degree of prior exposure.

But mechanical engineering? Chemical engineering? Economics? I'd argue that kids going into those fields may have read a bit and maybe tinkered a little at the periphery. Maybe in the case of ME they were in a robot competition. Etc.

But, in the case of pre-calc physics in HS for example, it barely gives a hint of what being a physics major would be like.

I actually don't know how much exposure to programming there is in HS. I assume essentially no "CS" per se but then, they wouldn't have the math for the most part. But I'd argue there are actually a lot more opportunities to get exposure to computer-related stuff than there is for other fields.

(To the degree, per my other comment, that there is something of an expectation at many schools that incoming students, like music majors, will have done so.)
He's not rich enough to juice the world economy. We're currently debating spending a trillion dollars on stimulus for the American economy, and many people are concerned that this won't be enough to make a difference.
> 100€/month/adult

God I wish, it's about double that [0]: 162€ (health insurance) + 32€ (statutory nursing care insurance) for those making ~1k€/month or less. Not counting any gov support. Btw ~870€ seems to be the max, if you earn ~4700€/month or more.

And from what I remember there is a way to opt out of the public system and switch to private insurance, but this is kind of discouraged by being hard to switch back and requiring significant income in the first place.

> (german) https://www.tk.de/techniker/leistungen-und-mitgliedschaft/in...
>> The lack of an external memory bus feels incredibly in-authentic to me.

Yep. It's still a neat project, but don't claim to build an 80's computer using "only 5 chips" when they're more modern chips that allow that low count. A single FPGA can do it all too.

On a tangent, I'm curious about upgrades to old machines that could have been done at the time. For example, my Interact has super low-res graphics where each pixel is 3 scan lines high. That machine was designed for 4-8K of ram but shipped with 16K and had an upgrade to 32K. It seems like increasing the vertical resolution should have been a fairly trivial hardware hack since the RAM is all there. Bumping the horizontal resolution might have been possible but harder. Increasing the available colors should have been fairly easy. It seems to be a case of not enough time for the design to bake. The other 8bit machines with ASICs might not be so incomplete, but there may still be some things that could have been done.
incidently i just started baking bread last week because i live in an area where people don't eat bread much, so it's not common to find.

i had a recipe that put 350ml water to 500g flour. i used whole grain weat flour and the result was a very sticky dough. i added regular flour until it stopped being sticky.

the dough rose beautifully and baked nicely. (i burned it a bit at the top, but that could be scraped off)

today i made another. this time i only used the 500g whole grain flour and didn't add any regular flour but reduced the water, adding more water until it started getting sticky.

this dough didn't rise well. and the resulting bread was denser and had a slightly stronger taste of yeast.

from other comments i see that the stickyness is to be expected and will get better after the first rise. so my second try didn't rise because i didn't use enough water.

interestingly, i just realized thst the consistency of the second attempt is very close to black bread that i got in latvia.
....it's really a stretch to call these stones "money."

Yes, they represent value, but other than that they practically immobile, non-portable, non-fungible, and work entirely via word of mouth and rely on human honesty...perhaps it's more appropriate to call it proto-money.
I had a 2016 MBP that had everything replaced at least once except the bottom case (with the serial number on it, lol). That thing then failed entirely again about 2 months after Apple Care ended. Good news: Apple elected to replace the machine for free, as I had so much trouble with it. Bad news: he machine will ship directly from the factory in China, when it’s been built, to the Apple store, where I can pick it up when they’re open again... So, thanks to Apple and SARS-CoV-2 I have had no laptop for more than 5 weeks. :-/
you have to give explicit permissions for those things. google assistant doesn't work on my phone because i never gave it permission to enable that feature.
Still waiting for you to share your plan. We all are well aware of what you think we shouldn’t do. So what should we do?
If he's so prescient about pandemics, why didn't he spend the last 20 years, I don't know, making sure healthcare workers in his own darned city had enough masks and gloves to deal with one? Surely he could've saved a few lives in his own backyard while we was busy in Africa, right?
Do you have numbers on the composition of juries nowadays? How representative the are of their communities?
I'm used to keeping track of every 15 minute segment of my day, at former jobs. But currently, I'm not expected to do that while working from home, but at the same time my manager wants an update every day on what I've been doing. I'd rather be monitored constantly or make a chronological log than have to engage in basically a marketing exercise every day.

I did have a salaried position once where we absolutely had to punch a time clock (and quite a few people grumbled because of the class implication) but there was almost no monitoring on a daily basis. Except you weren't supposed to fall asleep.
CNN, MSNBC and Washington Post doesn’t even constitute a consensus of news companies, let alone Americans. This is mis-information.
There are almost 40 million black Americans and the only one to make president went to top private schools and was raised by his WASP mom
Is there a link with more info about thingybase? Because this takes me immediately to a login prompt, without any details?
A point of sales system has the distinct advantage of not travelling at a combined speed of 60 metres / 200 feet per second.
You can also use the continuous Fourier transforms and not sample so there won’t be a nyquist rate. I also think neural networks have some really interesting properties when viewed from a signal processing perspective. In fact you can view the correct outputs of a neural network as a signal and the incorrect outputs as noise, and use conventional SP techniques to narrow down what parts of a network are informative.
You can’t directly compare node sizes between different companies; they’re not actually measuring anything so the numbers are just made up. IIRC TSMC’s 7nm process is approximately equal to Intel’s 10nm.
> I've always liked the idea of this sort of thing, but the benefits of using something like this almost never outweigh the costs as compared to just eyeballing the pantry and winging the meal planning on short timescales. The system starts to become the point of the effort rather than just a tool to better achieve household goals.

Sounds a bit like GTD and other systems :/.
The other two posts he linked to here were real interesting as well:

* https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2016/11/this-is-where...

* https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2018/12/hand-drawn-li...
Really? This is just marking the UI element as selected isn't it? Isn't it just a decision to not have the hovered state and only use the selected state?
Ah, well, that explains it. Mask technology is extremely advanced, after all.

And how long does it take to produce a safe, well tested vaccine that we are supposed to give to our kids?
They really ought to warn their users directly when the update is 'pushed'. While I understand the desire for accessible information this is a time where a lot of bad actors smell blood in the waters and this adds additional opportunities for them.
I know! We should use a Blockchain right?

/s obviously. Although probably less ridiculous than other uses.
> You're trusting that the microphone is not listening

The point of the original comment is mostly that devices like echos are expected to always be listening, and this has legal implication.
>I’d rather have an informed discussion among smart people

Yes, but that's the thing isn't it? We're not informed, and fitting ke^x to data doesn't make us informed.

This reeks of Dunning-Kruger. I get that the intention is good, but we have to have some humility and not go all "hold on! I'll save the day!"
they do that by teaching fundamentals - problem solutions(thinking) with algos and their use cases, math, how to make/read a engineering chart, what is involved in IT systems and etc. You cannot skip those things. They need to be learned to design good APIs and software systems.
I thought I hated time tracking. Now I get to put in one time entry for my whole shift, but I have to make reports constantly on what I'm doing which is a lot more effort than just entering in chronological order what I did.

Simple time tracking helps keep you honest and tells you things you weren't aware of, in my experience.
Ah yeah totally missed they were pressurized and inflated.
Which would be pretty painful for everyone not working in a memory-constrained environment (at a guess, that's most developers). Much like std:println! panicking instead of returning an error, ergonomics are important too a lot of the time.
The blurry variant of "Making Things Stick" reminds me of a hydrogen molecule bonding[1].

It might be interesting to tune an svg filter against a ground truth like [2] - if the difference can be made small, it might be useful for educational interactives?

I wonder if one could get something complex like [3]?

[1] http://phelafel.technion.ac.il/~orcohen/h2/h2_45.gif from frame http://phelafel.technion.ac.il/~orcohen/h2.html of http://phelafel.technion.ac.il/~orcohen/DFTVisualize.html
[2] https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/gpaw/tutorials/bader/bader.html
[3] image https://i.insider.com/5249da00eab8ea2172fa799a?width=700&for... via https://www.businessinsider.com/first-images-of-a-hydrogen-b... from paywalled https://science.sciencemag.org/content/340/6139/1434.abstrac...
As long as you target web browsers, things generally work out fine, in my experience, with very few gaps in the feature set. Bugs, however ... Safari is seemingly constantly broken (as was Edge until a year ago or so, but then they scrapped EdgeHTML anyway), Chrome and Firefox sometimes seem to compete on who will break things the most in trying to make rendering faster (as long as rendering doesn't have to be correct it can be made nearly infinitely fast ...).
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there is no directed selection like that.

its a luck of the draw and then selection for most apt to produce offspring.

the virus can become more lethal in effect over time, or take on troublesome characters such as asymptomatic contagion with extended incubation period.

the virus is so problematic right now due to a sponteneous mutation altering its previous character.
So, breakfast like a king, dinner like a prince and supper like a peasant.
I would not date the lady.
Doesn't cover prescription drugs.
A cellphone doesn't necessarily have the voice assistant enabled, and works just fine without it. An Echo, Homepod or Google Home without the voice assistant is basically useless (I don't know whether you can even disabled the VA).
I don't mean to be negative but this is another useless nutrition paper. It shows effects we already know about, and it doesn't show them in more convincing ways than previous studies, and it then it misinterprets the relevance of these results for a headline.

You can't get anything useful if you focus the entire window on the post prandial. The body is complex and caloric balancing is not a simple thing. Studies that focus on appropriate (24 hrs+) periods of time never measure any difference. Not only that their own study showed that:

> Low-calorie breakfast increased feelings of hunger (P < .001), specifically appetite for sweets (P = .007), in the course of the day.

So for many people who don't eat a large breakfast your compliance is going to be impacted. Anyone familiar with nutritional science will tell you that compliance is a much bigger deal than eeking out tiny theoretical shifts in calories by shifting meal times, which even if you could prove were real would absolutely not be worth it if it broke your overall compliance.

Outside of that, this isn't a novel finding. We already have small pilot studies showing this stuff that have the same problems. Repeated science is often underrated, but these results are uncontroversial, they are just over interpreted and old.

> Extensive breakfasting should therefore be preferred over large dinner meals to prevent obesity and high blood glucose peaks even under conditions of a hypocaloric diet.

Like, sorry, no that's absolutely not a fair conclusion of these results. It's just not.
> There is no worldwide authority, that can provide these blueprints.

Nor should there be. Centralization isn't beneficial for this sort of problem.
I believe this the case for fish in general

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Dq6_HHfUA <3 Brad
The “advantage” of that fixed lifetime also leads to higher operational costs since they have to be replaced so often.

Also their launch costs are far more than just kerosene, every launch destroys a second stage, and the last a first stage.
Why not? COVID19 is shaping up to have all of that except for the high death rate, though the rate as we're finding out is much higher than China let on, even in young people...

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