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The idea that there can be wholly distinct levels to competitive tennis–levels so distinct that what's being played is in essence a whole different game–might seem to you weird and hyperbolic. [...] I have played against men who were on a whole different, higher plateau than I, and I have understood on the deepest and most humbling level the impossibility of beating them, of "solving their game." [...] I feel like I could get on a tennis court with Julian Knowle. He would beat me, perhaps handily, but I don't feel like it would be absurd for me to occupy the same seventy-eight-by-twenty-seventy-foot rectangle as he. The idea of me playing Joyce–or even hitting around with him, which was one of the ideas I was entertaining on the flight to Montreal–is now revealed to me to be in a certain way obscene

I can relate to this, in the software engineering realm. Most people I've worked with, I feel like we're on the same "league". Some are better than me at certain things, I'm better than them at certain other things, but I generally feel like given enough time and interest, I could do what they do.

But there has been a small handful of people I've had the pleasure of working with that I could tell operate on a different level. Their brains work differently. It's hard to explain if you haven't felt it. They're qualitatively different, not just quantitatively. It's wonderful and humbling to see them in action. They also tend to be among the humblest, nicest, most hilarious people I know (I'm looking at you, Matt, STU, ejbs).

Incidentally, this is one reason to reject "brilliant jerks". The most brilliant people I know aren't jerks, so "brilliant lovely people" are rare, but they exist. Do not put up with jerks.
I don't work in data science but am a physicist working in an engineering field. I very much agree with you.

Many of our PhD students learned programming using matlab and it's a mess, they never use version control, everything is in a single script, nobody properly debugs, etc.. I believe this is because matlab encourages that type of programming.

I decided very early on to use python instead of matlab, significantly before ipython notebooks became a thing. Because most of the python resources came from computer scientists, using software engineering methods was really "forced" onto me, and I really enjoy it now.

If I look at the people who have been converted to python using jupyter I see a very similar phenomenon that you talk about. People are creating a huge mess, in ways it's even worse than the monolithic matlab scripts, because the notebooks can't even be run as a whole unit, because working and not working cells are mixed, there are several cells that define the same function, but only one is the correct one (good luck remembering which one it is after a couple of months) ...

I thing jupyter is a great tool for teaching and exchanging and presenting analyses. But it is a terrible tool for programming and especially learning to program, because it really encourages bad practices.
How is warm winter natural disaster? I like it like that.
OneWeb was projected to need $7 billion to get to production usage, of which only $1 billion is the 21 Soyuz launches. The main killer is growth in the cost of their satellites (co-produced with Airbus) and ground stations.
This is something that Zoom has, and was mentioned on a recent call. People were using random backgrounds (including a photo of a prison..) and the message from leadership was "We need to have a corporate background for everyone to use."
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It’s not a secret that farmers’ markets are healthier than grocery food stores. If you eat the food sold at a farmers’ market vs that sold at an average grocery store, my bet is that you’ll live at least 5 years longer in the former case and generally be healthier and thus happier.
Grocery food stores are open almost 24/7 so you can go there when you have the time, but farmers’ markets are open sporadically.
Vendomarch https://vendomarch.com delivers fresh produce from local farmers’ markets at the tap of a button, very convenient. Vendomarch currently delivers in Rochester, NY.
> The headline is wrong

In case you've been living under a rock, in the current cultural context "warmest ever" means "warmest since records began".
This is a bad exercise in wfh. Rushed, poorly planned, if at all, with kids around and no way to get some peace and quiet required for proper focused work...

If anything I'm afraid this taught companies wfh sucks and should be avoided.
His original photo looks way nicer compared to the processed one.
I'm surprised it needs to be said, but WFH during a pandemic is not equivalent to WFH during normal life.
Thats the metafilter.com model. Comments do feel a bit better there.
> in Germany it was reported that a lot of them were in use

Why would this be unique to germany. Can we just assume this is more or less identical everywhere?
There are plenty of tutorials on how to make something like a surgery mask at home using basic sewing stuff or even oven paper.

These help with droplets and with reducing face touching.
I borrowed this book from the library, but before I finished it I bought it, I liked it that much. In short, I very much agree with this recommendation.
Have you worked with your city government to champion legislation to heavily regulate short term rentals?

If not, please do!
Just yesterday on German news they reported that Germany had most ICU beds per capita in the world. No idea if it's true. I guess no one ever knows the correct current numbers.
I second this one. That book was awesome, as well as her story.
What does "warmest ever" mean this time? Since 1951? 1880? 1970?

Someone who thinks the Economist is worth the paywall might enlighten us.
Wrong. Surgical masks use exactly the same material as N95 respirators - melt-blown non-woven polypropylene, only much thinner.

This material is extremely difficult to produce, which makes it hard to scale on short notice, so its price in China shot up 50 times.
> that WFH works

It only works when you can do your job from home (aka not most jobs).
It also only works if you don't have kids, a partner or have a big enough home to isolate, which isn't the case for most people. The current situation will make people hate wfh.
The only problem I have is the new syntax has trained me to expect a ? when null is possible, and null is not allowed if ? is missing, but in older libraries not yet updated to C# 8 Nullable Types, not having a ? means null is allowed. So reading the syntax in my IDE is a lot harder as sometimes an un-annotated type means null is allowed and sometimes not. I wish in cross-over projects there was the option to use ! to say null shouldn’t be allowed, thus visually and temporarily distinguishing new from old code, and to that end, the ! could be inserted as an overlay by my IDE, I suppose... Maybe I should try to write an IDE plug-in for this, or have a look for one.
I don't have much experience with Photoshop. Would it be possible to record some sort of macro in it to automatically transform any image?

If not, this approach seems to have merit
More likely the warmest since we started taking precise measurements, which goes back a short time.

Nothing to worry about in any case.
That is indeed a risk factor. I've seen a lot of people argue that there's no downside, that shoving the FDA out of the way would be a pure positive, and you're right to consider that very naive.

But should we expect the FDA itself to be immune to such manipulations?
Looks great. I'm going to give it a try.
I am curious. What are the costs you have in mind? How are they different from tourists who stay in cheaper hotels?
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That works if it's the author itself, and the author has at least a passing familiarity with BibTeX. Much of the bibtex that you can download from journal cites is itself pretty botched up.
I recently implemented boids in a compute shader [1]. It’s using Apple’s Metal framework, and rendered in 3D. The boids are simple triangles, and I added a bit of specular shading to give them a little bit of a “shimmer” as they flock.

I implemented an NVIDIA algorithm for running n-body simulations on the GPU. The constraint is memory access, which can freeze up in a case like this. [2]. Converting from CUDA to Metal wasn’t too bad.

1: https://www.instagram.com/p/B4t4ewCplfR/?igshid=1uxnng6idsqb...

2: https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems3/part-v-physics...

edit: Here's a low-res animated GIF for anyone who doesn't want to click an instagram link: http://gregorywieber.com/assets/images/art/murmuration.gif
I see two camps here. Microsoft has been calling anything with a GUI "visual" for a few decades (Basic, Studio, C++, FoxPro, ...), so people from industry often use that definition. For people from academia, "visual" has a somewhat different meaning.

Thus, people in one camp see this as the standard name for the feature, and people in the other camp view it as misleading, and a continued diluting of the word in a way which trivializes their research.

After a decade of hearing "oh, visual programming, you mean like Visual C++?", I've learned to avoid the word entirely. It's a loaded term.

Every common word that is used as a popular brand name has this problem. I'm getting flashbacks to the 80's/90's and trying to explain my home computer to IBM PC people. "Do you have Windows?" "Well, it's an Apple. There are windows on the screen but it's not Microsoft Windows." "If you've got windows on the screen you can drag around with a mouse, that's Microsoft Windows."
Why is there any matter in the universe at all?
"The main idea is: two pieces can be on the same square... Pierre-Françoys says he wishes that more than two pieces could share a square... The name “Pauli Chess”, is inspired by the Pauli exclusion principle, which says that no more than two electrons can occupy the same atomic orbital."

Pierre-Françoys' variant would be Bose chess, I suppose?
>(which seems highly dubious)

Seems trivially true, to me. The european feudal system developed out of the late roman imperial system, that would have vicars and dukes, with the dukes representing secular military authority.

Also, off the top of my head, I think somebody like Charlemagne (as the first guy I know who merged military rule with the support of the pope) would have been wholy interested in christian support for secular reasons (and vice versa). Being the roman emperor, appointed by the pope, would presumably help with his legitimacy in Italy and Gaul.
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I will read the Armstrong's thesis!
Thanks.
And most of such styles are so-called "substyles" -- if the master style they derive of changes, so do they.
“fn... fn...” - No, that doesn’t sound like C++, at all.
> I'm surprised it needs to be said,

Are you really, though?
If a sick person wears a masks and keeps coughing into it. Does that person go around during the day with a mask filled with phlegm and spit. sounds disgusting and stupid.
i also sometimes wish i had full frame, but as I understand it it would also mean heavier lenses.
Once you've written sufficient unit tests to prove your code works as well as a C++ equivalent does just by compiling, I don't think Python ends up being more dense though.

I'd also argue that operator overloading etc lets C++ be just as expressive as Python, the libraries just need to be designed with that in mind.
A number of local candidates ran on the platform of housing reform. They don't get elected.
How deadly is the coronavirus? It's still far from clear
Agree. Also WFH is not literally "Work From Home". You can work from anywhere you want. A park. A cafe on the beach. I think people are just not used to the freedom they suddenly acquired and don't know how to use it (plus we can't go out right now).
Seems like the market exists for what they offer. Even if this wipes out airbnb in the short term another company will serve the need in the long term, baring new laws. Basically you'd need to see hospitality industry lobbyists get some new laws passed murdering them as part of some sort of relief package.
Yea, what is the claimed "anonymization" here?

Who's that dude sleeping in my flat, hanging out with my gf and besties, working in my office etc if not me?
If we don't figure out a way to get past the anti-science types it will be the death of us all one or the other. We need to develop anti-memetic technology. Bad memes are killing us.
Well, in my case WFH during the pandemic has been far better than otherwise because now everyone is on an equal footing. Everyone is WFH so I’m not missing random side conversations or getting ignored altogether.

And it’s still pretty terrible.

There are advantages, but at least for me my productivity is miles higher in an office environment.
Chloroquine has side effects and the drug might not work. It'd make the front blinds a hell of a lot worse if we start giving people whatever without any scientific basis just because one charismatic scientist has been pushing for it. Ignoring the science is what got us here. Staying blind to science to pursue false hope isn't going to get us out of here. Remember how during Ebola we were all convinced that drug by Gilead was going to work since it seemed to have an impact on the mechanism of action etc etc? Remember how it failed after rigorous studies? Imagine if we'd just decided it worked without testing it on preliminary data and given it to people on the front lines to protect themselves.

These regulations are written in blood. Dengue vaccines are another example. Ignoring science got us here. Ignoring science again will keep us here.
Many companies pass through a time where the current business is marginal, but sustainable growth is just around the corner. COVID-19's worldwide supply and transport disruption coming at just the wrong time can absolutely sink a business that was skirting too close to the edge.
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A lot of stuff gets lost to time. My friends Dad had a huge record collection of Jazz. When CDs came out he started replacing them. He still had hundreds of records, and lamented "a lot of these aren't going to be re-issued". I'm assuming that there is a lot of music out there lost to time.
I agree, AirBnB is an unsustainable business and I would also like to see it regulated out of existence. It is extremely classist. Only something that middle class or higher can use while reducing housing availability which primarily impacts lower classes.
This.

Yet, all my highly educated friends think Federal Reserve has been doing a great job at "stabilizing the economy".

Ignorance is strength, after all.
The poster I'm replying to is suggesting that this will be an experience to convince people to work from home haha. Either, this is a valid experience and everyone hates it. Or, this isn't true work from home and nobody's actually learned anything.
Lol, that's shitty.

I read about a dev rel person who just finished a podcast about how important her role is in times of corona and remote work.

She got layed off that same day and the dev rel team was eliminated.
At this point they should just standardize the ABI. It would solve so many headaches, and allow C++ to be used as a proper systems language.
Many insect and parasites populations shrink during winter. With a warm winter, the ecosystem is now unbalanced, some forests will die out, some animal species will be ridden with ticks, etc. In the longer term, unbalanced ecosystems cause disasters like the ongoing locusts invasion in Africa.
> That is one of the things that are so brilliant about Perl.

> - More than one way to say things

I respect that others may disagree, but I actually find this to be a major disadvantage in a programming language. From a readability perspective[1], having more than one way to express the same task is in my opinion a bad thing. As a trivial example, Perl supports both pre- and post-conditionals:

if something then x = 1

or

x = 1 if something

which I find super cumbersome to parse. In all cases, I have to keep the whole phrase in mind before I can understand it, because I don't know which way the phrase will go. If there was only pre-conditionals, or only post-conditionals, then I would know how to parse each part of the phrase before I have read the entire phrase, which makes it easier to parse complex phrases.

I think this is one major reason languages like Perl or C++ are often considered hard to read. Having so many ways to express the same thing means a major mental load until you've figured out what is trying to be expressed.

[1] By now we've all come to agree that easy reading of code is far more important than easy writing of code, right?
It still relies on a population of antibodies for detection. By the time you’ve built a good population of antibodies to trigger the test you will have been contagious for many days. This test is still very valuable though as confirmation of who has antibodies and is likely immune.
[googles...]

https://hbr.org/2019/09/how-to-create-an-online-community-th...

For what that's worth.
I’m not a huge Airbnb fan but the hospitality lobbies are pretty crappy too. In the town I’m from they managed to make sleeping in your car a pretty serious crime.
Interesting, did not know that. There is a reddit thread in malefashionadvice you may want to comment on as well as there is no contradicting perspective there.
I think the message a lot of people in my societal circle (I can't generalize obviously) are getting is that WFH is terrible and a sacrifice you have to make for the pandemic. It'd be like if after ww2 you introduced rationing as a smart way to manage your budget - people would go hell no. That was a sacrifice I made for the war and it sucked, not something I'd do voluntarily.
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What was the hit to the economy from Spanish Flu, that also mostly killed the young?
What is the specific serious hit to the real economy that you expect, other that short-term, from "bodies piling up"?

Sure, I agree it's terrible, but the claim about the economy is what's weird.
Because if it is indicative of a warming planet (which this particular event may or may not be, although the warming of the planet is beyond doubt at this point), then life for human being is gonna get much worse because we have spent centuries setting up civilization based on environmental conditions which are not true anymore.

As a result you will see mass migrations as earlier fertile regions become arid, and people compete for scarce resources, exposure to diseases that populations in a region do not have immunity for, and because the changes are due to warming (I.e. an increase in energy in the ecosystem) the greater energy means extreme weather events will become even more extreme, and milder ones will become extreme.
> On August 1, 2019, it was announced that DoorDash will acquire the food delivery app Caviar from Square.

That's interesting.
Rent controls constrict supply, exacerbating the problem.

Disallowing multiple unit ownership effectively bans landlords entirely. It’s an extreme solution that would be ridiculously disruptive. It would be impossible to find anything to rent short or long term. It would be impossible to find medium to large size condo or apartment buildings as they’d essentially be illegal, which wouldn’t help the bay area’s single family home issue. It would make single family homes nearly the only practical choice.

Without vacant properties owned by a real estate company there’s no way to move anywhere unless you’re doing a 1:1 trade with a homeowner or constructing a new house (try finding a vacant lot in San Francisco).

You’re glossing over the actual solution: more housing supply. Eliminating zoning restrictions dictating single family detached homes and parking minimums would cause the Bay Area market to naturally become more dense. Homeowners would sell their homes at inflated prices to developers who would build condo buildings and towers.

Having developers build luxury apartments and condos seems bad, but it frees up housing stock and increases supply. Usually, yesterday’s luxury apartments and condos are today’s affordable housing.

Another point that you’re missing is that the Bay Area is an outlier. Few other American cities have these housing problems. If you live in Chicago or Houston or Indianapolis and you’re holding down a half decent job you can own a house if you want that.
I don't live in Africa
I don't get that argument. Going by your logic, housing itself is classist because people who aren't at least in the middle class can't afford houses much of the time. And maybe it is, but then what? Are we supposed to abolish classism because some people are less fortunate?
Whereby works great for social interaction.
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It's a spectrum, and I assume it will shift a bit towards acceptance as we go on in this pandemic as people find arrangements that work. You have to have processes in place, personally as well as professionally, to make WFH work well, and a lot of people who are thrown into this brave new WFH world have neither.
A race where one driver is 30 seconds ahead of the rest is even more boring.