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Judging from the magical thinking, Montagnier seems to have developed psychiatric issues and so is no longer a trustworthy authority. It seems cruel and dishonest for news hacks to exploit this ill man to feed a racist conspiracy theory.
Your middle kid sounds like how I was. If he really is like I was, then please give him the same enrichment and support as your more difficult eldest. The middle one may have learned to slack and chill out and not rock the boat, but it's still a coping mechanism for a problem that needs support.
An email address like bill@gates.name is hardly attractive (I realise this is subjective, but if no one can imagine using the domain like this, then what’s the point of it.)

And besides, there are certainly too many people with the same name for this to be practical.
windows on linux or linux on windows...WHO will WIN?
The same thing has observably happened with architecture. I assume there is some kind of Illustrator type app for crapping out garish 1+5[1] urban buildings.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-13/why-ameri...
Competely orthogonal to the megabar being shit, you can[0] middle-click on a bookmark entry to open it in a new tab immediately.

0: could at some point? I revert and stop updating software that sends downgrades and regressions as updates, so I'm not sure what all firefox-latest is doing.
> You can't Google an icon.

I've been complaining about that since 1983, when an Apple evangelist came to my workplace to show off the Mac's icons. Nobody was able to guess what the box of Kleenex icon was, much to the frustration of the evangelist. Of course, there wasn't a Google then, but how do you look up a picture in a dictionary?

We've reverted to hieroglyphic languages. (Ironically, hieroglyphs evolved over time into phonetic meanings.)
I helped my mom do her PPP paperwork.

She submitted on the first day that US Bank allowed applications. She then spent the next 4 days going back and Forth with US Bank over her paperwork. She had a loan approval from US Bank, and then...nothing.

...until Wednesday, when she got an email saying that the funding had ran out.

My mom plans on keeping her staff employed while they work from home for as long as she can, but, she had enough money to run payroll on the 15th, and will probably not have enough money to run payroll at the end of the month -- hospitals have stopped having elective surgeries, and many of them are 60+ days behind on their bills right now.

I know that the banks were hammered with applications and there are a lot of people who are in the same situation as her. I'm hoping that when they add funding to the program, that businesses like hers (who were approved provisionally, but ran out of money) would be processed first.
If you cede to every employee request...?
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Yah. I think many of us can relate here.

Starting in 2nd grade I started ditching class and going to the computer lab to write code. For some sort of reason my teacher didn't notice I was missing as long as I was in for attendance during first period. She did realize I wasn't turning in any work, so I got put into some sort of special program I never went to. They didn't expect me to come, because I never came, and my teacher expected me to be gone, giving me all the time in the world to do whatever I wanted.

I took this trick all the way through high school signing up for programs, or more, stating I was part of programs that would let me ditch classes.

However, in 6th grade, the computer lab shared a window with my homeroom, so a substitute teacher made a comment about it. Turns out I had hacked the admin password and was sending mail, in the form of leaving text messages onto the distract administrator's desktop, where we'd chat about all sorts of stuff. The district didn't know what to do with me. Should I be punished? So they changed the admin password, which I immediately broke into, and that was it. I stayed in the computer lab and my homeroom teacher treated that like normal.
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Share your work progress with your clients via to-do lists
I started a product back in October 2019 but I didn't have much success. This is my fifth pivot:

Here's a product overview

1. If you are a professional or a contractor, you could create a list of things you would do for your client in the form of to-do lists. You could also create this either in the form of proposals to list out tasks before agreeing to work.

2. They could see the lists of tasks, your progress and stay in the loop and comment/share their ideas on specific tasks. Or you could keep it private to let you know how much percentage of your work has been completed.

Let me know if you are interested in something like this. Early-stage users will get offers, they will have the privilege to participate in product development.

We're helping people who are interested register first through https://insteps.io
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> Let's take Wikipedia, it could be broken up into children, public, and scholar.

"Simple English" does a pretty good job. Obviously it's a mix of children/public but for science/mathematical topics where I'm looking just to verify my basic understanding of something, swapping over to Simple English usually gives me what I was looking for if the main article is immediately going down into technical rabbit holes.
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"could you do trigonometry with just hearing and sense of touch?"

Can you get data on this from a Monte Carlo method of study on match
play between sighted and blind players playing go and chess at distance
and blind which requires a mental model of the board state and
translations?
Yet if you get a device from Plantronics the Bluetooth is immediate and rock solid, so it can be done.
Fair enough -- no, I didn't see your earlier comment to the other user. Apologies.

The thing about "feeding trolls" is, troll bait is often in the eye of the beholder. I don't believe he was deliberately "trolling" in the sense of posting deliberately-inflammatory material to provoke an irrational response or lower the level of discourse. Rather, I don't doubt for a moment that he holds precisely his stated beliefs about Americans as a group, and posted them because he felt that this was a welcoming environment for such sentiments. My post wasn't an attempt to feed a troll, so much as it was a way of arguing that no, this isn't the anti-American echo chamber he thinks it is.

I agree that both our posts would have been best kept out of the thread. Thanks for your feedback in that direction (and believe me, I do recognize and respect the hard work you put in here.)
Thanks for this. Just checked it. It seems useful. I didn't even know there were more than 5 HTTP status codes.

btw You are the person who tweets about user interface design, aren't you? I've learned so much from your tweets. Thanks! :)
This is very cool. If you can mass produce such boards (plastic molds maybe?), It could be a fun novelty gadget/gift
Whenever I see someone ask these "whys", I have the urge to show them this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4hOIgRPlNU
> I can say that the lessons of papers like these have been taken to heed.

This isn’t true. Gifted and talented education receives maybe 1% of the funding that special needs education does, if that. In NYC de Blasio is trying to dismantle the existing system because the students are too Asian. Most of the US has nothing approaching that system. Normal high schools are at best indifferent to students who want to go higher than AP; they’re certainly not going out of their way to help and encourage those capable of doing college work to do so.

Face it, at barest minimum 10% of 16 year olds could be in high schools like those associated with Bard College at Simon’s Rock[1], where they graduate with an Associate’s degree having completed half of the coursework for a Bachelor’s. I don’t know what percentage of 14 year olds could do the same or complete a Bachelor’s before 18 but it’s 100s of times greater than those who actually do.

[1] https://simons-rock.edu/
I think some of the Schiit audio dacs do, but there were bugs in older osx levels a couple years back.

Or look for battery powered dacs with no volume knob, or the Audioquest Dragonfly.

Make sure you’ve selected the usb dac in sound output, may be a radio button for onboard volume.
I had the hidden window problem the first time i used win7.

It was one one of those tiny netbooks with 1024x600. I think I was trying to add a user, and for the life of me couldn't figure it out. Turns out the updated add user control panel at the time put the add button on the lower right of a window with a minimum height > 600px and about 400px of white-space above it, and no resize/scroll bar so there wasn't any visual indication that there was more to the window.

But, there is a flip side too. I have ~6kx5k of desktop resolution (portrait mode 5k monitors) and very few applications know how to handle that in any reasonable way. Web pages are frequently the worst, nothing like a column of vertical text consuming 10% of the horizontal resolution of the browser that manages to scroll for a page or two. I guess no one reads newspapers anymore, so the idea of having multiple vertical columns of text is foreign.
> I think I'm growing old, and just couldn't keep up with a pace of changing

On the other hand, when my iPhone suddenly would connect with a caller, but neither party could hear the other, redialing didn't help, turning it off/on didn't work, I remembered the ancient trick of "cold boot". Which resolved the problem.
The best thing about Ubuntu desktop usability might be mnemomics, where alt+ an underlined letter is your keyboard shortcut, but it seems they're dying :-(.
I do not have this experience on the screen lock screen (on Ubuntu 18.04 at least) — just typing a password will put the full password into the box once the animation is gone.

I do not log-in frequently enough to remember how it behaves on log-in (even my laptop has ~90 days of uptime).

FWIW, moving away from GNOME 2.x to either Unity or GNOME 3 was a hard move to swallow, though in all honesty, Unity was better (though pretty buggy and laggy until the end)!
It is mentioned in the article that the digital currency supports offline transactions. How can this be done with blockchain, which required up-to-date information to validate transactions?
Part of the big thing that's missing in those 3000 pages is limitations. Once a bluetooth connection exists there's really nothing preventing the device from using any of the profiles available, other than limits placed by the item connecting. Connect a bluetooth audio device? It can just become a internet route for you, or become something that accesses contacts, or any of the swath of different profiles available.
> embrace the chaos

Well said. Is your machine shop stocked by a single brand of tools all in the same color, or is it a mix of bits and pieces accumulated, rebuilt, repainted, hacked, begged-borrowed-and-stolen over the course of your development as an engineer?

A free software Unix workstation is exactly the same. It’s supposed to look untidy. It’s a tool shed.

Apologies if I’ve touched a nerve with the Festool crowd with my analogy.
This is what I wanted React hooks to be like. They are a huge hack and it shows every time you need to call on conditionally. But I guess if React never comes around to this generator idea I’ll never get to use this, because we rely on many React libraries... Maybe crank could support compatibility with React components somehow?
Do you copy them back to your phone and delete the originals to save space on the phone? It would make sense to scale them to the screen size of the phone and no larger.
So... would this mean neutrinos are for sure not Majorana fermions? Because you'd think that a particle couldn't be its own anti-particle if it's anti-particle has different properties, but quantum mechanics has surprised me before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorana_fermion
Regardless of the goal, there's no way to get a more readable result if the data just isn't there. Whitewashing might simply be a result of that absence.
That's what the government wants you to think. The fairest institution we have is the free market. There's no bullshit allowed. Because if you bullshit, you'll lose money. In a truly functioning free market, price is the mechanism by which fairness is distributed.
Maybe the Thunderbolt 3 MacBooks have enough capacity to spare?
Using Span to get the token location is exactly what I needed! Thanks. I wrote a blog post[0] the other day about making a css macro that compiles into rust for the use in Yew, a front end react like framework.

> However, in rust, there’s no way to differentiate .a.b with .a .b

Now I know that the above is incorrect. I would have never thought of spans so I thank you again

[0] https://conradludgate.com/posts/yew-css/#what-are-the-downsi...
I've long thought that Asperger's and tail end IQ can be really difficult to distinguish. They may be one and the same. And unlike autism, Asperger's apparently responds well to the right stimulation. And I think programming fits that niche well enough that "smart" people disproportionately code when they come across the opportunity.

It could be that Asperger's is distinguished from autism by being a condition acquired by high IQ when improperly stimulated or undersocialized.
> We're kind of into uncharted waters now though, and I'm wondering who else will have accurate predictions of how the next year or two will go.

There have been several out-of-control pandemics in human history that we can look at. It’s true that lots of things have changed between the Bubonic plague sweeping through Europe and now, but people are still people; there may be some insights there. You’d have to ask a historian (I’m not one).

As different regions get this under control, I expect there to be health screenings required for international travel. In the old days, this was quarantine for inbound travellers, but adding a week or two to travel times is a lot less palatable now. We now have other, faster, ways of determining if someone is ill and I expect them to be deployed to protect areas that have succeeded.
Mobile apps might use APIs too - it means Rust on the server-side.
I wouldn't be surprised it's way more than 50% of them. My one is on something like $3/month too. And depending on the design theme you choose (there are huge differences in terms of performance from theme to theme) and as long as you activate a caching plugin, it can easily handle substantial amount of traffic too (such as being on the top of Hacker News for a few hours etc).
Right, but if they hacked a particular remote employee who had access to it, they could have gotten access to the same stuff — their attack vectors might have been more limited, that is true.
Hey-- thanks for the message. We get it / try -- when he doesn't successfully weasel out of it (he is good at that).

The flip-side is, social adaptation/easy-going-ness actually makes it easier for his teachers to challenge him, etc.

The oldest reminds me of me, struggles and all. I have to think my middle kid has an easier path of things than I did.
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Does anyone know the source of that research, I am very surprised they are claiming 4 days on wood.

Results published earlier this month showed no detectable virus on wood after two days, and additionally found non-flat surfaces, like wood, to be more resistant. It seems unlikely that the virus will last 4 days on outdoor decking as WebMD claims.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5...
>Stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines are meant to be temporary until

It's funny how quickly the goalposts moved from "flattening the curve" to "vaccine or widespread immunity." Unless we move back to a "let everyone get sick at the fastest rate that doesn't overwhelm the hospital system" then I'm stuck inside based on lies, by a government that likes flexing it's muscle more than providing the liberty they're ostensibly be principled upon.
Much like the line I picked up in my EMS days.
"All bleeding will eventually stop."
Working on a project that allows freelancers/contractors to share their work progress with their clients to help them stay on the loop.

How it actually works:

1. If you are a professional or a contractor, you could create a list of things you would do for your client in the form of to-do lists. You could also create this either in the form of proposals to list out tasks before agreeing to work.

2. They could see the lists of tasks, your progress and stay in the loop and comment/share their ideas on specific tasks. Or you could keep it private to let you know how much percentage of your work has been completed

:)
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The paper doesn’t compare the two options.

They compare students who were vs were not accelerated to a higher grade level but does not include option 1) above, which is not a normal class composed of average students of the same age but a class tailored for gifted ones.
The single thing I hate the most?

Showing search results immediately, while the real search is happening in the background. I see what I want, click it, and it immediately changes to be something else.

I get the need to give users instant feedback, but not at the expense of user experience.
"If you summed the size of all Rust projects you work in, how big would it be?"
(emphasis mine)

Then:
"The majority of Rust projects (43%) are 1,000-10,000 lines of code."

Am I reading this wrong somehow?
I've been rereading it a couple of times, and feel like you can't draw that conclusion.
I still remember the first time my young niece sat at my traditional desktop computer a few years ago. She must have been about five or six years old. She immediately started using her hands to try and interact with the screen and was utterly confused as to why nothing was happening.
> a lot of these applications don't even really have shortcut key guides

Not even Windows itself has, any where that I could find, a list of all the keyboard shortcuts. I find multiple lists, each with a different random subset of whatever the actual set is.

Sometimes I'll hit wrong keys, and something interesting happens. I don't know what I did, so it's "oh well".
I'd love to be able to use this with just a browser side script tag and no build step.
I've been using VcXsrv (https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/) to do the same thing for a few months. It works well in most cases, but it can be janky. The scaling doesn't always work well if you're using a hidpi screen, and I had one application that was crashing consistently under certain circumstances.

Definitely going to try this out, but I wonder if it's worth paying for when I have a free alternative that does most of what I need it to do.
I'll use this post to say "Thank you!" to developers of the IntelliJ IDEA Rust plugin.

For those who didn't try: this plugin works even in the Community Edition of IntelliJ IDEA.
VcXsrv works well for me https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
It looks good to me.

Putting out relevant content and networking is where it's at, too. Even if your website actually was bad, you'd probably be fine.

I used to get a lot of work for web design without a website. I had a resume with good references and urls leading to good work samples. That's the stuff that counts. There was no shortage of jokes about not having a website though, and everyone thought they were the first person to tell me 'the cobbler's children go barefoot', haha.
Anecdotally, participating in a support group for parents of gifted kids is often therapeutic for the parents, who finally come to terms with a lot of their childhood baggage.

I've suggested at times that if you don't have kids, you could join one anyway and just lurk. It's not like they can check if you actually have kids.
Well it’s tricky, see. Normal science might try to solve a paradox logically, but maybe this is the universe solving a paradox by multiplying both sides of the equation by a reciprocal paradox? The different properties of the anti-particle result in a remainder which is where all of the something rather than nothing comes from.
Epam Systems

(Mexico) They have been firing people systematically in the last months.
They don't have any new projects and they keep hiring more people just to fire them a few months later.

Top management sends global emails saying they want to keep all the employees, but locally they are firing people.

Ironically, to this day, no local managers have been fired.

on the good side: full law compensation is offered.
This style isn't just vector art trash using canned tools. A lot of artists are painting this way in gouache and murals. It looks simple, but that's the effect of good composition and design. I can guarantee that this art is not simple to create. Take procreate for a spin and let me know how it goes. If you see this and say, gosh there's a lot of this out there, it must be mass market garbage, then you'd be right at home with people complaining about art nouveau 150 years ago. I don't paint in this style, but I appreciate it as part of the zeitgeist. If you don't like it, paint something else and put it out there for people to write articles about.
It's the sin of losing the user input.

Don't make your user repeat something twice :)
This is nothing new, I have used X Windows servers on Windows all the way back to 1999, there are quite a few to choose from.

If anything the amount to choose from went down not up, slowly replaced by RDP clients.

So that tells who will will win.
My point is that there's been an explosion in opportunities that kids can use that go around what schools provide. Even when I was in high school, you could get most of an undergraduate education from MIT OpenCourseWare for free, and the situation is even better now. (You couldn't get a credential out of it... but who cares, when either way you'll have the knowledge?)

Though I'm upset about the political drama over NYC magnet schools, it's important to note that their outcomes aren't due to magic teachers or better equipment. The kids are making things happen on their own! The core benefit these schools provide is mostly that they allow the kids to meet each other.
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I don't remember the name, but oddly enough I do remember that it was Canadian, and the company was very short-lived. It was around the time SPAs started becoming trendy (near the start of the last deecade), and I remember the multiple-minute load times, dozens of MB transferred, and the insane CPU usage, along with all the other horrible usability issues it had.
The end users.
> "Hot housing" children does not make for better future outcomes.

I would welcome any research to that effect if you have it to hand. I am not an expert but if you search gwern.net for “gifted education”, “acceleration” “SMPY” or “Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth” you’ll find many papers on this general topic. There’s nothing there showing negative effects and quite a bit that’s positive.
I wouldn't say that they should have shut things down preemptively, but their job is to have up-to-date contingency plans and be ready to implement them when thresholds are crossed.
>I'm honestly so surprised to see stuff like this -- from a logistics standpoint.

Why? This is basic human behavior. There are people who get off on enforcing rules against eachother.

The kind of person with a bland indifference to rule enforcement beyond accomplishing the goals those rules are explicitly designed to accomplish isn't the kind of person interested in, or is hired to, enforce rules.