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I switched to Dvorak before I started uni. I have been typing dvorak the majority of my typing.

Still discovered the hard way that I needed an ergonomic keyboard. I use a kinesis advantage, but frankly a Microsoft one will do. It just needs to be enough.

Also major factor: Switching away from a mouse. Every time I've done full time work at a computer (i.e. when I'm not studying), I got wrist pain.

Switching to a touchpad is tiring for the fingertip, since it's not designed to drag on a surface all day.

But switching to a trackball has been a fantastic choice (six or seven years ago by now - some kind of red Kensington ball). I think there's so much more choice in using a trackball than a mouse or a touchpad, since it can be operated with the fingertip or the hand, and it's trivial to operate it without bending the wrist badly.

I got the ergonomic keyboard before the trackball; but the trackball made an almost instantaneous difference, whereas the keyboard only makes a cumulative difference - nowadays I can use a straight keyboard temporarily (e.g. if I want to go somewhere and use a laptop, I can, even for weeks at a time) but I wouldn't want it fulltime.
It is also possible to use the OBS output as a virtual webcam. All you need is v4l2loopback and the v4l2sink OBS plugin: https://github.com/CatxFish/obs-v4l2sink

It work perfectly and the virtual camera can be used with Jitsi, BigBlueButton and the likes :).
that is precisely the sort of group i was protesting with, hence why i was attacked, and i had no need to hide my face because we were not doing anything illegal

and the US is not nazi germany or the ccp. if it were, face blur filters would be the least of your concerns. this only makes sense in the context of conducting illegal activity in a lawful democracy
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> Its neighbours have managed death rates of nearly one TENTH of Sweden. The difference in timing of the outbreaks was one or two weeks. That certainly should not account for a factor of ten difference.

How can you be so certain of that, considering the dynamics of the infection rate are exponential. If you look at the curve for the Netherlands it went from 'nothing serious, its just 1 or 2 hospitalizations a day' to full-blown 'within 10 days all hospitals will be overloaded'-panic literally within one week. Add one 'super-spreader' event into the mix like the soccer match in north Italy and you create a huge spike that is only seen two weeks later when its already too late.

The exact same thing happened in all of the countries that had the longest lead time between 'nothing to see here' and 'this is really bad we have to do something', the shapes of the excess deaths graphs for these countries are all the same, lock-down or no lock-down. Which makes sense because these were the result of not doing anything for weeks because no-one was taking this seriously yet. I think you cannot just point to the numbers now and conclude the policy in Sweden is to blame for their high numbers of deaths. Especially not considering countries have been opening up for ~3 weeks now, moving more towards the model Sweden has had since day one, and so far no effect on infections or hospitalizations have been observed.
I appreciate the correction - I don't really understand this at all. Physics 103 is where my knowledge of anything resembling science ends.
Perhaps they were never equipped because it just wouldn't work well. It's possible that this was used as misleading information to deceive Russian intelligence as a deterrent against Russian AWACS flights.
> Different friend groups may prefer different platforms, but it's pretty rare where someone new to the group refuses what the group is already using

You made the point yourself here. If the messaging platform the group prefers is iMessage then it's somewhat awkward when someone new to the group refuses to use it. Have you ever tried to get a bunch of people to switch platforms for a single group chat? When most of the people have a working solution already it's practically impossible.
The irony of demonizing Sweden...is that as we speak...every single other country in the world is starting to do what Sweden is doing and opening its economy with basic social distancing.

The model of exponential infections used to justify quarantine and flattening the curve has not happened any of the places opening up.

Coronavirus appears to reach a steady-state in the rate of infections in populations, just like numerous other infectious diseases.

The people in my town are absolutely terrified. Unemployment has skyrocketed poverty riots. This is a sad failure of leadership and science.

Sweden and Tegnell appear to have been right.
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Thanks -- I have a similar adapter. However, the screen is USB-C only (I'm not using USB-C to HDMI or anything like that). What I need is an adapter with basically one USB-C male and two USB-C female -- one for USB-PD and one for the display. I'm not sure if there is something in the USB-C/USB PD/USB3.0/whatever standard which makes this impossible / too difficult.
just using drones do deliver from the truck to the door without the driver having to get out would probably double delivery capacity.
> But don't take Anarcho-primitivism seriously.

Why shouldn't it be taken seriously when it's the only variety of anarchism that's actually self-consistent? You can't run a large, mass society on anarchist principles, because social organization on a large scale will always require some way of formally resolving disputes, and that pretty much implies that conventional politics and "rule" by some over others will be a thing.
I don't know how much of it is something "we" decided versus how the ultra-rich have been able to take over our political system. It was happening for decades but after the Citizens United ruling it became fully legal to buy politicians with corporate money (if you think they weren't pocketing a lot of that PAC money you're insane).

As a result, the regular people lost our voice in the political process. Our political system -- yes, both parties -- exists to subjugate us and keep wages low for unskilled labor. The recent protests / riots have been about the police state that has developed in response to this.

I was in the middle of them in my city, and the rioters were primarily poor and white. Their grievances were both pro-Black and economic. They were trashing wealthy areas and stealing from the rich with no reservations. The common sentiment was "I've never lived anywhere nice, why should I care about keeping their [the rich] area nice?" You don't have to be Black to feel that way.
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Many devs on Upwork report having to install either a Chrome plugin that tracks all browsing activity or a full-on desktop monitoring suite that tracks everything they do while they are "on the clock". It's Orwellian.
The screen that's visible when the video is not yet enabled is very annoying, might even be an epilepsy seizure trigger.
How do you explain Mexico and Brazil in that case?

The much lower viral loads in Italy could be a result of other things such as widespread mask usage.

I think you could well be on to something. But there are still too many questions to be certain that heat is slowing transmission.
I had a friend who did one of those. Said it was transformative. Sounded brutal, tbh.

Did you get what you wanted out of the experience?
If you're targeting AWACS, even getting them to shut down is going to be pretty disruptive for your opponent.
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> How is it a good idea to relax restrictions when you have cemeteries overwhelmed with the huge death toll?

Big restrictions severely harm the poorest people. Most people are poor. They also damage economy and civil rights. Governments spend like crazy to make up for the damage and few dubious interest groups benefit the most. And politicians enjoy their power trips and erode civil rights. That's a huge toll.

If cemeteries in your place can't keep up, maybe its exceptionally bad there, but this is not the general situation. Also, if somebody dies there, there is no societal need for his body to be put in those cemeteries.

Some relaxing of COVID-19 restrictions can make a lot of sense even if millions of people are going to die as a result. So far 4500 Swedes are dead due to COVID-19 [1]. In recent years, over 50 million people die each year [2]. I'd say the Swedish model is doing fine, except for the most vulnerable group of people - old or sick people. The state response should focus on how to help that group, not to shut down whole country.

Of course, the proper local action depends on the local situation, how bad the outbreak is there, cost/benefit analysis.

[1] https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/coronavirus/2020/06/04/swede...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths
The UK has a not so great track record on freedoms and rights. The Americans didn't protest violently, they used force of arms to overthrow a tyrannical government, something for which the UK still is sore about.

Frame your argument using whatever numbers you like. I prefer absolute numbers, regardless of you calling me disingenuous.
All smokescreen. We choose what to pay executives (egregious amounts) but not the rank-and-file? Nonsense.

Most of the money in the world is possessed by 100 people. Not a fiction, not sophistry about who has the money. It would be a terrible surprise to them and their bankers if they discovered they didn't actually have the money.

Crediting a manager for running a business, but not the people that did the work (and they work as hard as Mr Bezos you can be sure), is an American fiction.

If not Mr Bezos, then somebody else, or several others (those he put out of business simply by being earlier / bigger). Its very arguable that he has no special merit, other than being in the right place at the right time. Like the railroad magnates of the 1800's, who we now call 'robber barons'.
The intersection of people understanding both Catch-22 and Permit A 38 is probably pretty small.
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There was Gmane. Too bad nothing had replaced it. It was the de facto site used when sharing links to mail list posts and it did have thread navigation that made sense.
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It's a little saddening to see a quote about envy below a post which mentioned the children who don't know when their next meal will be coming.
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> Sweden didn't pull any lever at all

Your analysis of their passivity does not acknowledge the assumptions underlying an individualist strategy. The lever Sweden pulled was permitting the atomization of a collective public health problem.
Some good practical tips here, thank you for your response. I've been reading through James Clear's Atomic Habits recently and one of his core ideas is that one should try to make good habits easy to do and bad habits hard to do. Convenience of technology has definitely become a double-edged sword in a lot of ways.

For me personally, HN is definitely a focus-stealer (I think I have at least 100 HN tabs open currently, that I really should just go and close). It's a tricky one, because I get a lot of value from it, but I guess that value is diminishing if I'm checking up on things every hour or so. I imagine those who've gone full cold-turkey on HN aren't here to comment, but I'll assume they've found benefit from that. Might have to start DNS blocking this one for a while and see what happens.

I did the friend unfollow trick on Facebook a few years back now, and definitely noticed the happiness benefits straight away, but still often catch myself clicking through random profiles when I do have to travel there.

To your point on convenience, I'm often frustrated by how easy it is to type 'yc' or 'fa' into the search bar in a moment of weakness, and then go down the rabbit-hole of distraction for hours. Obviously, a responsive search bar is an immensely useful feature for a web browser to have but this convenience does often make it easier to do something that is not in one's overall interest.
> "The face and its surroundings are blurred almost to a single colour."

To your eyes, maybe. To a machine, you have an array of pixels, each with different values which, using an algorithm, could be adjusted into something your eyes can resolve into a unique face.
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Doubling or tripling? Belgium 8.2, UK 5.8, Spain 5.8, Italy 5.5, France 4.4, Netherlands 3.5, Ireland 3.3, US 3.3.

The US lockdown may not have had any impact. Mobility trends are disconnected from government orders. The people more likely stemmed the tide in the US more than any government action.

Sweden is just marginally worse off against Covid overall than the US. And they didn’t have to spend $4 trillion or lose 40 million jobs to achieve that.
It's really difficult to work with tabular/structured data on these Deep Nets. Particularly when the structured data has a variable number of entries. This has less to do with theoretical constraints, and more to do with the mechanics of our current ML toolchains.

I'd imagine if the toolchain problem was solved we'd see a lot more research in this direction.
Probably issues with charging.

Super capacitor based drones would probably be the best outcome (if we could figure out how to harness the power)
I think that Sweden mistake has been to not react to the realities and keep the line and cover their mistakes by propaganda. This and complete failure to increase testing capacity and find even essential PPE. For example people who took the swab samples whore nothing more than a visor.
I don't think Signal has any mesh networking there are other apps like Firechat and Bridgify (haven't used either of them just googling).

As for the mask it'll do a little bit for CS and mace probably with eye protection but the goal is mostly protecting protesters by keeping them from being identified and retaliated against later. It's also way easier to make a buff style covering and it can be worn over many types of filtering masks.
> In at least half of the young families (kids aged elementary to high school) I was around in Milan, one or both parents were originally from the south. They spoke of it almost like how immigrants do

That's correct.

A lot of families moved from the south to the north in the past 70 years and they lived the same experience you hear from migrants today: discrimination, poverty, segregation etc etc

So many moved to the point that at least half of the north, especially in Lombardy, is made by families with roots in the south (usually grandparents, many are from Sicily)

There are many popular stories about the infamous "we don't rent to people from the south" you could find on the listings all over the north (from Bologna to the Alps)

My parents moved in the late 60s from the country side 100kms south of Rome to the city to find a job as well

My uncles went to Germany, Belgium, Argentina and then have come back only because their parents were becoming old and needed support

I moved from Rome to Milan as well, not in the same conditions of course, I moved for a well payed job, but I still had to move to get it

It is so engrained in our recent history that it's taken for granted that if you are stuck in your homecity in the south the only way to change things is move to the north, that there is even a comic movie from the 80s titled "thanks to Apulia region for giving us the Milanese"

On the other hand people move to the south when looking for a better lifestyle, better climate, better food or just being closer to the sea, and many of those that moved to the north try to go back to where they are from as soon as possible

Including my parents that went back to their city in the country as soon as they retired, especially my father

The north is beautiful, the food is good, but the stereotype says that in the south everything is much better, and I somewhat agree with it.
I can't help it, Milan is not Rome, it will never be.
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But that's just my opinion :)

Now that we live almost 800 Kms apart I see my parents rarely, especially my father who really enjoys being alone, away from the crowded city

He went to Rome only to work, he lived there for 50 years, raised two children, but he never really felt part of it, he never lost his accent and never took the Roman one.

So in a way in Italy we are all trying to go back home, one day.
That's because it took a decade to make the $15/hr minimum wage a thing, in which time inflation turned that $15/hr into the equivalent of $8/hr. That's not progress.
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But several countries have basically eliminated the virus. SARS-COV-2 spreads in clusters. Tracing these clusters, testing people, and isolating patients seems to work.

Neighboring Denmark is down to ~30 cases a day. Is it impossible to believe that with border control and testing they’ll basically have it eliminated on their territory?

Countries which have basically eliminated it: Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, iceland, luxembourg, monaco, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Belize, China

Also the Canadian provinces of new brunswick, nova scotia, newfoundland, PEI, Saskatchewan, Manitoba

I’m sure I’m forgetting some. What do the countries in that list have in common? Yes some are islands but not all. Yes some are small but not all.

For the most part, they took action early, and used contact tracing, testing, isolation, and border control systems.

According to this article the small, poor country of Belize has outdone the province of Quebec, where I live. Belize developed a software based contact tracing system. Quebec still does it by fax. It is not a surprise which jurisdiction has better results.

What’s your theory for how the systems built in these countries will inevitably fail? The virus is contagious but it isn’t magical. It has to spread from person to person. If you test people, isolate the infected, trace their contacts, the virus has nowhere to go.

Most of the west is still not isolating the infected, instead sending them home to their families, and in many cases free to leave home if they decide to break quarantine.

https://www.vancourier.com/living/government-of-belize-credi...
Find out what works. Find out what doesn't work and why it doesn't work even though it seems to work elsewhere.

Absolutely. The trouble is that there is no consensus on what "working" means. Is it minimising short term deaths? Well, then it is easy to see what worked and what didn't, but is that the correct metric? Perhaps, it is minimising impact on society? Well, it is less easy to see, but there is enough information to make some reasoned statements. However, you will probably come up with a different answer than you had for the previous question. And are we talking about short term or long term impact? Perhaps the goal is to minimise long term deaths and suffering? I don't think that we can begin to claim to have enough information to make any definite statements on that (though, of course, I have my opinions).
What makes the predatory journals relatively non-serious? What merit is there in your distinction between a "hoaxed" journal and a journal that publishes faulty papers on purpose?

Please see the "Bogdanov affair", where "serious" peer-reviewed journals accepted bogus theoretical physics works. I already linked to the relevant Wikipedia page in a nearby comment.
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IME there's a loss of a number of features when communicating without someone with "blue bubbles", that you come to take for granted, and that cause a bit of friction when you realize the messages/functionality you took for granted in your exchange aren't there. If I find myself chatting with someone with green bubbles, I find I tend to transition the conversation over to whatsapp.

It's not like a "relationship killer" or something, but I imagine it is a low-level contributor to my lock-in to the platform.
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You could take an action, halve inequality, and not be able to detect any changes.

This assumes that halving the wealth of rich people would have no impact on the world other than changing this immeasurable inequality. That seems unlikely.
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What's your definition of lockdown?

Here in Norway we haven't had one, if by that you mean being forbidden to leave our houses except for essential purposes.

We have been free to travel, to meet people, to go to bars, restaurants, cafés. My grown children have not had a single day off work.

The only people forbidden from leaving home are those who have tested positive for COVID-19.

Of course a lot of shops, bars, cafés, etc. have closed but that was for a combination of lack of customers and a desire to protect their staff together with, in some case,an inability or unwillingness to comply with distancing rules.

Schools were closed but that was a bit of an overreaction on the part of the government and against the advice of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, https://www.fhi.no/en/ and they have been open again now for several weeks.

Here a page in English summarizing the rules: https://www.fhi.no/en/op/novel-coronavirus-facts-advice/fact...
There's also a psychological effect. What's louder from ten feet away, hair clippers or a hornet?
I would like to read such a culture shock section for every language I don't know yet!

I like that it doesn't evangelize and it doesn't disparage C, it just explains the logic behind the differences.