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by AlanYx 4y ago
>Let me guess - Next the book will become a subscription service. Pearson is one step ahead of you. Pearson Plus offers "[t]he eTextbook and study tools you need... for only $9.99/mo" (per book, with a 4 month minimum, on
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by AlanYx 4y ago
I'm trying to be civil, but you keep making statements about the paper that are objectively not correct. Fig. 2(B) does not show "second stage cases (mostly reported around January and February)" as you posted earlier. The ma
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Sorry, I'm not understanding how what you're quoting there relates to Fig. 2(B). That's a reference to a separate Weibo-based data analysis that has no link at all to Fig. 2(B).
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Are you referring to the linked paper or something else? As far as I can tell (the writing style is not very clear IMHO), the Fig 2(B) blue cases are not second-stage cases, but rather a plot of "cases with no known link to the market&
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by AlanYx 4y ago
That author is probably a crank, but the particular image he's critiquing is Fig. 1(a) of the linked paper (reproduced by the BBC), and the locations of both Wuhan institutes are not wrong.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Just to add to this, in the linked paper by Worobey et. al., Fig 2(B) shows something they label as "Centroid of Blue Cases". That centroid appears to be almost squarely on the location of the Wuhan Institute of Infectious Disease
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by AlanYx 4y ago
If you're giving Foam a look, also consider svsool's unfortunately named "Memo" (previously Markdown Memo): https://github.com/svsool/memo It's a VSCode plugin for groups of Markdown notes sim
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by AlanYx 4y ago
>Honest question: How could they claim damages from someone to whom they've granted permission? That's actually the underlying rationale here, although it isn't explained well in the linked page. There is the possibility o
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by AlanYx 4y ago
The Playdate uses a Sharp Memory LCD, which is actually purely reflective, so the Playdate screen will be a little nicer. (The Pomera can't use the same tech because Sharp doesn't yet make a Memory LCD that large; also, parts of t
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by AlanYx 4y ago
WordPerfect 6 did have a graphical mode with a white background that looked a lot like MS Word, even when running on DOS. I can't remember, but it might even have been the default if you had a VGA card. CTRL-F3 would flip you back to t
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by AlanYx 4y ago
I agree that It is a shame that they discontinued the DM30's e-ink display, but the DM250's display is transreflective, which is a reasonably good alternative for people prone to eye strain on backlit displays. (Because it's
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by AlanYx 4y ago
It's worth mentioning that the John Hopkins' program takes students worldwide; it's not US-only.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
There is a Glamorous Toolkit (Pharo not Squeak) project called Lepiter that is conceptually similar in a lot of ways to org-roam and org-babel. It comes with support for working with Javascript and a couple other languages. That might be of
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by AlanYx 4y ago
>You know, that "assembling things live in the sky" Lisp feeling (Yegge's phrase, not mine). > >The only other computation environment that is right there en par in flexibility and conveyance of the same trippy feeli
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by AlanYx 4y ago
There is some academic work in this area. If you're searching, use the terms "electrophoretic", "EPD", or "epaper" rather than "eink". Most focuses on either readability or subjective evaluation
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by AlanYx 4y ago
The Sun Vision display you linked to is purely reflective, not transreflective.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
In case anyone was as mystified as I was by the original title of this submission, apparently "basta" is Italian for "enough, stop it".
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by AlanYx 4y ago
It's a fun little inexpensive hobby to get into if you find fungi fascinating. Oyster mushrooms in particular are very easy to grow.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
The concern isn't contamination of the medium -- you pasteurize the medium and use enough spawn so that your preferred mushroom mycelium outcompetes other fungi and bacteria. This intentionally happens fairly rapidly (because if it doe
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by AlanYx 4y ago
You can see Grammarly's statement on the matter here: https://support.grammarly.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003816032... When enabled, it does basically send every keystroke to the mothership except in some
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by AlanYx 4y ago
The linked post doesn't highlight one of the most egregious elements of this order, in my view, in that the list of blocked sites is subject to a confidentiality order.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Yes, in some ways it is like TempleOS' text editor. It also has some similarities to the Oberon project's text editor.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
It's hard to generalize because the East German doping program evolved over time and eventually included other compounds, but the levels of testosterone esters that were administered to the female athletes (typically 25mg/week) we
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by AlanYx 4y ago
A derivative of it (co-written by Larry Yaeger, who worked on the Newton) actually was incorporated into OS X, called Inkwell. You could make it appear as an input area by plugging in a graphics tablet. It was removed in OS X 10.15. The cur
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Any practical problem requiring only 250 qubits is in reference to error-corrected logical qubits. You need about 10,000 qubits to create one error-corrected logical qubit.
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They're trying to manage their legal risk here, that's why the document (after the first 25 or so pages) is almost entirely presented as quotations or specific references to research interviews they've conducted, rather than
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Some in the cyberdeck community build these as mobile coding stations, for example a way to head to the park or a coffee shop to run emacs without any of the distractions of their regular machines. Some use them as mobile writing machines,
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by AlanYx 4y ago
A lot of academics honestly believe in the idea that we're smart enough now to do it better. I work periodically with one academic who wrote a recent book published by Harvard University Press on the history of German censorship prior
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Org supports both full-file encryption and encryption of the text of entries but not the headings and properties (org-crypt). It's your choice.
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Another source of friction with Tiddlywiki is the interface. To create a tiddler, you need to enter a title, then tab to the tag name field, then tab to the content field, enter your content, and then there's no way to tab to the &quot

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