TravisDick

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by TravisDick 5y ago
Thanks for the response! And absolutely a fair point about reading the article. I wasn't really trying to look for ways that the vaccines do damage, given that the risks of covid seem to clearly be higher. Just wanted to check if I und
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by TravisDick 5y ago
Yeah, for context I'm fully vaccinated and not trying to create distrust of the mRNA vaccines. Just curious because that seems like a pretty bad thing. It makes sense that this would only happen while the spike proteins are actually pr
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by TravisDick 5y ago
I didn't read the article, but my very basic understanding of mRNA vaccines is that they cause your own cells to produce the spike protein so that your immune system can learn to attack it without actually having the virus present. Doe
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Computing Logs by Hand(github.com)
1 points by TravisDick 6y ago|0 comments
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by TravisDick 7y ago
What plotting library were you using? The "first plot of the day" is a bit slow for me, but certainly it doesn't take minutes. I just opened a fresh repl and "using PyPlot" took a little over 5 seconds, and the firs
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VR Planet Simulation Using A-Frame and WebVR(github.com)
2 points by TravisDick 7y ago|0 comments
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by TravisDick 8y ago
I haven't read the article, but there have been a number of games that I found personally helpful. It's not that they're helpful because they provide an escape from real life and its problems. Instead, they can be a source of
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by TravisDick 8y ago
I'm a little confused by this. If the chromecast didn't know my wifi password, how could it connect to google to receive any information / configuration? Mostly commenting because I want to know if there's some cool mech
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by TravisDick 8y ago
Just guessing, but it could be that they are claiming that 200 million unique videos are recommended on a given day, with the number of unique videos being a proxy for how diverse they are. Perhaps before some of their recent changes, the n
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by TravisDick 8y ago
I don't actually know of anything like this, though I think it should probably exist somewhere. If anyone else knows, I'd be interested to see it too!
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by TravisDick 10y ago
I'm not sure if I'm a fast touch typist, but I reliably make it to round 24 with around 95% accuracy. I've never passed round 26
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by TravisDick 11y ago
I don't mean to be super negative, but because of the general tone early in the article and some sloppy notation, I never finished reading. I think the goal of an article like this should be to give a high-level intuitive explanation f