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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
Agreed - I think it would be interesting to see it by state/province (or even better some kernel smoothing) instead of country. Country size is kind of arbitrary, as some countries are very large and others are relatively small.
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
(Note: full study PDF is on researchgate) I would take this with a giant grain of salt: 1.) N is in the hundreds of students, all with similar backgrounds - likely a highly specific population. It may not generalize well. 2.) The videos
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
In the mid 2000s I worked at company that used Rocky Mountain Basic in a ton of their products (electrical test equipment.) Most of their product lines dated back to 1960s and 1970s, and the software portions consisted of assembler, Fortra
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
I think most of these techniques come down to the relationship between the management and employees. If everyone is honestly trying to solve the problem and earnestly listening to feedback from people above and below, than almost every tro
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
> Compare that to the Googlers who constantly complain about their employer The current set of Googlers that are complaining aren't the ones that built the company though. Google's success was built in the late 90's and e
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
In HS, I would have had more extracurricular activities at least joined some less competitive sports like cross country - there is literally no other time in your life where you will have that kind of free time. I was basically a classic b
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
and electrons are just quarks, and quarks are just a state in a quantum field, and a quantum field is just...
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
> ...endless annotations, dependency injection magic, all sorts of pseudo-types This sounds like what happens when a bunch of Java/C# developers jump over to python without learning the "python way" - this is more related
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
IBM was a much bigger and more domineering monopoly at it's peak - there was a time where you effectively could not have computers or a datacenter without paying IBM money, directly or indirectly. I wouldn't qualify most of the F
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
I don't think traditional companies will subsume technology as the article claims - big companies tend to innovate by acquisition, and VERY FEW companies are actually good at producing software at scale. I don't think we've
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
Meritocracy exists on a small scale, but always remember that someone wrote the rules, and they generally have an opinion on the outcome. The best moment of the show was when they changed the rules of the glass jumping game after someone f
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
Theoretically masks would be much more effective than this - I think the 30-50% number came from a study where they looked at actual non-professional usage of masks. Most people have bad mask hygiene, so there is substantial air leaking ar
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
Right now we don't know the severity or impact of this variant, and several signs point in a bad direction. Maybe in 2 weeks we won't be worried about this variant, but right now being being proactive may slow down or even stop t
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
Yeah, I think the article missed the point on this one - travel bans aren't a panacea, but they definitely slow the spread and can buy valuable time at the start of an outbreak. There's been too much binary thinking by the media a
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
This hasn't been possible since the silk road and was created. No one is going back to the pre-modern world.
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
The trouble is the authorities won't learn anything - many could care less about science or history, they just care about power and influence. I do agree that more dissent and conflicting expert opinions were needed in this crisis. Es
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
Are there any experts here that can explain why rates are dropping in Japan, India, and a few other countries? Is it different flu seasons, different treatments, a new strain that is causing delta to self destruct, other? I have read theor
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
I have always done "just in time" refactoring - when a big change comes to a module and you're going to have to re-test most of it anyways, then perform the refactor, test the code/module, and then implement the actual c
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
Personally, I no longer use the phrase "technical debt" when speaking to management. It's just too vague of a term. Instead I just explain the actual problem and the consequences - too much near duplicate code leading to slo
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
The most important part of Bayes rule is the concept of Prior knowledge and Bayesian updating - new data should always be combined with your existing knowledge (starting with the "base rate"), based on levels of uncertainty. Close
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
Toyota is probably on the wrong side of this tech, but it's still a bad short. They can survive a decade or two off of install base and reputation alone, and hybrid tech is still a better proposition for many people until batteries im
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
I think it can work when thinking about accountability and checks-and-balances in processes and roles; for example how would I detect if my CFO is stealing money from a startup, or what if a narcissist became a manager at my company? But I
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
I don't think this attitude is helpful - it's going to leak out in your interactions and poison relationships. You do need to consider the context and background of a person before you can properly understand or trust their opinio
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
Honestly, object oriented design is the anti-pattern here. Almost none of the benefits promised in the 1990's and 2000's have come to pass, and for most applications type hierarchies are of little help. For most applications, hav
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by ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y ago
Not only that, the hacker ethos has completely changed since the 2000s. Nowadays most people would defend the holders of intellectual property, where as before most hackers believed "information should be free" and "copying