anaerobicover

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Paper simulating initial Covid-19 outbreak estimates only 30% pandemic chance(mercurynews.com)
8 points by anaerobicover 6y ago|5 comments
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
The paper itself is here https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/03/17/scie...
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
Out of curiosity, do you even eschew notifications to yourself ? Calendar reminders, todos, that kind of thing? I allow some notifications, and I find these quite valuable personally.
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
Surely maps are a larger infinity than territories? I can easily draw maps of territories that do not, have not, and even cannot exist. Likewise symbols and brushmarks. I can describe brushmarks that could never be physically realized.
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
Be careful here, because even those that seem to speak for themselves require (cultural) context to appreciate fully . Take Rembrandt's portrait of St. Bartholomew. It's unquestionably a skilled production, and aesthetically plea
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
Are there many other programming languages that remove features?
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
Plus 1 to this. I've adopted straight.el a little while ago and I've been especially loving how easy it makes hacking on my installed packages. Now that they're version controlled, I can easily try things and back them out if
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
But then inevitably you have either overlap or conflict between these small teams, because one of them needs something that's within the other's responsibility. Larger structures necessarily form.
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
Your assertion is hard to engage without knowing the distinctions you identify between "manager", "clerk", "director", and "evangelist", and what it would mean for a so-called manager to be "just
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
I haven't found that to be true. I have used it successfully at various points to help me stay focused on art projects or other work that I was choosing to do that should have been "fun" but that I was still procrastinating o
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
Sure, rabbits are happy enough with mowed grass, but if you asked them, they'd probably rather you didn't cut the tender tips off all the time. :) And the species of birds that hunt worms in the ground are a very small subset of w
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
The "correct horse battery staple" style was (originally?) known as Diceware: https://theworld.com/~reinhold/diceware.html The FAQ is interesting reading.
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
I hardly ever see a user of a blower actually blow stuff into a pile and pick it up. This is the part that makes me crazy. The wind is just going to blow it right back to where it was!
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
Well, small proviso: yards with (flowering) plants attract birds, bugs, etc. Wide expanses of constantly-mowed grass lawn do not so much.
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
Absolutely agree. In my experience this is one of the more valuable features of asking someone to discuss a problem I'm mired in. Because they haven't been looking under every rock and studying the bark of every tree like I have,
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
Everything you said is great, but it's not how it plays out for a lot of developers. The people and the politics don't go away because some rules have nominally been adopted. Politically adept people¹ in manager/PO roles will
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
I'd have some concerns with this being trigger-able without positive intent to do so if it were in my mouse or trackpad. Having a small interruption can be beneficial for safety.
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
I'd even (somewhat tongue in cheek) say that the text editor is the worst and least important part of Xcode. :) (In fairness it's been improving in recent years but it's still not flexible/customizable to my TextMate tas
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
That should be straightforward to check up on, by randomly choosing which one to present as the default to a large number of people.
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
> it raises an interesting follow-up: why not squash and rebase entire months or years of project work into single commits? That's effectively what happened before version control/before the small-scale rebases we enjoy now wer
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
Also worth checking out is The Archive. There are some differences, but I've been very happy with it as a successor. https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
> what's the type signature of `print()` then? Dynamic typing doesn't rule out polymorphism. void print(PyObject objects...) where `PyObject` is a base type. Additionally, you could perfectly well have constants, or re
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
I've done two grammars for my own use in the last few months (well, one isn't quite complete yet) and it's been quite an enjoyable (learning) experience. Thanks for sharing this tool!
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
> what's the type signature of `print()` then? Dynamic typing doesn't rule out polymorphism. void print(PyObject objects...) where `PyObject` is a base type.
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
I don't write Ruby regularly either, but I wouldn't say that syntactic complexity, is necessarily equivalent to semantic complexity. And the syntax is the only part that's relevant to Tree-sitter: it's not an interpr
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
That's the difference between static and dynamic typing, not the difference between weak and strong. The values cannot be used as if they were another type.
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
No, the Ruby grammar is actually an outlier from what I've seen; it has one of the largest/most complex external scanners: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ruby/blob/master/... Precis
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
Completely agree that willingness to walk away is crucial. I'd suggest, too, that two of your points combine: people rationalize to themselves that they're on forums to have fair, intellectual conversations, but actually unconsc
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
Very interesting. These numbers match my intuition, but could you say how you derived them?
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by anaerobicover 6y ago
You're right, but there's a crucial and fundamental difference between surveillance and posting to social media: the second is voluntary . The poster has chosen to share whatever it is. They may not be completely aware of the ful

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