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by breck 5y ago
> like they should invest more into cybersecurity I would say invest more thought, less money. For example, use open source more. Minimize the amount of data and information you have that needs to be closed source. Avoid Windows. Use Gma
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Plurid: Underframe to Render Information as a 3D Explorable Structure(github.com)
1 points by breck 5y ago|0 comments
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Endtime: Time as a Countdown(github.com)
2 points by breck 5y ago|0 comments
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by breck 5y ago
What a good read. Shame on the authors for putting such an important article behind a paywall. Thanks someone for filesharing it. #AbolishCopyrights #AbolishPatents #EndIntellectualStupidity
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by breck 5y ago
Yup. The most successful PL by pretty much 2 OOMs (1B spreadsheet users vs 20M JS programmers). I think the future will be the best ideas from traditional 1D programming languages merged into a spatial hybrid like spreadsheets.
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by breck 5y ago
> interesting, so 2D would be a "matrix language" somewhat similar to Matlab/Octave? Not only are the data structures 2D/3D, but the language itself is homoiconic. I'm thinking of things like 2D+ spreadsheets. Li
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by breck 5y ago
This is why I think 2D and 3D languages are the future (and of course, are a big part of the present and past, just not in traditional programming languages). Human minds are highly evolved to work in 2D and 3D. Further reading: 1972 - Mark
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by breck 5y ago
The rules for the basic notation are really simple. It's just basically a grid (visualize a spreadsheet), where each line is a row and each word is a cell. Indent a line to indicate a child node/row. An updated spec: https:/
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Building the perfect curse word: Investigating the form and meaning of swears(link.springer.com)
4 points by breck 5y ago|0 comments
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WHO List of Essential Medicines(list.essentialmeds.org)
130 points by breck 5y ago|68 comments
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by breck 5y ago
It's a design pattern that ensures testability of the system without any dependencies on the big files.
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by breck 5y ago
My practice for storing large files with Git is to include the metadata for the large file in a tiny file(s): 1. Type information. Enough to synthesize a fake example. 2. A simple preview. This can be a thumb or video snippet, for example.
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WTF Is Quadratic Funding?(wtfisqf.com)
3 points by breck 5y ago|0 comments
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by breck 5y ago
Reminds me of a site a while ago called NewHive.
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by breck 5y ago
Very nice! The nice thing about these kinds of notations is that they last. Simplicity is timeless. I can immediately grok exactly what you are doing here. :)
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by breck 5y ago
Yes, and surprisingly there are not too many that use any indentation based syntax (about 1 in 50). However, of the ones that do (abc, aldor, boo, buddyscript, cobra, coffeescript, csl, curry, elixir, f-sharp, genie, haml, haskell, inform,
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by breck 5y ago
Common question. You cannot do column and matrix operations natively against S-Expressions (You need to parse the whole thing). This turns out to be very important and useful. S-Expressions need to be transversed in 1-D linear order. When y
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by breck 5y ago
I'd agree. I think the DOM is fantastic, *unless* you are doing advanced document manipulation, in which case it is trash (for that use case only). This is what I'm assuming the author meant. I spent many years working on that so
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by breck 5y ago
> The way to fix this trend would be to reimagine the presentation layer of the browser as something other than a stack of hacks over hypertext, but so far nobody seems to have a good solution. About a decade ago I had the start of a Eur
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The Intellectual Freedom Amendment(breckyunits.com)
2 points by breck 5y ago|0 comments
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by breck 5y ago
> But there's consensus among the scientific community that it's being widely under-reported Define consensus. I used to work at Our World in Data, so I am biased, but I would consider them the most trustworthy curator of data
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by breck 6y ago
No, it looked at reinfection for up to a year. "Out of 149,735 individuals with a documented positive PCR test between March 2020 and January 2021". The 100 days was the threshold they used for recovery.
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by breck 6y ago
I have seen an overwhelming amount of evidence that if you've recovered you are safe. I have been tracking this since early February 2020. I think if you've recovered you can stop worrying about COVID, and I have seen nothing that
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by breck 6y ago
"The COVID–19 vaccines...offer a...more reliable means of protection than natural immunity." This is false. She even goes on to say "Pfizer vaccine blocked 90% of infections after both doses" but we're seeing 99.9%+
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by breck 6y ago
Out of ~61,000 cases in Singapore, that would be a reinfection rate of 1 in 2,500. And of those, I'd bet all are mild cases. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
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by breck 6y ago
Wow. Thank you for sharing #2. "Yes, you should be vaccinated regardless of whether you already had COVID-19. That’s because experts do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19.&quo
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by breck 6y ago
It's moronic to get the vaccine if you've recovered from COVID. The reinfection rate is 1 in 1,000, and even then it's all mild cases. ( https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.06.21253051v...
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by breck 6y ago
Reinfection is very rare. The Israeli study is the most reliable, but going by your data point of 26 cases of reinfection and the ~61,000 cases[0] in Singapore, we're talking 1 in 2,500. 0 https://ourworldindata.org/e
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by breck 6y ago
Israel has been tracking a cohort of 150,000 and the reinfection rate looks to be on the order of 1 in 1,000. > https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.06.21253051v...
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by breck 6y ago
Love it! Really helpful visualization. Gives me a better feel for the mempool. Some thoughts: - Why are transactions dropping in bursts? - Would it make more sense to have the latest block at the bottom, then the white line on top, then the

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