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by csnover 4y ago
It’s possible that both are true depending on the definition of “calls”. It may be different with postmarketOS, but at least with LineageOS, there are phones where calls are supported over 3G but not VoLTE. So, while the phone and OS are te
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by csnover 4y ago
I think you’re right that humans work best in groups, but there is a difference between collaborating with a group and being physically proximal to a group. You can collaborate with dozens of people over the internet, or you can be the only
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by csnover 4y ago
The podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz recently did a two-part series on all of the Windows startup sounds[0][1]. They interviewed some of the Microsoft employees who worked on the various sounds, and included archival tape of Eno being intervie
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by csnover 4y ago
Previous discussions on this approach: Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts of CO2 from air (2020; 109 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23770718 Potential large-scale CO2 removal via enhan
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by csnover 4y ago
As of 2020, only 1% of physicians opted out of Medicare[0]. That is an increase of only 0.3% since 2013. Furthermore, in my experience, physicians that opt out of Medicare refuse to accept any insurance, so the number of Medicare opt-outs
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by csnover 4y ago
This is a pending settlement agreement. The press release from the ACLU is at [0] and contains some additional detail. [0] https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/big-win-settlement-ensur...
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Clearview AI banned from selling face recognition software to most US companies(techcrunch.com)
6 points by csnover 4y ago|1 comments
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by csnover 4y ago
Ad hominems are not the best place to start if you want to make a valid counterargument; I could just as easily point out that the authors of this paper are linked to anti-vax groups. Their bias could actually be fine if they were perform
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by csnover 4y ago
Just so you know, W3C is the main standards body for the web; w3schools is an unaffiliated privately-run web site with an intentionally confusing name. A much better general web resource—certainly for any intermediate-or-above learning, but
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by csnover 4y ago
Per discussions at [0] and reviews at [1], this study is garbage and its conclusions are nonsense. [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/uee3cw/increased_e... [1] https://pubpeer.com&#
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by csnover 4y ago
This is such a tired canard. Biological sex is an imprecise and discriminatory proxy for physical performance, and we can do better. Professional boxing already includes an additional objective measure—weight class—to improve match fairness
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by csnover 5y ago
Not only is there no way to report spam on Google Drive, I noticed in the past few months that Google have also started refusing spam reports via SpamCop. Now those reports just go to google-abuse-bounces-reports@devnull[0]. I suppose relat
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by csnover 5y ago
No, I haven’t, thanks for mentioning it. Would Goodhart’s Law actually apply here though, since right now the data (as far as I can tell) isn’t being measured at all ? To your counter-example, maybe the metrics I described aren’t good enou
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by csnover 5y ago
I could see that problem occurring if the metric was “what is the success rate of everything that Surgeon X does”. I can’t see that problem occurring for “Surgeon X performing Procedure Y has N% of patients reporting relief and M% of patien
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by csnover 5y ago
The messaging in the US most commonly used to justify the lack of universal coverage and unreasonable cost of care is that we pay the most because we get the best treatments and best doctors and best outcomes, so I don’t think it’s fair to
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by csnover 5y ago
Since I listened to Cover Story recently, it was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this on the front page. I’m curious to hear from you and others who listened to the podcast about your impressions, because something felt really
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by csnover 5y ago
> Now, my sister is currently struggling with a serious issue, and as a Medicare patient (being under the poverty level), she wasn't able to be seen for months, and even now they are unable to diagnose properly due to delays in gett
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by csnover 5y ago
There are a lot of factors that determine how hard private insurers are to deal with—the kind of plan you have, the type and intensity of care you need, and the quality of the providers in your area/network—so experiences will vary sig
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by csnover 5y ago
Instead of telling people to make dishonest comparisons to unrelated bureaucracies, I’d recommend that they instead find someone who has actually used Original Medicare[0] (not Medicaid, which is a different thing) if they want to know what
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by csnover 5y ago
I’m not an expert in this field at all, but from the bit of research I did to try to verify these numbers, the estimates presented here about solar longevity and long-distance transmission seem unrealistically pessimistic. Losses for 800kV
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by csnover 5y ago
Right—you can do the same thing with ID selectors, they just always have a higher specificity because they are in bucket A[0], whereas virtually all the other selectors are in bucket B. If you really have to select that element by ID fo
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by csnover 5y ago
It is part of the spec, and is explicitly noted to avoid confusion starting in Selectors Level 3[0]: > Note: Repeated occurrences of the same simple selector are allowed and do increase specificity. [0] https://www.w3.org&#x2F
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by csnover 5y ago
I’ve noticed many CSS authors don’t seem to know that you can just repeat a selector to increase its specificity. For your example, `.className.className` increases the specificity without adding more reliance on DOM structure.
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by csnover 5y ago
Honestly, I understand this, and I don’t. I know that ensuring interoperability across implementations has always been the key to a healthy web platform. I get that Interop 2022 is not about interoperability with individual sites, or about
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by csnover 5y ago
It is great to see how many people want to bring Qt support to Rust and are trying to do so, and I hope that these folks succeed, but it’s wearisome to me how each person/group creates a new project instead of working with others who
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Reface, a viral face-swap app from Ukraine, adds anti-war push notifications(techcrunch.com)
2 points by csnover 5y ago|0 comments
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by csnover 5y ago
The universal selector has the potential to be slower than other selectors in naïve CSS engines because CSS works by matching selectors from the right to the left. A rule like `.baz *` matches every element on the page (vs something like
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by csnover 5y ago
It can never disappear and become an “opt out” without breaking backwards compatibility. This has nothing to do with old browsers, but rather, old content. You can’t go back in time and rewrite every HTML file ever published in order to hav
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by csnover 5y ago
One of the scariest experiences of my life was going on a walk after lunch with someone who had T1D and miscalculated their insulin dose. They went from totally fine, to saying “I don’t feel well, we need to head back”, to sweaty and sheet
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by csnover 5y ago
> The vitamin A argument boils down to cost. It boils down to cost in the same way that you and I not owning a private jet boils down to cost—which is to say, as nice as it would be, there are probably not enough resources on the planet

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