frenchyatwork

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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
I'm sure there are cases where multiple lines would be nice, but I don't think this is one. This seems easier to read to me: lambda i: -i * i if i < 0 else i * i Also, the functional way of doing multiple lines in a lo
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
Yeah, I'll just go sit my chair and desk up in the middle of my kitchen/living room space. That shouldn't cause any problems with my 2 year old who loves to climb on things and pull cords. Note: this isn't actually my si
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
Maybe this is pedantic, but malaria isn't caused by a virus. It's caused by a single-celled group of eukaryots called Plasmodium.
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
I think I misunderstood you. I thought you were suggesting we should give drugs to people regardless of the fact that the randomized controlled trials say that the drug doesn't provide any significant benefit. Giving widespread ASA to
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
The risk of treating patients with pain-reducing levels of ASA (aspirin) is actually a significant issue, and it's not hard to find papers covering this issue, and reporting data on it. It's usually in older populations who are mo
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
Site is broken for me. The url https://covidactnow.org/data/wa.7.json is returning an HTML document with the text "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app." and there's a JSON.parse error in the co
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
SARS-CoV2 is the name of the virus for the 2019 Coronavirus. The previous one was just SARS-CoV.
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
The problem with this is then the state is now responsible for this thing, which wasn't able to keep itself afloat financially. This works in a some cases, where the state is actually more efficient at managing than a private corp, but
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
Unfortunately, the reason why it seems like arguing about the definition of a word is that there are there are more concepts at play here than we have words to describe them. When people talk about information as in information theory, what
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
Perhaps because the employees actually care about the company they work for and want to continue working there, but also want to feel like they're producing value. A company is more than its management.
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
Isn't this what ultimately happens anyway? If the CoC moderators go against the will of the contributors, they can always fork the project.
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
> ... the British or .. some other version often isn't even in English. There's only one regular English version of the Wikipedia, unless you're refering to the Galic one, which would be a little odd ( https://ga
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
It could be useful if the folk prioritizing things are dealing with non-specific complaints about the software being unreliable or not working correctly.
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
> Democracy could only work effectively if most of the population is very well educated. Certainly if you're looking at tech jobs, the "population" is reasonably well educated.
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
This raises an interesting question. Let's say I have a data-set that contains a lot of photos of people, but I don't know who; or maybe I think I know who, but there's 20% chance there are people who are in these photos that
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
Yeah that would be the speculation: that blind schizophrenics are asymptomatic.
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
Sure, React is just a library, but I don't think I've ever seen it used as just a library.
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
The suit was based on the (at the time) pervasiveness of MS-windows. These other things are not near as ubiquitous yet.
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
People in the warm parts of Canada do this too, now-a-days. Its kind of weird to be be riding along the road at 5 C and see all these empty cars idling on the side of the road.
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
I think the way that this actually works is that we don't actually think in words and whole sentences, but that words and whole sentences flow from most of our thoughts. We've just become so used to this whole process that it feel
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
I'm not super familiar with the details, but I think Pidgin has little/no support for encryption (OMEMO & OpenPGP). This probably has support for other XMPP features that Pidgin doesn't as well. What I don't know is
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
Welcome to iOS development.
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
I don't know about the plaforms you're working with, but I'm pretty sure 3rd party cookies shouldn't be necessary for OpenIDC. They certainly weren't for OpenID. If it's a problem, it's probably because of
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
The problem is not that there are barriers, but that the barriers are artificial.
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
A club is certainly more pro-humanity than some of the existing misathropic stuff there like internet.org. Philanthropy doesn't have to be about giving money.
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
Most people don't need SUVs to go skiing, just good tires, chains, and a shovel. There's a good chance you'll need these things even if you have an SUV. Also mhh__ was talking about rural UK. They don't have ski hills t
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
Web search is hard, and Google's results aren't stellar. News at 11. Why do you think we're on HN? In terms of cancer, wikihow is pretty benign. I rarely use Google these days, but when I did, having results full of sites tha
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
> Don't use the `any` type The problem here is two-fold: 1. Culture and existing code. Popular libraries use any when they should be using unknown or just not de-serializing stuff and making you explicity parse it yourself. The reas
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
You can.
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by frenchyatwork 7y ago
> RIM's play should have been to make their mobile device management software control iPhones and Androids as soon as humanly possible I'm not convinced that would have worked. I remember the 2000s, and I remember that a sellin

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