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by goblin89 7y ago
There seems to be an unaddressed need for a well-maintained library implementing spaced repetition algorithms. I have seen implementations for SM15[0] and SM2[1][2] around but nothing that provides multiple implementations and a consistent
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jsondiffpatch: Diff & patch JavaScript objects(github.com)
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Don’t you think that anyone who got the “slight sore throat, dry cough and mild fever” or milder symptom variation would be unlikely to get tested or talk about it? The disconnect between the definitions of “mild” as in “passing without hos
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by goblin89 7y ago
Homer’s wine-dark sea leads down an interesting rabbit-hole of thinking about perception, other minds, shared labels for sensations, how one individual consciousness is shaped by (exists only in context of?) others, and the implications of
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by goblin89 7y ago
Of course, my appreciation is subjective. However, I find that the approach described by saagarjha has the objective issue that letters in one word are more difficult to visually connect to each other, and would require a monospace font spe
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by goblin89 7y ago
Japanese is traditionally written top to bottom, right to left. Vertical typesetting (mainstream in print media but rarely seen on the Web, even though CSS has decent support of TB-RL CJK typesetting now) follows this rule, rotating any wor
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by goblin89 7y ago
My biggest surprise today is from learning that critical aircraft software is left running for days without a full restart. Somehow I assumed everything gets completely shut down every time they refuel or so.
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by goblin89 7y ago
The pilots apparently start getting misinformed 51 days in software runtime. What if the certification process only tests for 42 days?
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by goblin89 7y ago
I believe a reboot in such circumstances belongs to the A check[0], i.e. each 25 days of flight time or more frequently than that. (Franky, I am surprised airplane software runs for days—somehow I assumed they get shut down completely every
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by goblin89 7y ago
I’d be more alarmed about the fact that FAA had to issue a directive to deal with this situation. Either Boeing did not include the reboot in operation or maintenance procedures, or operators did not follow those procedures. The requiremen
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by goblin89 7y ago
Bug-free software of any complexity is at the very least exceedingly improbable, so there is always a tradeoff to be made and a lesser evil to be chosen. Aircraft firmware requiring mandatory reboots in alignment with maintenance schedule,
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by goblin89 7y ago
There is a hypothesis that life emerged because living things dissipate energy more efficiently[0]. As one possible implication, individual immortality given humanity as we know it might appear counter to that goal. As a more far-fetched im
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by goblin89 7y ago
I wonder whether UI component patterns have, in fact, stabilized, and whether an attempt to standardize them could result in stagnation.
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by goblin89 7y ago
What is in doubt here, value provided by cash? A friend of mine uses (used?) cryptocurrency for transferring/receiving money to/from a sibling across the ocean. Converting to/from local currency is apparently cheaper relative
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by goblin89 7y ago
Also same as cash, amplified by scale and lack of geographic/political barriers.
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by goblin89 7y ago
Cryptocurrency can facilitate crime just like cash, but with scale come new and unknown implications. Same with information security, surveillance, and more: physical vulnerability in a door lock vs. remotely exploitable vulnerability in Wi
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by goblin89 7y ago
I believe that both approaches make sense at appropriate app layers, but the key is the ability to handle data structure evolution. Being able to change data schema with little overhead allows to operate on a less normalized structure and a
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by goblin89 7y ago
I find complex tables frustrating to read and write in AsciiDoc. The markup can be written in a way that visually does not resemble the resulting table at all; newlines within cells (apparently) require actual newlines breaking “one row p
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by goblin89 7y ago
In South Korea they were a bit overused I think. In addition to hand washing reminders, each phone is getting up to 2 loud but not-really-quite-actionable alerts per day, which report on 2–3 new cases discovered in nearby city districts. (B
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by goblin89 7y ago
In Seoul, multiple emergency alerts asking people to keep 2 meter distance and to cancel trips and meetings were pushed to mobile phones for the first time yesterday morning. Pedestrian streets in popular districts are still fairly bustling
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by goblin89 7y ago
I believe the implicit assumption here is distrust in reliability of supply, other people’s behavior and infrastructure in general. Some cultures are more resistant to this kind of stuff.
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by goblin89 7y ago
Reduced efficiency and inability to evacuate matter fully (which you claim) does not seem to make the method useless. Severity of the condition is likely a spectrum too.
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No, China and Macao both mean roaming data (not included in “local data” quota on regular plans), though the rates are good.
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by goblin89 7y ago
I believe this is their speak to make it clear you cannot use that data while roaming. There are not enough resources hosted within the region to make the distinction pointed out by donavanm worthwhile, unlike e.g. China or Russia. The loca
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by goblin89 7y ago
About a month ago my Hong Kong mobile service provider offered subscribers a free local data package. Not unlimited, but a nice gesture.
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by goblin89 7y ago
If everyone buys only what they need (e.g., if it’s a small personal sanitizer bottle, keep 1 in use and 1 in inventory), demand could be spread out and crowds avoided. The problem appears to combine habitual shopping for long term (not man
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by goblin89 7y ago
Fraidycat is the first piece of open-source software I noticed using Blue Oak Model License.
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by goblin89 7y ago
The same tradeoff as with any security measure applies to border officials. They may or may not go beyond scanning for low-hanging fruit, and in a typical scenario probably won't.
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That’s what it appears to be. This might complicate the situation for older patients or patients with complications, who would have more difficulties dealing with this infection relative to common cold or flu, especially if they get admitte
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by goblin89 7y ago
This NIH representative assessed the fatality rate at more like 1% in an interview to PBS a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6-De7IAS1I

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