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by isolli 5y ago
There's nothing worse than reflexively typing ctrl+z to undo in Emacs and instead have the window disappear into the background!
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by isolli 5y ago
For me it's the exact opposite. I can listen to classical music while I code, but certainly not to songs. Even unconsciously listening to spoken words completely destroys my focus.
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by isolli 5y ago
I wonder if it was ever so. Did noon mark the middle of the day in traditional societies? If so, when and why did it change?
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by isolli 5y ago
The poll doesn't matter. In 2019, the European Parliament voted to end daylight saving time by 2021. This is democracy in action, people expressed themselves through their elected representatives.
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by isolli 5y ago
In March 2019, the European parliament voted to end daylight saving time in the EU by 2021 [0]. To this day I don't know why this was dropped. It may be because of the pandemic, but respect for democratic institutions means we should p
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by isolli 5y ago
Sure, but it requires active polling, with tried and tested statistical techniques, not just posting a poll online and waiting to see who answers.
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by isolli 5y ago
Yet for some reason, people seem to prefer the Pfizer vaccines. Governments too; I'm not following closely but it looks like governments are dragging their feet authorizing and buying available alternatives such as Novavax (spike prote
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by isolli 5y ago
No, it's also a matter of personality. One manager used to urge me to do things in half the time at 90% of quality, and stop chasing the remaining 10% at such high opportunity cost. To this day, I try, but it's hard to overcome a
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by isolli 5y ago
Similarly, I consider that the vaccine passport in NYC is racist (in effect if not in intent). By not recognizing infection-acquired immunity, it disproportionately forces Black people to take a vaccine that they do not need. This is becaus
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by isolli 5y ago
Ahem: "Wells Fargo clients began to notice the fraud after being charged unanticipated fees and receiving unexpected credit or debit cards or lines of credit." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account
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by isolli 5y ago
"But, unlike more than 200 human solvers, it wasn’t perfect on all of the puzzles: It got waylaid on two of them and finished with errors." I'm curious, what kind of error are we talking about? Words that don't exist, or
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by isolli 5y ago
Where do you get this data from? It's not in the press release. https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
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by isolli 5y ago
Vostok also has a very active modding community: https://modstok.com/
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by isolli 5y ago
Good question. I wrote "apparently" because I don't know much about T-cell tests. I would be happy for any information on the topic.
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by isolli 5y ago
RCTs, by definition, can cause harm to either arm of the trial (depending on whether the intervention is harmful or beneficial). We routinely accept that as the cost of advancing knowledge and avoiding interventions that would do more harm
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by isolli 5y ago
The science is actually far from settled on this. There is no randomized controlled trial of vaccinating the previously infected. And while this pre-print [0] establishes that natural immunity is far stronger than vaccine-only immunity, the
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by isolli 5y ago
While not wrong in itself, your comment epitomizes everything that has been wrong with our public health response. Trying to manipulate populations into a desired behavior by lying to them is, as you point out, counterproductive in the long
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by isolli 5y ago
This second result is a lot weaker than the first, however: “Individuals who were previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 seem to gain additional protection from a subsequent single-dose vaccine regimen. Though this finding corresponds to previ
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by isolli 5y ago
Except that antibodies don’t tell the whole story. They may wane after a while, but the immune system is primed to fight off the virus at the next infection thanks to memory B cells and T cells. Unfortunately, T-cell tests are not available
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Arrow vs. Armour, a Medieval Myth?(youtube.com)
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How to turn your car into a tiny camper(gizmodo.com)
50 points by isolli 5y ago|55 comments
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by isolli 5y ago
Have you tried Idagio? As a longtime user, I believe it would address your needs rather well. https://www.idagio.com/
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by isolli 5y ago
Related, I would recommend the book "1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die" [0]. The works are neatly arranged by chronological order, so you can easily discover new works from a period you like. And it gave me pl
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by isolli 5y ago
> I'm really glad someone is investing in this A lot of companies have been investing in this for a while now. Primephonic (which Apple just bought) is only one example. I use Idagio, and I'm very impressed with the quality of
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by isolli 5y ago
I had trouble believing you at first, but yeah... https://twitter.com/mark_roszko/status/1429459359554224135
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by isolli 5y ago
Would you have a reference? I have been speculating the same for a while, but by now I wish we had some proof rather than speculation.
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by isolli 5y ago
Understandably, it was difficult to adapt to the change: "It is difficult to change your mindset in a chess game with a different start. But if we can change our minds in the game, we can surely help people change their minds in real l
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by isolli 5y ago
I remember once watching a documentary on a roving band of chimpanzees, and thinking how human they looked. I was shocked when they attacked another band of chimpanzees and killed them all. However, I quickly overcame my shock. They were qu
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by isolli 5y ago
Except that the information was not credible. Assessing the credibility of information should be part of the operating procedure.
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by isolli 5y ago
Two personal anecdotes: When I graduated in 1995, some of my friends were disappointed when they went into computer science for lack of a better option. By 1999, they were getting frantic calls from recruiters trying to outbid each other. I

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