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by jdc 6y ago
> The current state of both cities has nothing to do with what they did or didn't. What's your source on that though?
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by jdc 6y ago
I wish the JACK audio node graph editors were this polished!
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by jdc 6y ago
In short: * currently the Jitsi Meet videobridge sees unencrypted conversations * they're changing that using a new WebRTC API called "Insertable Streams" * it's currently in alpha with an open RFC * they plan to use the
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by jdc 6y ago
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Coronavirus’s ability to mutate vastly underestimated, affects deadliness(scmp.com)
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You can email dang (hn@ycombinator.com) if you're worried about it.
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by jdc 6y ago
Part of me says well if we could just put rents on hold, that would take care of the obvious problem. But [K]N95/FFP2 masks for all, and high-scale testing and tracing makes going back to work a lot more appealing.
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by jdc 6y ago
To be clear, things are still looking good for South Korea in general[1], but it's good to know that relapse is possible. 1. https://m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200418001051325
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Coronavirus relapse cases continue to rise in S. Korea(en.yna.co.kr)
55 points by jdc 6y ago|26 comments
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Goodhart's law in action
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by jdc 6y ago
Oh I see. Thanks for the elaboration. I definitely agree that large shocks are best avoided, but I do think that ceteris paribus, bringing housing prices down relative to wages would decrease homelessness. On the other hand, there's a
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by jdc 6y ago
It's because GP cherry-picked a paragraph from the History section of that article and ignored the actual present per-capita homelessness rates.
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by jdc 6y ago
That may well be, but is fair to displace people because their productivity isn't increasing quickly enough?
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by jdc 6y ago
In Japan, house prices commonly depreciate. Maybe that's why their homelessness per capita is almost 57 times lower than the States'.
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by jdc 6y ago
Timeline of computers and the Internet Very high level, but it spans 100 BC to 2018 CE, and it covers highlights from the Antikythera mechanism to the Mother of All Demos to Hypercard to the GDPR. https://www.geek.no/n
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by jdc 6y ago
Have you looked at SYCL yet?
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by jdc 6y ago
But by immune, do you mean asymptomatic and contagious?
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by jdc 6y ago
There's definitely a good number of people that are extremely reluctant to cede ground of any kind, including accepting criticisms of themselves.
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by jdc 6y ago
It's not throughput if the 240 refreshes per second are evenly-spaced apart in time. It's a polling rate and it absolutely effects responsiveness.
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by jdc 6y ago
Haha, how is 240hz not quick enough for these guys?
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by jdc 6y ago
Cf. newtype in Python and Haskell.
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by jdc 6y ago
Why are they advocating for said closures?
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by jdc 6y ago
> EDA tools are expensive, yes. But you are not just paying for the tools, you are paying for all the engineering support being those tools. So I can buy the tool without the support contract? > Bugs and problems happen in any deve
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by jdc 6y ago
Question: under Linux is it possible to reserve a block of the hard-disk such that the application can definitely append only write in that block? My understanding is if you're developing a filesystem or working with persistent memor
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by jdc 6y ago
Does anyone know if this this is generally the case with influenza also?
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by jdc 7y ago
I can't help but think we could close a lot less shops if everyone wore (even sub-N95) masks
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by jdc 7y ago
Just put an exhaust filter on. Amazon had a bunch listed
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by jdc 7y ago
There's also TVeon https://tveon.com
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by jdc 7y ago
I couldn't find a price anywhere on that site. Do you know what it costs?
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by jdc 7y ago
Canada for instance https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/services/...

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