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by jnbiche 6y ago
This phenomenon is root of all evil in modern day America. People identify with political parties as though they are sports teams. Team R or Team D. If you're one of such people (and there seem to be relatively few of them on HN), plea
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by jnbiche 6y ago
Which medical school is that? Caribbean one?
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by jnbiche 7y ago
My question was poorly phrased, since if you're using Option types, you're obviously already using monads, applicatives, and functors. What I should have asked was: if you're using monads such as Option, then how do you use t
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by jnbiche 7y ago
OK, here's my question then. You're embracing Option type and yet presumably avoiding monads, applicatives, and functors (avoiding "FP-crusader stuff"), right? So what happens when you are dealing with multiple option ty
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by jnbiche 7y ago
You need to look into that first one. It's obviously photoshopped. The originals are uncomfortable, but not like that. Here's one of the originals: https://twitter.com/error4null1/status/12418962719270092
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Then yes, it's entirely reasonable.
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by jnbiche 7y ago
1) I was specifically referring to medical professionals working with Covid-19 patients. I had assumed it would be obvious, since that's what we were discussing, but clearly that was a poor assumption. 2) That said, even if you're
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by jnbiche 7y ago
To go into a little more depth (I assume you'll see this given that you appear to be monitoring my threads): You seem to have a mental model whereby any viral particle that bypasses your body's physical barriers has "won&qu
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Mostly, to help prevent you the asymptomatic carrier, from spraying your respiratory droplets into the environment. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/face-masks-cor... The CDC is recommendi
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by jnbiche 7y ago
If 3-6 are totally unreasonable, then why are medical workers bothering with gowns? Why not just wear their normal coat or scrubs? I do question the effectiveness of spraying shoes with alcohol, but I personally try to maintain a barrier be
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Is your wife helping to care for elderly parents, or is she immune suppressed, or with other chronic illnesses? Are you in a hotspot? These factors are pretty significant. All in all, probably not unreasonable, or even quite reasonable, dep
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> pulling or pushing a tube down a patient's esophagus No, that's another procedure. Intubating respiratory patients involves targeting the trachea and avoiding the esophagus. An esophageal intubation can be Very Bad. That s
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by jnbiche 7y ago
This is potentially misleading. Viral load is a significant factor in the seriousness of most infectious diseases. This is why you'll likely be ok if you pass a coughing TB patient in the street and inhale a few bacteria, but are much
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by jnbiche 7y ago
True, I should have qualified that with "most" or "much" media. I agree there are still some responsible outlets out there.
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Exactly. Both the media and the anti-media/anti-expert crowd both have a poor understanding of probability and confidence intervals. With the media, I think it's sometimes intentional and not ignorance, as a ploy to get clicks. Wi
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Two million was at the very high end of only a very few models (one?). That said, Italy is at the top of their curve (hopefully, apparently) with 16,000 deaths. However, their excess deaths this past month (compared to baseline for March) a
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Yeah, not that kind of hacker.
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by jnbiche 7y ago
https://twitter.com/Natluvscamping/status/124607793597650534...
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> You've massively overstated those results. It's pretty fucking obvious that if you have Covid-19, and are expelling infected droplets into the air, almost any kind of mask will help reduce those droplets. I mean, wait for the
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by jnbiche 7y ago
No, I think most of us realized that. It's still not OK for the CDC to lie to the public, regardless of motive. For a public health organization, the end doesn't justify the means. Even more concerning are the number of doctors I&
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Awesome. Yeah, my question wasn't clear, but I meant paging in the shell, as you correctly assumed. In a pinch, I can run page an inline `dolt sql -q` query in the OS shell. But it would be idea to be able to page results in the dolt s
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Is there a way to page sql results? Also, it would be awesome if I could use rlwrap with `dolt sql`, so I can use the shortcuts I'm used to in an REPL environment.
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by jnbiche 7y ago
I am. You can check my prior comments on our prison system. I think both the US and Russia should dramatically rethink their approach to non violent crime. Both countries have ridiculously high incarceration rates. I may be wrong, but I bel
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Fair enough. That's why I wrote that disclaimer. If one victim was dragging the other, that changes my perception somewhat, although not entirely. And in terms of "culture", are there not people in Russia who just ride motorc
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by jnbiche 7y ago
There's a medium between being a super careful driver like you and I, and being a grossly negligent driver who drove in such a grossly negligent manner that they deserve over a year in a harsh prison system. I highly recommend driving
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by jnbiche 7y ago
But your criticism was about my take on the judgement, not the conditions that are common in Russian prisons (and no, it's not hyperbole, I have an acquaintance who worked with MSF on TB in Russian prisons: https://www.msf.o
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Agreed, I agree that it can be unsafe. However, if you're going the speed limit, it reduces the chances significantly that you were doing something grossly negligent or unsafe that works warrant an unusually harsh sentence for what w
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Yes, but this wasn't a library parking lot. This was a roadway, at night, and he appears to have been going the speed limit. And the victim was lying down on the roadway in dark clothes. And there was an oncoming car with high beams on
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Yes, but they were lying flat on the road, intoxicated.
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Evidently, it was his legal problems that provoked the job request and console ads, so I'm sympathetic. And based on the description above, it's highly unlikely that he would have been charged in most countries. The person who die

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