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by jnbiche 7y ago
But you have to build the same level of redundancy and reliability for your small pond if you want to achieve S3's uptime. Scaling is the hardest part, but it's just one part of the puzzle.
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Thank you for your input. We absolutely need more dispassionate analysis right now, just like yours. In fact, I think that this does have the potential to overwhelm the healthcare system here in the US, but I think we need to continuously
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Can we please correct the title? This is in reference to the virus SARS-Cov-2. Covid-19 is the name of the disease.
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> Since this is on the nih.gov site, it is credible. There's no connection with NIH beyond the fact that they host the PubMed Central search engine this journal article appears on. That said, PLoS One is a very reputable peer review
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> Be extremely critical of any advise that attempts to make the technologies or languages easier. Simple is not easy. This is great advice. I would have avoided a huge snafu on a recent project if I had listened to my gut instead of adop
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Famously, the disease hit soldiers in basic training hard before they were deployed. These were not malnourished people. It's entirely likely that malnourished populations suffered greatly under Spanish Flu, but it's clear that co
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> I see folks who couldn't define PCR tossing around R0 with the confidence of someone who's been working in wet labs their entire career. What does working in a wet lab, or PCR, have to do with having knowledge of an epidemiol
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by jnbiche 7y ago
OK, you've mentioned two different measurements: infection rate (I'm guessing you're referring to R0) and mortality (do you mean mortality rate or case fatality rate, because I was referring to the latter one). The cruise shi
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by jnbiche 7y ago
You're comparing to different measurements. The ~2.0% figure for Covid-19 is the case fatality rate. Case fatality rate is number of deaths over number of people infected. Mortality rate is deaths over people at risk. A case fatality r
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by jnbiche 7y ago
I'm extremely skeptical of a 17% case fatality rate (likely not death rate, which is different). That's almost certainly high due to under-reporting of cases. Iran's public health surveillance system is likely not as good as
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Go check out the case fatality rate and estimated r0 for the Spanish Flu of 1918-the deadliest pandemic of the past several centuries. You'll note that its characteristics are fairly similar to what we know of Covid-19. The only break
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> You would be surprised to know that I am doing well and prospering, especially if you knew my health situation As someone who is in the midst of a difficult medical situation right now (and who cheated death myself 2 years ago during t
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by jnbiche 7y ago
I agree strongly that we shouldn't overstock on masks. That said, I'd urge everyone to get a few P95 [1] masks for themselves and their family members, in the event that you have to accompany them to a hospital, or even to wear in
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by jnbiche 7y ago
At that point, you simply explain Cantor's diagonalization proof and the concept of countable and uncountable infinities.
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Well, it could contain the floating-point representation, since floating-point is a finite representation. But it couldn't contain the real number representation.
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Having easy, open access to testing kits would be helpful, but unfortunately it's not feasible: the test kits are already in short supply, and it would be impossible within the next few months to scale up to providing 300 million tes
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> IMO this is why it's popular with the jQuery crowd. I had no idea. I've only used React, Angular, Backbone, and custom frameworks at work (mostly React in recent years), but I like what I've seen of VueJS because of its
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Fair response. More information is always good. By the same token, I'd encourage them if moving forward to consider bootstrapping, unless their specific goal is to build an app with a massive, massive global audience.
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> If you are on a larger team you can be a language lawyer specialist in HTML and CSS, a handy person to have in a web dev shop. Every person I know who's been the CSS specialist in a larger business has also had some design backgro
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by jnbiche 7y ago
If you don't like design, and you want to work as a professional in the software industry, then you really need to go deeper. Even if you happen to have a job right now doing "light" coding tasks with bits of JS, you'll
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Is securing venture capital the only acceptable outcome for a startup?
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> though now we use Vue.js instead of jQuery You realize Vue.js is fundamentally an SPA framework, right? It's got built-in router, state management, etc. In frontend dev, those are all things that are only SPAs really need. To peop
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> efficiently designed, easily understood (regardless of complexity), surprisingly brilliant, fault tolerant in a clean manner, very insightful on a problem area, etc. I think your description of elegant is good. One more aspect of elega
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Yeah, fair point. Technically, windows was C++ but close enough, plus as you say other Gui toolkits also used async. And I should have remembered that since Gui libraries used async for the same reason as browser JS. It's not good to b
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> You know that Javascript is a C(++) program? JavaScript is not implementation-defined. There's a spec, and there are interpreters in a number of different languages. Sure, most common JS interpreters/JIT and otherwise, are in
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Yes, the vaping deaths almost certainly are from black market, contaminated THC pods/cartridges. But why let a few facts get in the way of perfectly good outrage? Note: I'm not a smoker, but I feel strongly that vaping has the pot
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> With regards to resource contention, anything that causes a waiter graph cycle can cause deadlocking Maybe I'll learn something here, but can you explain how an async runtime with no locking primitives like JS could cause a waiter
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Yes, of course. Why would you build a database in JS? And does gmail not work well for you? Most of us are only using JavaScript because that's the only way to build browser applications (or compile-to-JS languages, which still require
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by jnbiche 7y ago
You write this boilerplate to avoid one extra non-cached HTTP call on a (browser?) client? Am I understanding correctly?

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